Canucks News and Notes

[Hockey Widow]

If Healthy I'd like to see:

Sedin/Sedin/Burrows
/Bonino/Vrbata
Matthias/Richardson/Kassian
Hansen/Horvat/Kenins

Just missing a top six winger

[SKYO]

If Healthy I'd like to see:

Sedin/Sedin/Burrows
_____/Bonino/Vrbata
Matthias/Richardson/Kassian
Hansen/Horvat/Kenins

Just missing a top six winger

I see us getting 28 yr old Matt Read, injury prone but he's healthy this season and last, has a reasonable cap hit and is signed through till 2018.

Decent Flyers article about trading vs keeping Read..
http://www.broadstreethockey.com/2015/2 ... -matt-read

Jeff Skinner is a buy low situation right now, then of course there is Loui Eriksson but he's only signed for one more year.

Then there's the uber expensive sniper Kessel, who is actually available, but yeah that would cost us obviously a lot.

[vic]

If Healthy I'd like to see:

Sedin/Sedin/Burrows
_____/Bonino/Vrbata
Matthias/Richardson/Kassian
Hansen/Horvat/Kenins

Then there's the uber expensive sniper Kessel, who is actually available, but yeah that would cost us obviously a lot.

I'll probably get blasted for this, but I'm going to say it anyway.

If Benning could get TO to retain salary (say 3mil) and it doesn't cost the likes of Horvat, Kassian, Virtanen, McCann, Tanev, 1st round picks, I'd consider it.

A 4 mil/year Kessel is good value, the guy knows how to put the puck in the next, would help the PP, wouldn't be labelled as leader on the team - no pressure situation. Just go out there and score goals, something this team always needs every post season. Sure, he's a defensive liability, but all of TO is a defensive liability, including the defense. He's expected to do it all in there, there are enough role players on the Canucks to pick up the slack.

Hank - Dank - Vrbata - Kessel - DMAN - 1st unit PP

He's getting 18-19 mins/game in TO, under Dejardins, his ice time would be somewhere in the neighborhood of 16 mins/game, more manageable.

[ukcanuck]

If Healthy I'd like to see:

Sedin/Sedin/Burrows
_____/Bonino/Vrbata
Matthias/Richardson/Kassian
Hansen/Horvat/Kenins

Then there's the uber expensive sniper Kessel, who is actually available, but yeah that would cost us obviously a lot.

I'll probably get blasted for this, but I'm going to say it anyway.

If Benning could get TO to retain salary (say 3mil) and it doesn't cost the likes of Horvat, Kassian, Virtanen, McCann, Tanev, 1st round picks, I'd consider it.

A 4 mil/year Kessel is good value, the guy knows how to put the puck in the next, would help the PP, wouldn't be labelled as leader on the team - no pressure situation. Just go out there and score goals, something this team always needs every post season. Sure, he's a defensive liability, but all of TO is a defensive liability, including the defense. He's expected to do it all in there, there are enough role players on the Canucks to pick up the slack.

Hank - Dank - Vrbata - Kessel - DMAN - 1st unit PP

He's getting 18-19 mins/game in TO, under Dejardins, his ice time would be somewhere in the neighborhood of 16 mins/game, more manageable.

For that we would have give up draft picks... not sure I would want the lazy mentality he would bring anyway

[Cousin Strawberry]

If Benning trades for Kessel I'm done cheering for the stinky whale

[Meds]

If Benning trades for Kessel I'm done cheering for the stinky whale

Yup. That would be an automatic non-starter for season ticket renewal for me too.

[ClamRussel]

If Healthy I'd like to see:

Sedin/Sedin/Burrows
Vrbata/Bonino/Kassian
Hansen/Horvat/Kenins
Dorsett/Richardson/Matthias

Just missing a top six winger

We've got a top 6 winger w/ 10pts in 10 games. Where's Dorsett in your mix? Fixed.

Roll 'em.

[Hockey Widow]

If Healthy I'd like to see:

Sedin/Sedin/Burrows
Vrbata/Bonino/Kassian
Hansen/Horvat/Kenins
Dorsett/Richardson/Matthias

Just missing a top six winger

We've got a top 6 winger w/ 10pts in 10 games. Where's Dorsett in your mix? Fixed.

Roll 'em.

Oh wow, I did forget him. The wild card in that, imho, is Bonino. I like his defensive game, usually, he does have a great shot, and he is coming off the injury, but we need him to step up more offensively, assists will do.

I like your line up. Vrbata and Bonino, usually, are sound defensively. I think this will help Kassian.

[Arachnid]

If Benning trades for Kessel I'm done cheering for the stinky whale

Yup. That would be an automatic non-starter for season ticket renewal for me too.

Fickle is as fickle does.

[Topper]

Let there be tuna

[Cousin Strawberry]

Fuck that...Kessel would destroy our team...

I'd tune back in when they ditched the cancer

Bring on the trial

[Arachnid]

Fuck that...Kessel would destroy our team...

I'd tune back in when they ditched the cancer

Bring on the trial

You have been judged to be a Bandwagon Fan

Practicing conditional love for ones hockey team without a tattoo of their mascot on your buttocks.

Do not pass the puck, do not sell your tickets on Kijijijijijijiji.

You have been sentenced to 1 year of probation wearing a stinky whale jersey

[Tciso]

I like where u are going. Maybe the girls scraping the ice should all be sporting Whale Tails.

[Cousin Strawberry]

Fuck that...Kessel would destroy our team...

I'd tune back in when they ditched the cancer

Bring on the trial

You have been judged to be a Bandwagon Fan

Practicing conditional love for ones hockey team without a tattoo of their mascot on your buttocks.

Do not pass the puck, do not sell your tickets on Kijijijijijijiji.

You have been sentenced to 1 year of probation wearing a stinky whale jersey

If my punishment is wearing Megan Fox's tits covered in whaler shirt...I'm guilt as charged!

[Jovocop]

Clutterbuck or Marchand, who is the worst?

http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2015 ... -on-sedin/

Report: NHL investigated alleged Clutterbuck spit on Sedin

Per TSN, the Vancouver Canucks asked the NHL to look into a potential spitting incident involving Islanders forward Cal Clutterbuck and Vancouver’s Daniel Sedin, stemming from a goalmouth scrum during the Canucks’ 4-0 win on Long Island Sunday.

From Darren Dreger, on Insider Trading:

“The video evidence here doesn’t show anything, but the Canucks just wanted the league to take a close look. The league did. There was blood everywhere, it was a dangerous situation, but the league found no evidence that any of this took place.

“So as far as the National Hockey League is concerned, it’s case closed.”

There’s no video available of the alleged incident, but Sunday’s game was a chippy affair with Clutterbuck occasionally in the mix. The gritty forward didn’t receive any penalties during the game but did take a swipe at the Vancouver bench late in the third period: