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Hard to believe Reilly Smith has more career playoff points with Vegas, who’ve only been in the league six years, than anyone from the Winnipeg Jets/Arizona Coyotes franchise. Which entered the NHL in 1979.

Trevor Linden, a definite playoff warrior in his early years!! His first ten years with the Canucks, before Keenan traded him, he had 80 points in 79 playoff games. #Warrior

Well done Mike!!

Hard to believe Reilly Smith has more career playoff points with Vegas, who’ve only been in the league six years, than anyone from the Winnipeg Jets/Arizona Coyotes franchise. Which entered the NHL in 1979.

Trevor Linden, a definite playoff warrior in his early years!! His first ten years with the Canucks, before Keenan traded him, he had 80 points in 79 playoff games. #Warrior


- LeftCoaster

Correct. Like I said before if Bo was mentored by Linden I think he'd probably still be here and we would've had the captain we'd hoped for.

Correct. Like I said before if Bo was mentored by Linden I think he'd probably still be here and we would've had the captain we'd hoped for.
- LordHumungous

From my own personal experiences in hockey, it is my opinion you either have that fire within you naturally, or you don’t, you can’t manufacture it. I don’t think Bo Horvat was born with that.

That doesn’t mean I don’t think he cared, he did, but he’s not a player that’s gonna put the team on his back and carry it. Like a Peter Forsberg, that guy wasn’t a fighter but he didn’t back down from anyone and he could put the team on his back and say, follow me boys.

Hard to believe Reilly Smith has more career playoff points with Vegas, who’ve only been in the league six years, than anyone from the Winnipeg Jets/Arizona Coyotes franchise. Which entered the NHL in 1979.

Trevor Linden, a definite playoff warrior in his early years!! His first ten years with the Canucks, before Keenan traded him, he had 80 points in 79 playoff games. #Warrior


- LeftCoaster

But Bo?

Hard to believe Reilly Smith has more career playoff points with Vegas, who’ve only been in the league six years, than anyone from the Winnipeg Jets/Arizona Coyotes franchise. Which entered the NHL in 1979.

Trevor Linden, a definite playoff warrior in his early years!! His first ten years with the Canucks, before Keenan traded him, he had 80 points in 79 playoff games. #Warrior


- LeftCoaster

Linden > Gretzky II

The Penguins have six players with 100 or more playoff points.

Crosby
Malkin
Lemieux
Jagr
Stevens
Francis

The Penguins have six players with 100 or more playoff points.

Crosby
Malkin
Lemieux
Jagr
Stevens
Francis
- LeftCoaster

Thanks for sharing this useless crap.

Barbashev would be a good addition.

The Penguins have six players with 100 or more playoff points.

Crosby
Malkin
Lemieux
Jagr
Stevens
Francis
- LeftCoaster

Relapse?

Thanks for sharing this useless crap.
- VanHockeyGuy

You’re welcome! The Red Wings actually had SEVEN players with 100 or more playoff points. All drafted and developed within their own system, except Alex Delvecchio, who wasn’t drafted back in the day but played his whole 24 year career with the organization.

Yzerman, Lidstrom, G. Howe, Datsyuk, Zetterberg, Fedorov, Delvecchio…

Just lends itself to the fact that you need elite players to win the Cup, most of the players who lead their franchises were drafted and developed by them. Something the Vancouver Canucks have only had a couple times in their 53 year history. O-Petey might be three, with Pavel Bure and Henrik Sedin.

Barbashev would be a good addition.
- Marwood

I agree! The Canucks depth, speed, toughness (not fighting) and skill in their bottom six is so incredibly bad.

The relatively recent draft picks of Virtanen, Juolevi and Podkolzin, all top ten, are a real setback for the franchise and why they’ll never win unless they get better at drafting.

I agree! The Canucks depth, speed, toughness (not fighting) and skill in their bottom six is so incredibly bad.
- LeftCoaster

There's an ocean of tears in the Leaf thread. Two days of crying over a father & daughter who go to Leaf games to cheer for the other team and now an outpouring of grief and frustration because Tkachuc, the Panthers and the league are ganging up on the Leafs. And Lord Micro Penis in there telling them the Leafs need to punch someone. Very entertaining on a rainy day.

There's an ocean of tears in the Leaf thread. Two days of crying over a father & daughter who go to Leaf games to cheer for the other team and now an outpouring of grief and frustration because Tkachuc, the Panthers and the league are ganging up on the Leafs. And Lord Micro Penis in there telling them the Leafs need to punch someone. Very entertaining on a rainy day.
- Marwood

I saw a lady on Twitter, Leaf fan obviously, say the Bennett hit behind the net was the most vicious thing she'd ever seen in hockey and he should be indefinitely suspended. The lunacy is about to go full-tilt if they lose to the Panthers.

Dozzer let my first comment on the Leafs thread slide, which is extremely kind of him.

From my own personal experiences in hockey, it is my opinion you either have that fire within you naturally, or you don’t, you can’t manufacture it. I don’t think Bo Horvat was born with that.

That doesn’t mean I don’t think he cared, he did, but he’s not a player that’s gonna put the team on his back and carry it. Like a Peter Forsberg, that guy wasn’t a fighter but he didn’t back down from anyone and he could put the team on his back and say, follow me boys.
- LeftCoaster

Good points. However good forms of mentorship can have impact in many ways. Horvat may not have had a mean streak per se but still could have been shown the way.

Dozzer let my first comment on the Leafs thread slide, which is extremely kind of him.
- LeftCoaster

At least MorningWood showed up in there with his little cry baby emoji. As per the whining in here...

The relatively recent draft picks of Virtanen, Juolevi and Podkolzin, all top ten, are a real setback for the franchise and why they’ll never win unless they get better at drafting.


- LeftCoaster

Solid Hockey Man.!

Solid Hockey Man.!


- LordHumungous

It's not just the Benning era, it's the totality of it all. It's a combination of every regime that's owned or managed them. Look at the Red Wings, when Mike Ilitch bought the team in 1982, they were known as "the dead Wings", they were awful. He changed the culture and the way they did business there. The Canucks have to find that culture shift.

It's not just the Benning era, it's the totality of it all. It's a combination of every regime that's owned or managed them. Look at the Red Wings, when Mike Ilitch bought the team in 1982, they were known as "the dead Wings", they were awful. He changed the culture and the way they did business there. The Canucks have to find a new owner.
- LeftCoaster

Fixed that for ya

I saw a lady on Twitter, Leaf fan obviously, say the Bennett hit behind the net was the most vicious thing she'd ever seen in hockey and he should be indefinitely suspended. The lunacy is about to go full-tilt if they lose to the Panthers.
- LeftCoaster

It's worse than Stubby continually whining about the Canucks losing the cup in 2011.

Dozzer let my first comment on the Leafs thread slide, which is extremely kind of him.
- LeftCoaster

You're on fire today.




So I flagged every one of your posts.

Dozzer let my first comment on the Leafs thread slide, which is extremely kind of him.
- LeftCoaster

He's actually not a bad guy.

Aaron on the other hand