Ben Kenobi

Had they played when they were supposed to play, different result for sure. Disrespect the hockey Gods and they come back to bite you. Canucks have finally cursed themselves, not like they needed the help.

Funny to see the Canucks get &^@#ed over by their protest earlier in the series. Shoulda played on time earlier.

If this team makes it to 8:05 in the third, still tied, they will be the 4th best Canuck team in the playoffs ever. WCE lead by one entering the third. Still have work to do.

WCE did come back from 3-1 though.

Not yet. Still have a little work to match West Coast Express era's peak. Leading by 2 in the 2nd would do it. Top 5 though. Unlike that team, this team hasn't lead at any point of their second round series.

This team has an argument for being the best core that Vancouver has had in their history. No canuck team has won 7 playoff games, the year after missing the playoffs. The best was in 2008-9, when that Canucks team lost in 6 to the Blackhawks. The next team up is the peak of the WCE, with their loss to the Wild in 7. This team will have to take a 2 goal lead in the seoncd to match the WCE high point, so they have a little bit of work to do. That will leave the three famous squads, 1982, 1994 and 2011. And we all know how they did.

Prince George is racist, don't you know?

"Hockey for me offered hope. Some light in the dark tunnel." I felt exactly the same. 2020 has been a horrible year for me as well. I had zero hope for the playoffs this year, I thought that hockey would take their lumps and gear up for a season starting in October. I saw how the Canucks did without Markstrom, and I feared that they would simply fall out of a playoff spot in the end for their fifth season without playoffs, which would be a franchise record. I was pleasantly surprised with the Minnesota series. I disagreed with how the NHL ran it, I thought that they should take points percentage and cut it off when the season stopped. I thought that was the fairest way to run it, so that teams that didn't get as many games had an equal opportunity to make the playoffs. I think the 'expanded one-time tournament' was not a bad way to do it. Happy they beat Minny to arrive at the real playoffs. Then they knock off the cup champions in an absolutely thrilling series. Me and my brother had been watching the series together. We really like the grit and the heart in this new team and I was looking forward to more years with Quinn Hancock. Then this. They would never do it for Republicans. They didn't stop play for the girl and her father who were shot by thugs. No, they did it for a man who raped a 15 year old girl. They forget what Jordan said many years ago, "republicans buy shoes too". Hockey has had a tough year, but the in your face preaching the tired old saw of 'racism', "you are racist unless you agree with us". Why would I want to be a part of that toxicity and participate in it? So I'm out. They have said, "we believe so strongly to tell you that you hate and what you believe is wrong, that we are willing to stop playing to stand out there and tell you that you have to agree with us or we'll call you racist". Yeah. Sure. And see above in this thread. Again, "you must agree with us or we'll call you racist". That is toxic behavior. I wanted to like this team and cheer them on, and see what they would do. But until they issue an apology to all of their fans, I'm not interested in watching the remnants of this playoff run. Nor will me and my brother watch together. We can do other things like playing games together - where we don't have to see advertisements telling us, "you are racists unless you agree with us". I thought it was all about the hockey. But sadly, it's not. I've waited 5 years for this to see the Canucks in a relevant playoff game, and they decided it was worth cancelling those games to "make their point". Got it. Loud and clear. Get Woke, Go Broke

Get Woke Go Broke. Canucks screwed themselves. They had all the momentum coming out of game two and decided that it was more important to posture than to play hockey. They won't win another game. Good riddance.

Tom Sestito crushed it. /Thread End.

Good, enough about Trotz. Now we can move onto the serious players.

"Trotz's pedigree" What pedigree? Zero conference finals in 15 years? League average coaching would get you there at least twice. The Canucks had a 17 year drought from '94 to 2010, but that cost Crow his job. Do we want a 15 year finals drought here?

Florida also has a goaltender who's made the playoffs. If Trotz was any good at developing forwards, wouldn't we have seen at least one in 15 years? Do you really want him screwing up on the development of Horvat?

Ugh. Weisbrod. Why? There are better candidates elsewhere.

Buzzsaw, you'd trade the number one scorer on the Canucks just to pick up Boyle? Terrible deal. People need to accept reality that the Sedins are the problem on the powerplay.