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Re: Past Canuck Players

Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2026 5:56 pm
by donlever
Ha...no...that was later that same year (I think) when Gino decided to beat up Thomas Steen lol....

Re: Past Canuck Players

Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2026 8:22 pm
by Hockey Widow
So is it true that Evander Kane has signed in the KHL. His agent, reportedly, said he had numerous NHL offers but none were good enough so Evander is taking his game to the K.

Re: Past Canuck Players

Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2026 8:58 pm
by Lancer
Good place for that PoS. They’ll love him out there.

Re: Past Canuck Players

Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2026 11:45 am
by Per

Re: Past Canuck Players

Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2026 4:23 pm
by Tciso
Per wrote: ↑Thu Nov 12, 2026 11:45 am Höglander with a beauty! :)

https://youtu.be/5ME9CWHUfc4?is=tdXJ_SefSqfO_BV0
Quick. Let's trade Cootes for a 4th before he breaks out too.

TNFG

Re: Past Canuck Players

Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2026 8:26 pm
by Meds
Tciso wrote: ↑Thu Nov 12, 2026 4:23 pm
Per wrote: ↑Thu Nov 12, 2026 11:45 am Höglander with a beauty! :)

https://youtu.be/5ME9CWHUfc4?is=tdXJ_SefSqfO_BV0
Quick. Let's trade Cootes for a 4th before he breaks out too.

TNFG
9 points in 19 games.

If he hadn't scored that one it would have been 8 in 19 and he would have looked like a retard for trying that.

Re: Past Canuck Players

Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2026 9:19 am
by Lancer
Mëds wrote: ↑Thu Nov 12, 2026 8:26 pm
Tciso wrote: ↑Thu Nov 12, 2026 4:23 pm
Per wrote: ↑Thu Nov 12, 2026 11:45 am Höglander with a beauty! :)

https://youtu.be/5ME9CWHUfc4?is=tdXJ_SefSqfO_BV0
Quick. Let's trade Cootes for a 4th before he breaks out too.

TNFG
9 points in 19 games.

If he hadn't scored that one it would have been 8 in 19 and he would have looked like a retard for trying that.
Taking a different angle, and noting that Bains has a whopping 4 points so far himself, which is more valuable to the club at present - Hoglander or Bains and a 4th? Hoglander costs more, but with the cap being what it is, it's a distinction without much of a difference.

Hoglander wouldn't move the needle much, but no one can tell me he isn't an upgrade on Bains. Maybe he wasn't so good a fit in the room moving forward? Maybe it was a case of Hoglander just wanting out for the sake of increased opportunity he may have felt he was owed? The numbers don't really speak to unrealized potential, though.

Re: Past Canuck Players

Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2026 12:21 pm
by donlever
I don't give 2 sweet fucks about Hoglander either way and once (if) we ever achieve anything he'd be long gone regardless.

But Lancer is right.

He's better than Bains.

Another money saving play (allegedly) by AIG is all dispensing with Hoglander represents.

Re: Past Canuck Players

Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2026 12:53 pm
by Hockey Widow
They had Hoglander down in Abbey for almost a year. You gotta think there was something about him or his game they didn't like. But I was shocked they dumped him for a 4th and made that one of their first moves.

Re: Past Canuck Players

Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2026 1:46 pm
by Lancer
Hockey Widow wrote: ↑Fri Nov 13, 2026 12:53 pm They had Hoglander down in Abbey for almost a year. You gotta think there was something about him or his game they didn't like. But I was shocked they dumped him for a 4th and made that one of their first moves.
Hoglander being in Abby that long, Manny & Co. no doubt had their read on him. Foote and Tocchet had enough of him, but was it just them who didn't like the cut of Hoglander's gib? Must have been something they didn't like.

Water under the bridge now, and it's not like the team would have any more wins with Hoglander than with Bains. Plays may have died just as much with the puck on Hoglander's stick as they have on Bains' stick - it just may have been entertaining to watch than seeing Bains look overmatched in the NHL.

But like Leves says, Bains is easier on AIG's pocketbook for what that's worth. :|

Re: Past Canuck Players

Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2026 4:01 pm
by Ronning's Ghost
Lancer wrote: ↑Fri Nov 13, 2026 1:46 pm Bains is easier on AIG's pocketbook for what that's worth. :|
Could that be how whichever of TFGs sold the Little Eagles on a real rebuild? Three years of cost savings to see them to the other end of the lean times in their main business?

Re: Past Canuck Players

Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2026 9:11 pm
by Cousin Strawberry
Ronning's Ghost wrote: ↑Fri Nov 13, 2026 4:01 pm
Lancer wrote: ↑Fri Nov 13, 2026 1:46 pm Bains is easier on AIG's pocketbook for what that's worth. :|
Could that be how whichever of TFGs sold the Little Eagles on a real rebuild? Three years of cost savings to see them to the other end of the lean times in their main business?
100% this right here. Ghetto AF