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Originally Posted by old-fart
Wow, that Nucks team is going nowhere but down. They barely beat the third worst team in the league, needing a shoot out to do it. If they manage to hang on to 7 or 8 place, they will likely be another 4 straight games and done team.
They are just bad at hockey and trending down. I hope they sell the farm hard for the playoff push, then fail miserably yet again.
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The Canucks are at a point where they can't rely on the offence to win. No matter how you look at their offensive depth for the future, they're in tight and can't stand 3-4 more years of aging even with the revelation of Santorelli and revivals of Higgins/Kesler. The Sedins are at the end of the line for offensively carrying the load, Burrows has vanished to nothing, Booth is an unmitigated disaster of a trade, and all the aforementioned bonuses are going to lose their ability to play in a few years.
Their defence may hold on past that, as the D can learn to play without the necessity of speed, but the change needs to be to play defence first.
Like the Flames under the waning years of Iginla and Kipruosff, the Canucks need to make a choice of rebuild now or take a couple more hard runs at the playoffs. They'll be trending to older and crappier, but they'll get their attempts in.
I think Gillis will follow Sutter's suit.