donlever wrote: ↑Wed Jan 14, 2026 5:55 pm Waddya mean Czech scouts RG?

I meant that they picked 2 Czechs with the first 3 picks, having forgotten that Nedved played a season in Seattle.

I have no issues with the Nedved pick, tbh. I've told this story here before...or maybe at Central...but me and the boyz were all in on Nedved. I did some fist pumps when Quinn announced NeddyVed at BC Place (I was there). The other picks that year I can only talk about now after internet research ...

Apparently it would be the first time in franchise history where we would have 3 first round pick (essentially) in a single draft. Indeed. We did have 3 of the top 23 in 1990 however. Made a hiccup or 2 there. I would argue 3 hiccups. I think just average choices, i.e. the simplest, safest ones ...

Sadly, I believe Mr Aquilini intends to leave this duo in charge of cleaning up their own mess. I get that it seems foolish to think that the people who created this mess can fix it. (Unless you're willing to buy that this is an extremely devious case of "managing up" to get the Little Eagles to ...

The good thing with a rebuild is cap space doesn't matter as much... It doesn't matter as much, but it still matters. It is useful to leave the management at least the option of taking on the last few years of someone else's version of an Eriksson / OEL contract in exchange for the assets they'd ...

https://www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/article/real-kypers-trade-board-2-0-rebuilding-the-vancouver-canucks/ I mostly agree with Kyprios' assessment of the Canucks situation, except: "The issue for Vancouver is that they also need a centre back in return. Besides top prospects and first-round picks, they ...

Good short summary, RG. We started with low expectations, and had much hight expectations for the post-Sedin era. It's just been so mismanaged. And let's not mention the the dreaded 'm-era' Mushiocrity ? I equate that with the post-2011 era. Or did you mean something else ? Messier. Ah ! Thank you ...

But it seems very unlikely that a fully developed adult suddenly found and expressed those kind of beliefs only after his cartooning career ended? It was the expression of those beliefs that ended his career, cartooning and otherwise. He became radioactive, and rightly so. It could have been there ...

I will add, if a team offers up 3 solid assets (top F prospect, decent top 6 forward and a first for Petey with no or minimal salary retention, I would still trade him) If the Canucks were offered a top prospect (at any position) and a first with no salary retention, I'd be disappointed if they ...

Later on, learning about the person and his politics... not a fan. You think he was like that the whole time, but just kept it under wraps? To me, it seemed a lot more like he rather suddenly went catastrophically off the rails, around about 2015. I note that he had a couple of neurological ...

Sometimes, I wonder, could McKenna be a good winger for F Petey? If they could somehow pry Olivier out of Columbus. McKenna - EP40 - Thug Wouldn't mind that line at all. Finding a bottom 6 winger thug who can play every night is a must this team. That's one of the great things about a re-build (if ...

Cornuck wrote: ↑Tue Jan 13, 2026 6:11 pm Good short summary, RG. We started with low expectations, and had much hight expectations for the post-Sedin era. It's just been so mismanaged.

And let's not mention the the dreaded 'm-era'

Mushiocrity ?

I equate that with the post-2011 era. Or did you mean something else ?

Dilbert never was funny... Disagree. Dilbert was sometime hilarious (often very darkly, admittedly) and frequently very clever. I think Adams' particular version of going crazy was just a software glitch that sometimes creeps into people as they age, and the process of fully rebooting a human is ...

Twins as Asst. GMs. Prez: Shanahan GM: Johnson A.GM: Twins The League being the old-boys club that it is, you need someone with a hockey pedigree in the front office, or the other GMs won't even pick up the phone. Within that limitation, the Sedins seem to me like smartest people to have been ...

I'm curious to know if you would agree with me that this is the worst era in franchise history. Everything from expansion to '82 was pretty lame, and '82 was just a blip. But it wasn't discouraging, because expansion expectations were low, and everybody had a different team to cheer for while they ...