Lancer wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2026 4:51 pm
Sad thing is I think consensus is Trev was right.
TWR. Always was.
Even if they toss Allvin overboard, I don't see the two clowns being able to handle the necessary, full rebuild.
They'll declare the rebuild complete by trading most of the assets accumulated in this and next year for vets in 2028 to go into win now mode. Guaranteed.
If you declare a rebuild done, then it's done, right?? I mean, works for presidents and military campaigns, right??
Consensus reality is soooo overrated - especially when you can hold a fanbase hostage with your own.
Never thought I'd get excited about the World's, but the Lynn Valley boys together, plus Schaefer, are you kidding me?!? Sign me up for that all day, every day.
Hope they all choose to go. May also be interested in a couple of our kids should they get invites and go.
Oil fan friend of mine raved about Ryan Smyth being Captain Canada. I pointed out that he only had that role because the Oil team he lead was too shitty to make the playoffs
Over the Internet, you can pretend to be anyone or anything.
I'm amazed that so many people choose to be complete twats.
Topper wrote: ↑Sun Apr 19, 2026 7:33 pm
Never much a fan of the World's
Me neither. Stanley Cup for Euros vs NHL failures.
This one could be interesting tho. It's the golden age for local talent. North Van = Cole Harbour West. Gotta get behind our boys. (Just pisses me off to no end we coulda had one or both if Waternoodle committed to building something over chasing playoff dates).
And with Schaefer a good warm up preview for future Olympics/World Cups.
Yeah, I was going to be watching regardless mostly for the other crazy young talent on Canada. But can't lie it will be hard to if TO, Cal, or NYR win the lottery...even worse if McKenna shines.
Drafting and why do we suck....I will do this in 5 year spans and see what happens so I'm not wasting my time.
1999
8 picks - 2 Sedins and the only other choice of note is Vydarney selected 3rd round @ 69th o/a
2000
7 picks in this order - Nathan Smith Thatcher Bell Tim Branham Pavel Duma Brandon Reid (Central debates lol) Nathan Barrett Tim Smith
*gross
2001
6 picks - Umberger (never played a game for us) Fedorov (more Central debates) Evgeny Gladskikh (wtf) Bieksa in 5th Jason King in 7th Konstantin Mikhailov
*clearly Bieksa a great value pick and we got some short term decent service out of King
2002
10 picks - Kirilenko Koltsov Dennis Grot Brett Skinner Lucas Mensator John Laliberte Rob McVicar Marc-Andre Roy Ilya Krikunov Mark Violin Thomas Nussli
*horrific
2003
10 picks - Kesler Marc-Andre Bernier Brandon Nolan Ty Morris Niklas Danielsson Chad Brownlee Francois Guenette Sergei Topol Nathan McVicar Matthew Hansen
*hit on Kes...the rest...horrific
So..in summary....41 picks...Sedins were obvious so no wow theyre good at finding talent cred there..
...after that Bieksa was a solid 5th round pick....King provided value at 7...Umberger never played a game for us and we traded he (a 16th o/a pick ffs) and Grenier for a 32 y/o Martin fucking Rucinksy who played all of 20 games for us with 2 G & 3 A
Kesler a good pick @ 23 but also in what may be the one of the deepest drafts ever.
1999 - 2003
Outside of Burke doing a solid job in acquiring picks for the obvious twins selection and the hit on Bieksa late.
donlever wrote: ↑Sun Jun 07, 2026 8:59 am
Drafting and why do we suck....I will do this in 5 year spans and see what happens so I'm not wasting my time.
…
Outside of Burke doing a solid job in acquiring picks for the obvious twins selection and the hit on Bieksa late.
Not.
Fucking.
Good.
I read this while watching the award ceremony for my kids’ regional swim meet. It’s a good thing my son scored some hardware or that would have been the worst 5 minutes in recent memory.
FFS.
I’ll add more thoughts later (Just saying so Donny doesn’t feel like he’s wasting his time).
Somewhere in NW BC trying (yet again) to trade a(nother) Swede…..
