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6 hours ago, Bure_Pavel said:

National Hockey League Hello GIF

Since the Penguins didn’t tank to get the first overall draft pick in 2005, what is the point of this meme?

After the lockout season of 2004 the first overall pick was awarded to Pittsburgh in a specially devised lottery.  4 teams got 3 balls, 10 teams got 2 balls, and 16 teams including our Canucks got 1 ball. 
Pittsburgh was one of the teams that had 3 balls, so their chances of landing the first overall pick was 6.3%.

Seems as thought luck had more to do with Sid landing in Pittsburgh, then anything else.

 

 

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27 minutes ago, bishopshodan said:

That's a tough take. We don't know how much Covid affected the squad.

 

That said, I wouldn't be shocked to see some coaching changes.

 

I think it would be smart to keep JB. He has stocked the cupboards with talent. 

If u are consistently drafting in the top 10 you are expected to have a bunch of talents lol. 2014 wasted 2 first. Juolevi is still an unknown. Traded away another 1st while we are still "rebuilding" traded a bunch of 2nds and traded away prospect for rentals. Our farm system ain't exactly loaded with players considering where we are finishing every year. With the exception of last year we have been bottom 5-8 in the league pretty consistently

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1 hour ago, RakuRaku said:

No Gadj and J-Boner tonight?? damnnnnnn what is the fun now? I've had enough of Boyd-Vesey love.... 

Boyd Vessy and the rest of the replacements need to go on waivers. Watch us keep the plugs and expose the good talent instead. It's the Canuck (management) way...

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25 minutes ago, Jimmy McGill said:

were they planning on playing 7 d maybe? dunno, if not it doesn't make a lot of sense. Or maybe they moved Lind to the taxi squad and forgot they used all of their call ups? 

They had the cap space to keep him up.  Surprised that they prefer to play Michaelis over Lind but they likely think they saw enough of him.  If there’s an emergency recall it probably won’t be Lind otherwise they would have just kept him up.  

 

Maybe because of the salary difference - over 10x less on the taxi squad but it’s pro-rated and there’s only about a week left.  

 

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12 minutes ago, wai_lai416 said:

If u are consistently drafting in the top 10 you are expected to have a bunch of talents lol. 2014 wasted 2 first. Juolevi is still an unknown. Traded away another 1st while we are still "rebuilding" traded a bunch of 2nds and traded away prospect for rentals. Our farm system ain't exactly loaded with players considering where we are finishing every year. With the exception of last year we have been bottom 5-8 in the league pretty consistently

See you have to check your facts.

 

In the past 10 years we've had 6 picks in the top ten, with all of them being 5th pick or lower.  No #1-4 picks so I feel it's been pretty good considering.

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8 minutes ago, mll said:

They had the cap space to keep him up.  Surprised that they prefer to play Michaelis over Lind but they likely think they saw enough of him.  If there’s an emergency recall it probably won’t be Lind otherwise they would have just kept him up.  

 

Maybe because of the salary difference - over 10x less on the taxi squad but it’s pro-rated and there’s only about a week left.  

 

Once again Lind was called up on emergency basis and need to go back when someone gets healthy. They don't have another regular recall left to move Lind back without someone getting injured and if someone did, think it is better spend on Gadj as he is on the same boat.

 

Get mad if Lind, Bone, OJ, Gadj, Lookwood don't play on Tuesday/Wednesday. 

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15 minutes ago, wai_lai416 said:

If u are consistently drafting in the top 10 you are expected to have a bunch of talents lol. 2014 wasted 2 first. Juolevi is still an unknown. Traded away another 1st while we are still "rebuilding" traded a bunch of 2nds and traded away prospect for rentals. Our farm system ain't exactly loaded with players considering where we are finishing every year. With the exception of last year we have been bottom 5-8 in the league pretty consistently

Our farm system has been top 10 and even top 5 for the last three years now.  If you're not seeing the talent, it's because they've already ascended to the NHL (the whole goal of having prospects) .  

 

JB needs to stay for one more draft. I don't care what happens after.  Bring in Dean Lombardi if he even wants to work anymore.  

 

If I was a top level GM/hockey executive, I wouldn't want anything to do with Vancouver.  I'd rather get the same position in a market where you don't have crazy fans taking pictures of you while you're grocery shopping. 

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23 minutes ago, gizmo2337 said:

WTF, why call them up then. They could have got more games in with Utica?!


Well, you can’t wait for an injury to happen then call them up. There’s a seven day quarantine to consider.

 

Never mind, already answered.

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10 minutes ago, gizmo2337 said:

Boyd Vessy and the rest of the replacements need to go on waivers. Watch us keep the plugs and expose the good talent instead. It's the Canuck (management) way...

What waivers?  Their contracts are done in a week. 

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7 minutes ago, 24K PureCool said:

Once again Lind was called up on emergency basis and need to go back when someone is healthy. They don't have another regular recall left to move Lind back without someone get injured and if someone did, think it is better spend on Gadj as he is on the same boat.

 

Get mad if Lind, Bone, OJ, Gadj, Lookwood don't play on Tuesday/Wednesday. 

 

They have 4 regular recalls after the TDL and he was 1 of the 4 with Juolevi, Rathbone and Graovac.

 

CapFriendly keeps track of player transactions - they used a regular recall on him on 26 April but sent him back to the taxi squad on 11 May rather than keep him up.  https://www.capfriendly.com/transactions/players/kole-lind

 

 

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