ESQ wrote:The Kings are an outlier in many respects - which is why I was so shocked that they were able to repeat!
Two cups, and haven't won the Division since 1990/91! Won the Cup as 8th-seed!
Their window was similar to the Canucks, though it came after missing the playoffs for 7 years.
The obvious difference is they won it all in their window, where we came oh-so-close.
One thing LA had in both its championships was unreal health/durability. They went on deep playoff runs with a full, healthy roster and managed to not lose anyone to injury.
But now, I suppose we can take solace in the fact that we have one more playoff win in the past 3 seasons than the Kings do
Helped Lombardi targeted the right players that can score goals (carter/williams/richards (gagne 2012, gaborik 2014) after they had a big solid top 6 defense and a goalie in the zone, their defense had unreal synergy that perfectly worked together to help Quick, who had mindfucked all the teams/fans with his stellar performances.
And more importantly they had age correct players for 2012-2014, their team was built with mass and size, built for the playoffs, all coached by the hard working blue collar farmboy Sutter.
Kings top 6 mass: Brown (216lbs), Carter (217lbs), Kopitar (224lbs)
Pearson (204lbs) Toffoli (201lbs)
depth: King (229lbs) Clifford (211lbs), Nolan (219lbs), 2012 Penner (242lbs).
Most of their dmen were all big boys.
Now about Vancouver, the only players with some mass up front on the Canucks is Horvat and our bottom six depth: Gaunce and Virtanen.
Most of our forwards are all under 200lbs including Dorsett at 192lbs
, so it's no wonder this team gets injured a lot.
Chiarelli first thing he did was get mass on his team, Maroon (for a prospect + pick), Larsson (hall), Lucic (ufa), Kassian (scrivens).
Benning has to start doing this now, he's been after small skilled players so much now, Dahlen, Goldobin, Granlund, Baertschi, eriksson/sutter both in 190's lbs, he's been so focused on acquiring that perfect & proven power winger, he should lower his standards and just acquire a big fella who can score.
Can the Canucks just win a Cup within the next 5 years.