Pears

Yeah but Benn's in WPG now and Troy has one year left (and yes, that matters) + they're not really comparables to begin with.

He works hard, shows a lot of heart, and is super easy to like as a person. That being said, he's a smallish 5-6D and I was fine moving on from him.

Loved him hear but in all honesty on a contender he really is a 6/7 Dman so it sucks losing the heart and soul of him but in the long run its better 

this is offer in the words of ron burnady

"stay classy vancouver, stay classy"

this is offer in the words of ron burnady

"stay classy vancouver, stay classy"

Cucumber with the EPIC quadruple post. And seriously NEVER ever be happy or satisfied or indifferent to anyones suffering. This is a sport we profess to love, show some class for the people who play it. Love the sport not just the team....

If we compete hard enough next year, we could easily get that last wild card spot, and that's assuming SJ and Anaheim have unreal seasons again.

Here's another one: 1994 BC Lions Host and Win Grey Cup, Canucks goes to Game 7 of 94 Finals. 2011 Lions Host and Win Grey Cup, Canucks goes to Canucks 7 of Finals. 2014 Lions Host Grey Cup and ??

The CFL goes on strike?

Oh and I forgot the key piece that everyone rags on. Garth Snow is a frigging idiot of a GM and has done much more stupid things in his tenure.

lol.

Exactly

Purely dependant on what Ordrej Pavalec we see. If its the Pavalec of last year, they dont stand a chance, and if it's the Pavalec that ended the season, they have very good chance.

Jets are big and hard working, all they need is the LA switch and they're Cup contenders.

he was mocking his smock.

Don't care a lick.  JB is the one picking, not anyone else, except (maybe) our owner.

Sergachev is the guy I want actually, just not at 5.

One of my favorite players in the NHL. Would trade our 1st+ for him

I would too. Considering they're most likely losing Alzner in the summer, how does Hutton, 1st and something else sound?

My guess is that they let Oshie and Williams walk after this season. That'll free up almost 8 million in cap space for Kuznetsov.

@Chip Kelly sure we haven't landed one for a while but Vancouver makes as much or more sense as Montreal or even the NYI. Its not entirely out of the question, with the cap going up like I said the guy could make something like 14-15 mil in bonuses similar to McDavids contract (https://www.capfriendly.com/players/connor-mcdavid). But I do agree its very unlikely. 

Financially yes. Canucks history days not a chance.

*says

They have Lundqvist for now and Georgiev and Shestyorkin coming up. They’re fine for goaltending. As for their cap space if they move Namestnikov and Staal they’ll be fine. 

"Rebuilding the right way". Any time that phrase is brought up it annoys the crap out of me. No doubt they're in a good place now, but it's largely by virtue of the fact that A) they city they play in just happens to be the most desirable place in the entire NHL, and B] The had got lucky in the lottery. I wonder how their rebuild would look if they hadn't had lottery luck and they played in Regina instead of New York.

@Pears

just like canucks can move eriksson and sutter and be fine?

not every good prospect makes it to NHL btw

This surprises no one.  Ottawa won't have a team in 2 years if their owner doesn't sell it to someone willing to at least attempt to ice an NHL team.

Nick Alberga‏Verified account @thegoldenmuzzy

Seems like something the hockey world has "known" for quite some time now.

This clown needs to be gone ASAP!!!

@goog16

Just because I'm not a huge Trudeau fan doesn't mean I'm going to vote for a racist piece of garbage who supports barbaric social policies.  Cons need to lose the social conservative garbage if they want to be considered electable by me.  As of now, the only non Trudeau option is the NDP.

Really selfish reason:  "I want him on LITR (re: Canucks cap situation)"

How one should feel:  "Hope he's healthy"

if he is healthy then it does solve a top 6 issue for us, I do like the idea of Pearson-Bo-Ferkie as a 2nd line, and if Hoglander makes the team Bo-Ferkie is a pretty good line to begin your career on. 

Ferland would actually put us over the cap if he were healthy.  We would need to trade Baertschi or Sutter to fit Virtanen and Gaudette under the cap.  Probably be easiest to try and trade Sutter at 50% retained.  

Wouldn't we need to re-acquire our second rounder in order to tender this offer sheet? It has to be your own second rounder from the upcoming draft if I'm not mistaken.

@Wilbur have you kept up with Ekblad much? He's basically just plateaud since entering the league. I don't think Boeser alone is that far off in terms of value. And that's coming from somebody who thinks Boeser is overvalued by Canucks fans.

edit: I didn't watch the Panthers much this year, wasn't aware of the season Ekblad had.

also if they matched the offersheet they couldn't trade him for a year so he would have to be exposed in the expansion draft. 

if JB manages to get Ekblad AND Cernak on the blueline you give that man an extension! lol

It's the pitch for families.  They initially won't be allowed inside the bubble until a later stage of the competition.  Edmonton has made arrangements for them to tour around until they can join the bubble.

The best part of Edmonton is the departures area at YEG.  It's an awful airport, but at least if you're there, you're getting out of that hellhole of a city.  Good luck getting the NHLPA to agree to bringing their families to that dump.  The less they show the city, the better their chances though.

I get the nuance behind the video, but there's something hilarious about basically sending the message 'Come to Edmonton! We'll actually help you spend less time in Edmonton while you're here!'

If you mean juicy like a cheeseburger, sure.

A chubby, wet-rag of an introvert around our young cast?..Eegads!

Expectations.....fair or not, when you’re a 6th overall pick vs 26th overall pick.  

Except Hockey players don't follow a linear path. 

Some take longer to develop than others. Every player is different. 

@Ghostsof1915  As well as positions they play.  Not hard set rules but it logically often takes a center, D, or goalie longer to develop than a winger (who doesn’t have nearly the same responsibilities as those other positions).  But as you said, there are no set time periods.

Take the next exit and escort them to the nearest Tim Hortons

@Jimmy McGill  There's *ONLY* one 'hippy' on these boards.....Warhippy!

Me and Alf ALMOST getting caught by 'the man' back in our younger days....

Global economy is only 270,000,000,000,000 $ in debt.

As more Americans are currently sleeping in their cars. This'll give them something lofty to dream about...

To stop the Rebel Scum!

cuz then they can show really neat stuff on tv

about space and neato weapons being designed

to distract us from what is going on here on earth

maga

You playing Leisure Suit Larry again, @NewbieCanuckFan?

In some ways, it probably depends on what kind of computer you use.  I switched to Mac in the 00s and back then, it was infinitely better than Windows.  OSX Leopard was a fraction of the size of WinXP, more stable and genuine "plug and play" as opposed to "plug and pray"; Mac processors at the time (Motorola G4/G5 series) were also way ahead of Intel back then.  I still have a functioning 2004 Mac G5 tower that I use as a backup server and "jukebox" for my stereo (sure, I could use my laptop to do the same thing, but I like giving the old computer something to do).

I still use Macs, but I'm not nearly as enamoured of it as I used to be.  Today's OSX has become just as bad as "bloatware" as Windows is.  So for me, I kinda look back on the 00s as a "golden age"; at least as far as Mac users are concerned.

We've got the best technology available ever (as far as we know?), but I'd kinda like to be in an era where my movements can't be tracked just about anywhere I go.

You sure it wasn't $80? If so, your money is at the Walmart customer service.

It fell out of my pocket during gym. And with my ipod I was going to put it in my housecoat pocket, but just as I was it slipped out my hand, bounced off the corner of the hottub, and into the water

Well at least everything you've lost this week is replacable, I guess...

@RetroCanuck I second this. See how he performs without Pettersson first in the AHL/NHL.

landing Dahlen, Goldobin and the pick that became Jack Rathbone was some nice GM-ing at the TDL. It should help to revise any doubts about previous TDL ability by Jim. Sure its all prospects but some will pan out and we really had very little before. 

@S'all Good Man The 95th pick was our own pick, we got the 112th from San Jose. I still wish we had taken Popugaev at 95 tough. 

i don't care at all about getting a return, I'd let them go for free if they really had another shot at a cup. 

It's selfish for the Canucks and fans if they don't even explore giving the Sedins a chance to win a cup with another team. They can always sign back for one year here to finish their career.

if the sedins wanted to go, the canucks would try to move them but would have to eat a lot of their salary. again, they want to retire canucks. 

2nd best defenseman on a lousy team =D

Let me at your buddy, I will give him an earfull!!!!

I replied with that's akin to saying Hjalmarsson sucks and he shut up after that haha

all of them

Facebook, since it's full of smug Canucks haters who bash the team even though they don't even follow hockey.

Facebook. It's full of people who pretend like they know the Canucks and know hockey better than they do.