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  1. Seeing as the people that we are losing are either being head hunted because of quality, or aren't producing results from the leagues they're scouting, makes sense. If we had lost Brackett, I'd be pissed. As is, you need to recognise people who are able to take on more responsibility, have position to elevate them, and bring more people in under them. We'll have to see a few more of the changes that'll come in the coming months to really see if they are restructuring and expanding, or tightening the department because of financial concerns.
  2. Completely agree with you on this. If we can improve the player development model, it'll mean the difference between tweening it, and winning it all. Of course, a person could have been saying that over the course of 50 years...but here's hoping the lesson has actually been driven home.
  3. Baertschi Pettersson Boesser 20-30 goals apiece all over 60 pts if healthy Pearson Horvat Miller 20-30 goals apiece all over 60 pts if healthy Sutter Beagle Eriksson 15-20 goals apiece all around 40 pts if healthy Roussel Gaudette Virtanen 10-15 goals apiece around 20-30 pts if healthy Edler Myers 15 goals apiece 30-40 pts if health Hughes Tanev well, this is a stretch, but don't think it is impossible to count on 20-30 pts from this pairing Benn Stecher Say it is money to count on this pairing producing 20 pts apiece Markstrom Demko Just on goals alone, think it would get us the 5 wins we needed to make the playoffs this year, but going into the coming season, would say that we should be able to count on this team, as presented, to get us 10 more wins than last year. With the number of one goal games we lost, and with a more balanced scoring approach, it is a reasonable bet. Demko will provide us more solid goaltending than Nilsson did last year as well. And hopefully we've seen Markstrom turn the corner in his career and will continue on as he did last year. If the defense can cut our goals against by 20 or so, and that isn't unreasonable, we should be able to do more than just squeak in.
  4. I can say, it was a whole hell of a lot more fun watching games last year, than it was before that. And knowing we have some legitimate top talent on the way, and it's spaced out enough so that we can deal with cap crunches over time than all at once, that isn't bad. The team is looking like it is getting to the point where it can start to cycle players in and out of the organisation without being too much of a problem. Would love to see more hits on 2nd round and beyond picks in the organisation, but I do see that coming in the process as well.
  5. From 2006-2012, we basically had nothing in the pipeline, prospect wise. That's a HUGE!!!!!!!!!!!!! downside to turning this organisation around. On top of that, we saddled ourselves with ntcs and nmcs that limited what we could get for the players we were in the end, stuck with. Argue that everyone wants our garbage, but we were never able to trade Raymond, Ballard, and a first for anything. As for all the gambles that we did take, for the most part, most of those were just money signings, or lower end draft picks, gambling on players that could turn out, but if they didn't, it wasn't like we broke the bank. In fact, we can say, if we looked at it, that we could have used that time to hone our player development model, learning from all the miscues of other organisations who thought these players would develop into something someday as well. Now that we are deeper into Bennings run here, we do have the basis of an actual player pipeline stretching from the minors to the pros, we've definitely reworked our player development system (still needs more work, but I've been a fan for 30 years and it is better now than it has been in....forever). And in 3 years, we'll have a drastically different team again, from what we have now. It is a process, but I'm far more confident in the process, even with it wanting to make me want to throw my canucks hat on the ground sometimes, than I would be with Edmonton's. This year, we have a more solid defensive line, on paper, than we've had for a few years, and we have options. They aren't the best possible options, but for all of those who say, develop from within, we've given ourselves some time to actually do that while icing what could be a bubble playoff team. We have definite prospects at all positions who could legitimately join the team in the next few years in top positions, from elite wingers, to bottom 6 forwards with upside, to maybe even top 4 defensive prospects (I'm looking at you, Rathbone, Woo, and Juolevi!). Even some competitive goaltending! Are we going to win the cup this season? No, but are we trending out of the cellar, and looking better than teams around us? Yeah, and we did it without the NHL handing us a top 4 pick in the process. We had to scratch, claw, and fight our way forward, gambling all the while. We get looked down on as not being as good as some others, but nobody in the vaunted rebuild club, has won the cup yet. Give this a chance, and you may be surprised that the sum of all our moving parts, might actually be better than it looks on paper. We were 5 wins away from being in the playoffs this year, and we had 2 10 game losing streaks in there. This club is trending upwards, and although it goes against the easy way, as Canuck fans, would we expect anything less? PS Willing to eat all of these words come March 2020, but I'm really positive that I won't have to
  6. Kadri > Soderburgh, and Barrie was going to walk away, and the Avs could afford to let him go with whom they have in the pipeline. Interesting that Kerfoot was part of it. Leafs get softer and more skilled, while the Avs get some sandpaper and when Kadri is rolling, is an excellent 2nd line center, which the Avs seriously need. Reilly Barrie Muzzin Ceci Sandin Lillijgren Doesn't look all that bad on paper, but Muzzin is the toughest of the lot. This group could be dangerous if they gel, but could be tissue paper soft when it comes to gritting out a win over a team like the Bruins.
  7. Last Season, we had 219 goals for, and 248 goals against. We should be able to bring the goals for up with the personnel we brought in this summer, and that's just what we have right now. We drop the goals against by 20 goals, we are more than enough to make up the pts needed to make a playoff spot last season. We need 10 more wins, and with how close we were in our losses, this should be doable.
  8. I hope Granlund has a good year, and regains his scoring touch....just not vs us. The kid is a really good role player, and plays to what he is told to do. As a winger on that team, it isn't beyond the pale to expect a 20 goal/15 assist season from him, which is basically making him the best winger in the bottom 9....on the oilers.
  9. Good deal for them. Kid deserved a raise, and if he lights it up a little bit more, they'll have a really good value contract for a couple of years, and trade him at tdl the year he's up.
  10. An extra 50 pts, along with whatever point total we can garner in free agency, would mean a lot more on ice results as a lot of those close 1 goal games, might have been decided the other way. We should be trending upwards, and if we are savvy in contract negotiation and term, as well as good at selecting the right UFA's this summer, we should see some very positive results. Just have to make sure we start developing some of our past draft talent into actual NHL'ers, hopefully with impact. And I'm talking about ones that weren't drafted in the first round. Don't want to be Edmonton.
  11. My brother and I were discussing that the other day. That D-corp along with Vigneault....oo, you watch out. Now to round out that bottom 6 over there, and hopefully support Hart out so that he can play to his strengths and be covered from his weaknesses, much like Luongo was used, you have a dark horse contender.
  12. We need the money to get to that, which we could have gotten from the oil industry if we had invested the money received from it wisely. Instead, boom or bust, baby! Now we'll be left with all the clean up, none of the money, and the pain of having to transition to a differing energy platform without the benefits of having one industry quietly and smartly phase into another. Of course, that would require leadership, insight, and intelligence.
  13. we need refineries....and then the pipelines to get the material to those refineries. We shot ourselves in the foot as a country by not investing in more refineries in the first place. Then people are sold that all we need is pipelines....ugh
  14. I'd like to see more performance bonus's in contracts. Gives incentive to the player to show up. Make a few 'classes' to choose from, from offensive to defensive player, forward and defense, and goalie. x amount for goals, x amount for assists, etc etc Break it down. If you show up, and you earn it, you get paid. You don't...you don't get paid. Would also like to a franchise player designation which you can have exempt from your cap hits, but you can't trade em for their contract. And nobody can get paid more than your 'franchise player'. Oh, and contracts at 2-5 years, with only your franchise player allowed more term. But that is just me playing around with ideas. Oh, only 1 nmc and 2 ntc per team.
  15. I can't speak to the rationale of the people doing these actions. It is just the news that they're doing these things. Problem is, just like black plague back in the day, enough people get infected, you run the risk of the contagion mutating. Although it is a disease mainly contracted by fluid transfer, you mutate it, you could end up with an airborne disease, and then, it is a whole different ball game.
  16. The reason for not everyone being vaccinated in the region is that there is very little pressure to do so. Added on is the fact that there is a definite lack of trust, with some of the people in the area attacking health care workers or killing them, because they associate the illness with them, or think that it is the workers that are infecting people in the region.
  17. But to answer you, yes, the safety of our citizens should come first. We're no good to anyone if we can't save ourselves, just as long as we don't build a wall and survive at the expense of everyone else. We're lucky, we live in Canada, and I truly believe, we wouldn't act that way. We'd try to not only save ourselves, but help others as well. At least, that is what I think of when I think of Canada.
  18. It is a matter of degrees. I can see points on all sides, but the problem is, the worst of both lots seem to have the loudest voices and their voices are what is ruling politics today, to everyone's loss. There is more common ground than people know, it is just being swallowed up by two sides keeping up their power bases at the expense of most, that are in the middle.
  19. There are valid points to both sides of the arguments, but the real point here is, undocumented people, from a region that is currently experiencing a plague, are managing to make their way into a country illegally. That they don't seem to have Ebola is lucky, but that they got in, is inexcusable. If this isn't dealt with appropriately, what happens when there is a necessity to be able to shut the borders down because there is a plague. All other reasons aside, you should be able to have the ability to protect the population of your country in the case of a medical pandemic. But of course, that would be a reasonable explanation for border security.
  20. But, being a team that is near the bottom of the league, to see our executives going out there and looking at everything that is on the table is respectable. They shouldn't be ruling out anything, and should be looking in all places to improve not only our roster, but our depth from bottom to top as well. That is just doing due diligence, and speaks to the fact that we aren't taking a vacation on issues facing our team.
  21. One of the guys I follow on Youtube spoke to this last week. As we lead up to the draft, and during a slow news cycle, it is easier to link Toronto, Vancouver, and Montreal to almost everybody, because you get the clicks. There is a lot of smoke out there, but rarely any fire. If we were to believe the news cycle, July 2nd will see each team with a 46 man roster and a payroll around 200 million.
  22. Eriksson becomes tradeable next summer, after july 1st. Just settle down, and hope that him, horvat and pearson show next season what they did at the end of this season. And here's hoping we get a winger that's a threat to play with boesser/pettersson.
  23. Nobody should be untouchable, depending on the return. But the return here would set us back, not propel us forwards. Plus, Ottawa needs the volume of picks to make up for the 4th overall that Colorado gets this year. On top of which, none of this addresses the loss of Hughes to our club, who has chance to actually be the defenseman that we've so desperately needed for...well, how old is the franchise? When you're franchises best d-man seems to be Edler....
  24. I agree with your assessment, and there is a lot to like about Caufield's game, and I wouldn't sleep on that pick if he is available at 10. His edgework is the kind that'll allow him to slip in and out of the danger areas in the zone, slip checks, and get open for some elite passing that would be happening with Boesser and Pettersson. I prefer Boldy, his ability to read the play, and to know where the puck is going to be, is elite. But Caufield ain't no slouch in that arena either, and both are players that we should be targeting. Another threat to score will only allow more time and space on the top line, as you can't fixate on any one player to stifle play.
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