Vancouver is No Good 3

[Icantwhisper]

Originally Posted by dino7c

Yeah I have noticed the Oiler fans have disappeared and the Canuck fans that were missing the last couples seasons are coming back out of the woodwork for some reason.

If you want to be a decent member of this site post when times are good and bad or you just look like you are here to troll.

I don't think anyone is being a Canucks fan, just acknowledging they have made a couple moves that appear to be pretty good and it's paying off.
We can all hate on them as a team but pretending they suck doesn't make sense right now.
Failure to acknowledge teams you hate playing well can lead to a pretty distorted perception of reality.

[Boreal]

Originally Posted by Icantwhisper

I don't think anyone is being a Canucks fan, just acknowledging they have made a couple moves that appear to be pretty good and it's paying off.
We can all hate on them as a team but pretending they suck doesn't make sense right now.
Failure to acknowledge teams you hate playing well can lead to a pretty distorted perception of reality.

They still suck. The amount of picks & prospects they’ve wasted the last decade to FINALLY have a competitive group is laughable.

Last week it came out that Trevor Linden forced them to draft Petterson after whiffing on not taking Tkachuk.

Say what you want about recent success, but they have a worse owner than the Flames (which says something).

They have no cap space, and they’re all in this year to get Petterson to sign.

It’s all fools gold on their road to nowhere.

[GioforPM]

Originally Posted by Icantwhisper

I don't think anyone is being a Canucks fan, just acknowledging they have made a couple moves that appear to be pretty good and it's paying off.
We can all hate on them as a team but pretending they suck doesn't make sense right now.
Failure to acknowledge teams you hate playing well can lead to a pretty distorted perception of reality.

Take it to another thread.

[Blaster86]

Originally Posted by GioforPM

Take it to another thread.

And if I say no?!

[GioforPM]

Originally Posted by Blaster86

And if I say no?!

Then you are off topic. This is about how Vancouver is no good.

[Blaster86]

Originally Posted by GioforPM

Then you are off topic. This is about how Vancouver is no good.

I... Hmm. Yeah, that seems true. Damn.

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[TrentCrimmIndependent]

Originally Posted by ReinhartonD

After a while when they've sucked long enough and the stench of Kesler and company has faded, I think I can stomach them, and they have some entertaining players. They they win a few games and their idiot bandwagon fans swarm out of the sewers to infest every message board and comment on every article with ridiculous opinions. Plus they get offended by anything and nothing and most of them no little or nothing about the rest of the league.

Kind of like Oiler fans with fewer mullets and more public mischief arrests.

Nailed it.

[d_phaneuf]

Originally Posted by Jay Random

Teams have put themselves out of playoff contention by U.S. Thanksgiving, but no team ever earned a playoff spot by then.

To get to 96 points this season, the Canucks need 73 more points in 67 games, a winning percentage of .545. Last year's Canucks finished with 83 points, or .506. If they were to regress to last year's pace for the remainder of this season, they would almost certainly miss the playoffs. I don't expect that to happen, but I wouldn't call it a collapse if it did; just a return to the form that most people were expecting. They still need a lot more points in the bank to insure against that possibility.

A collapse is when a team (ahem) goes from .567 one year to .357 the next with little change in personnel.

The one thing this year has shown is the difference tocchet has made

They obviously arent as good as their record is, but going back to when tocchet came in the record really improved last year, a lot of that is and was demko (who came back from his injury last year and played great), but the defensive system is a huge improvement and some players are definitely playing better/with more confidence.

Miller especially is clearly a tocchet guy, boesers goals are getting a ton of attention but his two way play has also really stepped up

[Snuffleupagus]

I know it's early and it pains me but:

Elite Center - check
Elite Dman - check
Elite Goalie - check

Most of their best players are early to mid 20's, and as their + 34 suggests they are stomping teams not fluky wins, this looks like a really good team.

[Blaster86]

Originally Posted by Snuffleupagus

I know it's early and it pains me but:

Elite Center - check
Elite Dman - check
Elite Goalie - check

Most of their best players are early to mid 20's, and as their + 34 suggests they are stomping teams not fluky wins, this looks like a really good team.

Things are going well. The scary part is, it looks like they may have two elite centers with how Jonathan Tonathan Miller is playing



Now that we're starting to see injuries pop up, the lack of depth is going to rear its ugly head. Quinn Hughes and Filip Hronek playing 28+ minutes a night is not sustainable. Pettersson looks like he's got something that's nagging him too.


This is a slightly above average to good team. If they can get out of cap jail and find some depth it will be very scary.

[TrentCrimmIndependent]

How many times have people gotten ahead of themselves about a team based on a 15 game sample size.

Yet to see:
-How they sustain it over a whole season
-What the team looks like when shooting percentages regress closer to the norm
-How they deal with adversity when it comes
-If historically injury prone players can stay healthy

But I digress.

Canucks evidently will steamroll their way right to a cup.

[afc wimbledon]

Originally Posted by Blaster86

Things are going well. The scary part is, it looks like they may have two elite centers with how Jonathan Tonathan Miller is playing



Now that we're starting to see injuries pop up, the lack of depth is going to rear its ugly head. Quinn Hughes and Filip Hronek playing 28+ minutes a night is not sustainable. Pettersson looks like he's got something that's nagging him too.


This is a slightly above average to good team. If they can get out of cap jail and find some depth it will be very scary.

Myers is a UFA next year so his 6 mill can be played with

[kyuss275]

Pains me to say this but Rick tocchet has really turned that team around.

[opendoor]

They've had a pretty soft schedule so far, so that's going to influence things. Though that soft schedule continues for a while. Between now and mid February, they only have 4 games (out of 35) against the current top 10 teams in the league.

That said, they've played at a 108 point pace since Tocchet took over last year, and that's a 51 game sample.

[Johnny Makarov]

There is a Canucks game day thread for all of you to swoon about them in today.

In the meantime they still have hold 3 of the top 5 ugliest jerseys in sports history!

[bdubbs]

I like their orange/red/yellow and black jerseys with the Skate boot. That's the only one I like of theirs though.

[Johnny Makarov]

Originally Posted by bdubbs

I like their orange/red/yellow and black jerseys with the Skate boot. That's the only one I like of theirs though.

Said no one ever!! I'm pretty it's a figure skate and not a hockey skate too.

[bdubbs]

Originally Posted by Johnny Makarov

Said no one ever!! I'm pretty it's a figure skate and not a hockey skate too.

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Said me! So said one person ever, apparently. But I also grew up watching Pavel Bure wearing that jersey and have a bit of sentimentality based on that. Was never a Canucks fan, but definitely a Bure fan.

[Johnny Makarov]

Originally Posted by bdubbs

Said me! So said one person ever, apparently. But I also grew up watching Pavel Bure wearing that jersey and have a bit of sentimentality based on that. Was never a Canucks fan, but definitely a Bure fan.

You also said you wouldn't mind if Petterson lit us up tonight in the other thread. If it sounds a like duck... lol

[Blaster86]

Originally Posted by Johnny Makarov

You also said you wouldn't mind if Petterson lit us up tonight in the other thread. If it sounds a like duck... lol

If it sounds like a duck and looks like a duck it's probably a Bertuzzied.