smithers joe

My son and I were talking about the very same issue, Joe. We could not agree with you more. But it is early and time will tell! 

we should be glad that we have 3 lines that are scoring so far. And it’s not like they are -5 or sth. Everyone is doing their job so far imo.

well true, but the score was only close bc the Oilers were given PPs after PPs... 5on5 they could barely score

Let's wait and see how they play against Phili

I remain neutral on this.............no tank, no bandwagon............too early to tell.

That's why the posts saying "should we go all in?" are hilarious.

if Hall is out for a while I'd hope CHI had some interest to pick AB up on the cheap. 

Yes.  There was talk about trading AB when he was hot after he first arrived.  Would have been a good scenario.  Someone has to move on (Illya Mikheyev should be considered as well).  Or these guys eat up the raise EP needs in the off season.  Cap increase should work in everyone's favour.. I think the end result is the D never fully recovers from OEL's cap hit and we keep young guns in rotation (hirose mcward willander) 

on donnie and dhawali, rick said both nashville and winnipeg are interested in garland but want canucks to retain 1.5 mil of his salary. agent says he needs help from canucks to move him.

Kuzzy

Garland has the first goal of the season

Not the first, but Boeser did get some more goals on the first night!

I doubt it, unless the Canucks are really ravaged by the flu, but even then, I think they  would just call a player or players up from Abby.

they are talking , they may play with 11 forwards.

Oilers seem short handed too. This should be interesting.

He does have some offensive ability and maybe playing with Bedard, he’d get 25-30 goals and 55-60 points.

This trade could work.  Chicago has over $50 million in cap space next year.  I doubt they just want to fill the spots with a bunch of plugs.  They need guys to play with Bedard.  Garland could be that guy.

Chicago would look at better options than Garland.  Garland's perception around the league is that he's a 3rd line player and/or a low-end 2nd forward.  Bedard's presence will attract a lot of higher end UFA's than Garland.  

No, his cap is counting on our roster. They will be fine when he returns, might just have to send one player down as we're only allowed 23. 

capfriendly.com 

Joe he is included in the cap.  With 23 players including Mikheyev they are around $20,000 below the cap.

okay, i'm wrong as usually. thank you.

I'm all for it. Water the league down. That might be the best way for the Canucks to exploit their position. We have 3 of the leagues best in Pete/Hughes/Demko at the 3 key positions in their prime. it's kind of a GM's dream scenario we can off load our dead wood to teams that need to expose guys and re vamp the foundation around our core. Expansion is great for the canucks.  

I honestly don’t think Quebec City having a team is a good idea. I imagine they would have a harder time keeping players than Winnipeg or Calgary and not every player can be French Canadian.

Not to impact your happiness.

But Petey and Hronek are not going to be cheap.

Plus a lot of assorted FA's.

Whatever cap space we have is still going to vanish pretty quickly.

Wade Allison is on waivers. He’s a tough kid.

Canucks. Every time.

Helps that I don't really follow other sports 

Going to the Lions game Joe, hopefully BC Place will put the score up on the board. A double victory would be nice.

MATT DAMON!

On the upside we're almost at 1.1k members 

Many of those accounts were banned as well. Others just stopped posting. 

90 thousand my bad.

Agreed 100%... unfortunately it feels like size and intimidation is never a priority for this organization. They need to rectify that asap if they hope to go on a playoff run at any point over the next couple of years.

The good thing is that Tocchet seems to actually care about that considering he brings up energy and physicality often in media scrums.

that's why he loves diguiseppe and joshua and miller can bring that kind of game forward. maybe studnika and blueger can play that way too, i don't know. 

i don't know how many d-men playb that way? maybe cole.

Soucy and Myers both have an edge to them and although he's not big, Hronek doesn't back down either.

My condolences, sir.

Do you have a God complex? Do you lie all the time?

If the answer is no. And I expect it is, it just means that side of you probably got weeded out in your bloodline.

Well Joe, with your blessid live, you know something was going to go wrong sometime! LOL

And you know, at least you got the brains in the family! LOL

last year i had hirose, wolanin, juulsen, mcward and then brisebois.

i guess it will come down to, who has the skills that best suit this defense.

TBH, I wouldn't be surprised if McWard is sent down before long.  Him remaining on the roster seems to be more about having someone who doesn't need to clear waivers to send down in case they find themselves needing to send someone down last-minute.  But I could be reading this wrong. 

aman can be sent down too. who knows what decisions lurk in the corner of a coaches mind?

@Dankmemes187 He got 35 points last year. What doesn't feel safe? Is the +/- scaring you?

pinto.... explosion..... boom...

With Orange.