That's about right for the Canucks chances of winning the lottery and the first overall pick! First overall will go to some team that finishes 3 points out of the playoffs, and the Canucks will fall 3 spots and pick 6th or 7th. I think they always forget to put the Canucks ping pong balls in the selection machine.A Lotto team, that can’t be good.
The odds of winning are approximately 1 in 14 million.
signing Jake and letting Toffoli walk was the final straw for me. that was some of the worst asset management i’ve seen and i’ve been a fan for a long time. they traded a pick and Madden for Toffoli and he just walks because Jimbonhad some pending deals with Schmidt and Markstrom. toffoli is making peanuts in Mtl i think 4 mill/ yr.
Yup JV and asset management doesn't sit well with me either as JB is now looking for a top 9 forward with very few options available to him. Cap and Covid has his hands tied and any panic trade without a solid return will be the end of him. What do I know but ownership/JB need to do something as I am sure they are feeling the heat big time. So my guess at this point would be to steer the media circus in another direction at least by changing out the assistant coaches as an interim move.
if the season had continued normally with out the break and the play in Canucks would have been mathematically defeated. They broke Markstroms groin playing him too much in the regular season and he broke it again in the playoffs. he hid a lot of their flaws; the main being this team couldnt defend the net even if they were playing with an oversized beach ball.
this is the 1st time they've had a decent break to work on a few things and hopefully get their **** together, might be too late but lets see if the break turns things around for them, I think it just might, but then I might be dreaming too haha.
Yeah that scenario with JV vs Toffoli really was disappointing as I have been over Jake for 2 years. He cares more about his social life than being a good team mate.
there was no room to sign tofolli even without jv, when they brought in scmidt that was the end of any chance of tofolli staying, they needed a d man more than another top 6 forward knowing there was a chance hoglander and the russian would be here soon. the other cap mess with eriksson , sutter and luongo is the main reason, the nhl is screwing them on the luongo cap hit, withought that tofolli would still be here imho
yes Harmonic looks pretty decent and is a presence in front of his goalie, Schmidt is looking great. Demko is definitely the go to goalie and is showing a ton of confidence. also great to see Hoglander score, tonight should be a good one, Holtby better not allow a softy!
I personally don’t think the North division is very strong compared to the South like Boston, Philly and Carolina
Look at you go!
Put this in the Hot Stock Tips thread hahaha
Demko was the #1 star, I didn't think they played well in most of the 1st 2 periods, they had so many give aways or cough ups and couldn't maintain any possession for any length of time in the offensive zone, the leafs were all over them, the canucks played rope a dope, lol, until the 3rd when the leafs ran out of gas as expected, the canucks were relentless in their checking in the 3 rd , it was a great effort but I doubt they win that game if Holtby was in net.
