Jeremy Hronek

That's been one of my biggest pet peeves with this team since the post 2020 bubble off-season. Instead of saying, "lets put a solid d-man beside Hughes and make this pairing our version of Keith-Seabrook," the Canucks seem more content to be putting plugs beside Hughes since Hughes is good enough to carry them (which would then allow is to artificially create the appearance of having depth on the back-end). I like Soucy and Cole but they shouldn't be playing with Hughes. Neither should McWard. And the scary thing is that this is under full health to our D! One injury to any of our current Top 4 d-men and the Canucks will literally have a #5 calibre or below d-man playing with Hughes or Hronek. :puke:

If you had added one more "the year before that" comment, my answer would have been Hughes, Edler, and Tanev........which unsurprisingly, was the last time we made the playoffs. Canucks still need another 2B/3 calibre defenseman otherwise a lot of things will need to go right just to make the playoffs. 1. Hughes 2. Hronek 3. MIA 4. Soucy 5. Cole 5B/6. Myers, McWard, Hirose, Wolanin, etc., etc. Hughes-MIA Soucy-Hronek Cole-Myers Is what our defense should look like. Cole nor Soucy should be playing with Hughes.

Garland and a 1st ain't getting you Jiricek.

With Soucy injured, Ian Cole is now the 3rd best defenseman on the team. Let that sink in for a second.

True, but our team is more balanced with Hronek, Soucy, and Cole on defense.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWzD9dkUYMs

This post wins the thread.

I'd rather just roll with Ethan Bear when he comes back instead of trading for Peeke (who I was think is a bit overrated). I'd strongly consider your Trade idea #2 with Crouse but would AZ? They could probably get better offers for Crouse.

Thomas Drance legit got sand in his vagina when we traded Madden for Toffoli. Madden was the next Braden Point you see and so "giving up" on Madden was completely nonsensical!

My answer as well. Nod to Quinn obviously for his Courntal, Momesso, Running, etc. moves. I thought Benning's Bonino, Vrbata, and Ryan Miller moves in 2014 were also pretty good (at least in terms of getting us to the playoffs for 2015)

Pettersson for Horvat and Dobson.

I think the above is a 2nd round calibre team at minimum and pretty much addresses all/most our current weaknesses in my opinion (without changing its current core players).

For sure, p.s. - I created some more ad-ins for the fantasy team above. I decided to keep our current core for the most part but added in 17 points worth of players to "round out the edges" so to speak.

Great game my friend. :-). My only thought is this. What if you removed Tyler Myers and simply brought in bubble Chris Tanev? Kuzmenko-Pettersson-Beauviller Mikheyev-Miller-Boeser PDG-Suter-Garland Hoglander-Bluegar-Joshua Hughes-Tanev Soucy-Hronek Wolanin-Cole Demko DeSmith As uncreative as this sounds, I'd probably just run with our current team and see how they do with an added Tanev. Don't get me wrong - I love Henrik, Bure, Linden, Daniel, Naslund, Bertuzzi, etc., but those guys had their hey-day for us and god bless em' for that. Put prime Tanev on our current team and then build from there. That's what I'd do! Going a step further into fantasy however, I'd add some more leadership and grit to this team and get rid of some deadwood. Boeser's body and mind are too far gone from the game while Mikheyev is rarely healthy. Tiger Williams, Linden, Smyl, Edler, and McLean get nods from me. -Linden replaces Mikheyev (4) -Smyl replaces Boeser (1) -Williams replaces Joshua (1) -Tanev replaces Myers (4) -Edler (4) replaces Wolanin -McLean (3) replaces DeSmoth Kuzmenko-Pettersson-Beauviller Miller-Linden-Smyl PDG-Suter-Garland Williams-Bluegar-Hoglander Hughes-Tanev Edler-Hronek Soucy-Cole Demko McLean

Clearly, he was a Seinfeld fan and watched George Costanza land a job with the Yankees. #JustDoTheOpposite

He's like our version of Rudy. I hope Brendan Gaunce makes it back here one day as well.

They significantly contributed to the embarrassment.

I just hope the Canucks get off to a good start this season so that you don't start making posts about how the Canucks have a 12.2% chance of making the playoffs 7 games into the season.

Agreed. What makes this even more damaging and proof that our legal system is completely broken, is the fact that this female accuser of Jake Virtanen told a very detailed and accurate story with regards to what happened. The story had absolutely ZERO holes in it and/or contradictory statements and the facts were as clear as day. The female in question was actually forced to spend the night with Jake against her own free will. This case should have been a slam dunk guilty charge against Jake but the lawyers and the legal system clearly were on the side of Jake. Bastards. All of them.

I understand your point of view, but believe that following the above policy still wouldn't deter other criminals and delinquents from repeating similar behaviour in the future. So in this example, let's say that there's a 50/50 chance that the shithead in question realizes the error of his ways. What's stopping another man in an entirely different part of the country/continent from doing something similar? After all, the penalty, though harsh (i.e. school expulsion + community service) still won't install fear and respect amongst the people to the point where they TRULY respect the laws, the police, and their fellow man. The degradation and decline of Vancouver right now is a direct result of lax penalties and laws and quite Franky, I'm tired of it. I've been tired of it since the 2011 cup riots where those two shitheads from Australia started making out on the streets. Things gotta change. Fast.

Yes. She committed a heinous hate crime against the people of Jewish faith. She absolutely deserves to have the living shit kicked out of her (by female police officers). The only way leniency should be shown in this case, is if the Jewish community, in their entirety, caused deliberate harm and suffering to this woman (and her piece of shit male accomplice). Obviously, this did not happen and so I stand by comments.

Update: -Islanders need scoring and could probably use better wingers than Palmieri and Engvall. -Pulock (6.1 million cap hit) has been replaced by Dobson as the Top RD. -Kuzmenko for Pulock would make sense would it not?

Didn't Edler play on his off-side in 2011? Hughes also played on the right side quite a bit in juniors if I'm not mistaken.

True. Would also say the same thing about Naslund-Morrison-Bertuzzi. For the intended spirit of this game however, I encourage posters to think of new line combinations and *only* have 1st line calibre players for their 1st lines, etc. (for example, Morrison and Burrows, god bless them both, probably wouldn't be considered actual first line players, just like Steve Rucchin wouldn't actually be considered a first line player in Anaheim by virtue of having been fortunate enough to play with Selanne and Kariya).

Sorry Alf, hope I didn't cause offence.......although I won't apologize for defending the Canucks legend known as Mark Messier.