In summary, the poster expresses frustration with the coaching decisions of Tocchet for the Vancouver Canucks, particularly highlighting the treatment of young Russian players like Kuzmenko and Podkolzin.
Coaching. At the end of last year the team was winning. Lines were set with the need for the Horvat replacement on the PP. But 5 of the top 6 pretty much set or planned.
Why fix what wasn't broke?
Two players on a line and then a complementary guy.
Pettersson and Kuzmenko put up
Kuz - 37 gms - 21g - 13 A = 34 points
Petey - 37 gms - 20g - 29 A = 49 points
That is 2/3 rds of a line that scores 1.14 g/gm and 1.14 A/gm
Better than any players regularly playing with Pettersson now. Was this to depress EP's numbers for his next contract? Hell no, they must know the negative effect it would have.
The poster questions why more expensive players with trade requests are supported while a promising sophomore player faces criticism and a loss of confidence. They emphasize the negative impact this may have on the team’s reputation and recruitment of future free agents.
All too true. Remember Benning trying to support those lousy over paid contracts? He said players didn't want to come here, so he had to overpay.
It might not have any effect at all, it doesn't seem to hamper Vegas but then they are very deep at least twice as deep as the Canucks.
The poster also criticizes the media for allegedly downplaying trade rumors involving Canuck Russian players and rewriting the narrative around their desire to leave Vancouver.
The media. Ha. Who are they? Who owns them? Who has licencing rights?
Virtually EVERY main stream media is biased now. ALL of them.
And so many posters are like Lemmings.
You would think with all the new stuff faking stuff posters would be more cynical about believing everything spoon fed them.
Fake news is a real thing now. And it works. But it can be exposed with looking below the surface to depths.
The trade rumours are not being down played, they are in the main media hubs.
The poster criticizes the media for allegedly downplaying trade rumors NOT involving Canuck Russian players. Only the Russians are getting media time.
Why the hell is there not a push to move those players that don't want to be here anymore? Why aren't questions even being asked about them? Buried? Last year Garland required the Canucks to retain around 1.5 to 2 mil to move him, is it still the same? Boeser and his agent could only find teams that wanted sweeteners and retention so no trades. What about now with his new prowess?
Myers was going to be dealt 10 times before the TDL? The team never stated but.