Canucks News N Notes 26-27

[Aaronp18]

Just noticed on the socials that RJ Celebrini is draft eligible in 2030.

Do we have someone in the front office finally playing chess?

[Nuckertuzzi]

If he's eligible in 2030 he'd have to be projected after 10 for us to have a shot at him, provided NYR gives up the pick that year.

If so, it's like the stars are aligned for equilibrium in the Nuckerverse.

We draft the youngest brother of three with one already in the system and hopefully on the team if all goes well by then. The best of the three wishes to join his bros when his next contract is up, which will be a while but worth the wait if a trade can't get it done sooner.

A familiar scenario where this time we are the benefactors and not the victims.

It's just too good. I mean, can "RJ" be a better omen? Not to mention getting the pick from NYR of all teams with the whole JT Miller fiasco that helped spawn the chain of events that lead us here. And of course it has to be Marcus Pettersson that goes back (only thing more perfect maybe would've been the other Pettersson).

It's all aligned so perfectly, it's meant to be. Fits my 8 year timeline for a Cup .

[Picker of Cherries]

The JT Miller trade chain is going to get long. I always like a good trade chain. I think the Canucks win the trade now with the 2030 1st rounder.

Miller ……………………1st Rounder………..Meaty………….1st Rounder (2030)………….?
Dorrington ……………Mancini
Brannstrom ………….Chytil

Miller will be in the last year of his contract by 2030. Can’t see him back checking at all by then.
Rags will suck bad if he is still on the team. My guess is the Canucks will get the unprotected 3031 pick.

The Canucks have already completed their scouting.
“With the 1st (Rags) and 2nd (Nucks) overall picks in the 2031 draft the Vancouver Canucks are proud to select Daniel and Lucas Hansen.” Twin Honey Badgers!

[Cousin Strawberry]

It's quite shocking to see how far JT Miller's game has cratered. He was a helluva player for Van before "the troubles"

[Lancer]

It's quite shocking to see how far JT Miller's game has cratered. He was a helluva player for Van before "the troubles"

I don’t think even Miller understood then how much he needed a coach like Tocchet. The extreme opposite of the Dickless Swede but the same amount of coaching time and effort to get his head screwed-on right.

It really makes you wonder how the team achieved what they did that one season under Tocchet. What a mirage that was. In fact, “mirage” would describe that core to a ‘T’.

[Nuckertuzzi]

Goaltending wasn't a mirage. Not that great goaltending alone can make an average team great but it had a lot to do with the success of that team. Just a damn shame we could never count on the health and what could've been if we could've seen 'Bubble Demko' against the Oil and possibly beyond.

But I agree that team was too overrated to do anything special beyond that.

[Hockey Widow]

Bluger on his last season with the Canucks:

“I think about the importance of team cohesion and culture — what makes a team tick, and what makes guys come together to play at their best. The goal for any team is to find that balance where players care about each other enough to sacrifice themselves for the good of the team, and figuring out how to get everyone on the same page.

“Something I took for granted early in my career in Pittsburgh, with Sid setting the tone, was practice habits: the discipline of showing up on time, and being respectful to each other, the trainers, and the staff. When you take each thing on its own, it seems like a small thing. But when you add them all up, it creates an environment within the facility that is huge. It has to be a positive environment where everyone can be themselves and come to work every day excited and upbeat, instead of down or in a negative mindset. That makes all the difference.

“It’s just little things like that, and finding ways to navigate them. I think that’s the kind of stuff you carry with you your whole life, even past your hockey career.”

This is similar to what Schenn had to say about a winning culture. What sticks out from both of them is the emphasis on liking each other and wanting to be around each other.