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After the Canucks signed a dozen players likely heading for the farm today, I figured this would be a good time to start a thread on the upcoming season. The roster is really starting to take shape; here's an overview of the players we have so far for Abbotsford's inaugural season. New Signings (2020-21 Stats) Forwards Phillip Di Giuseppe / LW, age 27 / 6'0", 193 lbs / NHL 31 GP - 1G - 8 Pts Justin Dowling / C, 30 / 5'10", 180 lbs / NHL 27 G - 1G - 5 Pts Sheldon Dries / C, 27 / 5'9", 180 lbs / NHL 3GP - 0G - 0 Pts; AHL 18GP - 5G - 10 Pts Nic Petan / C, 26 / 5'9", 175 lbs / NHL 7GP - 0G - 1 Pts; AHL 14GP - 7G - 15 Pts Sheldon Rempal / RW, 25 / 5'10", 165 lbs / NHL 3GP - 0G - 0 Pts; AHL 25 - 4G - 14 Pts Chase Wouters / C, 21 / 6'0", 193 lbs / WHL 21GP - 10G - 22 Pts ------------ AHL only contract Defensemen Kyle Burroughs / RD, 26 / 6'0", 193 lbs / NHL 5GP - 0G - 1 Pts; AHL 11G - 1G - 4 Pts Brad Hunt / LD, 32 / 5'9", 177 lbs / NHL 12 GP - 1G - 1 Pts Brady Keeper / RD, 25 / 6'2", 197 lbs / NHL 1GP - 0G - 0 Pts; AHL 11GP - 2G - 3 Pts Devante Stephens / LD, 24 / 6'3", 185 lbs / AHL 26GP - 5G - 11 Pts; ECHL 16GP - 3G - 6 Pts Returning Vincent Arseneau / LW, 29 / 6'2", 221 lbs / AHL 13GP - 4G - 4 Pts ------------ AHL only contract Justin Bailey / RW, 26 / 6'4", 214 lbs / NHL 3GP - 0G - 0 Pts Madison Bowey / RD, 26 / 6'2", 202 lbs / NHL 2GP - 0G - 1 Pts; AHL 2GP - 0G - 0 Pts John Stevens / C, 27 / 6'2", 194 lbs / AHL 24GP - 6G - 10 Pts Canucks Prospects Forwards Carson Focht / C, 21 / 6'0", 180 lbs / AHL 28GP - 4G - 12 Pts Jonah Gadjovich / LW, 22 / 6'2", 209 lbs / NHL 1GP - 0G - 0 Pts; AHL 19GP - 15G - 18 Pts Danila Klimovich / C/RW, 18 / 6'2", 202 lbs / Belarusian Extraleague 6GP - 1G - 1 Pts; Belarus Vysshaya 37GP - 28G - 52 Pts William Lockwood / RW, 23 / 5'11", 185 lbs / NHL 2GP - 0G - 0 Pts; AHL 24GP - 4G - 11 Pts Karel Plasek / RW, 21 / 6'0", 181 lbs / Czech Extraliga 44GP - 6G - 10 Pts; Chance Liga 2GP - 3G - 3 Pts Defensemen Guillaume Brisebois / LD, 24 / 6'3", 189 lbs / NHL 1GP - 0G - 0 Pts; AHL 14GP - 1G - 3 Pts ------------ Qualified as a RFA but need to be signed Jett Woo / RD, 21 / 6'0", 205 lbs / AHL 28GP - 3G - 5 Pts Goaltenders Michael DiPietro / G, 22 / 6'0", 200 lbs / AHL 4GP - 2.52 GAA - 0.916 SV% Arturs Silovs / G, 20 / 6'4", 203 lbs / AHL 1GP - 2.07 GAA - 0.920 SV% Veterans (more than 320 pro games): D Kyle Burroughs, D Brad Hunt, F Justin Bailey, F Phillip Di Giuseppe, F Justin Dowling. Veteran exempt (between 261-320 pro games): F Nic Petan, D Madison Bowey. Only 5 veterans and 1 veteran exempt player are allowed to dress per game, so the Abby Canucks can dress 4 of the 5 vets, and give the fifth vet spot to Petan/ Bowey, or sit one of Petan/ Bowey. However, with injuries and call-ups, it'll likely be a non-issue. Dowling, Keeper and Hunt have one-way contracts, while everyone else are either on two-way or ELCs, so those three are likely to be among the first call-ups. The above makes it a total of 14 forwards, 7 defensemen and 2 goalies, and 21 of the 23 players are on NHL contracts. At this point, the Canucks are probably about done signing NHL contracts, but will still need a few AHL-only deals for depth players. Silovs was only able to get in one game last year, and Ryan Johnson said he wanted DiPietro to start 50+ games this year, so they might send Silovs to ECHL (or on loan to another AHL team) to get some games, and sign an AHL goalie to back up DP. My projected 23-man Canucks roster: Forwards: Boeser, Dickinson, Garland, Highmore, Hoglander, Horvat, MacEwen, Miller, Motte, Podkolzin, Pearson, Pettersson, Sutter Defensemen: OEL, Hamonic, Hughes, Juolevi, Myers, Poolman, Rathbone, Schenn Goaltenders: Demko, Halak For the Abby Canucks, I'd like to see a lineup like this: Gadjovich - Petan - Bailey Di Giuseppe - Dowling - Lockwood Dries - Focht - *Klimovich/ Rempal Wouters - Stevens - Plasek Arseneau *Klimovich may go to the Q. Hunt - Bowey Brisebois - Keeper Stephens - Woo Burroughs DiPietro / Silovs or AHL backup Lots of new faces here -- only 4 vets are returning (including Bowey, who didn't play in Utica), and 6 prospects are returning (including DiPietro). There'll be up to three rookies (Klimovich, Plasek, Silovs), but 13 of the skaters played in at least one NHL game last year. Due to the taxi squad situation, many of these guys didn't get a lot of games last season, but once everyone gels and shake off the rust, this should be a solid group. Discuss away!

The title pretty much says it all! I just want to hear everyones stupid/funny cheesy jokes! Doesn't need to be canucks related but if you feel like it, go right ahead! Some funny jokes!

I've been vocal about the difference in take home pay for several years now between teams with no state tax and those that have state tax, plus jock tax and of course the Canadian teams. To me it's a bit of a joke really, players on Dallas, Vegas, Tampa Bay, Panthers and now Seattle hold a distinct advantage over other teams. As a case study - Gavingroup offers NHL players a quick and easy way to determine their take home pay compared to any other team - and has the tax rates visibly available and they adjust them every year. Vancouver, TO, MTL, and OTT are all at the highest bracket. 53%. The aforementioned teams are all at 36.29%. What does that mean? Well look at this: 5,000,000 deals $817,500 variance. 6,000,000 deals $982,200 variance. 7,000,000 deals $1,148,000 8,000,000 deals $1,312,000 9,000,000 deals $1,477,800 10 deals $1,643,000 81.5 - 13,439,350 That's a significant advantage. Sure for top echelon stars their could be better places to earn extra income with endorsements. So that's a factor. And these are only the blue chip guys that are play drivers too. But the point is, that's a lot of extra players teams can sign and build with and they have and are doing that. TB roster in particular. They kept Stamkos - who was offered a lot more in TO and SJ. That extra year however made up for it as did the extra couple million in tax savings each year. Should the NHL and NHLPA work on making this more balanced in the next CBA? Or are things fine the way they are? Have to add when the Sedins peaked we actually were in the bottom third of least taxed teams, same with Alberta. Jock and different state tax does make quite the bracket difference. Alberta teams are taxed a little more but are still hanging in ok.

I joined this forum last year. Since then, I have visited nearly every day. I would like to thank all of the members for the thousands of posts I have enjoyed reading. I have found the comments, opinions, quotes, gifs, etc., to be informative, educational, and often funny. Thanks again.

Out of curiosity where do you all think the next expansion city will be. Can choose more than 1 option.

So I have argued for a while know why faceoffs are not very important to the outcome of a game. I will show why this is true and how the aquisition of a poor faceoff performer like Dickinson is not significant in any considerable amount to our success as a club. in 2012 seingtheice presents some data . https://seeingtheice.wordpress.com/2012/02/07/the-importance-of-faceoffs/ 1. A study shows that there is about 60 faceoffs per game 2. one faceoff is equal to about 5 seconds of possession time Lets do the math. a team that wins 55% of the faceoffs would win 33/60 or about 30 seconds. An average team will take roughly 30 shots and control the puck for 1/2 of the game. so 30 minutes or 1800 seconds + 15 = 30/1815= or about 0.8% more possesion time. 15 seconds *101.08% = 1/4 a shot * 82 games = 20.7 shots the average shot has 8.5% chance of going in * 20.7 shots = 1.75 goals over the course of a full year when these extra 1.75 goals happen might not even be significant to the result of the game. end result =near zero significance Sports illustrated came out with an article in 2015 regarding faceoff importance, there view was that there was no long term gains from being a good faceoff team https://www.si.com/nhl/2017/03/03/illustrated-review-importance-nhl-faceoff Here is a major argument they present. Comparing two seasons they found that a team that wins 60% of the faceoffs wins 51.6% of those games. 82 games * 0.516 = they will win on average 0.3 more games due to faceoffs or about a little less than 1 point in the standings. So when we analyze Dickinsons face off game he took about 300 faceoffs last year winning 46.23% or 22 faceoffs lost 22 faceoffs * 5 seconds of possession = 110 seconds or about 2 shots over the year. this equates to about 0.17 goals against per the total year. Big math time= 300/5100 = 5.9% which is how many faceoffs dickinson took on the dallas team. even if he took 50% of the faceoffs and the other centers won 50% it would only result in the team losing 5100*.484 losing 164 faceoffs over the year 164*5 seconds= 820 seconds or 14 minutes or 14shots or 1 goal against over the entire year so don't worry be happy. further noted it has been shown that Faceoffs are not important to NHL hockey, but for amateur hockey the small bonus gained from possesion is magnified. So if you find that these results are misleading they mean very little towards amateur hockey where there is significant more scoring.

The NHL has reported that currently 11 US based teams have fans in the stands at between 10% and 30% capacity. It is expected that NYI and Buff will add fans shortly bringing the total to 13, over 50% of US based teams will have some fans in the stands at that point. Unfortunately none in Canada and no plans at this point apparently. Teams allowing fans have mask requirements and negative test requirements but it doesn't look like proof of vaccine is a thing yet at this point. I find it encouraging that this has already started. I expect they are being careful but it's a good start. Some teams will be glad to get a few fans even those that regularly don't draw very well in the sunbelt.

This is really perplexing? Disturbing! Why are Vegas & Anaheim players not considered close contacts... https://www.nhl.com/news/vegas-golden-knights-anaheim-ducks-game-remains-scheduled/c-321283684 Thomas Nosek was playing in Tuesdays Vegas / Anaheim game. But was pulled from the ice in the middle of the game after playing 9:05 minutes. This report says it was discovered during the game he had tested positive pre-game. The rest of the game continued? Their next game against Anaheim is also scheduled to go ahead?

The 2021 regular season is just a few weeks away and I thought it would be fun to make some bold predictions. Feel free to make yours based on the bolded topics below: Best Team Buffalo Sabres Worst Team Chicago Blackhawks Hart Sebastian Aho Norris Shea Theodore Vezina Sergei Bobrovsky Calder Dylan Cozens

Looking at our 43 man roster got me to wondering .... if George R R Martin needs some more names for his Game of Throne characters he'd have a treasure trove from our players. But in which House would he put them? Here's what I see ........... Sutter is obvious - Brandon is a Stark. Braden and Brogan sound Starkish as well Our 3 Tyler's (Motte, Myers and Graovac) are obviously Lannisters, joining Titus, Tywin and Tyrion Hawryluk and Jasek are Targaryans (there is a Jace and a Luke in "Fire and Blood") Petey to me is from Pentos, or Lys or Myr Bo has to be from Bear Isle - Bo Mormont sounds so right Ollie, ofc, is in the Nights Watch I see Nils as a Greyjoy, Sven as well Quinn is a Martel from Dorne, maybe Roussel too Brock and Jake's (2) are Tyrells Tanner and Kole are Baratheon Jordie is so obviously a Wildling from north of the wall, maybe Jett and Thatcher too Adam, Jay, Jack and Will sound like Hightowers Nate and Josh I think are Tarlys Jonah is a Velaryan Zack Bolton has a ring to it Who have I missed? Oh, Loui ...He's a Frey How do you see them?

If this team made the playoffs would they win the cup. T. Domi - T. Domi - T. Domi T. Domi - T. Domi - T. Domi T. Domi - T. Domi - T. Domi T. Domi - T. Domi - T. Domi Scott Stevens - Scott Stevens Scott Stevens - Scott Stevens Scott Stevens - Scott Stevens P. Roy I think no team would beat this team in a 7 game series.

December 1: Canucks trade tiers - Pettersson and Hughes most valuable...but untouchable