He's a healthy scratch, probably back in CAR. He's not the answer to their woes.
- VanHockeyGuy

Definitely not.

He's a reasonably good defenseman most of the time but his effort level ebbs and flows. Not a good fit with Brind'amour.

Super nice guy though.

He appeals to morons like you. Anyone other than you on this blog is more articulate than Hansen. 4 paragraphs and he didn’t really say anything other than bad rebuild, mediocre team etc. no sh!t Hansen! Most of your audience isn’t braindead like that hick Whickey Tango. Do better
- CanuckDon

Lolol

Definitely not.

He's a reasonably good defenseman most of the time but his effort level ebbs and flows. Not a good fit with Brind'amour.

Super nice guy though.
- BINGO!

Sounds like he'll fit in here perfectly.

Definitely not.

He's a reasonably good defenseman most of the time but his effort level ebbs and flows. Not a good fit with Brind'amour.

Super nice guy though.
- BINGO!

That said he'd be a great fit in VAN.

Bill Meltzer

@billmeltzer
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James van Riemsdyk will undergo surgery on Friday to repair a broken finger suffered in Sunday's game. He will miss roughly a month.

Cap space for Miller.

Chicago making trades this morning.

Shipping Evan Barrett to Philly in exchange for Cooper Zech. Also

Nicolaus Beaudin to Montreal for Cam Hillis.

Both minor league trades.

Rutherford can gunsling. Garland Pearson, Hogs make a trade for some help. Lots of teams that would take garland or Pearson. We'd have to toss something in so be it.
- LordHumungous

Lunkhead logic!

That said he'd be a great fit in VAN.
- VanHockeyGuy

Change the culture.

Jannick Hanson, from another site.


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Jannik Hansen is calling for a proper Vancouver Canucks rebuild, not a ‘retool’

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Lachlan Irvine
By Lachlan Irvine
34 minutes ago
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When Jannik Hansen made his weekly appearance on The People’s Show on Sportsnet 650, he cut right to the chase: in his eyes, the Vancouver Canucks are in deep, deep trouble. The former Canuck didn’t hold back, firing shots at the team-building approach led by ownership and the front office over the last decade and its’ lack of success, as well as recent messages by the new management team.
Specifically, Hansen pointed to President of Hockey Ops Jim Rutherford’s Saturday night interview on After Hours with Scott Oake, and his use of the phrase ‘retool on the fly’. That phrase has become synonymous in this market with ownership’s willingness to embrace mediocrity in favour of short-term profits, and Hansen knows it.
“This started when they fired
- Reubenkincade[Alain Vigneault] back when we got swept by San Jose. It’s been 10 years, I haven’t seen the fruit of their labour, if you will. I don’t think they’re closer to winning the Stanley Cup than they were when they traded [Kesler]. It seems like you need something radical to shake this up,” Hansen said.
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“Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me. We saw this story last year. It’s the same group, it’s the same leaders, it’s the same horses pulling the wagon.”
From there, Hansen broke down the basic fallacies of a retool, and why that kind of team-building strategy is almost always destined to fail.
“This ‘retool on the fly’, we add a couple of pieces, we still have a good core. But what happens is that the core keeps moving, and you’re not quite there. So we’re gonna get two or three, four years down the line, and all of a sudden we have these young players that might become really good, but Petey, Quinn and Demko might be that much older and we’re talking about them like we’re talking about Bo and J.T. right now,” Hansen said.
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“You need to have these guys coming together at the same time if you want to have an opportunity and then fill in around them. But if you keep up this patchwork, you’re always going to be short on players the right age and finding the right guys at the right time.”
Hansen did acknowledge that the road through a full rebuild is painful and difficult, but he also pointed out that so many of the teams that fully invested in the process went on to years of contention.
“Look at Chicago before they picked up Kane, Toews, Keith, and Seabrook and how bad those teams were. And yeah, it was a lot of tough nights. I’m sure they’re looking at Colorado, and how long they were bad. But it comes around and it seems like it comes around quicker if you do that.”
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But when it comes to how the Canucks’ front office should approach these kinds of changes in the public sphere, again Hansen didn’t pull any punches.
“I think the fans in Vancouver and the media, if you come out and tell them that this is what to expect, and not a Jim Benning message that ‘we will fix this in three years’ and seven years later we’re still in the same hole, then you can buy into it,” Hansen said. “There’s gonna be a lot of tough, tough hockey games here. But then there’s a clear path instead of this status quo where you’re just hovering in the middle, you’re not quite good enough to get into the playoffs, but you’re too good to get these draft picks that’ll make a true difference down the line.”

Definitely not.

He's a reasonably good defenseman most of the time but his effort level ebbs and flows. Not a good fit with Brind'amour.

Super nice guy though.
- BINGO!

Nice guy, doesn't always bring the effort.



Born to be a Canuck.

𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘀 Faber 🔥🎙
@ChrisFaber39
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Line combinations from Wednesday’s #Canucks practice:

Miller-Horvat-Garland
Kuzmenko-Pettersson-Mikheyev
Podkolzin-Åman-Joshua
Pearson-Dries-Höglander
Extra: Lockwood

Back on schedule!

New blog is up, trying not to get too fatalistic but also not sure this losing streak gets snapped before the end of this week, sigh:

https://hockeybuzz.com/bl...ck-to-back-set/194/119251

Lubehead logic!
- K-man25

Lube it up new champion!!

marky 4-0

Fire Treliving!!

Change the culture.
- K-man25

Kids table at the picnic!

Nice guy, doesn't always bring the effort.



Born to be a Canuck.
- Nucker101

That Jason Richardinson kid, is having a pretty good start to his career in Chicago. 5 points in 4 games.(+2)

His Canucks replacement, Mikheyev, 1 point in 4 games and -1.(+at the extra cost of 2.1 million)

Did this management team, led by the great Jim Rutherford, grossly misread this team?

3 contracts that they signed, that will be very hard to move, JTM, Boeser and Mikheyev.

On a positive note, my boy Brisebois was the analytic Darling,last game.
- Reubenkincade

Turns out Aman is D!ckinson's replacement. He's 3rd line C now. They are already feeling the backlash of that dumb trade.

Turns out Aman is D!ckinson's replacement. He's 3rd line C now. They are already feeling the backlash of that dumb trade.
- boonerbuck

We were fine with D!ckenson and Motte as 3-4LC plus Highmore and Lammiko.

Enter Mikheyev Kuzmenko Lazar Joshua Aman.

But let's not forget how many in here wanted Motte and JD gone lol.

Definitely not.

He's a reasonably good defenseman most of the time but his effort level ebbs and flows. Not a good fit with Brind'amour.

Super nice guy though.
- BINGO!

So you’re saying he’ll fit right in with the Canucks?!