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| SolemnThirsty |
| it's like one step forward, two steps back! no second or third line scoring! |
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| xtr3m |
| A-a-and we managed to get 3 guys injured, including the seemingly fragile Salo... :nervous: |
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| SolemnThirsty |
| ^maybe we are playing for draft picks next spring:confused: |
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| DjCommisad |
we have a lot of draft picks next summer, including LA's 2nd for cloutier. i'm thinking next year's draft will be a decent one, so hopefully our scouting staff can do good for once, ever. i mean you can never tell who will develop properly, but with all these tests these days.. i mean look at some of our recent first round picks.. kesler (03).. nathan smith (00).. brad ference (97).. josh holden (96).. mike wilson (93).. libor polasek (92).. alex stojanov (91) (who redeemed himself by being traded to pens for naslund and then retiring the next year). first rounds that have panned out into nhl players umberger (01).. bryan allen (98).. guys who have potential cory schneider (04).. bourdon (05).. and guys that are solid sedins (99).. and ohlund (94)..
granted these have been over a long period of time and the scouting staff have obviously changed many times over that period, plus the style of hockey has changed so not only are teams looking for different things each year but a team's direct needs due to player development, trades, retirements, signings, etc affect drafting as well as management and coaching staff. but really. maybe one or two years here and there you pick a guy that just tanks out for whatever reason (family, career change, injury, not mentally tough enough, over-estimated their value, etc) but we have such a bad list.
btw, anyone who thinks a big trade will happen anytime soon is in for a surprise. everyone keeps calling for a move, but there's no cap space to make a move. the two things I can possibly see happening this year is
A. the coaches and GM can talk the owners into paying off salary to send guys to the minors (ie bulis/chouinard). by paying off their nhl salary we can waive them to the minors and free that space. by you're asking brand new owners to dip into their own personal pockets to pay millions of dollars (granted 'they' say teams can earn up to $1m approx. per playoff game in revenue from various sources so even waiving one player to try to free space to make a move to get us into the playoffs could work out).
B. we find someone desperate enough to take someone off our hands (ie pushing for playoffs - depth - or a rebuilding team) for picks. most teams heading for the playoffs already have that depth and don't want overpaid 3rd-4th liners.. while teams in rebuilding don't want overpaid players taking up ice time from their developping youth, so again we're stuck.
There is a
C. We trade salary for salary (but who the hell wants our rejects/underachivers for an achiever?). some rumorered morrison and cooke and a prospect/pick to philly for forsberg, but why would any team want both of those guys? i can see some teams wanting cooke's energy and grit for 1.5... MAYBE.. but morrison is stuck here unless you can find a buyer (ottawa, atlanta, chicago and philly have all been rumored all year because all could use a setup man but morrison sucks). |
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| Fl1p |
We definately need more offense, when was the last time we scored more than 2 goals? We're last in scoring for crying out load... The only line that can produce right now is the Sedins-Naslund line, lord know what's going happen to our team when one of them gets injured or Luongo gets injured...
I'll put much of the blame to Nonis, lots of bad signing and managing our salary cap. I have no idea why we didnt re-sign Burke in the first place...
Things are not looking too good for the Canucks right now, when you look at the standing it doesnt look too bad... the NW Division is pretty tight but Calgary and Colorado has a few games in hand and we also can't win against our divisional opponent and if we continue our scoring slumps there's no way we're going to make the playoff. We need some changes fast!
Anyway make sure you guys vote RORY FITPATRICK! This goal by him should motivate you to vote!
Remember you can vote as many times as you want! :) |
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