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Canucks News N Notes 25-26
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Carl Yagro
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Re: Canucks News N Notes 25-26
With all the current comments about the long term direction of this team I wanted to try and take a look at the positives. I also want to be clear that this team is a not a SC contender at the moment.
If we look at the players who are currently signed long term, i.e EP, BB, Debrusk, Garland, Hronek, M Pettersson and because I still 80% believe QH will resign I will include him. We also have Demko and Lankinen. They always say teams need to build from the net out and if you look at the above I see at least a good nucleus of a team.
If we look at the young guys we have DEP, Willander, Lekkerimaki and Cootes and Rechel and Mancini.
On D – the team is set not for the next 5 years, I believe that Willander has the potential to be top 4, while DEP and Mancini are showing promise to be 4 – 6 type of D, they play smart and are dependable.
Lekkerimaki I project to be 2nd pairing winger with potential to be another BB within 3 years.
Willander I project to be a top 4 defender within 3 – 4 years.
Cootes will be our solid 2nd pairing C, with potential to be more.
Rechel - who knows but he was cheap and right now he is just holding a position because of all the injuries but there is some skill there.
The biggest concerns is of course EP, lets just assume EP turns out to be a 60+ points per year player that gets 20 – 25 goals a year, that’s a solid 2nd line center.
So potentially the team could have 4 – 5 20+ goal scorers in BB, Garland, DeBrusk and EP. The team will win games by all players contributing vs. having a single player get 100+ points. That’s OK, teams have won the SC with this as their team makeup, look at Florida whose top centre had 81 points.
I am not looking at their cap hit, that horse has been beaten to death enough already. I am not going to give up on this team and spend the next 5 years laminating about what the team could have done. Yeah I am wearing sun glasses and drank all the kool-aid, but when I look at the next couple of years I do see a lot to be excited about even though right now it seems hard to do.
The area I would like to see addressed is some assholes (right Doc), a little more piss and vinegar makes everyone play bigger.
Feel free to flame away and ask me not to steal Cuz stash again
of course I will always would prefer 2 fingers 
If we look at the players who are currently signed long term, i.e EP, BB, Debrusk, Garland, Hronek, M Pettersson and because I still 80% believe QH will resign I will include him. We also have Demko and Lankinen. They always say teams need to build from the net out and if you look at the above I see at least a good nucleus of a team.
If we look at the young guys we have DEP, Willander, Lekkerimaki and Cootes and Rechel and Mancini.
On D – the team is set not for the next 5 years, I believe that Willander has the potential to be top 4, while DEP and Mancini are showing promise to be 4 – 6 type of D, they play smart and are dependable.
Lekkerimaki I project to be 2nd pairing winger with potential to be another BB within 3 years.
Willander I project to be a top 4 defender within 3 – 4 years.
Cootes will be our solid 2nd pairing C, with potential to be more.
Rechel - who knows but he was cheap and right now he is just holding a position because of all the injuries but there is some skill there.
The biggest concerns is of course EP, lets just assume EP turns out to be a 60+ points per year player that gets 20 – 25 goals a year, that’s a solid 2nd line center.
So potentially the team could have 4 – 5 20+ goal scorers in BB, Garland, DeBrusk and EP. The team will win games by all players contributing vs. having a single player get 100+ points. That’s OK, teams have won the SC with this as their team makeup, look at Florida whose top centre had 81 points.
I am not looking at their cap hit, that horse has been beaten to death enough already. I am not going to give up on this team and spend the next 5 years laminating about what the team could have done. Yeah I am wearing sun glasses and drank all the kool-aid, but when I look at the next couple of years I do see a lot to be excited about even though right now it seems hard to do.
The area I would like to see addressed is some assholes (right Doc), a little more piss and vinegar makes everyone play bigger.
Feel free to flame away and ask me not to steal Cuz stash again
of course I will always would prefer 2 fingers