Tom Sestito

Well, this may sound weird BUT…I think you should change your name to Future Considerations. 

Well played CE.

Tostito? 

omg hahahahahah I hate that place so much

@Nuxfanabroad I think it was screwed when they bust the deal, and spun the wheel. 

They gave us 'the spin' from our first nanosecond of existence!

Could Darryl Sutter a suitable candidate for the GM position ? I recall that he was tremedously successful with the L.A Kings.

https://www.nhl.com/canucks/info/canucks-team-store/game-used-equipment 

Shh not so loud

Actually louder, we gotta wake him up again so we clearly win the deal with Pittsburgh!!!  

Did you seriously suggest waiving Gudbranson?

He'd get a decent draft pick minimum, especially at the TDL. 

Glad you're not our GM. You'd go full Chia. 

The kid has the confidence to think that he can make an impact right away, I think you trust the player, if they're unsure of themselves then yes send them back.

I think with the Sedins finally retired, the club is FINALLY going to allow every opportunity for the young guys to push for jobs. If he's not ready for NHL action, he can go to Utica and play in the AHL if absolutely necessary.

AHL is a way better developmental league than NCAA simply because they play significantly more games. Turning pro allows Hughes to get more time in the gym with the strength and conditioning coaches AND play high impact minutes.

NCAA has pretty good strength and conditioning coaches, and less games actually means more gym time.  A grueling schedule against grown men hungry to get a call-up to the NHL isn't going to help him bulk up.

JB just re-signed him for another season.  Still think he sucks?  If so, I guess you aren't a fan of JB's judgment. 

@Type R There are standard injuries and then there are brutal injuries to your best players. Even Tampa Bay looks average when Stamkos is injured.

Crosby goes down, Malkin, Kessel and Co picks up some slack.  Stamkos goes down, Kucherov and like 5 others pick up the scoring.  The Canucks are a one line team, and it was woefully apparent without Hovat in the lineup.  Don't get me wrong, I'm a huge fan of this team, but I'm not going to kid myself over this.  Depth is sorely needed, and its coming soon up front.  Horvat, Pettersen, Gaudette, Granlund, Gaunce, Gagner, and Sutter will all be able to play C and possibly all be available next year. The wing is starting to be bolstered, with Boeser, Baer, and a few coming from Junior (Dahlen etc)  But look at our D, outside of Tanev, are any of these guys prepared to compete next year?  Its an arguably soft d-core, even Gudbranson is looking soft compared to Archibald.

The team is about to get very young if Hank and Dank hang them up, and without some big moves (especially with the D), we may flounder a couple years.  With the right trades, and terrific drafting, 2 years is possible, but the team as it stands today would be lucky to get through the first round.

I think any true Canucks fan would appreciate what Jim Benning has done with the prospect pool. You can tell some are stuck in the past. 

@debluvscanucks hey I thought we weren't supposed to have two accounts! 

Sarcasm? He slowed down years ago. Also ^no one likes a teller...

Hutton has been hot garbage this year.

go away

@Lil B From The Pack

i just got here!  

@Alflivesis pretty much correct.  If Benning had said "expect some pain" rather than "we want to try to remain competitive" hardly anyone would be upset.  Actions speak louder than words, and Benning's actions tell me the Canucks are rebuilding.  They just tried to dress it nicer than the Maple Leafs rebuild.

sorry according to Benning we were supposed to be contenders by season 4

Not trolling, just fact 

If you don't want Benning's contract to be renewed, who do you want to replace him?  You're always complaining about what's wrong, time to put forward some solutions for once.

Tom, we need your physical play. Come back.

Tom, we need you to come back to be a 240 lb. punching bag...that would be more like it.

Tostito!!!

How about Kassian for Scrivens

The Kassian we had was worthless. He turned a corner and stopped with the stupid crap outside of hockey, and got better.

Oh really? He isn't a BS artist? "We're going to continue to build this team to be a playoff contender every year" - Linden after we qualified for the playoffs in 2015. Benning after we were eliminated last season - "REALISTICALLY, if you're asking me when the day be that we can compete with the best teams in the league. This is year 2, and by our fourth or fifth year I hope we'll be there with the elite teams in the league"

Okay so where are we? 28th and 29th last finishes with trades that brought in players in their prime or young players just entering it to try and quickly retool to be competitive quickly while failing to trade players at the deadline last year 

Keep drinking that good stuff

so... you think a team should set its sights somewhere other than making the playoffs? thats a good development goal in your opinion? If you don't think teams can turn things around quickly you haven't been paying attention to the rest of the league. 

Philosophy change? Sure. Flip-flop? They've more or less always maintained (through their actions or whatnot) that their goal was to gradually build the team around a new group of core players while still being playoff competitive. Stupid idea? Perhaps, but nobody in management was under the illusion that they thought the team could seriously be cup-competitive unless you chose to construe their words that way.

Now they figure that their going to have to rebuild more painfully. It didn't happen as quickly as people wanted it to, but there's not much anyone can do about it now unless you think cleaning house entirely is going to make it happen faster.

Loui CAN be rebuilt. We can build the first 6 mill...

Tommy S is soon for the scrap-heap. With us, he got penalized for sneezing(2 rule books, & all that trash)...

ah maybe not ?

I'd take Gaunce with no goals over Tostitos.

unrel

Cant wait for reg season to see them bust another 75-80 point season     

Too bad Eric K. Wasn't better at playing the defensive side of the puck

hatedkid666

hoovaq

i dont think any team will eat datysuks whole ticket @ 7.5 but they could retain 40% making it a 4.5 caphit and trade it for a 2nd round pick i would definitely eat that if i was JB.

Jim Benning, 2014: "We believe the core group of veterans here can be part of a quick turnaround."

Jim Benning, 2016: "We knew this would be a long, hard process from day 1. There are no shortcuts. Previous regime left us with bad vets with bad contracts."

lirl

sounds like he belongs on CDC in Fantasy Hockey lol

He gets 0.5 points per game, third line production - CDC

^^^ That's just disgusting.

In the end, would be good to see Bones win

For such a clutch guy, we'd been Jonesin'

He ripped it by Jones

Delight of Shark-groans

Felt a bit like success of our own kin...

Mhmm, it sunk us for sure.

We'll likely be getting a full rebuild regardless of what management wants. We don't have guys ready to step up and take over for the twins, not even close. And we aren't likely to get that through UFA.

Wednesday, Benning killing it. Draft Lottery the world is over. 

Should've got the entire first round

Agreed, six feels like the minimum the NHL felt it could get away with dishing out

more liquid fans than Jackets fans 

Shots fired! Get down!