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So, Soucy, Cole and Irwin all added to the left side. I thought they would make space for Hirose after his great showing late last season. Hopefully they have a plan for Akito as I don't want him to be press-box surfing and getting cold like Rathbone last year.

Good point and fair enough. I hope whatever our scouts saw in these guys was worth the inherent "risk" of grabbing over-agers, and they end up being good pieces for us either in Abby or Van.

To be fair, most of the league didn't think Bure was eligible for the draft lol. I'd venture to bet that will never happen again.

Fair enough - although for me we would have been better suited grabbing over-age D like you mention, as opposed to these light-weight centers we grabbed. Less chance that they become a factor in the NHL with their frame pretty much already filled out. But what's done is done, and they are Canucks now - so I hope they tear it up for us and prove me wrong.

??? These players have been passed on by EVERY TEAM at least once, one of them has been passed on by every team twice. There is little risk or competition to sign these guys in free agency. Lol.

Bro, the 4th round is not where you take D+2 and D+1 players that you can easily sign in a couple of days on July 1st. That's what people are upset about. Take players with upside, it's not hard.

We just let the sharks take a Burnaby boy in a position we need after taking 2 straight over-age undersize centers? Sweet.

We were actually the only non-playoff team to lose draft capital the last 2 weeks. So no we didn't add picks.

I can.

Okay, I'll get right on that.

Well, people are comparing it to the 2015 draft, so lets take a look. Canucks potentially just traded the ticket to the next Chabot, Boeser, Ek, Connor, Barzal, DeBrusk, Konecny, Beauvillier, Merkley etc Time will tell tho.

Pretty easy to single out one part of my post and not address anything else I said.

You're comparing Hronek to Makar? I don't understand why this matters. Every defenseman has gaffes. Every player mind you. Just like our management has gaffes, quite often actually. Hronek is not worth what they paid.

Okay

He will fit right in with these kind of atrocious drop passes! That about does it for me for my hope in this franchise turning it around anytime soon. Such a terrible year in P.R, management, drafting, pro scouting.. I'd be hard pressed to name one thing this new management excels at. As usual in Canucks fashion, they get your hope up (in this case a series of good trades) only to lay a massive steamer right on your chest. Everyone wants RHD, yes. But we aren't in the position to be trading two top 64 picks in the deepest draft since 2015 for a defensively questionable player that Yzerman clearly saw not enough in to warrant him being apart of his core. Absolute joke.

As much as I love Bruce.. If Barry Trotz drops a hint that he is wanting to come back into the coaching world.. Aquaman better be prepared to add another coach to his long pay-roll list.. Maybe Barry's style is more of a fit for this team, a style that can squeeze a strong team defensive play-style even out of a line-up like we have.

We just gonna pretend like Rogers Arena is any much better than this..? Lmao

GINO

Wow, the traditional song they are singing sounds an awful lot like a Triple-O's advertisment.... A1 stuff here Canucks... lmfao

Lmao, we're hearing a player getting interviewed while not hearing anything this woman is saying. What is happening here lol.

Its not a Canucks stream on Canucks.com without 2/3rds of the game muted!

Kadri is 32 when the season starts. 39 when his contract expires. Huberdeau is 29. 39 when his new contract expires. Pretty sure the "Prime" for forwards is usually 26-32. After that you are considered "Old" and most players start getting incrementally worse every year after that. Calgary might have some cap issues with some old former superstars mailing it in as soon as 3-4 years.

Even without Chychrun, my hot take for next year is that Ott makes playoffs while Leafs falter by a few points. They will need to be "lucky guys" to get a full season out of Matt "Glass" Murray, and TML roster looks pretty worse from last year. It would be glorious. Maybe the biased media will finally turn against Du(m)bas?

Really glad we didn't have any interest in him. He ain't worth $7M for all the pucks that will be going into his own net when he is on the ice, and his zone entry and advanced stats last season and playoffs were pretty terrible for a supposed $7M player. He is good offensively but not sure that outweighs the bad parts of his game.

Soft no-show in the playoffs, overpaid, perimeter winger in Nylander. No thanks.