Horvat, Gaunce, Cassels, McCann all projected to top out at 3rd line centre. Why even take Horvat at the 9th pick in the first round then? Trade the pick for Bozak or Kadri, at least they are 1st and 2nd line centres.

Makes no sense, all these projections are (frank)ing stupid. So someone in the 5th round, what's he projected at? Oh hey, it's Pavel Datsyuk, guess the projections didn't work that time.
- Scooby_Doo

Benning might have been thinking that at the draft when it was rumored he was shopping a 1st and Horvat to snag Reinhart. I bet Horvat being this good at 19 yrs old may have opened his eyes though.

You think Andrew Cassels was a #1 or #2 center
Mind=blown
- belcherbd

Well, 732 points in 1,015 games is pretty respectable and definitely reaches at least #2 center territory, regardless of his defensive deficiencies.

Horvat, Gaunce, Cassels, McCann all projected to top out at 3rd line centre. Why even take Horvat at the 9th pick in the first round then? Trade the pick for Bozak or Kadri, at least they are 1st and 2nd line centres.

Makes no sense, all these projections are (frank)ing stupid. So someone in the 5th round, what's he projected at? Oh hey, it's Pavel Datsyuk, guess the projections didn't work that time.
- Scooby_Doo

Don't forget Jamie Benn, surprise 5th rounder.

If these things are all true then why would we want him? If he is indeed worth having, then WPG is not going to want our misfit pieces for their top 6 fwd. I am trying really hard to stomach the constant quantity for quality proposals that get put together on here but the gastrointestinal lining can only take so much poison before you start puking up verbal expletives
- bezz44

You, sir, are a poet! (a little bitter*, perhaps but a poet nonetheless )

*par for the course as concerns Canuck fans

What do you mean think? He was.
Guy was nearly a point a game player.
- Scooby_Doo

Superb play maker... easy chemistry... never seemed to get star status somehow. Too quiet I guess. Seemed to work for him though.

Well, 732 points in 1,015 games is pretty respectable and definitely reaches at least #2 center territory, regardless of his defensive deficiencies.
- Whiskey-Tango

Brendan Morrison.. 1st line centre...

I mith the lithp

Superb play maker... easy chemistry... never seemed to get star status somehow. Too quiet I guess. Seemed to work for him though.
- boonerbuck

I loved watching him play, especially in Hartford with Sanderson.
He was still pretty good here, such a nice passer.

I loved watching him play, especially in Hartford with Sanderson.
He was still pretty good here, such a nice passer.
- Scooby_Doo

I was a fan.

Too bad those two never got to play together here.

I was a fan.

Too bad those two never got to play together here.
- hillbillydeluxe

Ya just missed each other. Didn't realize Sanderson only played 22 games as a Canuck, and it was 2 stops 6 years apart.

Ya just missed each other. Didn't realize Sanderson only played 22 games as a Canuck, and it was 2 stops 6 years apart.
- Scooby_Doo

Keenan had him on a line he called "the scooter line"... what an idiot nickname...

Keenan had him on a line he called "the scooter line"... what an idiot nickname...


- boonerbuck

not necessarily as bad as 'that 70's line' .... good @#$ grief

Keenan had him on a line he called "the scooter line"... what an idiot nickname...


- boonerbuck

Is brown dangling again

Tanev, Lack and Hansen for Strome and Da Haan
- Bieksa#3

It wouldn't surprise me to see Tanev in play this TDL. Maybe the Glendenning trade was also made to replace Tanev. It really has been a rocky relationship with contract negotiations between Tanev and the Canucks. Maybe Benning is planning on packaging Kassian and Tanev for a significant piece.

They may also be getting Kassian all worked up like they just slashed Bruce Banner's tires before the TDL so that he plays like an animal for a week or two the deadline.

Jazz darts are good

Is brown dangling again
- A_SteamingLombardi

Do you remember my Brown Dangling joke a couple/few years back...wow...I'm impressed if you do.

I loved watching him play, especially in Hartford with Sanderson.
He was still pretty good here, such a nice passer.
- Scooby_Doo

Did Cassels and Sanderson play together at all here in Vancouver? Were they even together here at the same time?

Do you remember my Brown Dangling joke a couple/few of years back...wow...I'm impressed if you do.
- boonerbuck

That's why I said it.

It wouldn't surprise me to see Tanev in play this TDL. Maybe the Glendenning trade was also made to replace Tanev. It really has been a rocky relationship with contract negotiations between Tanev and the Canucks. Maybe Benning is planning on packaging Kassian and Tanev for a significant piece.

They may also be getting Kassian all worked up like they just slashed Bruce Banner's tires before the TDL so that he plays like an animal for a week or two the deadline.

Jazz darts are good
- PetrolSexual

There's still a ton of time left to negotiate Tanev's contract... I couldnt imagine that there is a sense of bad blood this early in the process.

Didn't like that Demko was chosen in the second round and we might be lucky to get a 2nd rounder for Marstrom or Lack...
- hillbillydeluxe

Demko was ranked like 25th or something

Benning might have been thinking that at the draft when it was rumored he was shopping a 1st and Horvat to snag Reinhart. I bet Horvat being this good at 19 yrs old may have opened his eyes though.
- boonerbuck

It was Shink not horvat

I even heard in an interview his father Andrew project him as a 3rd liner. Pigeon holed by his own dad...

- boonerbuck

I must admit, while are drafting over the yrs leaves something to be desired, we found a gem in Cassels. His stats his draft yr were garbage.

Horvat, Gaunce, Cassels, McCann all projected to top out at 3rd line centre. Why even take Horvat at the 9th pick in the first round then? Trade the pick for Bozak or Kadri, at least they are 1st and 2nd line centres.

Makes no sense, all these projections are (frank)ing stupid. So someone in the 5th round, what's he projected at? Oh hey, it's Pavel Datsyuk, guess the projections didn't work that time.
- Scooby_Doo

If Horvat top out as a 3rd liner he has topped out already

What do you mean think? He was.
Guy was nearly a point a game player.
- Scooby_Doo

Different era. Hell 90s 15 or 20 guys scored a 100 pts every single yr. Do you really think the players were that much better. Go watch some highlights, the goalies were (frank)ing pathetic How many times now do you see a guy take one step over the blue line coming down the wing and bury it? It happened every game in the 80s and 90s. Goalie let's that in today he gets hooked

Dreger reported Pits may be looking at Higgins. Any thoughts what we might want for that?

Dreger reported Pits may be looking at Higgins. Any thoughts what we might want for that?
- Retinalz

3rd and cap space

3rd and cap space
- A_SteamingLombardi

Approved, make it conditional 2nd if makes ecf?