Liking the optimism 'about our failures' in the last several posts. If anything the doom & gloom is what will ultimately derail our rebuild. The reason it won't fly here is our fan base is way too emotional. The amount of pissing and moaning on sm and post game shows the past couple games alone. I ...

The guy replacing him is also still trying to figure things out for himself and is a couple years older. Growth's not linear. Kid's got time on his side, some more A time is never a bad thing.

While we're on the topic, are any of you folks beginning to worry about Zeev's development being up in the shitshow? Don't get me wrong, he clearly belongs despite some of the cracks showing in his game. But I fear the cracks can crater into something bigger for the kid (he was a teen just a month ...

Ronning's Ghost wrote: ↑Sat Jan 10, 2026 1:06 am I think that does a lot of damage to the drafting genius thesis.

Virtanen, Joulevi, Pods. Pure genius.

At the very least we got a couple good years out of 40 before the pumpkin years. Same for Brock I suppose.

I think we're looking at the MP trade all wrong. He was the throw in. DoC is the guy they had to have. The 12th overall is one thing. The absolute topper would be if Fernstrom becomes something of a thing for Pitt down the road. Kind of ironic how one of the early big moves by this management group ...

donlever wrote: ↑Wed Jan 07, 2026 8:40 pm Demanding a bigger ticket than Nylander when he is not the better player.

See, that's all you had to do. No argument here.

It’s great for their teams and fanbases that 3 guys are vastly underpaid and 1 one is providing incredible surplus value on an ELC (but he will get his bag big time). All 4 of these guys are easily worth anywhere north of 18 mill in today’s market, if Kaprizov’s new deal is the standard. Their Decem ...

Nucker - much of that is the standard MO Rutherford.He operates a revolving door of players. Difference is, in Pitt, that door revolved around a much stronger axis that covered his blunders. It's pretty obvious not to fuck around with a core of Crosby, Malkin, Letang. Yeah, pretty hard to get it ...

Tanev. That's the one that seismically altered the course of our history. If we kept him as a career player (what he wanted), possibly ... No OEL trade, no crippling buyout, a Guenther or other 1st round player in the lineup now. No Horvat and subsequent Hronek trade, Bo would still be our captain ...

There's talk of Kiefer Sherwood for Fraser Minten. https://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdisplay.php?pid=230395 Bring him home. Sweeten if need be, which would likely be the case. Will gladly forgo my 4 picks in top 35 for this one. As long as player coming back is under 22 and actually promising ...

...by ownership cheapness and incompetent management. ...and there it is again. The scourge of our very existence. In a way those two anomalous playoff seasons were the worst thing that could happen. Because in typical bad-Canuck-timing fashion they happened to fall on years when we had a lot of ...

100% agree with the last statement. 200% agree. When they did have that for several years the failure was not surrounding it with all the other pieces to complete the recipe. Sorta did in 19/20 and 23/24 only to piss it away in their respective off seasons by ownership cheapness and incompetent ...

This would be more notable if it wasn't the 3 (soon to be 4, if not already) best players in the world. Hmmm...we're talking about a top paid player in the game who demanded that level of pay and a month's worth of stats compared to a half a season. I believe it to be topical.... No, you're right ...

Braeden Cootes giving praise to undrafted 19 yr. old Ethan MacKenzie in a interview with Drance today. 6'0 LD, wonder if he'll be available for Canucks 2nd rd. pick? Drance & his guest discussing lack of C's in the top 10, felt there were lots in the 10 - 60 slots. If Canucks draft well they could ...

This would be more notable if it wasn't the 3 (soon to be 4, if not already) best players in the world.