The Rebuild™ - looking ahead to 26-27
Posted: Thu May 21, 2026 8:58 am
Time to close out the 'Tanking' thread and start looking ahead to what next season might bring.
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Re: The Rebuild™ - looking ahead to 26-27
Posted: Thu May 21, 2026 9:43 am
A re-opening of the 'Tanking' thread.
Re: The Rebuild™ - looking ahead to 26-27
Posted: Thu May 21, 2026 9:48 am
With a little spin from the marketing department
Re: The Rebuild™ - looking ahead to 26-27
Posted: Thu May 21, 2026 11:46 am
I’d like some IP credit for this one…..
Re: The Rebuild™ - looking ahead to 26-27
Posted: Thu May 21, 2026 12:12 pm
I fucking hate tanking
Re: The Rebuild™ - looking ahead to 26-27
Posted: Thu May 21, 2026 12:48 pm
yeah rebuild the tank.Re: The Rebuild™ - looking ahead to 26-27
Posted: Thu May 21, 2026 1:01 pm
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.
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.
Re: The Rebuild™ - looking ahead to 26-27
Posted: Thu May 21, 2026 1:13 pm
Autonomous tanking. Slap LiDAR on it and let it roll on its own.
The lotto balls will Land on Dupont.
Re: The Rebuild™ - looking ahead to 26-27
Posted: Thu May 21, 2026 2:57 pm
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.
Re: The Rebuild™ - looking ahead to 26-27
Posted: Thu May 21, 2026 3:00 pm
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.
Re: The Rebuild™ - looking ahead to 26-27
Posted: Thu May 21, 2026 3:05 pm
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.
Re: The Rebuild™ - looking ahead to 26-27
Posted: Thu May 21, 2026 3:10 pm
Re: The Rebuild™ - looking ahead to 26-27
Posted: Thu May 21, 2026 3:10 pm
RG forgetting about EP. He's about as tanky as it gets!Ronning's Ghost wrote: ↑Thu May 21, 2026 3:00 pm 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.
Not to mention we have a guy named Tankinen.
Our players are all in for the better good it seems!
Re: The Rebuild™ - looking ahead to 26-27
Posted: Thu May 21, 2026 3:27 pm
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.Ronning's Ghost wrote: ↑Thu May 21, 2026 3:00 pmYeah, 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.
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.
Re: The Rebuild™ - looking ahead to 26-27
Posted: Thu May 21, 2026 4:23 pm