Ray_Cathode Posted December 2, 2022 Share Posted December 2, 2022 4 hours ago, -Vintage Canuck- said: Now that is consistency... 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlexBurrows14Yu Posted December 2, 2022 Share Posted December 2, 2022 Fire Bruce and all the coaches hire green and baumgartnwr 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray_Cathode Posted December 2, 2022 Share Posted December 2, 2022 4 hours ago, grandmaster said: The highs in that 3 game win streak were so high and the lows in these wretched last couple teams were so low. The team is so bi-polar. It’s so tough being a Canuck fan. Yeah, the team went to a psychiatrist to get medicated out of this funk - he prescribed melatonin. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IBatch Posted December 2, 2022 Share Posted December 2, 2022 (edited) 2 hours ago, kodos said: Bonus points for being inches from being out from under multiple cap anchor contracts and trading them + 9th overall for an untradeable contract that will screw this team for another half decade plus. Just unbelievable. There are many legitimate terrible things to say about Benning but this directive is coming from Aqua. That guy has got to go or we’re going nowhere. Get we needed an Edler replacement. That was a result of OJ not working out. If we wanted to pick just one thing that went very wrong in the JB era, that was the pivotal moment. Covid didn't help much either - but unlike some, it didn't bother me much to move on from the remnants of the last core. Have to at some point anyways. OEL is far from the major issue .... letting the cap shed naturally and picking 9th instead, likely meant we picked 9th again last season or higher. And maybe we'd be seeing some benefit now, maybe not. JB was a one or two years off. Team never bottomed out properly because we didn't set an internal cap. That was just not the right call. Miller could have been recycled ... don't mind having both him and Horvat as anchors ... but is it the right thing to do? Lots of hockey left this season, there still is time to fix this. Only Miller and OEL are fixtures. The sharks will be circling, JR better start working with Allvin. Instead of talking. Team needs a shake up whether or not the double down or decide it's time to blow it up. Kuzmenko and Horvat are both big chips. Kuzmo is playing himself into a first round pick this draft right now. Coleman got one lol. Horvat a better first rounder from a middling team, plus a grade A prospect plus a roster player back on an expiring deal that could help us tank. Miller is a big maybe. Some team might like him still too. Myers and Brock both become easy to trade once you retain. Brocks got two more years so that might hurt ... but depends on the return. Myers it won't matter either way because we likely need a two year tank job anyways. Makar was drafted, five years later COL won a cup. Know that's not a realistic expectation. But we can't expect this team to win a cup as is. Two top four defenseman away. And that's with this forward group as is... How can we get two top four defensemen, without losing a key player? Only way i see that happening, is by doubling down, and giving up our picks yet again - plus some magical Quin like trades. Podz for a Salo? As in Peter Scheaffer for Salo and they take Pearson too? So far neither Stillman or Bear is that. At least we got ahead of paying cap in the future lol. Cost us a second rounder. Edited December 2, 2022 by IBatch 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IBatch Posted December 2, 2022 Share Posted December 2, 2022 16 minutes ago, Ray_Cathode said: Yeah, the team went to a psychiatrist to get medicated out of this funk - he prescribed melatonin. More like lithium or something lol. With a healthy dose of steroids. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pears Posted December 2, 2022 Share Posted December 2, 2022 2 hours ago, kodos said: Bonus points for being inches from being out from under multiple cap anchor contracts and trading them + 9th overall for an untradeable contract that will screw this team for another half decade plus. Just unbelievable. There are many legitimate terrible things to say about Benning but this directive is coming from Aqua. That guy has got to go or we’re going nowhere. I’ve shared the same belief. As long as this money hungry prick who honestly could not care less about hockey or the fans is running this team we aren’t doing anything. The entire Aquilini family needs to be disassociated from the Canucks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StanleyCupOneDay Posted December 2, 2022 Share Posted December 2, 2022 5 hours ago, grandmaster said: That third goal should not have gone in. Stillman watching and doing nothing while they repeatedly shoot on net while Demko over stretches himself trying to stop them. Stillman caused Demko to breakdown like that. Stillman is a piece of garbage. He has brought nothing good to this team. All bad. Stillman is very appropriately named. He needs to be permanently scratched. Such a terrible trade. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EddieVedder Posted December 2, 2022 Share Posted December 2, 2022 1 hour ago, IBatch said: Allvin could have made a change last season but didn't. Instead re-upped Brock and Miller. Probably going to do the same thing with Horvat. Signed Ilya M, ignored the D but did bring in Kuzmenko. This team on paper is better than last years. Marginally. But better ... forward group is deep anyways . It's not just on Jim anymore. Signing useless Boeser is one of the worst moves this franchise has made in decades. That contract is the crux of our problems moving forward. Never seen a player drag so many of his teammates down with him night after night after night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EddieVedder Posted December 2, 2022 Share Posted December 2, 2022 2 hours ago, Drakrami said: Well we do have Petterson/Hughes as positives. But this is 8 years of time and 5 top 10 draft picks. So I believe any average GM could have drafted the same. Actually, any GM with 5 top 10 draft picks may have drafted better. Juries still out for Demko/Podkolzin. Most hilarious thing is CDC was absolutely flooded with Benning supporters the past 8 years though. Anything Benning does was right in the eyes of this crowd the past 8 years lol. Boeser supporters were more delusional than benning supporters 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spook007 Posted December 2, 2022 Share Posted December 2, 2022 5 hours ago, EmilyM said: Someone threw a Matthew Tkachuk action figure on the ice. Did Nucks just sign rat boy from Bruins? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spook007 Posted December 2, 2022 Share Posted December 2, 2022 5 hours ago, Jack Fig said: I don't think this can go on for much longer before asses get punted. Should have started already. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IBatch Posted December 2, 2022 Share Posted December 2, 2022 (edited) 14 minutes ago, EddieVedder said: Signing useless Boeser is one of the worst moves this franchise has made in decades. That contract is the crux of our problems moving forward. Never seen a player drag so many of his teammates down with him night after night after night. Lol. Two more seasons after this one...no it's not the crux of our problems . I can't tell if you're joking or not. If you want to talk about bad cap, LE of course was ridiculous - 8.22% of the cap and clauses. Brock's is 8.02% the cap and will be 27-28 his final year, not 35-36... 850ish k less than his qualifying offer ... too much cap for sure, the term is palatable...Of course he's part of the problem, but like others have mentioned, if we just let him walk... and become a UFA, people would be crying bloody murder over it just after JR called the old management group out for doing this. Did LE ever have even a five game scoring streak with us? Maybe 3. I do agree it's time to put him on the market. With retention even. One million and we could afford that, and some team likely bites. He's not much different than Rhino was going to Florida. A change of scenery might do him wonders...and this year Brock has spent a lot of time on the third line and still got his points. Personally wish the best for him, and feel that he would and the team would, be better off with a fresh start. Edited December 2, 2022 by IBatch 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EddieVedder Posted December 2, 2022 Share Posted December 2, 2022 2 minutes ago, IBatch said: Lol. Two more seasons after this one...no it's not the crux of our problems . I can't tell if you're joking or not. If you want to talk about bad cap, LE of course was ridiculous - 8.22% of the cap and clauses. Brock's is 8.02% the cap and will be 27-28 his final year, not 35-36... 750k less than his qualifying offer ... too much cap for sure, the term is palatable...Of course he's part of the problem, but like others have mentioned, if we just let him walk... and become a UFA, people would be crying bloody murder over it just after JR called the old management group out for doing this. Did LE ever have even a five game scoring streak with us? Maybe 3. Many of us were fine letting him walk. Its been obvious for a while now bb6 is too slow and soft for this league. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spook007 Posted December 2, 2022 Share Posted December 2, 2022 5 hours ago, Provost said: Wait… can it play defence? Worth a try.... can't be much worse... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldFaithfulCap Posted December 2, 2022 Share Posted December 2, 2022 (edited) New mascot idea? Also i like that the ducks know what their fans need this season: Edited December 2, 2022 by OldFaithfulCap m 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post IBatch Posted December 2, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted December 2, 2022 (edited) 53 minutes ago, EddieVedder said: Boeser supporters were more delusional than benning supporters Supporting a player you drafted, that's had arguable the worst string of luck i've seen since i started watching anyways, doesn't make folks delusional. However you obsession on belittling him every step of the way makes this post a bit ironic. There was a time, when hockey talk was amongst friends and in person, often at a local watering hole because an 40 inch screen was massive lol. And people didn't know cap hits and just supported their team and players. Sure we all had our whipping boys (Adrian Plavsic probably was my biggest one ... Stillman lol... yikes he'd probably be one today too). Courtnal also peeved me off taking way too many dumb penalties, but i still liked his scoring streaks. Trading Butcher was awful. So that was part of my criticism - until it wasn't - Momesso made up for losing that toughness, Ronning was loveable despite his size (Radar from Mash), Courtnall was in the running for ugliest mug with Tim Hunter. Didnt like Aucoin much at the start either. Sure was no Diduck, didn't hit enough or have his grit. Hedican was Mason Raymond on defense, think Myers makes gaffes ... Hedican used to pass to the wrong guy a couple times a game at the start lol. Both those guys won me over eventually. So i do get the hobby horses. Felt Matt Cooke was a dirty player, even with us, when he rode the line better - but know a lot of younger people that grew up with him and loved the guy. Preferred Momesso types. Jovo seemed small when he first came, and for several years hated that trade. Didn't seem fair to lose both Bure and Hedican. Thing is, back then, there was also a line with how much you hated on a player wearing our colours, before someone took offense and called you out, and it would either end up heated, or in the parking lot. Suppose you weren't around for the analog era. We all have our own eyeballs. Doesn't mean we have to cross the line either. The cap changed fandom for the worse. Edit: Extra marks for consistency though. Keep it up! Edited December 2, 2022 by IBatch 1 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IBatch Posted December 2, 2022 Share Posted December 2, 2022 1 hour ago, StanleyCupOneDay said: Stillman is very appropriately named. He needs to be permanently scratched. Such a terrible trade. Bruce playing Stillman is a tank commander move. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray_Cathode Posted December 2, 2022 Share Posted December 2, 2022 7 hours ago, DeNiro said: Every team has a tough schedule and gets tired throughout the season. That was the Panthers 3rd game in 4 nights. Being tired doesn’t mean you completely forget how to play hockey though. Forget skating they weren’t even able to execute the fundamentals. The first organ affected by weariness is the brain. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post sassbs Posted December 2, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted December 2, 2022 Imagine if they didn’t make that trade with phoenix. Oh the cap would look lovely. All I want is competent management. But again, this all falls on the owner. 2 1 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrJockitch Posted December 2, 2022 Share Posted December 2, 2022 Well at least if Demko is out for a while it clarifies the conversation around tanking. ‘Blow it up and blow it up hard. It is the right thing to do and the right time to do it. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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