Re: 2025-26 OOTS: Playoffs Edition
Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2026 11:32 pm
Cuz’s boy Myers never quit on a puck…..even if it meant putting it into his own net.
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Re: 2025-26 OOTS: Playoffs Edition
Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2026 11:49 pm
Nah, that never happened.
Miller couldn't even get DeSmith out of the net for the extra attacker.
Re: 2025-26 OOTS: Playoffs Edition
Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2026 5:09 am
The gangle of the dangle is equal to or greater than the neck to torso ratio of the perpetrator of the purported puck fuck-upMëds wrote: ↑Mon Apr 20, 2026 11:32 pmCuz’s boy Myers never quit on a puck…..even if it meant putting it into his own net.
Re: 2025-26 OOTS: Playoffs Edition
Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2026 9:07 am
That might be my favorite Canuck moment in the past few years. Just gold!Carl Yagro wrote: ↑Mon Apr 20, 2026 11:49 pmNah, that never happened.
Miller couldn't even get DeSmith out of the net for the extra attacker.
Re: 2025-26 OOTS: Playoffs Edition
Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2026 10:16 am
It sure would have been nice to have drafted Boldy or Caufield instead of Podz. Hindsight is 20/20 and all, but I was following USA hockey pretty closely at the time and thought both of these guys looked like they had it. (Zegras, too, but not Turcotte as much, strange he was taken before the others....)Nuckertuzzi wrote: ↑Mon Apr 20, 2026 10:50 pm Ironic these are the best two examples of the current regime trying to correct their predecessor’s mistakes.
Cost previous regime a 3rd rounder to acquire JD. Cost current a 2nd rounder to get rid of him.
Cost previous regime a 10th OA pick to select VP. Current acquires a 4th rounder to get rid of him, only to give it back to get EK.
At the end of the day…
We currently have zero players or assets to show for both guys at the total cost of
A 1st, a 2nd, and a 3rd.
But I think the verdict is out on whether or Pod was the wrong player or in the wrong organization -- and the critical time for his development, that was a JR-as-Prez organization. Fact is that Podz in his rookie season showed flashes and then regressed, and yet even at the time of the trade, he was at the very least worth a roster spot. He didn't Tockey, or at least that was Tocchet's judgment. And ultimately, Podz is sold at the bottom -- they could have made the decision he wasn't working out sooner and got more for him; or they could have said he's not the top 6 we wanted but he can have a spot on the team. (But Sprong!)
As for Dickinson, let's look at the the fact that the Blackhawks gave him a raise after the contract he signed with the Canucks was done and then got a first when he was moved out (though to be fair there was more to the move). Point is, there was more to JD that Benning captured in the initial evaluation of his game (worth a 3d? sure) than how he performed during a rocky campaign of two coaches and two GMs. The Canucks again sold low, presumably because JR and PA wanted to add the complements they wanted when they wanted (umm, Mikayev).
Both JD and Schmidt have hinted at Vancouver being dysfunctional -- claims that I think you have to discount in real time because they both played poorly compared to expectations (and Schmidt has never really returned to what he was), but claims that are curious in retrospect because you wonder if they are the exact same problems as would ultimately tank the "Petey-Miller-Hughes-Boeser-Horvat*" era.