The shot? The passing? He finds seems and holes so fluid like(part eel)? He does everything with his head up and confident the puck is on the sweet spot of his stick blade all the time... hard to imagine this guy wont be in on half out offence after he transitions.
- boonerbuck

you're right. It's possible he becomes the most exciting to watch canuck since bure

Nucker is giving you the gears
- VANTEL

EP is injured. No gears.

EP is injured. No gears.
- boonerbuck

Uffe Bodin@UffeBodin
Elias Pettersson is done. Won’t play anymore at the Worlds after suffering a thumb injury against Switzerland. #Canucks #IIHF2018

EP is injured. No gears.
- boonerbuck

So it begins.

Uffe Bodin@UffeBodin
Elias Pettersson is done. Won’t play anymore at the Worlds after suffering a thumb injury against Switzerland. #Canucks #IIHF2018
- 21peter

Soft hands - bust. Elias bustersson

EP is injured. No gears.
- boonerbuck

Our 2018 1st round pick will fall and tear his ACL as he walks up the stairs to the draft stage

Our 2018 1st round pick will fall and tear his ACL as he walks up the stairs to the draft stage
- Nucker101

Soft hands - bust. Elias bustersson
- CanuckDon

Needs to bulk up his hands. I have a good program for that.

Needs to bulk up his hands. I have a good program for that.

- boonerbuck

First 40 games in Utica to get used to the NA ice and then he won't be injuried for the playoffs in Van.

Tanev for Reinhardt
Draft bodqvist

2020 roster including trades for futures and unknown factors

Kane Peterson Brock
Reinhardt Horvat Virtanen
Lind Hughes Gadjovich
Eriksson Sutter Granlund
Tavarez

OJ Bodqvist
Elder Gudbranson
Pullout Tyramkin
Stretcher

Demko
Markstrom

If we do get Hughes, trade Tavarez

- Pres.cup

sorry. no. we don't win lotteries.

First 40 games in Utica to get used to the NA ice and then he won't be injuried for the playoffs in Van.
- manvanfan

What if he puts up 80 points in his first 39 games? Do we get impatient and call him up?

You must have me mistaken for someone else, I have been all about drafting for about 40 years and still have the hockey news draft editions at my moms house from those years.
Back then Bob MacKenzie was the king and today he still is.
Pretty sure your strategy is just a copy and paste from many of the analytic sites that think everything is easy because a few teams have been able to do it, but those teams also had some legitimate younger players and some legitimate prospects.
This team had the worst possible situation going for it, a very high-salaried aging team, with many nmc/ntc issues, a disgruntled whiny star player, and zero prospects in the system.
Do I wish all picks were kept, (frank) ya, I never like giving up a pick, was I happy too see guys like Higgins bought out , Sedin's retire, Hansen and Burrows traded, Kesler Garrison etc out, hell yeah.
This team is much younger now and hopefully the rewards of going younger will be rewarded over the next couple seasons.

Sorry about the novel.
- Reubenkincade

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXRhZn0MwWE

at 9:23, The BobFather had OJ as the #1 ranked Dman. JB wasn't the only one who liked him. His rankings are a combo of NHL GMs and Scouts I believe.

What if he puts up 80 points in his first 39 games? Do we get impatient and call him up?
- Nucker101

No rush, he's helping improve other players while he is in the AHL too.

No rush, he's helping improve other players while he is in the AHL too.
- manvanfan

I thought overpaid mentors do that?

Needs to bulk up his hands. I have a good program for that.

- boonerbuck

lol

I thought overpaid mentors do that?
- Nucker101

So you aren’t part of the wrap our best prospect in bubble wrap gang?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXRhZn0MwWE

at 9:23, The BobFather had OJ as the #1 ranked Dman. JB wasn't the only one who liked him. His rankings are a combo of NHL GMs and Scouts I believe.
- storm88

Pronman had OJ as the best D also. When drafting, you pick the player you think has the most upside, not the most NHL ready.

So you aren’t part of the wrap our best prospect in bubble wrap gang?
- CanuckDon

(frank) no

There’s a midget playing in Calgary and he’s in the same damn division

Broken thumb
- Nucker101

bust

(frank) no

There’s a midget playing in Calgary and he’s in the same damn division
- Nucker101

(frank)ing rights

This team is 5 years away from being in the playoffs. I want a team that will contend for a cup not a team contending to come in 8th.

Its like people here want the leafs of the last 10 years who had a goal of making the playoffs. I want a team like we had before, you know one that was battling for a cup year after year.
- mauryballstein

lol...we battled for the cup in 2011...which other Canucks team are you referring too?

I don't see TO winning a cup soon . Did Babcock and Auston kiss and make up yet?
- VANTEL

They are 4 Dmen away from even getting a sniff of the conference finals.

Robert Thomas> Morgan Frost 😂

Host Regina right?
Hamilton Bulldogs
Acadia Titans
Swift or Everett

Mem cup teams

(frank) no

There’s a midget playing in Calgary and he’s in the same damn division
- Nucker101

He should be 'jumped in'. Swarmed by guys with soap on a rope in the locker room. If he whines or misses practice, shave his balls and send him to Utica.

The next core will be Horvat(23), Boeser(21), Petersson(19), and hopefully guys like Juolevi(20), Demko(22), 2018 1st round pick(17/18)


If you want to contend with those guys in the future, then it makes sense to only target assets in that age gap so that they can grow together and enter their primes together. Basically target picks and prospects because teams are unlikely to trade guys that young who are already established roster players.

Can always add some old guys in the future via UFA/TDL to get over the hump once the team’s core is good enough on it’s own to make the playoffs.
- Nucker101

for me, as long as you can offload guys before their value nosedives, thats the main thing. take tanev and edler for example. a lot of dman maintain (or even grow) their games into their 30's. The risk is leaving it too late.

bringing in more stopgap UFA's is probably not a good choice for us, but you look at most rebuilding teams and they bring in vets at some point (TML = marleau, polack, hainsey; BUF = gorges, bogosion, ror), but usually when they're on the upswing (you don't want to play yourself out of a high pick ofc).

i think JB + TL wanted to get ahead of the sedin's a bit by grabbing guys like sutter, gudbranson and erikkson

unfortunately we didn't have the calibre of assets on our roster to bring in a haul like the ranger this year. notice they've also hung onto guys like zucarello and zibenejad who could get them some decent picks.