Ownership and Management

[donlever]

That's the whole point, they never tried building it the right way not even once, despite so many failures telling them otherwise. Just pisses me off to no end.

Here's hoping something is different this year (again, not betting on it).

Agreed.

..and.

Agreed.

[Meds]

But back to Brock, the stinky dead/dying daddy issue years, he was pariah for fans because we didn't know what was happening in his personal life. At the same time, his agent was given permission to look for a trade and management was actively trying to move him. There were no takers, his value was 0.

What was the interest heading into free agency last year? Deadline the return would be "embarrassing", his ask was rumoured in the $8M range. He quickly settled for what was offered, but was that too high? Should he have been allowed to walk? I could see him being one of those eve of training camp, "fuck me I want an NHL job, I'm better than Spangler Cup roster" (see Lankinen) cheap signings somewhere, but not in Vancouver.

Quoting this from another thread.....

Brock's value was never higher than it was at the end of the 2023-24 season. He was coming off of 40 goals, yada yada, we all know how he performed that year.

The mind-blowing thing about his extension last year was that it came after his production had dropped significantly following Miller-gate.

Astute management should have seen that Boeser became what he did because he is, and always has been, a winger who needs a strong C to play off of.....and Petey was never that guy in the 5 years they played together. Extending him July 1st of 2023 would have made sense when the plan was to have the core back to build upon the strong season and second round appearance.

The head scratching continues.

[Topper]

Where is the Practice Facility?

OK landmen,

5+/- acres of non ALR land
solid foundational ground requiring minimal geotech
with in 1/2 hr drive of downtown Vancouver (most players live Yaletown, those with families prefer Dunbar I believe)

Fairly daunting search criteria.

Vancouver real estate prices.

Partnering with UBC would be ideal, but there may be University Charter rules to navigate to give the Canucks priority use. I doubt if the old Kerrisdale Arena is big enough a site.

Queens Park in New Westminster, old home of the Bruins, Punch McLean, Smyl, Beck...? Maybe too far a drive? Damn, I always loved that area of NW.

Come up with some ideas. Do Aqualungs go vertical with condos above? Condo market these days?

[Cousin Strawberry]

What's going on at the PNE grounds? They're removing the horseracing, can't the put in a rink and rejuvenate the North Renfrew area?

Or has it already been rejuvenated? I left over 20 years ago lol

[Picker of Cherries]

Rumours were the Whitecaps were working with levels of government to build a soccer specific stadium where the racetrack is.

It’d really help if they had better transit to the PNE. Making the PNE a bigger entertainment hub.

Personally I’d like to see them build out the WCE train capacity, which runs right next to the PNE, so it would run both ways all day every day deeper into the valley and have an additional PNE station. And then also build a perpendicular north shore Skytrain line (the purple line) that intersected at the same WCE PNE station.

The likelihood of those transit projects getting done is right up there with the Canucks winning the Stanley Cup (and more likely to happen in someone else’s lifetime.)

The Golden Eyes have a practice facility at the PNE Agrodome. I don’t know why the Canucks couldn’t have arranged to used that years ago, or share it now?

[Topper]

Could be worse I suppose, could have Chris Dury running things.