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We can only hope the trade turns out.

Admittedly, I haven’t watched a game in months, but if Mancini is the best piece to come back in the Miller deal, baldies got bent over.

BoS wrote: ↑Sat Mar 21, 2026 1:59 pm We can only hope the trade turns out.

Admittedly, I haven’t watched a game in months, but if Mancini is the best piece to come back in the Miller deal, baldies got bent over.

Well we did get DOC and M Patterson.

He did say best piece.

Meaty and The Plumbers are like the house band down at GM Place

Nice stuff from Buium here....

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWKw6ZGi ... E5bjFibA==

...for those that didn't see the game.

Thanks - missed the game, but nice to see that there was at least one bright moment.

Sad that the best players on the ice were the Minnesota cast-offs.

Lancer wrote: ↑Sun Mar 22, 2026 10:15 am Sad that the best players on the ice were the Minnesota cast-offs.

I don't think that "cast-offs" is a reasonable characterization when the players were Minnesota's 3 highest draft picks since 2020.

I think that fans who hope for the Canuck re-build to yield playoff-relevant hockey in less than 6 years also have to hope that at least once of these players can become part of the Canucks' new core.

Ronning's Ghost wrote: ↑Sun Mar 22, 2026 2:10 pm

Lancer wrote: ↑Sun Mar 22, 2026 10:15 am Sad that the best players on the ice were the Minnesota cast-offs.

I don't think that "cast-offs" is a reasonable characterization when the players were Minnesota's 3 highest draft picks since 2020.

I think that fans who hope for the Canuck re-build to yield playoff-relevant hockey in less than 6 years also have to hope that at least once of these players can become part of the Canucks' new core.

They're cast-offs in that the closest player of consequence was, at best, their 2C this season. Rossi was the only player of the three who moved the needle in terms of production and playing time in Minnesota. They were deemed expendable when it came to getting Hughes - it's not like it was a Kaprizov for Hughes trade. Minnesota is a playoff team who think they are in a window of contention; none of these players were going to be significant parts of the team this year - Rossi's ice time was noticeably down in the playoffs last year - so their biggest value to the organization evidently was as trade chips for players better than they were - no matter what round Rossi, Ohgren and Buium were picked.

They may all turn into something down the road. Crazier things have happened. If nothing else, they're depth while the team drafts the core moving forward. Rossi is, at his floor, a placeholder in the top-6 while the organization drafts his replacement for when they contend. There's a plausible future where he can become perhaps more than that. Ohgren looks like a player. Buium has his moments. For this rebuild to take less than a decade, at least one of them has to "pop". Haven't seen any "pop" yet from any of them. There's still a bit of time left in their development curve for them to show it.

If the Baldies are still lucky enough to have their jobs by this time next year and none of these three spike in their development and make a case to be considered part of a core of a contending team, they should look elsewhere for work.

Sounds like a placeholder.

Lancer wrote: ↑Thu Mar 26, 2026 7:50 pm Sounds like a placeholder.

He's the age-gapper Benning failed to find.

https://youtu.be/O2kZiiib1lA?is=WcMUesU8VTxXZvAz
Herr Rossi

First game of playoffs...

Braden Cootes finished the night with two goals, one assist, six shots on goal, a plus-2 and went 12-for-19 in the faceoff circle.

After the game, Raiders head coach Ryan McDonald had high praise for his trade deadline acquisition. “He’s a game-breaker,” McDonald told Jason Kerr of the Prince Albert Herald. “You watch how he hunts, whether it’s on the forecheck (or) whether it’s on the track. He possesses pucks underneath, has just an absolute tremendous release, and got himself inside the dots for a couple of really good looks.”