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  1. Neither are chopped liver. We some times set our expectations too high. Hughes is great but I doubt we'll see another for a long time. I quite liked Rathbones last game and Hiroke looked more relaxed against Chicago. Could be a mix of poor Chicago play also. Toews was up against him during the game
  2. I was laughing at myself at the game last night. We were into the secound period before I realized McWard was playing, which i think is good. He didn't make disasterous mistakes and was really fitting in. Hiroke on the other hand started to more noticable, for the right reason. He seemed to be more comfortable a step up from his previous game. So ....... maybe the same will hold true for McWard. Fingers crossed. If he shows well it may help decissions about Myers place on the roster. With Hronek and now maybe McWard along with Bear and Burroughs the Cap will look better and maybe not given away strength
  3. LogicallyMyers will be moved after his bonus is paid out. However much like the days when Edler was deluged by fans as being a terrible player ( if that can be imagined ) Myers is played on the PP and PK by all the coaches we have had here in the last couple of years which maybe suggest that those "know it all" fans are but sheep piling on. Is he great maybe not, and he is aging, But he's an NHL D'man for sure and will not be as easy to replace for size/weight. But as you were, keep up the "all knowing" comments
  4. Every team has a list of high draft picks that never worked out. Here's a couple Patrick Stefan Atlanta, Diepietro Isles, Yakupov OIlers, Daigle Ottawa seems lke every team has at least one
  5. The constraint is the age of Hughes/EP/Demko. If we get a pick that needs 3+ years to graduate to the NHL then others are getting long in the tooth. I truly believe that the future depends on our assement of possible pick, possible trades. Can you bet your house on either the Pro or Amateur scouts to give you iron clad information. Which ever way you go there is a gamble aspect to your choice. The thing about the draft is you get a 18 year old who may have already hit his peak, and of course some never do make it to the NHL,the trade you know who what you're getting. Remember Kravtsov was taken 9th O/A by the Rangers, how did that work out. We picked Juolevi higher than that how did that work out. Draft picks do not = success
  6. I have a Canucks card nad simply scan it in when i make a purchase and thn they print off your balance, end of story. However it was/is only worth $200 new so I'd be careful beffore you buy it and i would also suggest you have the seller provide you with the remaining balance. You might buy the car and find it's already been emptied
  7. ROSTER SIZE: 26 CONTRACTS: 47/50 RESERVE LIST: 67/90 INJURIES: 6
  8. How much is 1 Russian ruble worth right now? 1 RUB = 0.01261 USD Apr 04, 2023 19:09 UTC
  9. Let's get a couple of facts out there. Gillis convinced FA to buy our own farm team, big move. Up until then we were sharing teams and putting players where ever we could, think Chicago Wolves fiasco, Also he wanted to rebuild the team in 2012 but was stopped and fired for the recommendation. I might add Torts recommmended the same route, he was fired too. FA brought in an rookie GM who failed to produce any thing. His drafting included Juolevi, Virtanen and traded away 2 high first round pick, thats 4 wasted pick if my math is correct. He of course added and huge cost Beagle, Ericksson, Goldobin, Chaput, need I go on and then of course made that celebrated remark. Well we can see how he turned the team around ( not ) and left with a Salary Cap disaster which JR/PA are gallantly trying to solve. I'm confident JB will never be hired as either a GM or a scout again. Gillis stepped away and was a Prof at U Vic and now with the NHLPA
  10. The Benning brigade are faithful or well trained. There's little of no logic to th praise they shine on him. Gillis on the other hand managed the greatest era in the franchises history and some have the audacity to suggest him to be a nobody. You can list the players he brought to the roster the success he had and some attempt to blow it off with elementary school logic. Well it ain't haappening on my watch. The true story is Aquamans firing the best GM ever and hiring a no body with a reduced caapacity. Rutherford and Allvin are trying to crawl out from the debris left from the JB era and it ain't easy
  11. Strangely enough Gillis was voted by his peers as the top GM in the league ( Jim Gregory award ) the problem for many is Gillis out smarted many and it hurt their feeling ..... LOL I admit it did mean many were scared to make a deal with him
  12. I might also add a good friend who left the early Mao revolution and lived in Singapore, Taipei. His brother was a surgeon who was sent from the hospital to the paddy fields by the Red Guard, because he was considered an autocrat. Funny ending he was rescued from the rice paddies and told to report to a hospital to perform his medical expertise. He told them he was so out of touch he needed an update and refreshed and so was dispatch to California to a medical school. The fiirst thing he did was find a Chinese lady in San Fran, married, became a citizen and never returned to PRC again
  13. Here's a couple ofshort video produced by Bill Maher. First they are funny but they do tend to make some points about presntism and wokeness
  14. I tend to think the kid needs a vacation, time away from hockey
  15. Are Raty and Karlsson on a collision course. I know competition is a motivator but inevitable there are winners and losers. Both similar size both listed as centres. Karlsson is 0.7 P/G while Raty is 0.5 P/G Raty is 19 and Karlsson 22. ??
  16. A coule of years back Gillis was interviewed on a radio show. He was asked would he like to be a GM again and said yes but only under his own rules. First He admitted the scouts werenot up to par and he should have moved earlier. But here's the real thing. He stated he would only manage if he could appoint a number of AGM's to handle different aspects of the business ie scouting, capoligist, contract negoiator so on and so forth. This is exactly the way JR has set up the current management team. Gillis as usual was way ahead of the pack. A very smart man that was feqquently despised simply because he didn't suufer fools lightly and to some appeared arrogant. IMO he had an academic approach to hockey managment, he studied a problem rather than simply react in a standard method
  17. Sorrry to disapoint, I worked in international based business and Vancouver was always Vcr, New Orleaan was NOLA and Singapore was Spore etc etc
  18. Frankly I thought that was the best game I've seen Rathbone play. Hirito look calm and collected and can only get better with more game. I thought Bear had an off night
  19. I have the feeling ( just predicated on words from PA/JR ) that Johanssen might turn out to be a surprise next summer camp and eventually find a spot with Vcr
  20. IMO a lot of of the choices were made by JB him being more of a one man crew. Some thing that was needed was a debate and discussion how things would be done and by whom. For instance Brackett went through a scouting process with his amateur scouts and set "the system" up for years to come. By delegating different assistant manger to specific task IMO is paying dividends. Reretfully most of JB decissions were base ( or so it seemed ) on what players were like in their junior day when JB watched them, it simply didn't work. The game chnaged the then juniors chnaged and the result was poor decissions. JR seeems, seems, like he giving some autonomy to his new AGM's
  21. I remember years ago I was taking a course over in Oxford. It was international in scope and amongst the group was 2-3 from Nigeria. The discussion was about the merit of different of international labour forces. There was some complaints about Nigerian labour and their reliability. Well one of the Nigerien Ministers said don't worry they always have to come back home ! You could hear a needle drop, stunned silence, the implication was clear
  22. I have to say many Candians are sadly naive to the ways of the world, Many have not gone passed Spuzzum. All the ethics and morality are far different in so many countries to say nothing of their laws.Travel is said to broaden the mind and I know that was the case for myself. I don't fault Kuzmenko it's his solution to a very real problem for his family. Family is very important.
  23. Quite a number of chnages in the amateur scouting but surprisingly none I can see in the Pro scouting. Scouting Staff | Vancouver Canucks (nhl.com)
  24. He was a different player when he signed, it's now history. But even then, there was so much speculation from fans who should have known better (espically JB) that some once awayfrom Arizona he would miraculousy retrun to his past quality days. It never happened and common sense tells you it would never happen, unless of course you have some sort of time machine or pixie dust. His play will not improve, not too early standards. This is aging in full view. When you get to that age maybe then you'll understand
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