That’s because you’re becoming more and more subconsciously numb to this team
- Nucker101

The Canucks are just background noise.

Your apathy is sad....the Canucks are going to be great , and you should be so happy to see and be apart of the coming greatness

That’s because you’re becoming more and more subconsciously numb to this team
- Nucker101

i know i am, or is that the Cazadores?

Your apathy is sad....the Canucks are going to be great , and you should be so happy to see and be apart of the coming greatness
- onesmallleap

wait until at least training camp for the pom poms

Your apathy is sad....the Canucks are going to be great , and you should be so happy to see and be apart of the coming greatness
- onesmallleap

There is no doubt the canucks are becoming a great team. This core group will have greatness.
The question is, will there be cup wins?

wait until at least training camp for the pom poms
- VanHockeyGuy

As hockey buzzers try frantically to withhold their frenzied excitement.

There is no doubt the canucks are becoming a great team. This core group will have greatness.
The question is, will there be cup wins?
- SMBDragon

Not very often but I do get lucky once in a while....

I get that, and they have had some guys jump directly into the NHL, some deservingly and some not. Some of the guys you mentioned will still likely need time in the minors as well.

Teams that draft well also usually have a well stocked farm team full of prospects. Other than Demko and Markstrom, who was the last player who graduated from our farm team?

Hansen? Tanev? I can't remember who came first?

Edit I guess Kassian but he only played 29 games, I'm not sure he counts.

Look back at the last time this team was good, they had Bieksa, Tanev, Hansen, Edler, Kesler, Burrows, Raymond who had all developed in Manitoba.
- belcherbd

I think a large part of it is that within the past 10 years, other countries development programs have gotten so much better. The US development system, the college system, European leagues... teams are more comfortable leaving kids in them to mature, whereas before they’d pull them to their system.

I would say there is something beneficial to learning your teammates and team systems for years before the NHL, though.

There is no doubt the canucks are becoming a great team. This core group will have greatness.
The question is, will there be cup wins?
- SMBDragon

Not until we have a Norris quality Dman and a world class goalie.

Hughes is gonna be great but Marky ain't the guy to get us there.

Not very often but I do get lucky once in a while....

- Shuswap Wap

Bravo! Well done
Actually laughed aloud at that

Not until we have a Norris quality Dman and a world class goalie.

Hughes is gonna be great but Marky ain't the guy to get us there.
- LordHumungous

Norris quality d man AND a good D system

Your apathy is sad....the Canucks are going to be great , and you should be so happy to see and be apart of the coming greatness
- onesmallleap

Make the Canucks great again!

Also, it’s a part

There is no doubt the canucks are becoming a great team. This core group will have greatness.
The question is, will there be cup wins?
- SMBDragon

Seriously?

I think a large part of it is that within the past 10 years, other countries development programs have gotten so much better. The US development system, the college system, European leagues... teams are more comfortable leaving kids in them to mature, whereas before they’d pull them to their system.

I would say there is something beneficial to learning your teammates and team systems for years before the NHL, though.
- NewYorkNuck

^
This

I was going to bring that up that there are so many options over the AHL now compared to back in the day of Edler Bieksa development .

Not until we have a Norris quality Dman and a world class goalie.

Hughes is gonna be great but Marky ain't the guy to get us there.
- LordHumungous

Eh, don’t always need a world class goalie. Binnington might just be a flash in the pan. Niemi another one.. Osgood... lots of non-world class guys win the cup. More about getting hot at the right time, and a good D corp/system in front of you.

Bravo! Well done
Actually laughed aloud at that
- SMBDragon

Shuswap is a good poster

Eh, don’t always need a world class goalie. Binnington might just be a flash in the pan. Niemi another one.. Osgood... lots of non-world class guys win the cup. More about getting hot at the right time, and a good D corp/system in front of you.
- NewYorkNuck

Broberg Hughes Tryamkin Woo

Juolevi

Broberg Hughes Tryamkin Woo

Juolevi
- VANTEL

I don't want a guy with "Bro" in his name on the team

I don't want a guy with "Bro" in his name on the team
- NorthNuck

Trading Brock?

18 days to free agency . Edler still no contract.

Friedman: "my sense is Lucic is willing to do it, there's been rumors that Eriksson has said no or won't say yes." "I don't have any evidence nor have I been presented with any" "What should VAN get for doing it? ...Puljujarvi" #canucks

Friedman: "my sense is Lucic is willing to do it, there's been rumors that Eriksson has said no or won't say yes." "I don't have any evidence nor have I been presented with any" "What should VAN get for doing it? ...Puljujarvi" #canucks
- VANTEL

- Marwood

Virtanen and a second for Lucic

Friedman: "my sense is Lucic is willing to do it, there's been rumors that Eriksson has said no or won't say yes." "I don't have any evidence nor have I been presented with any" "What should VAN get for doing it? ...Puljujarvi" #canucks
- VANTEL

Why would Loui want to go live in Edmonton

Trading Brock?
- VANTEL

Pronunciation is key