Do you think the roster is good enough to make the playoffs? If they don't make it, then i'd say the coach is not part of the solution moving forward.
- golfingsince

Good enough yes. Need some injury luck for a change. TG is on the hot seat if not his assistants also.

Sorry, you believe Pettersson, Hughes and Boeser can carry this team through an intense playoff series, this year?
- 1970vintage

Yes I do, with Horvat, Miller, Ferland, Beagle, Roussel, Meyers, Virtanen, Benn, Motte, Leivo, there is more to a team than 3 players.

I am not sold on Green period, I will put 6 losses on Green for lack of preparation and game adjustments last year.

Hopefully he is going to coaching school in the off season and comes ready to be an NHL coach and not a AHL coach.
- Makita

Harsh but fair 👍

Time to start doing load management on some vets. Namely Sutter Tanev & Edler. Keep them fresher & rested & maybe less injuries so good for the long haul.
- Nighthawk

One thing that's been somewhat overlooked lately is the schedule the Canucks played in the first half of last season. It was ridiculous how many games were compressed into such a short period of time and led to many players being burnt out or injured before Christmas. They had that long losing streak that started during their second crazy road trip and never really recovered from it.

Supposedly they have a more balanced schedule this season. Hopefully that allows them to play, on a more regular basis, the uptempo pressure game that Green expects.

One thing that's been somewhat overlooked lately is the schedule the Canucks played in the first half of last season. It was ridiculous how many games were compressed into such a short period of time and led to many players being burnt out or injured before Christmas. They had that long losing streak that started during their second crazy road trip and never really recovered from it.

Supposedly they have a more balanced schedule this season. Hopefully that allows them to play, on a more regular basis, the uptempo pressure game that Green expects.
- YeOldTimer

All very good points 👍

- 1970vintage

How do your circumcise an orca whale?







Send down four skin divers.

FYI when i mention load management i meant 4-5 games mixed in for rest.

FYI when i mention load management i meant 4-5 games mixed in for rest.
- Nighthawk

luongo definitely needed that during that playoff game against anaheim.

How do your circumcise an orca whale?







Send down four skin divers.
- Codes1087

Your dad joke game is strong

One thing that's been somewhat overlooked lately is the schedule the Canucks played in the first half of last season. It was ridiculous how many games were compressed into such a short period of time and led to many players being burnt out or injured before Christmas. They had that long losing streak that started during their second crazy road trip and never really recovered from it.

Supposedly they have a more balanced schedule this season. Hopefully that allows them to play, on a more regular basis, the uptempo pressure game that Green expects.
- YeOldTimer

I think this will also play a huge factor this year. Our schedule looks much easier than last year. We don't have as many back to back games with the other team being more rested than us.

Your dad joke game is strong
- 1970vintage

To stay humble, I'll keep my day job.

This is patently false. It was widely reported at the time that JB wanted Lucic first, LE second. He lost out on Looch and went after LE. He most definitely wanted someone who could put the puck in the net. Lucic and LE were the top 2 offensive players that year.

Both signings were mistakes and I hope JB learned his lesson with regards to signing 30+ free agents.....maybe not....
- chompsey

He was looking at Lucic Agreed but it was all over the media at the time that LE's play with the Sedins at the WHC was a factor. You may be correct missing out on Looch may have been a factor but not as much as you claim IMO. Is what it is.

Benning is all about narratives. Last year the team needed to get faster. How many times did we hear him say how fast Beagle and Rousel are? This year they need to get tougher, I’m betting we’ll hear how gritty guys are, a lot.

I agree, I think he got good players, and for the most part got good value from his trades/signings. I would have liked him to do things a little differently, but I can live with things as they are. The team should be better this year than last. This is the goal.
- 1970vintage

Agreed. I'm expecting to be up 5 spots and if there is no playoffs so be it. I'll still consider that a success.

He was looking at Lucic Agreed but it was all over the media at the time that LE's play with the Sedins at the WHC was a factor. You may be correct missing out on Looch may have been a factor but not as much as you claim IMO. Is what it is.
- LordHumungous

I dont think that is as much of a factor as you claim. The media can hype it up all they want, doesn't make it true. LE, hands down, was the #1 offensive player that offseason, why wouldnt they want him?

Agreed. I'm expecting to be up 5 spots and if there is no playoffs so be it. I'll still consider that a success.
- LordHumungous

With such a deep draft, I would be A-ok with them missing the playoffs this coming season. Let the haters hate. This is an up-and-coming team. The era of futility is coming to an end whether its this year or next.....

I dont think that is as much of a factor as you claim. The media can hype it up all they want, doesn't make it true. LE, hands down, was the #1 offensive player that offseason, why wouldnt they want him?
- chompsey

Fair points...but Benning did mention LE's chemistry with the Sedins at the WHC and even Olympics on many occasions...this was one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmMdJ7oNp64

With such a deep draft, I would be A-ok with them missing the playoffs this coming season. Let the haters hate. This is an up-and-coming team. The era of futility is coming to an end whether its this year or next.....
- chompsey

We're moving in the right direction. We may not all agree on how to get there but it's happening albeit slowly.

With such a deep draft, I would be A-ok with them missing the playoffs this coming season. Let the haters hate. This is an up-and-coming team. The era of futility is coming to an end whether its this year or next.....
- chompsey

How I see it - we miss playoffs this year (barely) and then make it in 2020/2021 and then Tampa gets our first pick (17-32). I'm okay if we make it this year, but just don't want to poop the bed 2020/2021 as that pick isn't lottery protected.

Yes I do, with Horvat, Miller, Ferland, Beagle, Roussel, Meyers, Virtanen, Benn, Motte, Leivo, there is more to a team than 3 players.
- Makita

Indeed. Cumulative additions more balanced team.

One thing that's been somewhat overlooked lately is the schedule the Canucks played in the first half of last season. It was ridiculous how many games were compressed into such a short period of time and led to many players being burnt out or injured before Christmas. They had that long losing streak that started during their second crazy road trip and never really recovered from it.

Supposedly they have a more balanced schedule this season. Hopefully that allows them to play, on a more regular basis, the uptempo pressure game that Green expects.
- YeOldTimer

Better schedule and the right type of players for that system may do it this season.

Moby Richard

Chapter 14

Nothing more happened on the passage worthy the mentioning; so, after a fine run, we safely arrived in Nantucket.

Nantucket! Take out your map and look at it. See what a real corner of the world it occupies; how it stands there, away off shore, more lonely than the Eddystone lighthouse. Look at it- a mere hillock, and elbow of sand; all beach, without a background. There is more sand there than you would use in twenty years as a substitute for blotting paper. Some gamesome wights will tell you that they have to plant weeds there, they don't grow naturally; that they import Canada thistles; that they have to send beyond seas for a spile to stop a leak in an oil cask; that pieces of wood in Nantucket are carried about like bits of the true cross in Rome; that people there plant toadstools before their houses, to get under the shade in summer time; that one blade of grass makes an oasis, three blades in a day's walk a prairie; that they wear quicksand shoes, something like Laplander snow-shoes; that they are so shut up, belted about, every way inclosed, surrounded, and made an utter island of by the ocean, that to the very chairs and tables small clams will sometimes be found adhering as to the backs of sea turtles. But these extravaganzas only show that Nantucket is no Illinois.

Look now at the wondrous traditional story of how this island was settled by the red-men. Thus goes the legend. In olden times an eagle swooped down upon the New England coast and carried off an infant Indian in his talons. With loud lament the parents saw their child borne out of sight over the wide waters. They resolved to follow in the same direction. Setting out in their canoes, after a perilous passage they discovered the island, and there they found an empty ivory casket,- the poor little Indian's skeleton.

What wonder, then, that these Nantucketers, born on a beach, should take to the sea for a livelihood! They first caught crabs and quahogs in the sand; grown bolder, they waded out with nets for mackerel; more experienced, they pushed off in boats and captured cod; and at last, launching a navy of great ships on the sea, explored this watery world; put an incessant belt of circumnavigations round it; peeped in at Behring's Straits; and in all seasons and all oceans declared everlasting war with the mightiest animated mass that has survived the flood; most monstrous and most mountainous! That Himmalehan, salt-sea, Mastodon, clothed with such portentousness of unconscious power, that his very panics are more to be dreaded than his most fearless and malicious assaults!

And thus have these naked Nantucketers, these sea hermits, issuing from their ant-hill in the sea, overrun and conquered the watery world like so many Alexanders; parcelling out among them the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans, as the three pirate powers did Poland. Let America add Mexico to Texas, and pile Cuba upon Canada; let the English overswarm all India, and hang out their blazing banner from the sun; two thirds of this terraqueous globe are the Nantucketer's. For the sea is his; he owns it, as Emperors own empires; other seamen having but a right of way through it. Merchant ships are but extension bridges; armed ones but floating forts; even pirates and privateers, though following the sea as highwaymen the road. they but plunder other ships, other fragments of the land like themselves, without seeking to draw their living from the bottomless deep itself. The Nantucketer, he alone resides and riots on the sea; he alone, in Bible language, goes down to it in ships; to and fro ploughing it as his own special plantation. There is his home; there lies his business which a Noah's flood would not interrupt, though it overwhelmed all the millions in China. He lives on the sea, as prairie cocks in the prairie; he hides among the waves, he climbs them as chamois hunters climb the Alps. For years he knows not the land; so that when he comes to it at last, it smells like another world, more strangely than the moon would to an Earthsman. With the landless gull, that at sunset folds her wings and is rocked to sleep between billows; so at nightfall, the Nantucketer, out of sight of land, furls his sails, and lays him to his rest, while under his very pillow rush herds of walruses and whales.

- RealityChecker

Better schedule and the right type of players for that system may do it this season.
- NuckUp

This is what I’m banking on. JB probably is as well. Can be an interesting season to look forward to.

With such a deep draft, I would be A-ok with them missing the playoffs this coming season. Let the haters hate. This is an up-and-coming team. The era of futility is coming to an end whether its this year or next.....
- chompsey

It will be like most drafts. 15-20 top 6 top 4 players than some much lesser players. Benning will just pick a gem in the 2nd round and TB can use their pick on another over rated player like they did this year.

Fair points...but Benning did mention LE's chemistry with the Sedins at the WHC and even Olympics on many occasions...this was one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmMdJ7oNp64
- LordHumungous

Its part and parcel with selling/justifying the signing methinks...