micky107 wrote: ↑Wed Jun 26, 2019 12:22 am
Diehard1 wrote: ↑Tue Jun 25, 2019 10:19 pm
My guess is this year is another non playoff season and we make a better push for it next year, obviously subject to future moves Jimbo is working on.
Benning will be out.
Green will be out.
A better push than last year isn't saying much/enough.
It's all or nothing this year. The improved, friendlier schedule will help as much as anything.
The team needed another top 6 forward and , ( although judging by his radio interview he aint impressed and didn't see it coming),
JT Miller should by X-mas, be making a major contribution.
Still actually need someone else to come in,(or a current player to pick up the pace), in the top 6, to make the Canucks a real challenger,
offensively.
A mega contract to Myers in FA might do FA. Not my first choice to "rectify the back end".
6 million for 4 years with a modified no trade is, (to the nth degree), as far as a contract offer should be.
By the way, did I mention, that we will still need yet "ANOTHER" defensive upgrade along with that. (or a promise from Chris Tanev
that he will play no less than 75 games at his best or he will donate his entire year's salary to the Canuck's Christmas fund).
DID YOU KNOW; The St, Louis Blues came from last place to win the Stanley Cup.
If that's the criteria, playoffs or bust, then Frankie should have already either extended Jimbo or fired him. You don't manage for 1 year and saving your own hide, you manage to make your team better year in, year out.
I fully agree this team will not be better just by adding Myers - he's a decent dman about to be overpaid, but he's not that much of an upgrade on his own. Miller will help as well, but there's still weakness on the second line on the wing, an uncertain 3rd line, a black hole on offense on the 4th line and nowhere near enough offense on the back end. Tanev being healthy likely isn't enough as he hasn't been much more than a #4 dman the last couple of years, he's really slowed down.
Without a major defensive upgrade, which would be Myers plus another top 4 guy, this team doesn't make the playoffs next year IMHO. The only caveat to that is if Petey scores 100 points and Brock 40 goals perhaps that's enough to squeeze in, I just don't think that's likely.