The Rebuild™ - looking ahead to 26-27

[Cornuck]

Time to close out the 'Tanking' thread and start looking ahead to what next season might bring.

[Carl Yagro]

A re-opening of the 'Tanking' thread.

[Cornuck]

A re-opening of the 'Tanking' thread.

With a little spin from the marketing department

[Meds]

I’d like some IP credit for this one…..

[Topper]

I fucking hate tanking

[Cookie La Rue]

yeah rebuild the tank.

[Aaronp18]

We won't need to actively tank next season, we just won't be good.

Top 3 pick 2 years in a row here we come!

If we are going to win a lotto next year would be the one to win IMO.

[Carl Yagro]

yeah rebuild the tank.

We won't need to actively tank next season, we just won't be good.

Autonomous tanking. Slap LiDAR on it and let it roll on its own.

The lotto balls will Land on Dupont.

[Topper]

We won't need to actively tank next season, we just won't be good.

Top 3 pick 2 years in a row here we come!

If we are going to win a lotto next year would be the one to win IMO.

A healthy Demko, resurgent Scooter, Letterkenny, Cootes and 3rd OA along with Zeev, Willander, Karlson and Raty

Canucks are off to the promised land, or so some senile incontinent geriatric told us.

[Ronning's Ghost]

I fucking hate tanking

We won't need to actively tank next season, we just won't be good.

Yeah, just to clarify, the players can't tank -- they always have to be striving to be their best, although the focus can be on ultimately becoming the best players they can be, rather than the score in this particular game. But on the basis of the "take one shift at a time" cliche, they always need to be trying to have the best shift they can have.

The coaches can tank a little bit, in as much as they might ice a roster and allot ice-time with a mind to development, rather than winning. I hope this conversation is part of the interview process, and whomever they hire understands his job in this respect. But they always have to coach good habits and "playing the right way".

Management absolutely can, and should, tank. They should ensure that the available talent will be playing up-tempo, exciting hockey, leaving it all on the ice, and only winning by occasional runs of advantageous bounces. So, for example, it would be great if Demko really did return to form next season, but if he did, the Canucks should exploit that good fortune by flipping him for re-build assets, rather than letting good goaltending paper over any flaws and inflate their win rate.

I am going to hope that the fans will get that, and buy tickets to watch a group of plucky, hard-working young players lose, thereby encouraging the Little Eagles to stay the course for as long as necessary.

[2Fingers]

We won't need to actively tank next season, we just won't be good.

Top 3 pick 2 years in a row here we come!

If we are going to win a lotto next year would be the one to win IMO.

A healthy Demko, resurgent Scooter, Letterkenny, Cootes and 3rd OA along with Zeev, Willander, Karlson and Raty

Canucks are off to the promised land, or so some senile incontinent geriatric told us.

Actually a healthy Demko alone would mean enough for the team to be several positions higher and then through in a resurgent EP who gets 80 - 100 points could then mean this team is 20ish in the league. The goaltending was just brutal last year.

But I do not expect a 50 game season from Demko and EP is just done so we don't have to worry about that.

I see a bottom 5 team but maybe not 32nd.

[UWSaint]

I see a bottom 5 team but maybe not 32nd.

Agree with your analysis.

[Aaronp18]

Yeah, just to clarify, the players can't tank -- they always have to be striving to be their best, although the focus can be on ultimately becoming the best players they can be, rather than the score in this particular game. But on the basis of the "take one shift at a time" cliche, they always need to be trying to have the best shift they can have.

RG forgetting about EP. He's about as tanky as it gets!

Not to mention we have a guy named Tankinen.

Our players are all in for the better good it seems!

[UWSaint]

I fucking hate tanking

We won't need to actively tank next season, we just won't be good.

Yeah, just to clarify, the players can't tank -- they always have to be striving to be their best, although the focus can be on ultimately becoming the best players they can be, rather than the score in this particular game. But on the basis of the "take one shift at a time" cliche, they always need to be trying to have the best shift they can have.

The coaches can tank a little bit, in as much as they might ice a roster and allot ice-time with a mind to development, rather than winning. I hope this conversation is part of the interview process, and whomever they hire understands his job in this respect. But they always have to coach good habits and "playing the right way".

Management absolutely can, and should, tank. They should ensure that the available talent will be playing up-tempo, exciting hockey, leaving it all on the ice, and only winning by occasional runs of advantageous bounces. So, for example, it would be great if Demko really did return to form next season, but if he did, the Canucks should exploit that good fortune by flipping him for re-build assets, rather than letting good goaltending paper over any flaws and inflate their win rate.

I am going to hope that the fans will get that, and buy tickets to watch a group of plucky, hard-working young players lose, thereby encouraging the Little Eagles to stay the course for as long as necessary.

Completely agree. When the Sedins said “compete,” they weren’t talking about winning games, they were talking about playing like your job depends on it every night.

And it’s why the coaching semi tank needs to be as you describe. It is allocating ice to develop, giving youth chances they wouldn’t otherwise have. It’s evenly splitting pp time between units 1 and 2. If player “x” is a virgin on the pk but they want to give him a dozen games to see what he’s made of, it’s just fine if it costs 2 games. If it’s giving Sasson and Sushi and Buium and Mancini ice in the last 45 seconds of the third with a one goal lead, great! Getting the trials to build that skill is way more valuable than the points.

[Topper]

Completely agree. When the Sedins said “compete,” they weren’t talking about winning games, they were talking about playing like your job depends on it every night.

Which is exactly what Benning said heading into his "retool".

oh the semantics