I admit I grab my rose coloured glasses pretty quickly. It is the optimist in me I guess. But I feel like this could be good. That's good HW. Yin needs its yang or vise versa. There's been nothing but a crapload of bitchin' and moaning here, a sprinkle of positivity is refreshing. Gonna need it ...

5 Conference Finals already in 9 years.

Us 3, all successful, but 3 in 56, fucking hell.

As for back to the Rucks, if at 24 Liam is available and Canucks have them there as BPA and do wind up making the selection, the next 8 teams could be salivating to see what they can squeeze out of them to move up for the bro. At the same time, we should treat that same scenario as an advantage ...

https://theprovince.com/sports/hockey/aquilini-found-nonis-to-be-the-most-disloyal-guy-youll-ever-meet-in-your-life 2. Francesco Aquilini and former Canucks general manager Dave Nonis probably don’t exchange Christmas cards. A well-placed Canucks source, however, claims Nonis was fired because A ...

Mr Aquilini's presence back in the war room with inexperienced management will be worth tracking. This kind of PR laden move will be a tell tale sign of his influence to me, should it come to pass. Very true. Further tell tale would be reading the genuineness in the Twins'/RJ's tone when they ...

For this reason maybe better to avoid. But then you can't run a team based on opinions/optics. They gotta make decisions based on what's best and if they and their scouting staff feel these kids are better than others available to them, then they gotta do it.

Alas, things never work as you hope around here. Case in point... I agree with the gathering of assets, but there will not be many teams doing cap dumps with the same value of sweeteners as there was in the flat cap era. If the opportunity arises, take it, but with the cap going up, you won’t see t ...

Yeah. Its sad to say, but the Canucks do need to sign a few Kane type dudes, and play the lottery that they have good years with us, and are tradable for assets. I agree, however, Kane wasn't a UFA signing. It would've been a much easier pill to swallow if he was. Though I gotta admit I was one of ...

Megaterio Llamas wrote: ↑Fri May 15, 2026 1:05 pm My cooncern is Mr Aquilini wanting these kids for the local publicity angle

Was thinking the same after yesterday. Do they draft the new twins for the draft day photo ops, or do they not to avoid the gimmicky optics?

Hearing Malhotras will be hired and drafted. Trying to lure Burrows back out west. Hansen could find an opening, same for Bieksa if he wants to transition out of broadcasting and into a front office. Lu had to decline because his contract sucks.

Smurfs doin' pretty well in these playoffs. Hughes, Marner, Hutson, Blake, Stankoven, Benson,....

Cousin Strawberry wrote: ↑Wed May 13, 2026 8:26 pm What'll piss us off will be if they can get Edvinsson out of Detroit for him

I don't know man, I really like Zeev. Barely 20, I think we're underrating his potential.

No need for apologies my friend, my fault for not clarifying two 1sts in net return value. We don't need to get rid of all vets for picks. Only the ones that can get back surplus value. The ones that are worth shit just keep them around and rot. Because we are a rebuilding team with no expectations ...

Now does he stay or does he go?

Minny's got enough going on to attract him to stay, but I really really want to see him go to Jersey just for me to feel a fraction better about the trade (which I already like). They'll probably get the answer this summer.

Similar spot as the Gold Medal Game. This time a lot more goalie and didn't miss.