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The “kids” the Canucks got are 1 year older than Raty.
Malhotra desires speed, skill and quickness, not in Raty’s repertoire.
My Arizona Coyotes/Utah Mammoth are off to a nice start, they crushed that disgusting franchise they call the Edmonton Oilers last night. I hope both the Canucks and the Flyers follow their lead in how to patiently build through the draft and make the occasional good trade. Although, I know the Flyers won’t, they’re too impatient. The Mammoth have a half dozen prominent kids they drafted on the team and they still have a handful on their farm team as well.
Canucks should make a play for Kent Johnson or Cole Sillinger.
Both are having good starts to the year, even though Columbus isn’t, I don’t see that happening.
We just need to be thankful that we still have Brendan Gallagher and his one assist on the roster.
He’s a “glue guy”…wink wink 🤣
Lankinen 53 games played last year and this 12 wins this years SA% 786
Silov 43 games played 22 wins 886 SA%Chatfield second pairing Cup Champs
EP40 goals 8 pts 24 considered elite
Podz Playoff goals 6 pts 16 considered a bust or mediocrePeople forget the first 4 years the Sedins did not have great numbers. it wasn’t until their fifth yer they started to put up respectable numbers
You just can’t look at it like that, you need context. Last year Pittsburgh had a 98 point playoff team, they scored 293 goals (3rd best in the league) while allowing 268. Yes, Tankinen is a sub-standard goaltender but even he put up ok numbers in 2024/25 when the Canucks had a better team with 90 points, he had a .902 save percentage and 25 wins. It’s not as black & white as you’d make it seem.
Chatfield wasn’t a second pairing dman with Carolina, he was a first pairing partner with Jaccob Slavin, he’s not a great player he just found a good fit there. But keep in mind he was in his 5th season in Carolina last year, he didn’t just get there, he had five years to get better in one of the best organizations in the league as opposed to the dysfunctional short-sighted Canucks.
Podkolzin isn’t a bust, he’s a good young player, he’s just a poor pick for a 10th overall pick. In hindsight there were a lot of players taken after #10 that would’ve been better picks, but that’s how the draft goes, it’s not an exact science. Seventeen teams passed on Thomas Harley, in a re-draft he’d probably go top three with Hughes & Boldy, who went 12th overall. HUGE whiff by Benning on that one.
Forsling for Clendening was one of the worst trades in Canucks history. Ironically by a supposed Super Scout. OEL is right up there as well. Benning & Weisbrod were imbeciles.
Benning and Weisbrod were idiots, not argument from me there. It wasn’t a terrible trade at the time though, he wasn’t the same player you see today back then, which is why Chicago eventually traded him to Carolina and then Carolina let him go via waivers where Florida picked him up and he became a really good player.
The Canucks need to move on from Chytil or he needs to come to grips he can’t continue to get his bell rung.
He’s gotta be close to doctors telling him to hang it up.
Raty= Podz Chatfield Silovs Hoglander Forsling
Best day of their hockey life, leaving this loony bin.
All of those players, except Forsling, are middling players at best. Raty included. Those types of players come and go on teams each and every season. Yeah the Canucks are a dysfunctional mess but those types of players come to the Canucks as well and find a better fit. Look at the rest examples of Paul Cotter and Linus Karlsson, those types of players just need a good fit.
I like Willander. I thought him and D Petey looked good the game before. I am Loving D Pete’s start to the year, I am not worried about buium we are 8 games into the year, the team is constantly losing and on a long road trip.
Podz with 2 more goals last night bringing him up to 7 G and 9 pts in 6 games.
Willander had some nice breakouts last night ragging the puck, he’s a good skater, and he’ll only get better I’m sure. Having D-Petey, Willander & Buium at 22/21/20 years old is a good thing for the team.
Vasily having a great start to the season, good for him, he’s second in goals league-wide, tied with Kyle Connor and Alexis Lafreniere. Speaking of which, you used to be all over Laffy, a total bust you said – hahaha. Looks to be another 25 year old ready to break out, except the Rangers didn’t give up on him for a quick fix like the Canucks organization did with Podkolzin. Although, the Rangers almost did, the NHL is a what have you done for me now league, teams are so impatient with some of these kids.
Already feeling the pressure maybe. These guys are too young for that kind of money…
He’s only on 900K this year but I was able to watch the game from Ontario last night, I thought Willander looked so much better than Buium but it’s not lost on me that Willander didn’t look great at times last year either at 20 years old. Luke Schenn had a tuff night last night.
