Lancer wrote: ↑Mon Oct 13, 2025 5:05 pm Pettersson still looks a fraction off. The effort is encouraging, but his hands and head need some calibration.

If he's just getting used to his new playing weight, a quick calibration seems achievable.

I wish we kept Jonah Godjanovich. Which former coach of the Canucks was intimidated by his manliness? Elmer waived him. Decent draft pick by Elms But doesn't that just make it sting all the more? Sort of like a much less damaging version of Forsling? Wouldn't it be worse to realise years later that ...

donlever wrote: ↑Fri Oct 10, 2025 2:38 pm
Always liked Brian during both his tenures here.

Oooohhhh........

Now you're bringing up past Canuck GM performances, and Chef is my "Past GM Performance Thread Derailment Anonymous" sponsor.

Twitch, twitch.

Some here have said that if Silovs turns out to be the real deal, the Canucks will regret letting him go, and they will -- though I think their options were quite limited. But if Silovs turns out to be the real deal, far greater will be the regret in Edmonton for not making an offer the Canucks ...

From the "Around the League" thread: Roslovic to Oilers 1x1.5m Management will get a close up view on Saturday. Roslovic to Edmonton really isn't the important Oiler signing... The important signings were Ekholm (3 ys/$4M AAV) and Walman (7 ys/$7M AAV)... Holding serve -- or worse given ages -- is ...

Tried my best to get his name a few years ago… gave him all my info first hoping for reciprocity…. To no avail I even talked somewhere on the board about hoping everyone has a deadman’s switch in effect… because it’s not right for everyone to be left guessing… If there is a post about how to set tha ...

Doc has always been relentlessly optimistic about the Canucks' chances, so I will honour that optimism by pointing out -- without knowing any of the specifics of his health challenges -- that there are medical statuses that could last a couple of months, and would preclude posting or replying to ...

Silovs gets the start for opening night with the Pens. Good for him. He will get to see a lot of pucks. Lankinen was terrible cap management and terrible asset management. Best case scenario for proving me wrong is Demko can’t play (so a different bad deal….) and Lankinen provides decent goa ...

I might have made a boo boo with my Nashville prediction. I think they are in the McKenna race. I agree that we will start to see a doitht dip in Colorado’s game, they’ve had a good run. I just can’t get past the Canucks forward group. The more I look at it, the more concerned I get. 5 on 5 is a rea ...

So Rutherford has basically one year to ice a team with enough promise and hope that will interest the best player in franchise history into sticking around. That isn't happening with leadfoot Raty making the top 9...or a Pissed Off Joseph...or picking any other waiver wire weiners That path ...

donlever wrote: ↑Thu Oct 02, 2025 12:12 pm System talk is overblown imho RG.

Thanks for the insights, just the same.

Missed the game, saw the highlights. Calgary is not going to be a good team this year. They managed one goal on our backup, and it was only because Lankinen blew an edge and fell over after making an initial save. I think Dustin Wolf probably keeps the game closer. Raty's marker, Sasson's first ...

Go away for 6 months and EP goes from being discussed in the same sentence as Datsyuk to now Kaprizov. :P EP40 has the hands and can deke like Datsyuk, pass like Hank and shoot like Nasi. :D The only issue is that he has the bambi legs and doesn't have the lower body leg strength like Kaprizov, so ...

Willie Mitchell apparently in a less positive place than Anton Rodin. https://theprovince.com/news/tofino-woman-accuses-ex-canuck-willie-mitchell-sexual-assault-bc-lawsuit?taid=68de01909245a80001d4c2fa Her case sounds so weak. She admitted she was drunk and doesn't remember much. The crown refused ...

I give our guys a 50/50 chance to make the playoffs. Everything went wrong for us last seasons, but we only missed the playoffs by like 8 pts. Find a couple more wins and a few pts here and there and we would have made it. I think I'll be optimistic. Right now, I don't think we're as good as the ...