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Are we dead yet? Not the team, but this CDC Fanboard? I only need a smattering of points to max out my ranking. Is that still possible? Going for it then!

What’s going on!?!! We’re not dead yet? Y2K all over, again! The perpetual gaslighting in this world has me in a tizzy! Where am I?! Why am I here?! Where do I go after I leave here?!

Wow! It’s like standing around watching someone with a match in hand ready to set fire to a stack of my letters, diaries & journals., My/our best rants, protestations & debates are here…but there are also tributes & love letters to my favorite all-time Canucks & farewells to those who have departed. Maybe it’s being shut down for things like: our anti-Messier stance, in stating it’s such a travesty that he’s become the poster-captain for the NHL, in that farcical modern-day Mark Messier Leadership Award. He he virtually ghosted Vancouver fans while here. That unrepentant league-enabled headhunter regularly deployed elbows on the league’s top-stars, and they ALL went apparently unpunished. This was his most notorious claim to fame & he should have been vilified for it - like in any other major-league professional sport in the world. Sure, we’ve embraced some harsh opinions & criticized the actions, ethics & possible motivations of players like Hodgson, Keith, Lucic, Marchand, (Steve) Moore, Virtanen & others, and to this day, I will still call to task with scorn NHL figures like: Bettman, (Jeremy) Jacobs, (Colin) Campbell, (Brian) Burke & former/current referees like: Auger, Devorski, O’Halloran, Sutherland & O’Rourke. ^These folks, at one time or another, have crapped upon their professional reputations via entitlements. vindictive power-mongerings or a lack of integrity… which caused this long-suffering Vancouver Canucks franchise & their loyal fan-base staggering hardships. When something smells & gets presented to you upon a platter…you call it out! You make the effort to prevent that-meal from being devoured! It threatens every participant of this grand ‘ol party, by hurting the quality, integrity & veracity of the product on the ice & the spectacle we all love! Free speech in society has never been more fiery or unbridled…& the political consequences of that are now very palatable & real. With Rupert Murdoch & the Fox News media empire paying out billions in settlements to wronged entities affected by their unsubstantiated claims & lies, circulated & held up by hosts as truth,..well, perhaps we shouldn’t be all that surprised at the pendulum swinging in the other direction & more towards additional censorship, by what’s left of these team-managed platforms. I have no regrets, standing by all of my opinionated & researched statements. It’s been a pleasure sharing news & my thoughts with fellow-members on this forum, Our discussion circles or spheres of influence may grow smaller,…but waiting 50+ years to witness this team hoist the SCup & having defended them & their interests with our words for 20+ years … I’m sure few of us will be easily dispersed or silenced. See ya out there in restaurants & bars, on the streets, lining up outside of hockey venues, in parking lots, airports or while settling into the cheap seats at Roger’s arena with a burger & fries! See ya on the other side,..on a forum they cannot silence or close down! We’re still here, there & everywhere! We are ALL Canucks! Cheers & skal!!

Haha! Two Elias Petterssons! Stunt-double! What’s next?!

This sounds like a niche hire…& I love it! Welcome to Vancouver, Ian & family! We hope you’ll grow to love the city & their team, the Vancouver Canucks, as much as we do! Cheers!

As a Canucks’ fan, I’m saying no thanks to King Joffrey.

Good grief! It’s not like he’s elf-ish & askin’ everyone to take a knee so he can look ‘em in the eye! Huggy is essentially the quarterback out there - especially on the PP & he dominates 3 on 3. The players look to him & Petey to lead out. They talk to him because he’ll be out there carrying the most minutes, skating like the wind, & thinking the game at another level. Every player in the NHL will be respecting these facts about our newest captain. I hope the power-play demolishes all thuggish attempts to intimidate him. Linden was also a super-young Canucks captain. No regrets, there either.

Petey will be longing to stay in VanCity, if the team makes the play-offs, with a D-core that’s gelled quickly & holds down the fort for Demmer while capably breaking-out the offence. Petey wants more wins, less locker-room/off-ice drama & maybe a little more on/ice protection, starting now! Praying he gets his wish! But yah, I used to worry about So-Cal & Florida teams having some kind of beach/bum allure to young players & free agents…but that was before state-side politics turned things into a dumpster fire down there. Be positive, be an appreciative fan, pray always, cheer loud & stay hopeful! Oh, and you can never have enough EP-40 gear! Doubling-down on Canucks’ swag is buying more luck! LOL

I thought it might be Miller - but understand how there may have been some small risks in that. Long-term, Quinn Hughes & family now have deeper roots in this city & organization, which could be of greater benefit to all!

Hmmm…processing this. Elias, is the quieter & more introverted superstar, with pivotal maybe even controversial new contract negotiations looming. He does not need the burden of the captaincy upon him, in that case, not one iota. Giving his good buddy Quinn the captaincy may even cement any desires to remain, if/when competing offers pour in for his services, should his contract not be re-negotiated &/or extended by then. Miller should be the mature elder statesman of this group, but his feisty emotions cause his own teammates to bristle, at times. He’s a wonderful asset but on-ice inconsistency & that generous contract put him under even greater scrutiny & pressure, if captain, too. Should he faulter, a trade could most definitely happen. However, we are all very eager to see if this workhorse has the staying power of other star-players or not. I whole-heartedly hope so, because Miller is often so clutch & definitely one of my favorites. Quinn is wise beyond his years, well-spoken & very well-connected in the hockey world. He’ll be an excellent team-spokesperson by being diplomatic, passionate, respectful, always looking for ways to improve the team & become more physically & knowledgeably prepared himself. The model player both on & off the ice! He will be a star-player in this league, for a good long while,…knock on wood, please! And, if things should ever take a turn financially or otherwise for the NJ Devils state-side, over the next decade, perhaps the other Hughes brothers may consider VanCity as an alternate landing spot for themselves & their families. The Devils must know we’ll surely take ‘em! Quinn’s happiness matters. Petey’s happiness matters. Miller is a special veteran player pushing for a SCup, here, there or anywhere…but I hope all 3 remain an important part of the leadership group that parades the Stanley Cup through our streets...& that I witness that! Cheers & best wishes to our newest Captain Canuck! Huggy Bears rule!

Cannot even fathom this! Hey, until this team secures the necessary wins & parades the Stanley Cup in our streets, this forum should remain open! It’s a team-legacy historical record in itself! Having this very special forum is the compensation we are due for over 50 long-suffering years of loyalty! It’s like running a marathon every year with familiar faces, yet not quite reaching that most hallowed of finish-lines, together! Attaining that glorious goal with y’all - will be amazing! The CDC message board is the conduit we use to unite, inform, learn, critique, cheer, grieve, brain-storm, ponder & re-ignite our enthusiasm & passions as Canucks hockey-fans! What CDC has brought together - let NO corporate interests or some other silly directive put asunder!

When I first saw this my thoughts said Petr Nedved. ^He was selfishness, greed & disloyalty all in one,….and it irks me to no end that he should or could have been - Jaromir Jagr!

What?! I’m really glad that this player had more dignity, maturity & smarts in him to choose a loyal mate & partner, early on in life, rather than experience the more rudderless-existence of depravity that Jake Virtanen was living. How good is Jake feelin’ about those decisions now, eh? Podz & Sasha have both made early sacrifices for Podz to become the best pro-hockey player that he can be! I give them huge applause for that & wish them & their growing family all the love, success & happiness in the world! Cheers!!

Whaaat?! Burrows had his arms/body pinned back by zebras & Bergeron was attempting to dig at his face & dental work! What else are you going to do? Get concussed, lose your teeth or choke on the guys’ slimy mitt?! ^This incident cemented Bergeron’s rep as a whiner/cry-baby, too. He could play with broken ribs apparently, but a pre-schooler on the playground would have handled the apparent “biting” incident with more dignity! That episode indelibly cemented into my brain that, during the 2011 SC-Final series, the refs were going to interpret drama in Bruins’ favour - everytime! ^It became their distinct advantage when the suspect 4 as we like to call them, played it “old-school” in every which-way for Jeremy Jacobs’ team. Talking heads literally said the league was okay with the notion of their refs NOT calling everything. NOT calling everything…on whom exactly?! The rules of the game be damned then, I suppose! It was also painful seeing the “good guys” villified by the eastern media, for any measure of push-back…or non-push-back, alike. Refereeing standards definitely matter & so does the deployment of these officials. ^Please, let’s just vet ‘em for some past & present biases, in the SC-Fnal series, at the very least for Pete’s sake!! No better case could be made for teams having the right to veto officials from a play-off series,..after witnessing that atrocious debaucle, I tell yah! ^Members of the very same suspect 4, officiated on-ice during the Moore-hit-on-Naslund game, the Bertuzzi-incident game, and the D.Keith-elbow-to-the-face-D.Sedin game. They drip with anti-Canucks bias & have proved themselves incapable of controlling in-game drama or threats of violence,…& this was well before they each decided to vehemently rally behind their infamously disgraced colleague (Stefan Auger). Auger had been called-out by Burrows, that season, after he & the fans had just experienced a shocking exhibition of his abuse of power. At the time, Burr was morphing from 3rd or 4th line pest into a top-line star! He was even vying for his 3rd hat-trick in 4 nights, which would have placed him & his line in the NHL record books,..but, more importantly to him, was the W for his team. Burr had tabled 2 goals & received 2 very weak penalty-calls even taking his Canucks off of the power play at a pivotal time. Burr was eventually thrown-out of said game, with his team pushing to tie. He had just played a sincerely fair & honest game, taking any early warnings to heart. But, ego-maniac Auger wanted to exact some more retribution! Burrows, trying to cool-down on an exercise bike, was quickly surrounded by a plethora of media-microphones, gathering ‘round because everyone had just witnessed something unjustly horrific & seriously amiss with the on-ice officiating!! Feeling pressured, even compelled to speak truthfully, Burr revealed Auger had warned him during their pregame skate, that he, Auger, was miffed about an experience during a past game & there was the ‘potential’ for some carry-over justice in the game that Burr was about to play,…infront of the home-faithful. Indeed there was!! But, each game is supposed to play-out on its own merits…right? Wrong!!! Not according to this entitled clique of very puffed-up & despicably vindictive old-schoolers! Bergeron craftily used O-6 entitlements to his advantage, much like Mark Messier was able to do, for the duration of his time as a NYR. The character of the suspect 4 & their ilk was most accommodating, there! Bergeron may not have had the mean-streak in him that Messier possessed, but he knew how to exploit Bruins-seque drama for himself & his team. Along with determination, intelligence, major talent & his elite hockey skills,.. Patrice was gifted, with an added bonus of drama-Queen savy & I just don’t know, if I find that kind of gamesmanship all that honourable? Choose your own heroes,,but I’m saying that I’m very solid in my admiration for Henrik & Daniel Sedin - from all points of view

Burke played a part in killing our Canucks’ Nation dream in 2011 & he knows it. He’s essentially dead to me & it’ll be nearly impossible for him to redeem himself. Perhaps, one day, he’ll crack & disclose all of the scheming, tampering & backroom deals that have happened among ‘em all.

Coach’s corner with Don Cherry was a vehicle for Bruins’ owner Jeremy Jacobs (the NHL BOG Chairman-for-life apparently) to promote Bruins’ brand old-school rock’ em/sock ‘em hockey in Canada, coast-to-coast, & for free! Jacobs managed to do this even as elements within the hockey-world, including several NHL owners, the majority of the NHLPA & junior hockey leagues, were wanting to move towards a less violent, more progressive form of game with speed & skill versus… less pinning, holding, clipping, head-shots, cheap-shots into the boards, vigilante justice & fighting. With the help of tepid consequences from league-sheriffs like Brian Burke, Bettman & Jacobs were ultimately successful in sending out some pretty “mixed messaging” on player accountability & safety…for multiple decades. Ironic then - how during the 2011 play-offs, Burke got roundly criticized ‘round the league & in the media, for advising a heavy-handed approach to the Rome suspension. The fact that he was even involved, given his tight relationship with Jacobs, Bostonian roots & acrimonious departure from VAN, …..was also a shock! The world didn’t even learn that Mike Murphy, the iterrum sheriff who’s replaced a recused Colin Campbell, had sought Burkie’s council until it was disclosed AFTER the Stanley Cup had been awarded. ^This from the guy who prided himself on general-leniency for players with NO discipline history or sanction & for players who carry-out vigilante justice,…sooooo - it was another sign that the fix was in. ^Things that make you want to riot.

^My real fear is this is a precursor to KS eventually becoming the NHL’s Head of Officiating & judging by his pretty “controversial” officiating record over the past decade or so,…I’m predicting that this was to be the anticipated pay-off, all along. ^Wait & see.

I don’t trust Burkie’s professionalism. He’s admitted not-so jokingly to being one of the most vindictive men in hockey,…saying that as a blood-Irishman, he’d expect his son(s) to carry on with his feuds after he dies. There are many evidences that after the firing of his BFF Dave Nonis as the Canucks’ GM & the hiring of his arch-nemesis & former player-agent for Bure, Mike Gillis, by the Aquilinis…Burke did his best to undermine the welfare of the Canucks franchise, at almost every turn. That dynamic was publicly known through multiple incidents between the Canucks & Burke, while he was a rival GM for other teams. Burke DEFINITELY should have recused himself from offering any advise on the Rome matter…especially since he was also a long-suffering Bostonian & Bruins-fan biased towards their old-school traditions & outwardly opposed to the more progressive path that the Canucks organization was then on. I hope the tears Burke shed at the Sedins’ jersey raising, were in part for the sting he must now feel, knowing his hatred for Gillis & bias for his home-town Bruins saw him recommend an excessively heavy suspension to Aron Rome….costing the Sedin-twins their best opportunity to hoist the Stanley Cup. Had he recused himself from that very pivotal decision, would things have played-out any differently? But, it’s simply not Burke’s way to back down. He fights, he manipulates, he meddles & he proudly continues to endorse acts of violently-vindictive retribution & on-ice vigilantism in the NHL, just like he duly performed & performs those acts in life. I pray Burkie has experienced at least some measure of sadness, shame or feelings of regret for virtually stealing the SCup out of the hands of the 2-HOF players he was also so fortunate enough to craftily draft.

And - it looks like the Vancouver Canucks are showing serious interest in purchasing the BCHL’s Chilliwack Chiefs! KS may have somewhere more specific to target his “anti-Canucks” rage & bias,…while developing & mentoring the BCHL’s 2023-2024 batch of officials. Just watch my old game videos, kids! Wait for it. We could laugh, but even the notion that there might be another KS to haunt the future prospects of this organization - ain’t funny! https://www.facebook.com/groups/463224442272273/permalink/817775106817203/?mibextid=S66gvF

Oh my! https://www.facebook.com/groups/463224442272273/permalink/822588749669172/?mibextid=S66gvF Kelly Sutherland has been announced to be the ranking BCHL officials development coach & mentor for 2023-2024! What exactly would he be preaching & teaching…. old-school game management tactics instead of progressive philosophy, with a little anti-Canucks bias thrown-in for good measure?!!

Not - if Canadian. If changing the jurisdiction to Russia, any plausible cause for arrest or imprisonment would likely be used for extortion &/or political black-mail purposes, at the very least. Making further examples of them, for international & domestic propaganda purposes would also be a given…& all of that would be without any real or fair judicial process. I was NOT altering this scenario to enquire about how the Russian Hockey Federation would be addressing or policing their own players.

Wow! Representing your country at an event associated with that honour & this is what some members of that team thought would be the appropriate thing to do! Even, getting pie-eyed drunk, would be unacceptable! If this crime had occurred over-seas,…just how would China, Russia or some other international jurisdiction be handling this? So, after all the mixed-messaging that these very entitled players have received over the years,….some players actually thought there still might be OHL, CHL, AHL & NHL teams, in this “me-too” era, who would still assume the risk of associating themselves with rapists &/or other such culpable hooligans! Hockey Canada & the NHL better make some indisputably clear statements…that this will NOT be so! In politics, in sports, in leadership & in all things concerning our lives…character still matters, folks! ^Let this be said of justice, also!

What? Luc was pretty much a regular on the roster to my recollection & could have been a top-2 defenceman, as well. What if Luc was with the team for that 2011 Stanley Cup run, & they had that additional depth on D. He was missed back then & is still missed now,…dearly missed.

I’m hoping the spirit of LB28 will shine some good karma on this player for his respects. I cried when I learned Ian Cole had changed his mind, with a very tender heart on the matter. He’s acknowledging there’s a higher value that we, the fans & Luke’s family members, may have put upon such things. This is a testament to his good character. He’s also acknowledging that there’s a special brotherhood existing amongst defencemen, who rarely seem to get their full & proper due. #82 is a new fave of mine, even before he’s played a single game as a Vancouver Canuck. Best wishes & cheers, my good man! RIP, Luc!

Yah, they tried that…for awhile. Benning experienced, as an Asst. GM, moving along a distracted problem/child (Tyler Seguin) from the Bruins, after TS won the Stanley Cup in his rookie season. When learning more of Jake’s personality & habits, Benning should have done Virtanen (& the team) the favour of moving him along sooner, too. JB simply banked on Jake’s trade value improving, yet an expansion draft followed by the Covid-years impacted his ability to find a suitable swap & he squandered those earlier opportunities before that eventual public relations blow-up. This was always the risk with JV & Benning knew it. Benning’s legacy would forever be defined by whatever happened to JV …so he continued to gamble, held on & this, in part, cost him his job.