Edler - Myers
Gardiner - Stecher
Hughes - Tanev
Sautner/OJ
- Nucker101

Gonna be a tough fix this summer for a guy who's not very good at fixing things

Gonna be a tough fix this summer for a guy who's not very good at fixing things
- LeftCoaster

- Nucker101

- LeftCoaster

my edit is better

my edit is better
- Nucker101

that, in a nutshell, is Jim Benning. God I hope they fire him and hire Ron Hextall LOL!!

that, in a nutshell, is Jim Benning. God I hope they fire him and hire Ron Hextall LOL!!
- LeftCoaster

Aquillini should offer Yzerman 10M a year, he was willing to do it for an ancient Mats Sundin

Aquillini should offer Yzerman 10M a year, he was willing to do it for an ancient Mats Sundin
- Nucker101

There's systemic issues within the organization that need to be addressed, until such time, they'll only get better in small doses via their first round picks.

Pro scouting is a huge issue.

There's systemic issues within the organization that need to be addressed, until such time, they'll only get better in small doses via their first round picks.

Pro scouting is a huge issue.
- LeftCoaster

Pro scouting doesn't matter for rebuilding teams.

Pro scouting doesn't matter for rebuilding teams.
- Nucker101

Neither does cap space, apparently.

Bolts, jets, Vegas, pens all have top management .....unsurprisingly they are all also top 4 favs for the cup
- SMBDragon

It would be damb nice if aqua opened up the pocketbook like those teams

If the canucks win next game I believe all dreams will come true.

that, in a nutshell, is Jim Benning. God I hope they fire him and hire Ron Hextall LOL!!
- LeftCoaster

I will quit on this team if they hire Ron Hextall.

It would be damb nice if aqua opened up the pocketbook like those teams
- neem55

Huh?
Canucks for the 1st time in years, aren't in the top 10 in spending.
Build through the draft, then try some spending.
Hopefully, the Canucks can find themselves another Loui type.

Great interview by Pierre LeBrun with Mike Gillis...a small piece from it. The basis of the interview is what he’s learned in his travels and search for how and why successful sports teams continually win.



“I think the one thing that has made probably the biggest impression on me is the emphasis that really high-end, high-functioning organizations have on leadership and culture. Which is a daily part of their training environment. So it isn’t like you decide to focus on that for a short period of time and hope that it’s going to work out. They drive leadership, they drive culture every day that the players are there. It’s totally aligned from the top of the organization to the bottom of the organization that they’re always in a teaching mode, they’re always teaching about how to be proper leaders, and how to maintain the culture and what culture is defined as. It’s clearly one of the biggest differences that I saw. The top organizations are removing hope from the equation. They’re implementing plans and implementing a strategy that constantly drives leadership and culture. As a result, they take players that may not be successful somewhere else and they become successful there. There’s only so many top players to go around. But if you get the highest utility out of every one of them that’s on your team because you’re communicating properly, they’re training properly, but they’re also learning about how to be better. That was definitely the biggest takeaway I’ve had.”

“The biggest thing for me was to take responsibility for the things I should have done better, I should have thought of a little differently. I had really good people that worked with me in Vancouver. But in hindsight, we should have made some changes earlier in certain areas and we should have done things differently. And we didn’t do those things and I have to take responsibility for that. Part of the process is coming clean with what your shortcomings are and trying to get better. I think now, I’ve learned a lot from that experience, it was the first time in my life I had ever had that experience. Sure, there’s a lot of anger that goes with it, but then in the clear light of day, you need to take a look back and see what you are responsible for and how you might have done things differently. I think I’ve got a fairly good handle now on how I would approach it. But it wouldn’t lend itself to some of the issues that we faced.”

Neither does cap space, apparently.
- LeftCoaster

Nothing matters to fans who can't handle a rebuild.

Grass is greener everywhere you go. Until it's not.

Cherry pick your way to what they could have done better.

Great interview by Pierre LeBrun with Mike Gillis...a small piece from it. The basis of the interview is what he’s learned in his travels and search for how and why successful sports continually win.



“I think the one thing that has made probably the biggest impression on me is the emphasis that really high-end, high-functioning organizations have on leadership and culture. Which is a daily part of their training environment. So it isn’t like you decide to focus on that for a short period of time and hope that it’s going to work out. They drive leadership, they drive culture every day that the players are there. It’s totally aligned from the top of the organization to the bottom of the organization that they’re always in a teaching mode, they’re always teaching about how to be proper leaders, and how to maintain the culture and what culture is defined as. It’s clearly one of the biggest differences that I saw. The top organizations are removing hope from the equation. They’re implementing plans and implementing a strategy that constantly drives leadership and culture. As a result, they take players that may not be successful somewhere else and they become successful there. There’s only so many top players to go around. But if you get the highest utility out of every one of them that’s on your team because you’re communicating properly, they’re training properly, but they’re also learning about how to be better. That was definitely the biggest takeaway I’ve had.”

“The biggest thing for me was to take responsibility for the things I should have done better, I should have thought of a little differently. I had really good people that worked with me in Vancouver. But in hindsight, we should have made some changes earlier in certain areas and we should have done things differently. And we didn’t do those things and I have to take responsibility for that. Part of the process is coming clean with what your shortcomings are and trying to get better. I think now, I’ve learned a lot from that experience, it was the first time in my life I had ever had that experience. Sure, there’s a lot of anger that goes with it, but then in the clear light of day, you need to take a look back and see what you are responsible for and how you might have done things differently. I think I’ve got a fairly good handle now on how I would approach it. But it wouldn’t lend itself to some of the issues that we faced.”
- LeftCoaster

So what you are saying is what Bob Nicholson said about Toby Reider is wrong the approach?

Bolts, jets, Vegas, pens all have top management .....unsurprisingly they are all also top 4 favs for the cup
- SMBDragon

Don't think Pens and Jets are favs but I get the idea.

Nothing matters to fans who can't handle a rebuild.

Grass is greener everywhere you go. Until it's not.

Cherry pick your way to what they could have done better.
- manvanfan

Ha, rebuilding is not an issue for 99% of the fan bases around the league, including ours, if that’s actually the path teams take.

Don't think Pens and Jets are favs but I get the idea.
- VANTEL

Jets certainly not after the way that Vegas dismantled them last night.

Ha, rebuilding is not an issue for 99% of the fan bases around the league, including ours, if that’s actually the path teams take.
- LeftCoaster

Depending on what a person's perspective on how a rebuild should go? It's not as if fans don't have unreasonable expectations about everything in their organization.

So what you are saying is what Bob Nicholson said about Toby Reider is wrong the approach?
- manvanfan

I didn’t say any of that, Mike Gillis did.

How sad was Nucker when Brady Keeper signed with Florida and then Grant Hutton signed with the NYI?

Sturm the only college free agent that Van is still interested in?

I didn’t say any of that, Mike Gillis did.
- LeftCoaster

Oh my bad.

What Nicholson said about Reider was the wrong approach according to Gillis

Depending on what a person's perspective on how a rebuild should go? It's not as if fans don't have unreasonable expectations about everything in their organization.
- manvanfan

At the end of the day we all want the same thing, for the team to be successful. How we get there is what’s continually up for debate, which can be both fun and painful. But it kills time nicely

At the end of the day we all want the same thing, for the team to be successful. How we get their is what’s continually up for debate, which can be both fun and painful. But it kills time nicely
- LeftCoaster

I just want the Canucks to beat the Flames on Saturday so I can rub it in my fathers face again that his team lost to the "poopty Canucks"