He's just being a dink. Give up trying to reason with him. If he can't see the odds using a sample size of 11 rounds instead of 1/6 of one round then he's out to lunch.

Top 5 is where it's at. We've got our defenseman from there, now we just need our centre and winger.
- Scooby_Doo

Benning has amassed some good pieces, just like to see him go for a star quality kid in the next three years, which means give yourself the best odds, draft nearest you can get to #1

I think we can all make or find a list to suit our argument. Hart Trophy and Lester B Pearson Trophy winners over the past 25 years.

2016 - P Kane/P Kane
2015 - Price/Price
2014 - Crosby/Crosby
2013 - Ovechkin/Crosby
2012 - Malkin/Malkin
2011 - Perry/D Sedin
2010 - H Sedin/Ovechkin
2009 - Ovechkin/Ovechkin
2008 - Ovechkin/Ovechkin
2007 - Crosby/Crosby
2006 - Thornton/Jagr
2004 - St Louis/St Louis
2003 - Forsberg/Naslund

I'm getting tired of typing but you get the idea, these are guys I wanna build with and only Perry, Naslund and St Louis were taken outside the top six.

Marner no, he's good but not build around good(personally) I like the list, Eichel replaces Marner IMO and Seth Jones is added. What do all these players have in common... hmm
- neem55

Top 5 picks in strong drafts. Seen the likes of fail yakupov or Ryan Murray who's okay but not worthy of 2OA. Or Erik Gudbranson who probably shouldn't have been a 3OA. Erik Johnson isn't #1 worthy.

Story is not every player no matter where they are picked are a for sure guaranteed star player.

- CanuckDon

he has had to many kids walk on his lawn, don't mind him.

- CanuckDon

Listen, it you want technical information you're gonna have to talk to people a lot smarter than me

he has had to many kids walk on his lawn, don't mind him.


- Codes1087

What a movie

Listen, it you want technical information you're gonna have to talk to people a lot smarter than me
- LeftCoaster

Can't you just yell out to Nucker and ask him?

Can't you just yell out to Nucker and ask him?
- CanuckDon

He doesn't hangout in my living room, frost delay this morning, waiting on my tee time.

Can't you just yell out to Nucker and ask him?
- CanuckDon

Need a Canucks symbol in the sky to signal him.

He's just being a dink. Give up trying to reason with him. If he can't see the odds using a sample size of 11 rounds instead of 1/6 of one round then he's out to lunch.

Top 5 is where it's at. We've got our defenseman from there, now we just need our centre and winger.
- Scooby_Doo

So someone is a Richard because he doesn't have the same thinking as you, I think my posts have been pretty reasonable and"factual" unlike yours that is basically"because I said so" argument.
Would I like a McDavid Crosby Ovechkin Laine Ekblad Doughty Matthews etc of course I would, would I want my team to quit trying/ tank, f**k no.

He doesn't hangout in my living room, frost delay this morning, waiting on my tee time.
- LeftCoaster

I tried that google thing you told me about. 3 players. Although it's further complicated due the restriction on the % of the salary cap. So Benning could retain salary on Burrows and Sbisa if need be.

http://www.theglobeandmai...tem-works/article7033878/

He doesn't hangout in my living room, frost delay this morning, waiting on my tee time.
- LeftCoaster

Also, no one wants to here about your sunny tee times It's going to snow tonight.

Also, no one wants to here about your sunny tee times It's going to snow tonight.
- CanuckDon

Get to work and stop pissing away your days, you're very unproductive young man....and get off my lawn

So someone is a Richard because he doesn't have the same thinking as you, I think my posts have been pretty reasonable and"factual" unlike yours that is basically"because I said so" argument.
Would I like a McDavid Crosby Ovechkin Laine Ekblad Doughty Matthews etc of course I would, would I want my team to quit trying/ tank, f**k no.
- Reubenkincade

If you got a piss poor roster, it really does not matter how hard the team 'tries'.

- You can keep up to 50% of the cap and salary commitment to a player you trade.
- You can only have such commitments to three players at any given time. (e.g. Toronto currently has that with Ben Scrivens, Matthew Lombardi, and Matt Frattin. They can't add another until one of those contracts runs out.)
The total of your "retained salary" commitments cannot exceed 15% of the cap's upper limit. (So under the current $64.3 million cap, a team can retain up to $9.6 million.)
- You cannot reacquire such a player for one year after the trade -- unless his contract has expired in the meantime (i.e., he became a free agent, signed a new deal, and you traded for him).
- Any single player contract cannot be used in a "retained salary transaction" (trade) like this more than twice. (So if L.A. had agreed to retain some of Scrivens' salary when dealing him to Edmonton, the Oilers could not do the same if they traded him on this contract.)

Also, no one wants to here about your sunny tee times It's going to snow tonight.
- CanuckDon

Dude, the weather is totally (frank)ed!

I'm literally sitting through a rainy thunder storm in Mid-February in QUEBEC!?!?!#
Very very weird stuff.

If you got a piss poor roster, it really does not matter how hard the team 'tries'.
- Whiskey-Tango

If you have a less than stellar lineup, like the Canucks do, they can compete until the trade deadline and then you can sell off and start your tank there. Kind a like they did last year.

Marner is stupid good. I don't like giving credit to players on the leafs (simply because I don't like them) but Marner and Matthews are 2 excellent players that I would be more than happy to build my team around.
- Codes1087

it's just my opinion. I may be wrong and he is better than I'm thinking, but I don't see a top-20 scorer upper limit type of guy once teams adjust and key on him. I see a good player (60 pts average type), don't get me wrong.

Dude, the weather is totally (frank)ed!

I'm literally sitting through a rainy thunder storm in Mid-February in QUEBEC!?!?!#
Very very weird stuff.
- Whiskey-Tango

It's was a blizzard in Estevan, SK this morning. 5 km east and it was bright sunny 5 degrees warmer.

Get to work and stop pissing away your days, you're very unproductive young man....and get off my lawn
- LeftCoaster

Goddamn Millenials

Dude, the weather is totally (frank)ed!

I'm literally sitting through a rainy thunder storm in Mid-February in QUEBEC!?!?!#
Very very weird stuff.
- Whiskey-Tango

It's franked up all across the country! I am still angry we had the worst summer in a decade

8 players out of 15 from Van's last drafts are going to set career highs in points if they haven't done it already. Progress.

Carolina put Bickell on waivers, they're up to something or they're starting their tank?

Carolina put Bickell on waivers, they're up to something or they're starting their tank?
- LeftCoaster

Salary cap reasons. Taking on some worse contracts.

#Flames #Rangers #Senators #Ducks have contacted #Canucks in past 48 hours #NHLTradeDeadline

#Flames #Rangers #Senators #Ducks have contacted #Canucks in past 48 hours #NHLTradeDeadline
- LeftCoaster

Flames + Ducks = Miller
Rangers + Sens = Hansen
MTL = Burrows