Lowkey blame Tocchet for both the rise and the fall. A structure coach has his effects from his own blue line in but he just didn’t know how to coach offense except never turn it over at the other blue. This means no dangles or lateral movement. Players who take odd angles to the net like Podkolzin a ...

TCISO with the statement that matters.

The fun starts now. Losing is now constructive. Trades are for future excellence. We can watch a team get better.

The question would be how much we want to see that

The PO Joseph Era is how this time shall be known.

I’d love to read (or write) an all-access book on the Nucks. What is really going on?

Petterson is sour and hostile to the media. Do you suppose he’s different to his teammates?

I’ve never heard of a star player getting married and inviting not a single teammate

Is it wrong to want to see McDavid get a cup in Canada?

I mean…yes, obviously.

But SO wrong…?

It’s not like I’m rooting for Calgary ffs!

Geeeeeeeezzzzzz

Garland. I like the dude but he’s snakebit here. Is from the Boston area, might enjoy it. I kinda want Myers to stay here or at least in Canada. If he has medical needs it might be better under our health care and if he’s in say Edmonton the family might not have to move too far or even at all. And I ...

Brisbois in the Canucks transaction reports for years and years without really making an impact at the NHL level reminds me of the decade, it seemed like, where there would be a biannual mention of Leif Rohlin. A perfect Vancouver name. Imagine the fun Shorty could have had announcing Leif Rohlin ...

Thanks Carl. I lurk here a lot!

It’s a great hockey community but sometimes it feels like I am coming in and hearing a long running family argument between two angry uncles who have so much history that it’s hard to know what’s going on, better to just sidle out the door before you get punched

Don, you are one of the great posters and I respect that. However I do see you as an advocate of manning up and pushing through the nagging stuff - you quoted Jim Robson on Trevor Linden. And that mention made me reflect on how Linden was an elite skater in his youth and how painful it was to watch ...

Maybe it’s his mental fortitude, bad training habits, and the waning of his youthful psyche, sure, but the Province gave us a before and after speed comparison. He went from 94th percentile before the mention of tendinitis to below average after. All that is required for tendinitis to become chronic ...

Yes yes, very fragile. My point, if I had one, is that this seems like a case of being hobbled rather than not trying, too busy counting his millions, crying from being called slurs, being dazzled to distraction by the overwhelming alpha-musk of JT, and other such theories. If the Canucks had the ...

EP40 told us in January he’s playing through a nagging injury that will probably be there the whole season. He may be a weirdo, have bad chemistry with the team (dis any of his teammates get a wedding invitation? If no, what does that tell you?) but he got slow and doesn’t look like himself. The Can ...

I think if there’s any where EP40 would want to go it’s LA where he can be anonymous, his wife would be happy, may scooter paths. But you know what would happen: the receiving team that has real doctors instead of a chiropractor will confirm that he was playing through tendinitis and that he now has ...

No one asked for my opinion but anyways… Tanking is a weapon. Weapons are good. You don’t have to like it. I don’t like fighting or unsportsmanlike conduct but those are weapons too. A smart team uses all the opportunities given by the system to maximize victories. It allows for intimidation and for ...

I always saw him as having a New York State of mind