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  1. Well until Sutter and Motter can come back, I say this would give us more offense. We dont have another Motte or Sutter in AHL to have a defensive 3rd line.
  2. I will not judge preaeason, am still waiting to see what happens in the first 20 games of regular season. If Green has a terrible start to this season, then I think he could be fired. Canucks need to make playoffs this season and Aqua man isnt playing this time around.
  3. Boner needs more seasoning in AHL, I feel he needs to play better defensively. Benning needs to explore the waiver wire to find our Hamonic replacement.
  4. I think we need to spread our offense. Garland-Pettersson-Boeser Hoglander-Horvat-Pearson Petan-Miller-Podkolzin Lockwood-Dickenson-Gadjovic or Highmore We need 3 offensive lines imo. Our one attacking line which was our 2nd line couldnt score any goals tonight. 2 lines will also not be enough so hopefully they can construct 3 lines.
  5. Dude its an AHL lineup, with no game breakers. The one game breaker that is in our lineup is Horvat with 20 shots. Plus Grubauer is Vezina caliber playing behind a much decent defense. They are beating our AHL defense. Rathbone, Burroughs and Juolevi are just bubble players on our D which is missing Hamonic, Hughes and Poolman.
  6. Nah its not fun when we get 7 Penalties and have AHL defenders defending. would be fun when Pettersson and Hughes comeback though.
  7. Juolevi seems to be better and is making the cut. I think he will be in our bottom pairing plus maybe a waiver wire pickup of a Seattle defender. Hopefully they waive Lauzon or Borgen.
  8. Yeah we should lose this game otherwise it would be very embarassing for that Seattle team that has started their opening night roster and has been playing for 6 games now together. Also Benning needs to get us another defensive minded RHD if Hamonic keeps dragging his feet.
  9. I think most people expected us to lose this game due to the lineup. But I hate how we started our AHL lineup twice against Seattle.
  10. Again Demko is facing tougher shots while Grubauer is seeing shots from superstars like Dowling lol. There is a huge difference and Grubauer is definitely a star goalie too, so it will be easy for him to stop those shots.
  11. We are getting shots but look who is shooting.Its not pettersson, Boeser, Miller, Garland or Hughes. Seattle forward and D is regular NHL vets, some are pretty good too like Vince Dunn, Giordano and Eberle etc.
  12. Green needs to play all our regulars in the next 2 games. We need a good start and the team needs to be ready. This preseason just shows us there is not really anyone in the bubble standing out to make this team. Lockwood has been good, but players like Dowling, Focht, Dries etc. are just going to be sent back and havent shown anything.
  13. Yeah Rathbone is better to start on Abbotsford and sharpen his defensive skills. He is not ready for NHL yet, I think a season in Abbotsford will be good for him. Although with Schenn not playing too good, Hamonic bot playing, am not sure if they will send him down right now.
  14. MacEwan is so hyped up in these boards like he is the 2nd coming of Bertuzzi. I dont see anything special in MacEwan except he can fight, thats it. Lockwood has already surpassed MacEwan.
  15. Terrible PK against an average seattle PP. If we are this bad at pk with Seattle scoring this much I think they will get shredded against the Oilers. Canucks are reverting back to old ways of defending on PK which is passive, stand in a box and let them take free shots. When will Baumgartner get fired, I cant stand that PK strategy. Also we need Motte, Hamonic and Sutter as soon as possible.
  16. Maybe Canucks send conditional pick for Lauzon instead of having Seattle waive him and get nothing. Also it makes Canucks the team to get him first instead of losing him on waivers.
  17. I think Benning is waiting for Seattle to waive some of those guys. That would be perfect since we are missing Hamonic and need a replacement for him. I wouldnt mind Borgen or Lauzon as they are better than Hunt or Schenn.
  18. The funny thing is Canucks werent the only ones to give up on him, as Chicago traded him for peanuts and Canes waived him, later to be claimed by the Panthers. So thats like 4 to 5 years removed from when he was drafted by Canucks. I probably wouldnt see him with Canucks even if the Canucks didnt trade him, because they have Hughes now and Rathbone.
  19. Are you a Pens fan? Canucks wont trade Rathbone straight up for Marino, nevermind adding to that in Di pietro, poolman and motte.
  20. I would love to have Cernak on our team as he fulfills a need on this team. As for Chychrun, he will not be a fit within our cap structure unless we got rid of one of Myers, OEL or Hughes. Cernak would fit our structure and fullfil a need as a shutdown D. Tampa will not trade him though even with cap problems.
  21. There is no way Canucks trade Pettersson unless Pettersson asked for it. Also there is no way I trade a number 1 elite center who is still very young and Hughes who is very dynamic for just Chychrun and a less effective Keller. It messes up chemistry and creates a big hole on our top line. A #1 C is just as hard to find as a #1 D. It might make the Canucks worse overall even if their D becomes a bit better.
  22. Seattle has used this lineup for the whole preseason now. I think they just want to have their opening night roster gel and have chemistry before the regular season. Hopefully Green puts out our opening night roster in the last 2 games of preseason.
  23. We need to have more players like him, thats how we win championships. So instead of trading Motte away, we need to add two more Mottes to the Motte we already have. Now if Lockwood can be our other Motte, it just adds depth to the team. What would be the point of trading Motte?
  24. Well we have definitely a highly offensive D group with elite offense in Hughes and OEL. They would be top 10 in offense or maybe top 5 if Rathbone explodes for points and Myers has a decent offensive season. Problem is that we would probably be bottom 10 in defensive zone, as we dont really have a true shut down D man that can play heavy minutes. Hamonic is the only one that can but he is not a good skater. Benning is missing a Larsson or Tanev type D. I hope he can find one since Hamonic can not be relied on for this season.
  25. Bowey is not the type of D that should replace Hamonic lol. His underlying numbers from previous seasons were horrible. Unless he improves dramatically, I dont see him making the cut.
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