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Vinny in Vancouver

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  1. You can look at probability that way, and if that's the way you want to look at it, then there's NO team that is "theoretically" going to be picking first or second or third. The alternative way of looking at it is that we have the second highest chance of getting a top 3 pick. In fact, we have the second highest chance of getting the first pick.
  2. Could some of it be due to the Tampa Bay coach? I would love to have Cooper as a future head coach for the Canucks. The fact that he's from Prince George is icing on the cake.
  3. If winger is what the Canucks think he will be long-term, then imho, he loses some of his draft value in their eyes. But the Canucks may start him out there if he doesn't get sent to the AHL. Perhaps slot him in with Sutter to learn the position and at some point in the season, they can alternate spots? Or we can do that with Granlund as well.
  4. Just reviewed Bo's fight again (http://www.hockeyfights.com/fights/137352), and it just warmed my heart.

    1. Ghostsof1915

      Ghostsof1915

      Bo won't back down. That's the kind of pushback that will back off the morons of other teams will understand.

       

    2. Brad Marchand

      Brad Marchand

      I knew they were friends from their junior days (Horvat said so himself) so I guess that's why they didn't try to land any seriously hard punches.

       

      Still, a good scrap.

    3. -DLC-

      -DLC-

      It was great to see his snarly side...he sent a good message that he isn't backing down.  We need that.

  5. I think Benning needs to lay off the F word from now on. It seems to be have become some sort of a curse word.
  6. Yup, fame, money, Mama's home cooking. What's not to like?
  7. I believe some people have said that there's nobody in this year's draft that would displace any of the top 5 in last year's draft. Matthews and Laine are obvious. But I wonder if the Canucks have the top overall pick and the opportunity is there, would they trade it for either Puljujarvi or Pierre Luc Dubois? Imho, I almost think the Canucks would say 'no' to that and not just because Nico and Nolan are both Centers, but because both Puljujarvi and Dubois have lost some of their shine with their production in the minors.
  8. This guy's a highlight machine. He doesn't score as much as I think he should (hockey IQ?), but when he does, he looks like our most talented prospect with that size, speed, and skill combination. Scary.
  9. Nolan Patrick's not a bad fighter. Just sayin'...
  10. Actually, since he got traded, Dubois has put up some decent numbers: 28 GP, 15 G, 22 A, +37. In fact, for a while there, he was on a very hot streak.
  11. If Gudbranson comes back playing as poorly as he has this season, he will definitely makes Sbisa and Edler look good. I'm surprised he "only" had a plus-minus of -14 given how out of place he has looked this season with the Canucks. I'd be the first to admit that I may have been wrong when I thought this was a great trade by Benning when it first happened. Gudbranson needs to pick it up big-time next season. Hopefully, he doesn't demand a high salary this summer.
  12. Great skating ability is critical for a 1C or 2C to be successful whereas that's not a prerequisite for a winger. Both Tkachuk and Vilardi need to improve on that, but hey, Bo did.
  13. Lol and smh at the people at CDC who prematurely worried that Brock will not sign with the Canucks and instead go the Jimmy Vesey way. Talk about needless stress!

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    3. Ghostsof1915

      Ghostsof1915

      You'll find life more enjoyable if you worry about things you can control. You can't help things you can't control. 

      Just expect the worst, hope for the best. 

    4. Tom Sestito

      Tom Sestito

      Thats my point vinny. I wasn't worried about boeser because he didn't go back for his 4th year. 

  14. The 2018 NHL draft is pretty deep with Dahlin (top pairing D), Svechnikov (Russia's next big winger), Veleno (C), Jake Wise, etc. If we don't get Patrick or Hischier (who may give us a decent chance at making the post-season), I wouldn't mind seeing a lot of our prospects build up confidence, strength and hockey IQ by playing in the AHL (or even Juniors) for 1 more year before going to the NHL (if this constitutes 'tanking', so be it).
  15. I wouldn't take it personally. There will always be extreme homers in any fan-base (I personally know that my evaluation of Tanev is probably higher than a lot of other teams' fan bases). Also, don't forget that there a lot of Calgary fans that are pissed off that they got fleeced not once but twice by the Canucks (Baertschi and Granlund).
  16. I've no doubt it would be Hell in those sub-forums, but at least, it will be Heaven in these forums. As it is, many people visit this prospect forum hoping to hear of the development of players and most of what they hear about is how poor our prospects are performing in comparison to others in their draft class. Prospects are supposed to be about the future so when three quarters of the post are negative, it makes it harder to have hope and have fun.
  17. It's getting hard tracking how well our prospects are doing when at least more than half of the posts on the prospect thread is about how we should have drafted X instead. Mods, to clean this and other threads up, can we pretty please have a separate subforum for Why We Should Not Have Drafted This Prospect?
  18. Gut feel: Canucks' 2017 1st round pick will be used to get one of the following centers: Nolan Patrick, Hischier, Tyson Jost, Landeskog, Matt Duchene. Other players or picks may be involved.

    1. King Heffy

      King Heffy

      Landeskog isn't a center.  The asking price for him and Duchene is also far too high.  I'd rather go after Reinhart or just pick Liljegren, who looks like he'll be a stud.

    2. Vinny in Vancouver

      Vinny in Vancouver

      Landeskog has played center in the past.

    3. Vinny in Vancouver

      Vinny in Vancouver

      If you want Reinhart (I'm guessing you're referring to Sam), you're going to need to pay through your nose. That Buffalo GM is very hard-nosed about the price for his selected prospects. That's why Evander Kane never got traded.

  19. Ok, in that case, I would love to see him play with the Comets! Thanks for the clarification.
  20. I believe that was because both he and McCann already played enough games for the Canucks that 2015 season - thus burning a year's worth of eligibility (or something like that). In Juolevi's case, he's not yet Canucks property.
  21. Afaik, Juolevi is not eligible to play for the Comets. His only 2 North American choices for both right now and next season are: Canucks or Knights. I'm not sure he's ready for the NHL, but what more can he learn playing for the Knights? Perhaps Europe then?
  22. Just checked my favourite ex-Canucks and surprised to see Hamhuis at +2 on a severely underperforming Dallas team.

    1. Rubik

      Rubik

      Wow, on that Dallas "what's defence" Stars team? That's gotta be a miracle.

    2. Nuxfanabroad

      Nuxfanabroad

      With that 'tending, seems Nobel-worthy

    3. Ghostsof1915

      Ghostsof1915

      Patrick Sharp. 8 goals, 10 assists, -20 $5.9 Million. 

       

      And people gripe about Eriksson? Well at least Sharp is a UFA at the end of the year. 

  23. You've actually touched on my 3 main concerns which would dictate how much salary they should get: On which line they'll play: it's a match-up thing - each of the lines are supposed to match up with one of the other team's specific lines, and I get really, really nervous any time they start on the defensive zone. I know they like to say that young guys need to do better, but in all honesty, their effectiveness has been putrid on so many occasions: they cough up the puck with increasing regularity; their passes are going nowhere; their shots are getting weaker. In fact, their lack of effectiveness on the Marchand goal hasn't been an anomaly. Right now, you're already hoping that they will be able to get 12 to 15 minutes of good Sedins. But based on the current time (just think about how many points they've scored in 2017 and the increasingly smaller number of good scoring chances they've generated even though they've had a lot of offensive zone starts), I strongly doubt that you're getting even 7 minutes of good Sedins. That number's going to decline even more. If you extend them even 3 years after next season, what sort of production do you think you'll get on years 2 and 3? It's one thing if you're spending important cap space on one popular but declining vet. In this case, you'll be spending it on two players. Split them up and hope for the best? Will they take an extension of 1 year? Perhaps extend one player and trade the other (sacrilege!)? Again, I have been a big Sedins fan pretty much since they were drafted so much so that I actually spent time going through the NHL's Top 100 list trying to see which ones of those players should have gotten kicked out of the list so that Henrik could make it.
  24. I'm very curious now - just how would you define the role of a third line and why do you think the Sedins would fit there? Can you give me some examples of comparable third lines in the league that you think the Sedins' style of play could copy?
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