NEWS 1130 Sports ‏@NEWS1130Sports · 2m2 minutes ago
Free agent defenseman and Victoria native Matt Irwin tells me that he has not heard from the #Canucks yet.
- LeftCoaster

Weber a canuck and that is our big splash

Weber a canuck and that is our big splash
- anavar

We're not trying to make a "big splash" hopefully!!!!!!!

We're not trying to make a "big splash" hopefully!!!!!!!
- LeftCoaster

haha fair enough. We all realize where this team is at and headed. Gotta get down before you get up!

We're not trying to make a "big splash" hopefully!!!!!!!
- LeftCoaster

Says the guy with a jumping fish avatar.

Says the guy with a jumping fish avatar.
- CubanBuffet

Says the guy with a jumping fish avatar.
- CubanBuffet

haha fair enough. We all realize where this team is at and headed. Gotta get down before you get up!
- anavar

Yup really like to see them get a couple top five picks in the next two years

=Rebuild
- VanHockeyGuy

Can't have a true rebuild until we shed 14 million in salaries but in all honesty I hope they stay to mentor baertschi and Virtanen for this year and next.

Yup really like to see them get a couple top five picks in the next two years
- LeftCoaster

I've got a feeling we'll get a top 3 this year

Brien never fights the Hound let alone kill him in the books. He gets mortally wounded in the tavern scrap. All the graphic gay love is not in the novels.

It takes Martin 5-6 years to write one of these novels but the show is getting ahead of where the books are already. I hope HBO isnt going to influence the way the later novels would have came out.

The books are written totally different than your typical novel. There is no central character. Each chapter is named after the character it involves and written with their perspective I guess you would call it.

Something you dont get in the show is the hilarious sarcastic thoughts of Tyrion after every comment someone makes or Cersei's evil chilling thoughts before every sentence she speaks. You can't pull that off on the screen. You are not in the mind of the tv character.
- boonerbuck

Not to mention:
Sansa never even meets Ramsey
Stanis doesn't burn his child at the stake (nor does he even die through the 5th book). Totally out of his charachter
Arya doesn't turn assassin in Bravos and (apparently) go blind
Myrcella doesn't get killed (and Jamie never went to Dorne)
......

We're not trying to make a "big splash" hopefully!!!!!!!
- LeftCoaster

You nailed it there, sign a 1.5 - 2 UFA D or trade for one. No other moves are required unless you could unload Vrbata, Higgins, Burrows etc.

Yup really like to see them get a couple top five picks in the next two years
- LeftCoaster

Our team just 5th in our conference and have lost only spare parts. Highly unlikely unless we shed some key components and give their spots to rookies.

Not to mention:
Sansa never even meets Ramsey
Stanis doesn't burn his child at the stake (nor does he even die through the 5th book)
Arya doesn't turn assassin in Bravos and (apparently) go blind
Myrcella doesn't killed (and Jamie never went to Dorne)
......
- AlexF

I read those books years before they were a tv show. Its hard to remember all that went on when watching the show. Everyone dies.

Can't have a true rebuild until we shed 14 million in salaries but in all honesty I hope they stay to mentor baertschi and Virtanen for this year and next.
- I-own_da-Northwest

Those will be off the books soon. I okay with JB watching teams around him get better. I think he knows next year will be difficult.

Our team just 5th in our conference and have lost only spare parts. Highly unlikely unless we shed some key components and give their spots to rookies.
- AlexF

What you're dismissing is the ability of every other team in the West to take another step forward or teams like LA & SJ to have a bounceback.

I read those books years before they were a tv show. Its hard to remember all that went on when watching the show. Everyone dies.
- thundachunk

I just think they dilute an already good story for the pure purpose of shock value and trying to corner ever single viewing market that may exist. It detracts from the story IMO but each to their own.

I just think they dilute an already good story for the pure purpose of shock value and trying to corner ever single viewing market that may exist. It detracts from the story IMO but each to their own.
- AlexF

the girl being burned was imo a stupid shock value moment that served no purpose, wasn't a fan at all. Seemed tacky.

What you're dismissing is the ability of every other team in the West to take another step forward or teams like LA & SJ to have a bounceback.
- LeftCoaster

I'm not dismissing it, but if you think that LA getting Lucic and SJ (aging as we are) bouncing back (by signing Martin Jones?) will relegate us to picking top 5 all of a sudden I think you'll be disappointed.

We'd need to shed the Sedins and let Markstrom start as 1A before we'd have any chance of that.

What you're dismissing is the ability of every other team in the West to take another step forward or teams like LA & SJ to have a bounceback.
- LeftCoaster

Well said I think this is the year we finally see Edmonton push for a playoff spot. If McDavid is as good as they say(Better than Crosby according to Gretzky...so I can't dismiss that) then they will be a team to be reckoned with in the very near future.

the girl being burned was imo a stupid shock value moment that served no purpose, wasn't a fan at all. Seemed tacky.
- anavar

Agreed. It was also completely out of character for Stanis.

Put money on Beauchemin signing in Edmonton or Montreal today.
- LeftCoaster

Van Should sign him, make the Bieksa trade come full circle

Elliotte Friedman ‏@FriedgeHNIC · 15s16 seconds ago
Hearing Yannick Weber will re-sign in VAN for one year and $1.5M

I'm not dismissing it, but if you think that LA getting Lucic and SJ (aging as we are) bouncing back (by signing Martin Jones?) will relegate us to picking top 5 all of a sudden I think you'll be disappointed.

We'd need to shed the Sedins and let Markstrom start as 1A before we'd have any chance of that.
- AlexF

Sedins are 35....they are slowing down at a huge rate. I don't think we see them beyond 60-65 points this year if healthy. Wouldn't even be surprised if they only hit 50. Hamhuis is slowing down as well. Our only hope to have a good season is if miller plays lights out in 45-50 of his probable 65 starts.

Elliotte Friedman ‏@FriedgeHNIC · 15s16 seconds ago
Hearing Yannick Weber will re-sign in VAN for one year and $1.5M
- LeftCoaster

There's the big splash we have all been waiting for.

Sedins are 35....they are slowing down at a huge rate. I don't think we see them beyond 60-65 points this year if healthy. Wouldn't even be surprised if they only hit 50. Hamhuis is slowing down as well. Our only hope to have a good season is if miller plays lights out in 45-50 of his probable 65 starts.
- I-own_da-Northwest

I didn't say we're about to have a good season. I said we're still too good to be picking top 5.