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I really hope Francisco and his higher ups read this forum...if so. Francisco, sincerely...screw you. Trying to control the social media platforms and the discourse surrounding the team is pathetic. It won't silence the voices of the fans. You cant hide, we will find every such way to hold you accountable and voice our passion. Taking away this forum continues the chasm of isolation that you have put fans through. It truly shows how out of touch you are with the fans of this team and city. If anything you are hurting this fanbase with your actions, but I guess it was never about the fans for you Francisco, more so what the fans could do for your pocket. Again, most sincerely...screw you and screw off. C4N signing off! See yall on forumcanucks.com!

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Why is it being shut down?

Zlodeyev and Plasek have really impressed me.

I never knew line combinations would serve to be such a breath of fresh air. Man I've missed Canucks hockey.

The NHL requires teams to have 8 veterans in the preseason lineup. This is to prevent teams from loading up a preseason roster with just rookies and prospects and getting their face kicked in. Carolina and Phoenix have a really young team despite having some veterans, their AHL squads are not flushed with NHL experience. So they are likely trying to fill out their preseason rosters with PTO's to meet requirements and protect both the key veterans from having to play too many preseason games while also protecting their rookies from getting spanked around. The official verbiage in the CBA:

Ideal situation is to be in wildcard spot and still trade Myers and other UFA's to accumulate picks and assets to flip for longer term solutions. Kind of what they did with Vanek for Motte. I don't think Myers will have a lot of worth on the market even now that his bonus has been paid. Teams know what he is...he is a big bodied mobile #5 dman. Hasn't changed since he was in Winnipeg. That gets you maybe a mid to low round pick. Luke Schenn only got a late third rounder last year bear the deadline, I can't see Myers being anything much more than that in return.

Dave Tomlinson back in the summer suggested he was returning to Canada for another opportunity. He was a former 1040 color analyst and worked much of 2011 beside John Shorthouse for better half of 4 seasons when Shorthouse was on the radio. Po I think most likely that due to Ferraro still being employed another year with ESPN he will take a few of those games (2 that will be nationally broadcasted with the Canucks on ESPN) and a few sprinkled here and there, and Tomlinson will fill in the rest. I also would think Tomlinson may also make appearances on sportsnet 650 with Brendan Batchelor, as much of last year due to Corey Hirsch's departure, Randip Janda, Brett Festerling, Mike Santorelli were used throughout the season, but none of them really were good matches.

fine fine fine.... Ballard, Raymond, and 3rd to go with their alumni squad.

Carolina really liked Hoglander....would they be willing to take a package of Hoglander and Myers for Pesce? Very unlikely, but would like to see the team use that leverage to get a dman that can be a difference maker for us.

Perhaps they loan him out, whether in Europe or maybe in the ECHL. Also entirely possible that he signs an standard AHL contract for the year before the Canucks decide to sign a standard ELC with him. Abbotsford is pretty stacked with centers, might be hard to find him development minutes with Aman, Dries, Sasson, Wouters, Raty likely ahead of him.

He has some really good vision and playmaking skills. Just needs to clean up that faceoff ability and he may very well be our future 4C for a longtime.

Something I just noticed is that the TD ad is on the jersey now when it was on the helmet 2 seasons ago. Not loving that.

Very interesting that Zlodeyev will be here. Generally most Euro players will not attend them as their seasons begin overseas. Chris Faber wrote this this past summer

Sheldon Keefe did that with the Leafs last season where if they were down, he played Mitch Marner (their best two way forward) on defence while Tavares, Matthews, and Nylander up front.

To be honest, wouldn't mind seeing Rick Tocchet get crazy and innovative and trot out a 4 forward group and Quinn as the lone dman throughout the season. Quinn is so smart offensively and defensively, that would be fun to see. But 5v5 defensive partner makes most sense is probably Ian Cole or Noah Juulsen.

Did Quinn tell Bo that for free?

I assume that the practice facility would also however allow more revenue avenues as they could rent out the space to the SFU team and maybe minor hockey tournaments throughout the year. I certainly would also draw more students interest considering this team likely lost a generation or two of fans during their mediocre years. I can see a big plus because SFU is a very secluded area so players wouldn't be bothered much and has nice facilities too such as their gym and workout areas.

Damn Hronek certainly got leaner, should help him move on the ice and be stronger to battle bigger opponents. Still haven't seen anyone come close to Higgin's abs though.

Roussel when he tore his ACL said in interview that despite being able to recover and comeback to play, he still had trust issues with his knee. He shared how parts of his leg muscles also shrunk due to the lack of activity in the initial weeks of recovery and had to build the muscle mass back up again. I tore my MCL 2 years ago, and it took almost 18 months before my knee began to feel normal despite it healed within 6 months. Its taken me a long time to develop the muscle mass again in the quads, calves, and hamstring back to what it was before and I still at times am weary about my knee strength. I can only imagine how Ilya's knee and leg feels. He may be "recovered" in the sense the knee is good functioning again by Oct 2, but I feel it will take time for him feel at his very best again. May be a slow start for him and then see him take off midway into the season.

Soucy has some real beef with some of the Canucks players haha.

Can't imagine Persson gets signed next June. His development has really stagnated once he was too old for the WHL with Kamloops. Hasn't found his footing in Finland, and its not great that he is starting this year off as a scratch when he is a regular mainstay on their 3rd pairing last year.

Its just a scrimmage and drills, but he looks very rusty. He looks like he has heavy skates, the skating and likely fitness is not up to par after taking a full year off of hockey.

It will likely not be released until closer to the tourny, but I'd imagine you'd see a mixture of first year AHL pros that played for Abbotsford, CHL prospects, and recently signed prospects. However, guys from the NCAA are not allowed to attend due to NCAA rules of eligibility deeming even a prospects tourney as a professional game to which players lose their eligibility to play in the NCAA - so you wont see Tom Willander, Ty Mueller, and others. Likely wont see European based players like Pettersson, Jurmo, Forsell and etc as they are already in amidst of their European preseasons and they start their regular season in mid September. Makes no sense to disrupt their schedule and development to bring them over for a 2-3 game tournament, so you leave them off the roster. I remember reading in 2013 when the Penticton tourney began that players were eligible for the tournament if they had played less than 100 pro games (NHL, AHL, ECHL). I remember there was a big fuss from the other teams about the Canucks being overly experienced bringing Nicklas Jensen, Frank Corrado, Darren Archibald and some other prospects but were deemed eligible due to that rule. So depending on whether the rule stands or not, you may or may not see Klimovich, Nielsen, Wouters, Jett Woo at this tournament as all three have played over that 100 pro game mark in the AHL. You may not see Aatu Raty, Jack Rathbone, or Arturs Silovs at this tourney either as they have played some significant amount of NHL games, this tourney wouldn't do much for them to get ready for training camp, so I'd expect you wouldn't see them either. Upfront you'd likely see: Bains, Karlsson, Sasson, Bloom, Alriksson, McDonough On the back end you'd likely see Kudryavtsev, Brzustewicz, Mynio, Hirose, McWard, Johansson. In goal you'd likely see Ty Young and Nikita Tolopilo. You may see a smattering of AHL signed guys like Quinn Schmiemann, Chad Nychuk, Cooper Walker, and some CHL based prospects who attended Canucks prospects development camp this year but are free agents like Max Namestnikov, Colby Saganiuk, Braeden Bowman, Jacob Maillet, and Samuel Richard.