Should we talk about Eriksson and what to do with that chode?
- thundachunk

The chode's agent negotiated a deal that essentially assures that the team can't do sweet (frank) all about it.

Sorry man, I do predictions.
- manvanfan

Need to start an Obsession Chart.

Lefty - Sutter
Vantel - Sedins
Makita - some fringe dman

I'm sure there is more. Manvanfan?
- bloatedmosquito

Mine is retired now but I have switched to Loui

The chode's agent negotiated a deal that essentially assures that the team can't do sweet (frank) all about it.
- bloatedmosquito

Here is your contract. welcome to the country club.

Need to start an Obsession Chart.

Lefty - Sutter
Vantel - Sedins
Makita - some fringe dman

I'm sure there is more. Manvanfan?
- bloatedmosquito

Minivan - notes
Hawk - rosters
Nucker - shirtless prospects

Will Canucks fans lose their collective minds if both Gaudette and Pettersson start the year in Utica? I wouldn't put it past JB, but with the contract situation the way it is (waivers etc.), it seems likely to me:

Utica
Dahlen Pettersson Jasek
Lind Gaudette Gadjovich
Boucher Macewen Palmu
Archibald Kero Carcone

Vancouver
Baertschi Horvat Boeser
Goldobin Sutter Gagner
Eriksson Beagle Virtanen
Roussel Schaller Granlund
Leipsic Gaunce
(Edited for the regrettable mistake of omitting the bane of every Canuck fan's existence.)

Line combos aside, or moving guys up and down the line up, I don't see this as being such a terrible idea. Pettersson gets to play alongside his peers on a smaller ice surface without facing the pressure of being the next saviour. Gaudette will get all of the special teams minutes (similar to Bo's). Hopefully it would prove to be a great AHL team.

The big club doesn't need to commit anybody to waivers, and spends one last year in (not-so) stealth-tank-mode?

Should we talk about Eriksson and what to do with that chode?
- thundachunk

He will be gone this year or next . If he scores 20 plus then they keep him

Mine is retired now but I have switched to Loui
- VANTEL

A perfect target for your scorn. You should also add the guy who signed that ridiculous contract to your hit list. What an inexcusable blunder.

Minivan - notes
Hawk - rosters
Nucker - shirtless prospects
- CanuckDon

Booner - conspiracies

Those players are high draft picks that are showing A TON of promise. Players that are already showing they are capable of playing in the league. I'm not making that BS up. These are reasonable assumptions compared to the BS you spout.

McCann would be playing center. How (frank)en badly would fans be screaming for EP and AG to be playing center then? It would be insane. Could insert them immediately and take a chance at ruining them. The same way they did with McCann.
- manvanfan

You live in your own fantasy world and then tell everyone else they are idiots for living in theirs

A bunch of those kids from the 2016 second round are showing great promise, as much as Demko, Juolevi, Pettersson (Hart) and this supposed "1 more high draft pick". Asplund, Kryou, Laberge, Clague, Girad, Hart, Gustavsson, Raddysh, Dube, Gambrell, etc. are all excellent prospects.

There's certainly reasonable assumptions some of them could play in the league and one of them might have been a Canucks prospect. But we'll never know, will we.

He will be gone this year or next . If he scores 20 plus then they keep him
- VANTEL

iI dont think he makes it through October.

Will Canucks fans lose their collective minds if both Gaudette and Pettersson start the year in Utica? I wouldn't put it past JB, but with the contract situation the way it is (waivers etc.), it seems likely to me:

Utica
Dahlen Pettersson Jasek
Lind Gaudette Gadjovich
Boucher Macewen Palmu
Archibald Kero Carcone

Vancouver
Baertschi Horvat Boeser
Goldobin Sutter Gagner
Roussel Beagle Virtanen
Leipsic Schaller Granlund
Gaunce

Line combos aside, or moving guys up and down the line up, I don't see this as being such a terrible idea. Pettersson gets to play alongside his peers on a smaller ice surface without facing the pressure of being the next saviour. Gaudette will get all of the special teams minutes (similar to Bo's). Hopefully it would prove to be a great AHL team.

The big club doesn't need to commit anybody to waivers, and spends one last year in (not-so) stealth-tank-mode?
- alcatrazhockey

Eriksson?

iI dont think he makes it through October.
- thundachunk

I hope not . No free rides

Will Canucks fans lose their collective minds if both Gaudette and Pettersson start the year in Utica? I wouldn't put it past JB, but with the contract situation the way it is (waivers etc.), it seems likely to me:

Utica
Dahlen Pettersson Jasek
Lind Gaudette Gadjovich
Boucher Macewen Palmu
Archibald Kero Carcone

Vancouver
Baertschi Horvat Boeser
Goldobin Sutter Gagner
Roussel Beagle Virtanen
Leipsic Schaller Granlund
Gaunce

Line combos aside, or moving guys up and down the line up, I don't see this as being such a terrible idea. Pettersson gets to play alongside his peers on a smaller ice surface without facing the pressure of being the next saviour. Gaudette will get all of the special teams minutes (similar to Bo's). Hopefully it would prove to be a great AHL team.

The big club doesn't need to commit anybody to waivers, and spends one last year in (not-so) stealth-tank-mode?
- alcatrazhockey

Every time I see the name "Gagner" on a roster prediction I want to punch a kitten.

Eriksson?
- VANTEL

God, that guy is so consistently forgettable.

Top 50 NHL-affiliated Prospects:

1 Elias Pettersson, C Van
2 Eeli Tolvanen, RW Nsh
3 Martin Necas, C Car
4 Cody Glass, C/RW VGK
5 Casey Mittelstadt, C Buf
6 Robert Thomas, C StL
7 Ilya Sorokin, G NYI
8 Miro Heiskanen, D Dal
9 Igor Shesterkin, G NYR
10 Ilya Samsonov, G Was
11 Cale Makar, D Col
12 Dylan Strome, C Ari
13 Lias Andersson, W/C NYR
14 Kirill Kaprizov, LW Min
15 Jordan Kyrou, RW StL
16 Henrik Borgstrom, C Fla
17 Aleksei Heponiemi, C Fla
18 Juuso Valimaki, D Cgy
19 Carter Hart, G Phi
20 Erik Brannstrom, D VGK
21 Kieffer Bellows, LW NYI
22 Gabe Vilardi, C Los
23 Nick Suzuki, RW VGK
24 Olli Juolevi, D Van
25 Alex Nylander, C Buf
26 Adam Gaudette, LW Van
27 Filip Chytil, RW NYR
28 Nick Merkley, RW Ari
29 Drake Batherson, RW Ott
30 Phillipe Myers, D Phi
31 Jonathan Dahlen, LW Van
32 Ryan Donato, C Bos
33 Morgan Frost, C Phi
34 Conor Timmins, D Col
35 Pierre-Olivier Joseph, D Ari
36 Adam Fox, D Cgy
37 Dante Fabbro, D Nsh
38 Dillon Dube, LW Cgy
39 Rasmus Asplund, C Buf
40 Boris Katchouk, LW Tam
41 Owen Tippett, RW Fla
42 Thatcher Demko, G Van
43 Dylan Sikura, LW Chi
44 Jordan Greenway, C Min
45 Taylor Raddysh, RW Tam
46 Sam Steel, C Ana
47 German Rubtsov, C Phi
48 Kale Clague, D Los
49 Michael Rasmussen, LW Det
50 Cal Foote, D Tam

God, that guy is so consistently forgettable.
- alcatrazhockey

Trade to MTL for 4 th and 5 th and retain 3 mil

Will Canucks fans lose their collective minds if both Gaudette and Pettersson start the year in Utica? I wouldn't put it past JB, but with the contract situation the way it is (waivers etc.), it seems likely to me:

Utica
Dahlen Pettersson Jasek
Lind Gaudette Gadjovich
Boucher Macewen Palmu
Archibald Kero Carcone

Vancouver
Baertschi Horvat Boeser
Goldobin Sutter Gagner
Roussel Beagle Virtanen
Leipsic Schaller Granlund
Gaunce

Line combos aside, or moving guys up and down the line up, I don't see this as being such a terrible idea. Pettersson gets to play alongside his peers on a smaller ice surface without facing the pressure of being the next saviour. Gaudette will get all of the special teams minutes (similar to Bo's). Hopefully it would prove to be a great AHL team.

The big club doesn't need to commit anybody to waivers, and spends one last year in (not-so) stealth-tank-mode?
- alcatrazhockey

i wont. utica is smart developmet if they dont come out of camp at their best.

Top 50 NHL-affiliated Prospects:
1 Elias Pettersson, C Van
2 Eeli Tolvanen, RW Nsh
3 Martin Necas, C Car
4 Cody Glass, C/RW VGK
5 Casey Mittelstadt, C Buf
6 Robert Thomas, C StL
7 Ilya Sorokin, G NYI
8 Miro Heiskanen, D Dal
9 Igor Shesterkin, G NYR
10 Ilya Samsonov, G Was
11 Cale Makar, D Col
12 Dylan Strome, C Ari
13 Lias Andersson, W/C NYR
14 Kirill Kaprizov, LW Min
15 Jordan Kyrou, RW StL
16 Henrik Borgstrom, C Fla
17 Aleksei Heponiemi, C Fla
18 Juuso Valimaki, D Cgy
19 Carter Hart, G Phi
20 Erik Brannstrom, D VGK
21 Kieffer Bellows, LW NYI
22 Gabe Vilardi, C Los
23 Nick Suzuki, RW VGK
24 Olli Juolevi, D Van
25 Alex Nylander, C Buf
26 Adam Gaudette, LW Van
27 Filip Chytil, RW NYR
28 Nick Merkley, RW Ari
29 Drake Batherson, RW Ott
30 Phillipe Myers, D Phi
31 Jonathan Dahlen, LW Van
32 Ryan Donato, C Bos
33 Morgan Frost, C Phi
34 Conor Timmins, D Col
35 Pierre-Olivier Joseph, D Ari
36 Adam Fox, D Cgy
37 Dante Fabbro, D Nsh
38 Dillon Dube, LW Cgy
39 Rasmus Asplund, C Buf
40 Boris Katchouk, LW Tam
41 Owen Tippett, RW Fla
42 Thatcher Demko, G Van
43 Dylan Sikura, LW Chi
44 Jordan Greenway, C Min
45 Taylor Raddysh, RW Tam
46 Sam Steel, C Ana
47 German Rubtsov, C Phi
48 Kale Clague, D Los
49 Michael Rasmussen, LW Det
50 Cal Foote, D Tam
- LeftCoaster

Who's list?

Who's list?
- bloatedmosquito

TSN...just found it interesting. That was before the June draft though.

Should we talk about Eriksson and what to do with that chode?
- thundachunk

Another fine example of that genius Benning.

TSN...just found it interesting.
- LeftCoaster

No one from this years draft on it

No one from this years draft on it
- VANTEL

No, no one from 2018 draft. I was looking at past drafts and where those kids stand in the overall world rankings. Some shoulda coulda woulda kids in there that the Canucks missed on because of no draft picks.

Nothing says they would've picked those kids though, just for curiosity sake.

Will Canucks fans lose their collective minds if both Gaudette and Pettersson start the year in Utica? I wouldn't put it past JB, but with the contract situation the way it is (waivers etc.), it seems likely to me:

Utica
Dahlen Pettersson Jasek
Lind Gaudette Gadjovich
Boucher Macewen Palmu
Archibald Kero Carcone

Vancouver
Baertschi Horvat Boeser
Goldobin Sutter Gagner
Eriksson Beagle Virtanen
Roussel Schaller Granlund
Leipsic Gaunce
(Edited for the regrettable mistake of omitting the bane of every Canuck fan's existence.)

Line combos aside, or moving guys up and down the line up, I don't see this as being such a terrible idea. Pettersson gets to play alongside his peers on a smaller ice surface without facing the pressure of being the next saviour. Gaudette will get all of the special teams minutes (similar to Bo's). Hopefully it would prove to be a great AHL team.

The big club doesn't need to commit anybody to waivers, and spends one last year in (not-so) stealth-tank-mode?
- alcatrazhockey

The pom-pom club will lose their collective minds.

You live in your own fantasy world and then tell everyone else they are idiots for living in theirs

A bunch of those kids from the 2016 second round are showing great promise, as much as Demko, Juolevi, Pettersson (Hart) and this supposed "1 more high draft pick". Asplund, Kryou, Laberge, Clague, Girad, Hart, Gustavsson, Raddysh, Dube, Gambrell, etc. are all excellent prospects.

There's certainly reasonable assumptions some of them could play in the league and one of them might have been a Canucks prospect. But we'll never know, will we.
- LeftCoaster

So you are saying I can add Lind, Woo, Dahlen, Gaudette to the "core" list? They all show promise too. That's 9 core players Van's going to have.

That's what you are saying, 2nd round picks, anyone who shows promise is allowed to included in the new core because Van drafted them.