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I'm glad they won but I'm also glad he's leaving bc &^@# Toronto 

Honestly I can see Demar Derozan returning in a couple of years once his contract expires. 

The Raptors are lucky they won that championship otherwise it would have been one of dumbest moves in sports history.. but I can see them being a crappy team for awhile now. 

They need another superstar. 

@drummer4now -- One of the dumbest move in sports history?!? Yikes. I wouldn't have called it *THAT* (there's a lot of more dumb moves) but it was definitely a risk that paid off.

Demar may come back. Hard to say. But at the end of his deal, will he be needed?

Also, I don't think you realize how bad the East actually is in the NBA. The Raptors will still be a playoff team but it'll be tough for them to get out of the 2nd round. They have some very good young players in Pascal Siakam, Fred VanVleet, and OG Anunoby... they also have one of the best G-League programs that has churned out NBA players and is responsible for the massive leaps Siakam and VanVleet, in particular, made.

I have faith in this team and the Raptors do have one of the Top 3 NBA executives in Masai Ujiri manning the ship so it won't be as catastrophic as you think... They won't be able to repeat but at least they're not set up to die like the Cavs did when Lebron dumped them both times.

we’ve had trouble generating secondary scoring for quite awhile. hopefully, they find a scoring winger for bo and pearson. truth is we  don’t have much scoring from our 3rd and 4th line. we should get more from our defense, but if we don’t, we’ll falter again.

teams know if they stop our top line, we struggle mightily. weaned output from baertschi, leivo, virtanen and roussel. gusev might help if he is picked up.

Miller Pettersson Boesser  not hard to imagine 30 goals from each, 30 assists

Pearson Horvat Eriksson  25 goals, 25 assist from this group, tho I'm high balling Eriksson on last years production when this line was put together

Sutter Beagle Virtanen  We should be able to expect 15-20 goals from each person on this line.

Roussel Gaudette Leivo  Should be able to rely on these guys to be in the 8-15 range for goals

Then for the defense, if we can manage at least 10 goals apiece, that is another 60....

Might need Markstrom to go for the long bomb a couple of times, but the goal output isn't unreasonable, and anything extra is just icing....exciting icing.

Oh, and I forgot about Baertschi and Goldobin in this mix....I didn't forget about Schaller tho...but that's because I don't see him here except for injury call up.

I didn't even realize he was with the blues. Just barely made 41 games or over too, so he will get his name on the cup, right?

I really hate scalpers a great deal.  Get real jobs like the rest of us.  It's one thing if you buy tickets then can't go.  It's another to buy them to make a profit. 

You guys are ridiculous. We all know that the highest we can get is this:

Sbisa - Sbisa

Sbisa - Sbisa

Sbisa - Sbisa

Seriously guys is that the best you can do?

Eric Weinrich - Keith Carney

Tomas Mojzis - Scott Lachance

Zenith Komarniski - F Lee Goren

Brad Lukowich - Mike Weaver

Andrew Alberts - Rory Fitzpatrick

Steve McCarthy - Ossi Vaananen

My "these guys played for the Canucks??" lines.

seems almost routine for him

beh, 8 points is nothing

Not this time. 

forget subban already

we just got rid of him

and we are not giving dowd back to get him either

dowd has played very well

a very good trade by jb

What was the confirmed offer? 

5th Round (If Dubois was there) + what? What was the plus? Tanev? 

AFAIK Dubois Pick for Subban, although it seems like there should be more there.

Schneider was traded for 9th OA, remember.

Cap problems might make edm make such a trade

They could probably get twice that for draisaitl alone.

I was hoping Horvat signed at ~$5M cap hit plus two 2nd rounders (early 2nd and mid 2nd) would be enough for Draisaitl, who we would sign at ~$9M

Okay, now I like it:)

i like we end up with Chucky:)

@Alflives Ya it's a decent idea to start out with but as @Stamkos says Duchene is a great player and worth more than Hutton, Goldobin, and a late 1st. Needs some tinkering to do...

you know you're hammered with injuries if Corrado is making game time roster. 

He's becoming a hit by the day in Nashville. Hopefully they sell out his jersey. He's the reason why the Preds have made it this far

Entangled in a Web of duality? Bet some D are Jonesin' to be back there, but it didn't always Sut them...

I have.  I don't know about the one at 8 Rinks but I went to one in Calgary.  It was mostly fantastic.  The players got plenty of coaching, but as a goalie, I did not.  I did see a lot of shots though, so the practice was good.

not without a guaranteed sign and trade and not for our 1st rounder too, imo. 

Done.  Take Foote (who's a better prospect than half the guys people want at #5).

Interesting.. say if it's Drouin signed to a long-term deal and Foote with the 14th overall pick.. that's a potential 1LW and a #2/3D.

If Im Dallas Im trading that pick for someone who can help them now on the blue line because nows the time they need to win

Problem is we don't need 3rd we need to move into the top 2. 

I know, I actually wasn't referencing us in this. I don't think either Philly or NJ trade their picks.

We retained a part of Hansen's salary so I highly doubt we're retaining anymore.

As well, I doubt Edler will waive.

You can't retain salary on more than 2 players. With the Hansen deal, we can no longer retain (Retained in the Luongo trade).

I thought it was more than 3? Could be wrong

Ehlers has cooled off the past 9-10 games it was reported somewhere..I think JV hit a speedbump somehow but I think he can catch up to Ehlers especially in the playoffs where physicality and speed are important.

Passing up a top 6 big forwardc like Tkachuk was a huge mistake and I think were going to have to wait at least 4 years for Julevi to push for a spot.

It might look more promising right now, but I can't say how I feel about the picks yet. Joulovi looks like he'll be the real deal though.

The other thing is that VIrtanen is 20. He's got a lot more hockey to play before he can even be put in the "bust" category. A year or two in Utica isn't the worst thing. Remember, it took Bertuzzi (the player Virtanen gets compared to often) until he was 25 to find his NHL footing. Patience will be key with Virtanen. Just because Ehlers and Nylander are producing now doesn't mean Virtanen won't be producing later. Personally, I'd rather have Virtanen, Horvat, Boeser, Juolevi, and the rest producing all together in two seasons rather than have one player sort of producing now on a teaming that's meandering around.

Also, it could be worse -- we could've selected Michael Dal Colle instead of Virtanen had Virtanen been plucked by the Islanders with the pick before. (Though, I doubt that, I suspect had Virtanen gone #5 that the Canucks would've likely selected one of Ehlers or Nylander over Dal Colle).

Don't get your hopes up. Best / worst case scenario- we pick 5th this year, even if we only get 50 pts.

3 lottos, Vegas, us.

tanknation needs a revival

Officially wondering what's unofficial about it. You're either pro tank, or you're not, no?

Hell yeah ! great effort :D

Gudbranson will shine here, but people will never let go. Every point McCann gets (I like the guy and I hope he gets a lot of them) they'll go "See? See!" until faces turn blue.

CDC is classic turvy topsy.