MJDDawg
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Was so excited for the new direction.
And once again this team pulls the rug from under my feet.
Yzerman and red wings in a fight for the playoffs but still have an eye on important draft capital.
All for what? To try to get a couple of playoff gates?
Once again sacrificing the future for the now. I’m beyond speechless with this deal.
Sell the team aquaman. It’s clear you can only hire people who will carry out your greedy short term strategy every year and I’m sick of it.
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Yes, let’s gooooooo!!!!
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6 minutes ago, J-Dizzle said:
At one point Cassel’s shinkaruk jensen looked like top six forwards to be too….
Canuck fans for I don’t know how long thought that trading Raymond, Ballard and a 3rd should land us any teams 1st round pick and their top prospect in a trade.
So of course the Russians will be our new second line.
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Very cool that Gino named one of his sons Bure.
RIP Gino.
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I don't know how to feel about this deal.
My initial reaction is that this seems quite underwhelming for the type of asset we're moving. Would've been OK if we'd sent JT for this package.
Also find it hard to believe that we couldn't get a better young prospect.
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Telus marketing calling now. Coincidence?
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What’s going on with Shaw?
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5 minutes ago, -DLC- said:
I'm usually very compassionate about the elderly. I feel so much empathy and a bit protective of them.
With JR, I just feel like he should be placed in a room with rails on the bed and given a nice cup of tea and a crossword puzzle. Tell him not to yell at the walls too much and check in on him every now and then to make sure his vitals are stable.
Patrik can bring him his blankie if he gets a chill.
It's time.
(I just checked and he's 73 going on 91)
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4 minutes ago, Fozzy said:
Hiring a coach with a losing record. Hiring assistants with limited coaching experience.
Are Rutherford and Alvin stealth tanking?
Or are they hoping for a bounce where we win a number of games and pick 12th overall,
Ya that’s be good.
Clowns.
Unfortunately I think it’s the latter.
This franchise will likely continue to spin its wheels in the mushy middle.
Not good at winning or losing.
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4 minutes ago, 6of1_halfdozenofother said:
Something something.
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6 minutes ago, fanfor42 said:
I was at the Canucks vs Oilers tonight. I've been a long time season ticket holder and have been to many games over the years.
Here's is what is different right now. The stands were filled with Oilers fans. These people are buying tickets from Canucks fans who are tuning out and selling their seats. Don't blame them $200 seats are tough to just waste if you don't feel like going to watch a losing team. This will continue.
So get used to this Canucks fans. Being in a building where there are so many Oilers fans they are taunting Canucks fans with their chants and cheers and jeers is just not fun.
I am appalled at what a lousy job Jim Rutherford has done. Allvin is a nobody so he doesn't count. This mess is all on JR.
I will not be buying season tickets next year. This mess has to end and I won't support it anymore.
Get rid of Rutherford and bring in somebody who at least knows that you can't destroy the culture of a team without any plan to build it better. He wants a retool. What an idiot. He is destroying the very fibre of the team, while opposing fans cheer and jeer and taunt the home fans in their own building. What a (re) tool he is.
Don’t blame you really. But I think you’re blaming the wrong person here.
Multiple management teams he’s hired as owner have always preached the same message and delivered over a decade of poor asset management that have gutted this team of draft picks and prospects and made them a laughing stock of the league. Now he’s made them an embarrassment as well.
Thankfully Canuck fans have risen above the low moral standards of this ownership by giving Aquilini the big middle finger in giving Bruce the send off and respect he deserves.
This is all on Aquilini and will never change until he’s out as owner.
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Substitute “management” with “ownership” and I’d agree.
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It sure feels like the next 10 years will be a lot like the last 10 years.
What case study are they looking at that shows taking shortcuts works. Sigh.
Not sure I have the stomach for more of the same.
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42 minutes ago, Warhippy said:
The very fact he was investigated with credible issues concerns and a full federal look in to his potential gambling and match fixing as coach is a serious concern yup.
Yup no doubt.
But par for the course with this team. Added to existing current legal issues against current management around this team with handling of Pearson injury, a human rights complaint and abuse allegations against the owner not to mention the actual on ice embarrassment the team has become. So no big deal adding a gambling and match fixing coach to the to the mix.
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RIP Gino.
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13 minutes ago, Alflives said:
Does JR have a choice whether we bring in Tocchet? Aquilini went to Vegas, with JR, to talk to Tocchet.
That Aquilini is going there speaks volumes about why this organization is so dysfunctional and a laughing stock around the league.
I had high hopes for this new management team and that JR had the cred to tell aquaman to eff off.
It’s now obvious to me that hasn’t happened and this management team will face the same challenges that every other team president, GM and coach this team has had working under this sleazy owner.
I couldn’t care less about wins tbh. All I’ve wanted for a few years now is a long term vision and plan around a good rebuild and not constantly taking shortcuts for the occasional playoff gate, yet here we still are in a worse position than ever.
Now I feel we’ll be here talking about the same issues 10 years from now.
Sigh.
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If Aquilini actually told Rutherford that he “needs to fix this now” and won’t allow him to start the demolition I feel is needed before the rebuild, then this team will be a bottom feeder for years to come. Doesn’t matter who manages or coaches, decisions will always be made with job preservation in mind and not what’s best long term.
As long as Aquilini owns this team, we’ll continue to be a laughing stock.
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Bloody hell Juice, you’re making me all misty here.
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3 hours ago, Canuckster86 said:
There was a team dead last in the NHL in January that came back to make the playoffs and win the Stanley Cup...St Louis Blues, pretty fucking recent if you ask me.
If fans can't have some optimism now, you might as well come back next October...Does it suck watching the Canucks spiral and spin their wheels for years, of course but we can NOT change what they do.
The Blues were cup contenders at start of that season, started poorly, got their coach fired and went on a run.
No comparison to this version of the Canucks.
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Still too early to know since they haven’t even been in place for a year yet.
But I’m not liking what I’m seeing, or not seeing, so far.
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Yes if done as a proper rebuild and not half arsed.
It’s going to be a painful 5 years regardless so might as well start the job now. We’ll be further ahead at that point if done right.
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I’m saddened that “new” management has decided take the same short sighted route to success that the previous management did.
Another 5 years will be flushed and we’ll be in the exact same spot.
Sigh.
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JR mentioned bad habits 5 seconds into his interview. Wow.
Thinking Bruce could be fired.
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[Trade] Red Wings trade Filip Hronek, 2023 4th-round pick to Canucks for conditional 2023 1st-round pick (NYI), 2023 2nd-round pick
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Not only is it an attempt to shortcut, I liken it to paying off debt with a credit card in an attempt to push the real problems down the road. The issues don't go away, but making this trade just extends the pain over a longer period.
I don't have any issues with the player Hronek, just the process. How does this team add the pieces around our core of Petey and Huggy when they have zero cap flexibility now and after next year when Hronek is due a good size salary bump, where is that money coming from? It just seems like committing to more money in the next couple years like this simply lowers the amount of money that will be available later to try and have the flexibility to manage the roster and truly add pieces to our core that will make a difference while we have them. Trading high draft picks and committing to salary just forces the team to tinker around the fringes of the roster for the next few years, with no real help for the core. IMO.
I'm not hopeful that this management team is smarter than 31 other teams in this league given it's bottom feeder status and that we'll be having all these same discussions again in another year or two. Again, simply pushing the problem down the road and extending this misery.
It's not easy being a lifetime fan of this team.