Brad Marchand

Bonkers 15 minutes for Canada. Won their first ever Davis Cup and now scored their first ever men's World Cup goal.

The person who threw that candy bag at Petey has a more accurate arm than Russell Wilson.

I'll be blunt, Vlad should be mature enough to understand or at least accept the business rationale behind this move. If not, there are bigger problems in the clubhouse. Teo is a soon to be 30 year old defensively average corner outfielder with only one year left before free agency on a team that already has a lot of right-handed power bats with high strikeout and low walk rates. I'm honestly not surprised that the front office decided to pull the trigger now because I didn't think they were eager to sign him to a long-term deal. I don't want to make it sound like I hate Hernandez because I enjoyed his bat flips and bombs as much as anyone, but the team needs to round out its weaknesses if it wants to be serious about winning championships. He was unfortunately one of the easiest targets for a move.

At the point where I would rather fold the franchise, get rid of every single person in the organization from ownership down and start completely over again than continue with what the Canucks currently have.

The Canucks are bigger than the players, the management or even the owners. They're a community institution and I just happen to not like the people representing them right now. I only want what's best for the team and at the moment there are many people in the organization that aren't contributing what they can or what they should.

Horvat is straight up pulling an Aaron Judge on the management team right now. They frankly deserve it. To be quite frank, I can't remember ever disliking a team this much, from ownership to the management to the players themselves. They all somehow add up to something that's way less than the sum of their parts and it's frustrating as hell. I almost prefer the days when they were straight up awful because at least those teams worked hard and you knew not to expect much.

The Canucks aren't a hockey team - they're a soap opera. The sooner people start viewing this team through the right lens, the more we can sit back and enjoy and all the drama they create for themselves.

The FOX broadcast specifically mentioned that they were choosing to not replay the collision. I re-watched the live clip and he almost certainly fractured his leg. Awful especially with the World Cup just a few weeks away.

Had Miller apologized in person to Meyer-Crothers like his accomplice did, I would maybe consider giving him a second chance. An Instagram statement just one week ago, many years after he had the opportunity to make a proper apology and not just a court-mandated statement, just doesn't cut it for me. Dude's gonna have to do way more than that to atone for what he did to that kid.

It's already been nearly 10 years. Mediocrity isn't what this team is trying to avoid, it's what they've ironically become stuck in because of their short-sightedness.

If the Canucks can't entertain us, we have to make our own fun. Bring Bartkowski back while we're at it.

I like Silovs enough that I don't think they should ruin him by letting him command the tank. Martin and DiPietro would do the job just fine.

Jersey tossing is disrespectful, but that's the entire point. It's something you do when you feel you have no other way to express your frustration in a way that will get attention. This also isn't just an 0-4-2 start. This is an 0-4-2 start after missing the playoffs for 7 out of the last 8 seasons with a team that's clearly not playing up to their potential and very little flexibility to make meaningful improvements to the roster. Not everyone has to agree with how people are expressing their anger, but I find it hard to fault people for being fed up at this point. I'm sick of this team's corner cutting and it starts at the very top of the organization.

There are only 5 teams in the league with the cap space to absorb his current contract, and I seriously doubt any of them want to have him for the next 7 years after this one. Getting JT Miller off this team will likely have to involve bad contracts coming back the other way.

It's too bad he probably doesn't have the self-awareness to realize what a loser he is.

If Frankie couldn't figure out how to farm blueberries without abusing and underpaying people, how on Earth does anyone expect him to be able to run a hockey team?

I used to think the Canucks were a tragedy, but now I realize, they're a comedy.

I honestly hate what this franchise has been for the last decade. I've complained a lot about Aquilini so I won't waste too much more time on it, but the entire team has been comfortable with being mediocre for far too long, mostly since Benning replaced Gillis. They wasted years trying to rush a rebuild so they could become 'competitive'. Everything from trading picks for project players to making impulsive free agent signings. They never tried to innovate, did as much as they could to cheap out in terms of filling out the hockey operations staff and were mostly insistent on doing things the old-fashioned way. The big front office overhaul came years too late, after most of the damage that Benning and company did was already done. Now the current regime have little flexibility to build on what they have and are stuck with continuing down this path with a poorly-constructed, complacent but too talented to completely bottom out roster. If someone compentent was owner, they would have realized what needed to be done sooner. They could fire Bruce, trade Miller or whatever else, but it feels like it's gonna take years to fix this franchise and what it's become, top to bottom. Worse still, I don't even really know whether the current regime has the competence or the permission from ownership to get it right.

Bold of you to think this team can actually win something.

At the risk of this being satire, Bruce isn't a quitter. The last thing he would want is to be given a mercy hook from this mess. Why humiliate him that way? The real person we should be demanding resign is Francesco Aquilini. Ultimately he is the main culprit responsible for the rot that has permeated within the organization since he replaced Gillis with Benning. Every problem that has been allowed to fester within the team from the front office to the locker room starts and ends with him. He has proven throughout this decade of mediocrity that he isn't patient or savvy enough to oversee a sustainably competent NHL franchise. Every rumour of micromanaging the team or abusing migrant workers or his children is just another distraction that detracts credibility from him and the Canucks. I know that the Aquilinis selling the team is a pipe dream, so the only realistic hope is to force him to pass control of the franchise over to one of his brothers. After that, I hope he rots in hell. That's as much as I can say without breaking board rules.

Of course they only learn how to defend something after the game is over.

In before Horvat says this effort was unacceptable. I've counted at least 5 times since last season where he's said that. Newsflash, if you keep having to say it, it probably means you've become somewhat tolerant of it. Same old story, team has no backbone, no discipline, no semblance of ability to adhere to a defensive structure. It goes way beyond coaching at this point, it's a deep rot within the core players of this team. They're all talk and no work when it really matters. They really should sell hard on Horvat, Boeser, Miller et al, but the market for all three is probably dead. Even if it wasn't, who really thinks Aquilini is gonna show enough patience to properly restructure this team? Dude couldn't manage frickin' blueberry farms without having abuse of workers claims come out, there's no way he's fit to oversee a comptent hockey organization.

Losers.