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Re: Competitive and/or Contending

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Ronning's Ghost wrote:
Strangelove wrote: 2b) How about "look good enough to get everyone on this board excited about the future"? :hmmm:
Well that's just setting yourself up for failure. Even if you polled everyone on this board (even though, as you [patiently] explained to me, you hate polls) about whether they were excited about the [Canucks'] future, you would need only one sourpuss holdout to fail.
See, that's part of the reason why I said I hate polls

... some people will always vote opposite to how they truly feel.

Soooo Cliffy, have I "set myself up for failure"... or set myself up for success. :sly:

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Re: Competitive and/or Contending

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Reefer2 wrote: SL says 1-2 seasons from now but he never clarified what he meant by it.
:hmmm:

http://www.canuckscorner.com/forums/vie ... 18#p272118
Reefer2 [color=#FF0000]Mon Dec 19, 2016 9:36 am[/color] wrote: No disrespect Mick but sometimes I dont get your posts? Hell sometimes I dont get my posts a day later and I rarely get Doc's posts.
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Re: Competitive and/or Contending

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RG, it's pointless trying to get Doc to elaborate on his rationales/metrics for the timeline, deliberately vague for a reason.
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Re: Competitive and/or Contending

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Island Nucklehead wrote:RG, it's pointless trying to get Doc to elaborate on his rationales/metrics for the timeline, deliberately vague for a reason.
Well here's ole Nucklehead, late to the party yet already hammered.

Try to focus on 1-2 years from now.

Canucks will have made the playoffs and looked good enough to have folks clamouring aboard the train.

(the obvious metrics of a non-top-team making the playoffs is 90-ish points, unless they change the system)

My clearly stated rationale for this timeline:

- Old core must be gone (read Sedins).

- The evident genius of James Elmer Benning as a builder of a new core.

A bold prediction from the Great Strangelove (and He made it 2 years ago!).

Tis a shame you are not man enough to make bold predictions about the future of my Canucks. :mex:
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Re: Competitive and/or Contending

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Strangelove wrote:
Reefer2 wrote: SL says 1-2 seasons from now but he never clarified what he meant by it.
:hmmm:

http://www.canuckscorner.com/forums/vie ... 18#p272118
Reefer2 [color=#FF0000]Mon Dec 19, 2016 9:36 am[/color] wrote: No disrespect Mick but sometimes I dont get your posts? Hell sometimes I dont get my posts a day later and I rarely get Doc's posts.
Good grief? Reef.
Over the Internet, you can pretend to be anyone or anything.

I'm amazed that so many people choose to be complete twats.
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Re: Competitive and/or Contending

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Reefer2 wrote:How about a top 5 pick and another 20-25 puck Skyo.

With the current lotto system, 5th is the best we will ever get
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Topper wrote:
Strangelove wrote:
Reefer2 wrote: SL says 1-2 seasons from now but he never clarified what he meant by it.
:hmmm:

http://www.canuckscorner.com/forums/vie ... 18#p272118
Reefer2 [color=#FF0000]Mon Dec 19, 2016 9:36 am[/color] wrote: No disrespect Mick but sometimes I dont get your posts? Hell sometimes I dont get my posts a day later and I rarely get Doc's posts.
Good grief? Reef.
You sound like Charlie Brown......
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Re: Competitive and/or Contending

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Madcombinepilot wrote:
Reefer2 wrote:How about a top 5 pick and another 20-25 puck Skyo.

With the current lotto system, 5th is the best we will ever get
Remember the good ol' days when the worst team got 25% odds for 1st overall and teams could not move up more than 4 spots, nor a club would not move down more than one position in the draft order.

Ah yes, those were the days...when the Canucks never "tanked".

Nowadays the team that tanks has a better shot at 4th overall, but that has to be one of the worst teams ever to tank that bad, it truly is a lottery with bad odds that get worse if you lose that first lotto pick.

So to increase a teams chances at acquiring talent in the draft, the best way is to acquire more picks & have good quality scouts.

ps time to move Edler for picks/prospect.
Can the Canucks just win a Cup within the next 5 years.
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I remember the best old days before 1995.
Go back to that and make owners sign a "Level of Compete" clause that could be investigated, if need be.
An investigation would not only involve owners, presidents, GMs and coaches but player interviews as well.
To be done swiftly and decisively...
"evolution"
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Re: Competitive and/or Contending

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Strangelove wrote:(I'm throwing you a bone here 5thhorseman, run with it!)
The only "bone" I have, if any, is this whole genius malarky. It is so absurd that the only reasonable explanation is that you are posturing. If anything, Benning will be successful because he lives and breathes hockey and puts in the hours.
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Re: Competitive and/or Contending

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5thhorseman wrote:
Strangelove wrote:(I'm throwing you a bone here 5thhorseman, run with it!)
The only "bone" I have, if any, is this whole genius malarky. It is so absurd that the only reasonable explanation is that you are posturing. If anything, Benning will be successful because he lives and breathes hockey and puts in the hours.
Stephen Hawking lives and breaths science and puts in the hours...
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I think the team will be better but I have no idea how much. I keep thinking back to what a hot goalie can do for you (King Richard)
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Re: Competitive and/or Contending

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rats19 wrote:
5thhorseman wrote:
Strangelove wrote:(I'm throwing you a bone here 5thhorseman, run with it!)
The only "bone" I have, if any, is this whole genius malarky. It is so absurd that the only reasonable explanation is that you are posturing. If anything, Benning will be successful because he lives and breathes hockey and puts in the hours.
Stephen Hawking lives and breaths science and puts in the hours...
So does Bill Nye. What's your point?
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rats19 wrote: Stephen Hawking lives and breaths science and puts in the hours...
Read his comments on aliens. :lol:

They're practically posting billboards telling us they're here already
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Re: Competitive and/or Contending

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5thhorseman wrote:
rats19 wrote:
5thhorseman wrote:
Strangelove wrote:(I'm throwing you a bone here 5thhorseman, run with it!)
The only "bone" I have, if any, is this whole genius malarky. It is so absurd that the only reasonable explanation is that you are posturing. If anything, Benning will be successful because he lives and breathes hockey and puts in the hours.
Stephen Hawking lives and breaths science and puts in the hours...
So does Bill Nye. What's your point?
There's a point??? ... :D
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