I wonder how many season ticket holders are going take Linden up on his word to issue a refund should they not be happy with the direction of the team?

The optics would have been a lot better if they had managed to sign Iggy today as well. They have 10 more days to make one last impression on them before then.
- PetrolSexual

I think by doing this they are postponing the rebuild and might be more determental in the long run.

and my point is Obama is no different than GW Bush on that front...
- kaptaan

Kid! you didn't get the joke, that's okay, but you're just digging yourself a deeper hole with this lot.

I wonder how many season ticket holders are going take Linden up on his word to issue a refund should they not be happy with the direction of the team?

The optics would have been a lot better if they had managed to sign Iggy today as well. They have 10 more days to make one last impression on them before then.
- PetrolSexual

I think the Miller signing probably hurt them on that front. I think Lack as a starter would have been popular. Huge fan favourite

You sir have offended *throws glove on the ground in front of you*
- 1970vintage

You dropped your glove.

Not trolling....I just don't think Miller will be the answer.

*and before I get attacked I know the Flames have a long way to go.

It's not that I think he has no good years left, its that I don't think he's better than what we already had, and having him here long term means that we have to move a goalie. I don't believe that you have to "get" something for a player or you are a failure (as a GM), sometimes the value to your organization is in removing a problem employee, but Marstrom is pretty much what we got for Luongo, and Lack has proved he as talent, albeit in a limited number of games. The organization "sold" us on Lack as the future starter, now we have new management and they are telling us Lack isn't the future starter. Ok, Miller is here, I can accept it, but now show me you have a plan to fix the real problem, a severe lack of scoring.
- 1970vintage

Straight up we were not going to do it through free agency this year. Iggy would have been nice but Jebus this was a poopty FA day. The best we did was moving Kesler and the draft day. It only gets better. Benning has done better with what he had to work with than I thought possible. All anyone seems to focus on is Miller and how $hitty this is for us. Just because it wasn't the improvement we wanted doesn't mean it isn't an improvement. I am not saying I liked it but Jebus everyone on here is so negative. The sever lack of scoring has to be done through trade and youth fact.

Hit him with the fry pan.
- Yeti1181

What will I use to cook the fish that he catches for me in then?

That is super homophobic dude
- bezz44

why do you insist on provoking me Bezz?

Not trolling....I just don't think Miller will be the answer.

*and before I get attacked I know the Flames have a long way to go.
- KABLOOEY

Don't think anyone will attack you for that, many of us feel the same.

Not trolling....I just don't think Miller will be the answer.

*and before I get attacked I know the Flames have a long way to go.
- KABLOOEY

Don't think anyone will attack you for that, many of us feel the same.

You dropped your glove.
- A_SteamingLombardi

I wonder how many season ticket holders are going take Linden up on his word to issue a refund should they not be happy with the direction of the team?

The optics would have been a lot better if they had managed to sign Iggy today as well. They have 10 more days to make one last impression on them before then.
- PetrolSexual

Hard to say. There has been a lot of turnover, but not a lot of substance to that turnover. We still aren't skilled enough in the top 6 to compete with teams like Anaheim, LA, San Jose, and now Dallas as well.

Not trolling....I just don't think Miller will be the answer.

*and before I get attacked I know the Flames have a long way to go.
- KABLOOEY

You are right, now FO

why do you insist on provoking me Bezz?
- kaptaan

Okay I'm sorry I just couldn't resist back to hockey?

Not trolling....I just don't think Miller will be the answer.

*and before I get attacked I know the Flames have a long way to go.
- KABLOOEY

Sooooo, usually when you start a sentence with "not trolling" it is actually trolling. But on this one occasion, I agree

Not trolling....I just don't think Miller will be the answer.

*and before I get attacked I know the Flames have a long way to go.
- KABLOOEY

Yeah, save that stuff for the vets ok?

Sooooo, usually when you start a sentence with "not trolling" it is actually trolling. But on this one occasion, I agree
- 1970vintage

honestly I'm not...

For the record, I think we're gonna open it up and we'll score. We just need a goalie to make some saves cuz he's gonna get left all alone.......often.

Yeah, save that stuff for the vets ok?
- golfingsince

hey buddddddy! WTF is going on?

Straight up we were not going to do it through free agency this year. Iggy would have been nice but Jebus this was a poopty FA day. The best we did was moving Kesler and the draft day. It only gets better. Benning has done better with what he had to work with than I thought possible. All anyone seems to focus on is Miller and how $hitty this is for us. Just because it wasn't the improvement we wanted doesn't mean it isn't an improvement. I am not saying I liked it but Jebus everyone on here is so negative. The sever lack of scoring has to be done through trade and youth fact.
- thundachunk

I'm not sold that any of the additions will actually translate to an improvement in scoring. I think there will be a natural rebound from the statistical anomaly. I'm also not sold that a new coach and his new system will be any more successful than the last coach and his poopty system. When you think about it, they actually sound like the same system, with the slight difference in that the forward don't all collapse under the hash marks in the defensive zone.

A lot can happen between now and game 1 of the next season but we are looking at scoring even less now...clearly.

The only thing I like about the Miller signing is that the Canucks will surely get something for him before his contract is up. Otherwise, the Canucks look like they are preparing for a strategy of winning games with scoring fewer goals.

The Canucks still dont have a future #1 C in the pipeline.

I guess next off season will be better. Benning can only do so much this summer. The Canucks are not a better team than last season as of yet. Lost both our top scoring forward and D man. They had to go but not replacing the production would look like Benning is with tank nation.

honestly I'm not...
- KABLOOEY

Then why no Whipper

Okay I'm sorry I just couldn't resist back to hockey?
- bezz44

Ok, great. i'd much prefer to stick to hockey... and I'm sure everyone on here would prefer hockey talk as well, lols...

Not trolling....I just don't think Miller will be the answer.

*and before I get attacked I know the Flames have a long way to go.
- KABLOOEY

Until they get a proper top six forward group there is no "answer".

I'm not sold that any of the additions will actually translate to an improvement in scoring. I think there will be a natural rebound from the statistical anomaly. I'm also not sold that a new coach and his new system will be any more successful than the last coach and his poopty system. When you think about it, they actually sound like the same system, with the slight difference in that the forward don't all collapse under the hash marks in the defensive zone.
- 1970vintage

When I think of Torts' system I don't really think of forced turnovers. More like wasted efforts