What the heck is a great rebuild?

Hockey fans need to remember the so called experts going out of their minds about what an amazing job Treleving did bringing in Huberdeau Kadri and Weegar. There were numerous experts saying that Calgay could win the West and be SCF finalists. Lol. Lol. Lol.

How many posts have cried about the "fact" that the Canucks have a long history of winning records in their last 20 games each year to screw up their drafts.

Interesting that the reality is - that is just not true. 

Completely agree with your post Mudge. I watched Donnie and Dhali today with Drance on it .  It was awful, Thomas Drance was yelling into the camera and the whole thing was so negative it was ugly. What a waste of time watching these guys.  Enough. Gonna go for a workout and tune those losers out.

Sounds like he is hardly going to be here so no. 

I'll be there as well.  Personally I am shifting my thinking.  I had great expectations going into this year that have lead to great disappointment.

I am now accepting the year as a write off and I've decided that I'm going to enjoy the rest of it.  A win is always fun. A loss is Bedard baby steps.  Lol. Win-Win.

Is it possible JR doesn't want to contemplate a rebuild because he is a couple years away from retiring so a retool is the only thing that he could control?

OEL's reaction seems to suggest it is head related again - if so Poolman may be unable to play anytime soon.  Nux get LTIR relief but that doesn't cover bonuses so there can be a downside going forward.

The causes of recurring migraines that he has are not well known and not necessarily curable.  It can be debilitating for years and years for anyone, not just hockey players.

I pretty much agree with Odd.  OEL was solid. Hughes was decent as was Schenn. I too thought Burroughs played pretty well (maybe not 2nd but certainly top 4). Both Stillman and Poolman brought back Pouliot flashbacks...

If you watched the sideline interview with him game before last he says he is working on coming back as soon as possible. So I don't think it is a done deal yet that he misses the rest of the season. I think it is 50/50 not 100% that he misses the rest of the year - based on his comments alone. His injury was Aug 19 and his surgery was a week or so after that.  8 weeks is before the end of regular season. And no, it is not months after that. That's not right. I think he has a shot at being available for the final home game or the first playoff game. Let's see...heck of a player though!

Guy goes to his lawyer and asks what is 2 plus 2? Lawyer says it depends on a number of factors but we will try to convince the Judge it is 4. 

Guy goes to an engineer and says what is 2 plus 2? Engineer pulls out a slide rule and says I think I can prove without a shadow of a doubt that it is 4.

Guy goes to his accountant and says  what is 2 plus 2?  Accountant closes the door, pulls down the blinds, leans in and says, what do you want it to be?

Miller is not getting traded.  IMO he will be re-signed. Before the season starts.

He wants to be here and the Canucks want him.  The deal will be 50M over 6 years.

The endless trade Miller posts are silly and getting sillier.

Once they agree on the total compensation of 50M the term is easy.  At that point 6 years suits both of them.

I think it is at least 50/50 that he re-signs (correct spelling).

Miller is a leader and a star here.  In Tampa he was behind the star players.  This is his chance to make his career a real success by leading a team from mediocrity to the cup and the Canucks are trending up. I don't see him wanting out like Gaudreau and Tkachuck.

His agent says he'd like to stay.  The Canucks are interested.  By all accounts the Canucks are at 40M right now and he is at 60m.  They will likely get it done at 50M imo.

Rutherford's influence is creating a better organization and better team bit by bit, day by day.

He is going to create a championship team in time.

Schneider would be a fantastic partner for Hughes..dunno if NYR will part with him tho

What's your point sport?

There is no 96.2 lol.

Look if we go 7 and 1 and included in that we beat LA in our game against them, we wind up with 96 points and the best they can do is 96 points - and we win the tiebreaker.

Icy you missed the whole point.  JB made an offer he wanted him he just misread it.  He said afterward that losing Tanev really hurt us.

Your version is a fantasy partner.

"We've made Chris an offer and he's gong to let us know in the morning..."

Unbelievable incompetence.  Tanev signed in Calgary 1 hour after JB said this.

There are a select number of people here who value trade prognostications over all else in the hopes that they "called it first".  Sad really.

Petey needs to be mentored by the Sedins.  Week in week out until he fully develops.  They are on the payroll and have a track record of going from disappointments to stars through hard work.  Perfect mentors for a young swedish kid.

Trump coined the term fake news. 

Crazy how many people accept the erroneous fact that we have to live with fake news. We don't.  We just need to stand up to the media and demand better or tune them out.

Anyone who thinks we should have kept Markstrom over Demko is not all there.

Grumpy Sleepy and Dopey

Freedom of speech much?