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Having a similar model doesn't make you the same team. Every team will have different players with different talents and different chemistry. Teams are dynamic and forever changing so its impossible to simply replicate a team. Also, you don't need a Chara to win the cup, hell, you don't even need a great goalie to win a cup, your team just needs to compete hard every game, and be resilient when injuries start to pile up.

 

Well Chara isn't the player he once was and never shown better than last year when Mtl dismantled the guy, in the play-offs. Chara on the down slide...hey Boston too. Add the disappearance of Lucic ( to a degree ) and players like Marchant et all suffer IMO any way. There's a number of good players with the Bruins but it was Chara that turned the key in the ignition

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Is that going to be the Vcr model, a clone of Boston ? IMO Boston goes as Chara goes and where do you find another Chara. One thing that is in Vcr future is I think the plan is to be a hard team to play against

Well obvs you can't clone another Chara. But building a fiesty, fast, hard forechecking team is what I was talking about. Yeah hard to play against. Just need Gregory Cambell now...
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Well obvs you can't clone another Chara. But building a fiesty, fast, hard forechecking team is what I was talking about. Yeah hard to play against. Just need Gregory Cambell now...

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McCann was a good pick. But I think there was general surprise that he was still available at #24. And if the Canucks had not taken him it is very likely he would gone to the next team (Boston). I think Benning is great with the scouts, but I don't think this pick was due to superior scouting, I think it was result of a good trade that included the #24 pick (for Kesler) and good luck (that McCann did not go earlier).

Central Scouting had McCann at #10 among North American skaters (which probably makes about #14 or #15 overall and Bob McKenzie had him at #16)

And I don't pretend to have any inside knowledge, but just from reading what the scouts said I was one of several people who posted the opinion that in 3 or 4 years McCann could be the best player involved in the Kesler trade -- and still on the Canucks on a low cap hit when Kesler would have been long gone as free agent if the Canucks had not traded him.

Anyway, Horvat, Virtanen, and McCann are a good base for the prospect pool. And Cassels could be good too. We just another high end pick or two this year.

The superiority in scouting was more about confirming the idea of being able to find game breakers out of the top 10. It can be done, and tanking us not nessary if you can scout these players.

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Really? McCann already has a better shot and offense than Kesler had at his age, and significantly more creativity, vision, and hockey IQ. On the other hand, not quite as fast or big.

Hence the additional words: Parise and hybrid you didn't bold.

He projects to probably be between Parise/Kesler in size, plays with a similar chip on his shoulder and faceoff prowess and two way play to Kes and with the higher end offensive instincts/shot of Parise.

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He has already exceeded his point totals from last season (despite having mono)...I have seen quite a bit of youtube on McCann..great wrist shot..Question for cdc..What player in the NHL would you say McCann is comparable with..?

OK, I'll play: Stevie Y and Burnaby Joe.

(I know, you will all pile on "he's not as good as them".)

But style, wrister, and desire? Similar size (relative to today's NHL).

It's a long shot but I still think he has a chance to replace Hank as number one centre and captain.

I could not believe he was available at 24th.

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I rank McCann #2 on the lists of prospects i'm most excited to see develop into Canucks.

1 Horvat

2 McCann

3 Shinkaruk

4 Virtanen

5 Subban

6 Cassels

7 Corrado

8 Jensen

9 Trymkin

10 Kenins

Notables: Clendening, Gaunce, Grenier, Pedan, Markstrom, Demko

no way should shinkaruk be ahead of virtanen. youre nuts.

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I rank McCann #2 on the lists of prospects i'm most excited to see develop into Canucks.

1 Horvat

2 McCann

3 Shinkaruk

4 Virtanen

5 Subban

6 Cassels

7 Corrado

8 Jensen

9 Trymkin

10 Kenins

Notables: Clendening, Gaunce, Grenier, Pedan, Markstrom, Demko

Subban is way too high. Demko should be in that spot

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I rank McCann #2 on the lists of prospects i'm most excited to see develop into Canucks.

1 Horvat

2 McCann

3 Shinkaruk

4 Virtanen

5 Subban

6 Cassels

7 Corrado

8 Jensen

9 Trymkin

10 Kenins

Notables: Clendening, Gaunce, Grenier, Pedan, Markstrom, Demko

I would exchange Jensen for Gaunce at #8. Gaunce is coming along nicely for a first-year pro. Jensen has been absolutely disappointing, considering his skill set.

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I like Virtanen, but I'm more excited to see Shinkaruk's style of play, than something similar to Kreider 2.0 (with a Canadian heart).

I put more stock in Subban than most, so yeah he's high on my list, but don't get this confused with a list ranking their potential. Just who's style of play i'm going to enjoy watching.

Edit: Also: The Notables are one's I'm not very familiar with, but looking forward to seeing nonetheless.

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Is that going to be the Vcr model, a clone of Boston ? IMO Boston goes as Chara goes and where do you find another Chara. One thing that is in Vcr future is I think the plan is to be a hard team to play against

So the Boston model is that they depend on their star franchise player? Just like every other team in the NHL? If you took Crosby off Pittsburgh, Toews off Chicago, or Doughty off Los Angeles, do you think they would be anywhere near as successful? Every good team in the NHL hangs their success on an elite talent or two.

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So the Boston model is that they depend on their star franchise player? Just like every other team in the NHL? If you took Crosby off Pittsburgh, Toews off Chicago, or Doughty off Los Angeles, do you think they would be anywhere near as successful? Every good team in the NHL hangs their success on an elite talent or two.

Pits played 4 in a row without Crosby or Malkin a while back.

They went 3-0-1...

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