I hope you know that Detroit has a streak of 20 plus years of Post season play. The AHL is experience. Once you show a team that you are more then capable of beating up on AHL players and show you are capable of playing in the NHL, the team will allow you to play. Have to show that you are capable and most if not all teams will have someone that is capable. Rookie just has to show he is more capable then the vet.
- manvanfan

No... I'm from Reno Nv... I don't know $h!t about hockey.

Anyone else still mad that Calgary beat the Nucks?

Watching men play against Calgary last night should have made it pretty obvious that making the playoffs was a really good plan ( Detroit model of picking low via early exits ).

#Canucks prospects playoffs tonight:
Virtanen @WHLHitmen Gm 4 (trail 3-1)
Cassels @Oshawa_Generals Gm 5 (2-2)
@UticaComets Gm 4 (lead 2-1)

#Canucks prospects playoffs tonight:
Virtanen @WHLHitmen Gm 4 (trail 3-1)
Cassels @Oshawa_Generals Gm 5 (2-2)
@UticaComets Gm 4 (lead 2-1)
- LeftCoaster

And?

"There are still nine players remaining from the Vancouver’s 2011 Stanley Cup Final team and all of them have no-trade clauses, although winger Chris Higgins has a limited NTC and can’t force the Canucks to keep him.

Excluding 25-year-old defenceman Chris Tanev, whose limited NTC is irrelevant because he just signed a $22.25-million US contract and isn’t going anywhere, the average age of these tenured Canucks will be 32.5 at the start of next season.

It’s possible, but unlikely, that all will be back."


Read more: http://www.vancouversun.c.../story.html#ixzz3YtxInrlH

Anyone else still mad that Calgary beat the Nucks?

Watching men play against Calgary last night should have made it pretty obvious that making the playoffs was a really good plan ( Detroit model of picking low via early exits ).
- rugdnit

You would have to actually implement the Detroit model first. We haven't developed a draft pick since 2004?

Given what they've got right now, I want this to be the line up on opening night next season.


Sedin Sedin Burrows
Virtanen Horvat Kassian
Baertschi Bonino Vrbata
Dorsett Mccann Hansen
Shinkaruk

Edler Tanev
Hamhuis Corrado
Weber Sbisa

Trade Higgins for a 3rd rounder
Trade Jensen and Bieksa for a top 5 pick. GMs will be lining up to acquire Bieksa.
Blow it up and trade everyone over the age of 32 at the deadline.
- hankthetank

I wouldn't mind this at all.

Someone bought a bottle of that and left it at our house, I've never opened it...sorta good?
- LeftCoaster

It's a $9 bottle if wine. You get what you pay for. A buddy brought one to our place one time, so the next time we went to watch a game at his house, I brought him a 40oz Old English. They're equivalent.

It's a $9 bottle if wine. You get what you pay for. A buddy brought one to our place one time, so the next time we went to watch a game at his house, I brought him a 40oz Old English. They're equivalent.
- CubanBuffet

It's a $9 bottle if wine. You get what you pay for. A buddy brought one to our place one time, so the next time we went to watch a game at his house, I brought him a 40oz Old English. They're equivalent.
- CubanBuffet

I haven't had OE since my high school grad. Puked in a McDonald's

You would have to actually implement the Detroit model first. We haven't developed a draft pick since 2004?
- manvanfan

It's a $9 bottle if wine. You get what you pay for. A buddy brought one to our place one time, so the next time we went to watch a game at his house, I brought him a 40oz Old English. They're equivalent.
- CubanBuffet

That's when you tell them, I guess we are making Sangria.

Someone bought a bottle of that and left it at our house, I've never opened it...sorta good?
- LeftCoaster

I drink it but all the bottles I drink are under 10 bucks, so I am probably the last guy to ask

"There are still nine players remaining from the Vancouver’s 2011 Stanley Cup Final team and all of them have no-trade clauses, although winger Chris Higgins has a limited NTC and can’t force the Canucks to keep him.

Excluding 25-year-old defenceman Chris Tanev, whose limited NTC is irrelevant because he just signed a $22.25-million US contract and isn’t going anywhere, the average age of these tenured Canucks will be 32.5 at the start of next season.

It’s possible, but unlikely, that all will be back."


Read more: http://www.vancouversun.c.../story.html#ixzz3YtxInrlH
- LeftCoaster

By the sounds of this hamhuis, or bieska will be gone and one of burrows, higgins or hansen.

- bezz44

You put up a picture of someone who stepped straight into the league?

We did develop a few in Grabner and Raymond and Coho but well none of them play for Van.

Hammer with two assists

I drink it but all the bottles I drink are under 10 bucks, so I am probably the last guy to ask
- VANTEL

Kings cans of import beers my preference. I haven't acquired a taste for any wine yet. Until i've run out of beer then whatever I have randomly selected for the fiancé to drink that night then goes into my glass.

You put up a picture of someone who stepped straight into the league?
- manvanfan

Still developed under our organization

Still developed under our organization
- bezz44

If having a picnic is considered development I'll agree.

It's a $9 bottle if wine. You get what you pay for. A buddy brought one to our place one time, so the next time we went to watch a game at his house, I brought him a 40oz Old English. They're equivalent.
- CubanBuffet

Hammer with two assists
- vancity787

Trade value going up!

If having a picnic is considered development I'll agree.
- vancity787

He started the season here and didn't play. Ended up in Utica for a bit. Got his chance with the club and did a fair job by himself. Between that moment and the end of the year he was developed under the Vancouver Canucks organization. I don't see how it doesn't count as development. Does the trainer need to grab Bo's legs and move them back and forth to work on sprinting for it to count as development? Sometimes just leaving someone to do something themselves and not meddling can be critical to the process. If Bo was buried in the OHL this year and the AHL for a few more years, how does he turn out?

You put up a picture of someone who stepped straight into the league?

We did develop a few in Grabner and Raymond and Coho but well none of them play for Van.
- manvanfan

Technically not true, he played one year, after his draft year, in London before he made the jump.

He started the season here and didn't play. Ended up in Utica for a bit. Got his chance with the club and did a fair job by himself. Between that moment and the end of the year he was developed under the Vancouver Canucks organization. I don't see how it doesn't count as development. Does the trainer need to grab Bo's legs and move them back and forth to work on sprinting for it to count as development? Sometimes just leaving someone to do something themselves and not meddling can be critical to the process. If Bo was buried in the OHL this year and the AHL for a few more years, how does he turn out?
- bezz44

Idk how he turns out. I don't know how he would turn out playing this season in the NHL. He only went to utica for a conditioning stint. Development to me is what Gaunce and Shinkaruk are doing. If you can take an NHL roster spot that's not developing, that's developed.

Idk how he turns out. I don't know how he would turn out playing this season in the NHL. He only went to utica for a conditioning stint. Development to me is what Gaunce and Shinkaruk are doing. If you can take an NHL roster spot that's not developing, that's developed.
- manvanfan

agree