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[TruGr1t]

Buffalo is a gong show and needs some vets, wonder if you could do like Boeser + Soucy for Cozens + or something.

 

[tmac51]

Apparently there’s a shot Kyrou could be traded. I would love him on the right side in the Top 6. I wonder if they could trade Boeser and flip the assets they get in that trade + others for Kyrou… Would significantly improve the teams speed.

Buffalo is a gong show and needs some vets, wonder if you could do like Boeser + Soucy for Cozens + or something.

With the Flames being the only non-Atlantic team in on Cozens (according to Weekes) they would just have to outbid them. Unfortunately I think the Flames have a few younger NHL ready pieces that the Sabres would be more interested in…. (Would love Cozens on the team)

 

[krutovsdonut]

Buffalo is a gong show and needs some vets, wonder if you could do like Boeser + Soucy for Cozens + or something.

there is no smoke with us and cozens. there would have been by now if we were interested in the player.

 

[Vector]

5. As expected, the Canucks quickly extended Marcus Pettersson at six years, $33 million. That was not going to be a difficult negotiation. The left-side jam made Carson Soucy available. Not an easy year for him, but I like Soucy — who played his weak side during Tuesday’s 3-0 win over Colorado. Very good for Vancouver in last year’s playoffs, and effective when Seattle beat Colorado in 2023. He can help someone. Calgary makes sense (he’s from Alberta), but the Flames want to see some Ilya Solovyov.

6. Watching the Rangers and Canucks post-J.T. Miller makes you realize how much better off everyone is now that this saga is over. No more uncertainty, no more stress. Miller is a different, more energized player in New York, and you can see how happy his new teammates — particularly Vincent Trocheck — are to have him.

With their two trades, the Canucks look like a different team. Remodelled defence; the entire group quicker both on their skates and moving the puck. For different reasons than Miller, Filip Chytil needed his own fresh start. The Canucks outwrestled Western rivals Edmonton and Vegas (among others) for Drew O’Connor, and will attempt to extend him, too.

The Athletic’s Arthur Staple reported New York was unwilling to part with 2023 90th overall selection Drew Fortescue, a defenceman at NCAA Boston College. Vancouver will be happy with Victor Mancini, but Fortescue was an original target. Rangers GM Chris Drury knows him very well, as his son, Luke, was a minor-hockey teammate for several seasons.

7. Colorado made a run at Miller, but it never got close enough to threaten the Rangers deal. That’s why Casey Mittelstadt’s name is out there. Believe New Jersey, Ottawa and Toronto poked around, but not with much traction.

 

[LuckyDay]

Tocchet calls EP40 "Petey".

But the players call Marcus, Petey. A Petey has to give.

I'm going to order a Canucks sweater with the name Pettersson on the back and a Question Mark for the number.

 

[LuckyDay]

The team must be playing well if we’re discussing nicknames.

Wonder if we’ll ever see them pull a faceoff trickery or something similar, like the Sedins did when Henrik got kicked off the circle, skated around, and came back to take the faceoff again. Probably not as the three Peteys don’t look like triplets.

Recall they swapped sweaters in Jr. when one was suspended.

Bieksa Reveals Sedin Twins Used To Switch Jerseys, Trick Linesmen

During their 17-year reign with the Vancouver Canucks, Henrik and Daniel Sedin not only dominated the NHL, but also had some fun and pulled off epic trickery as identical twins. Via NHL Breakers on Instagram, former teammate Kevin Bieksa recently revealed that the Sedin twins would occasionally...

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nm...they kept doing it along with other shenanigans like you say
lol
I wonder if Richie and Ronnie ever did that when they were in Philadelphia.

 

[Mr. Canucklehead]

I feel like if the Canucks are looking at the C position, and considering some potentially depressed assets that they can get for a discount price while weaponizing some of their cap space, Josh Norris is the likely target - he has the added bonus of making Quinn Hughes a happy camper. I'd take the trade off of keeping Hughes happy when it comes to Norris' injury history.

 

[LuckyDay]

Also, why are bagging on EP?
Do you not recall the team yelling from the bench "Selke, Selke!"
He had his chances last game and there's a clear change in chemistry on the team with the injuries and lineup changes.
He's played several lines last game with Boeser again and no Hughes or Miller. Also, we're clearly playing a different kind of game now. We've done it four or five times now in the last month.

 

[Mr. Canucklehead]

Also, why are bagging on EP?
Do you not recall the team yelling from the bench "Selke, Selke!"
He had his chances last game and there's a clear change in chemistry on the team with the injuries and lineup changes.
He's played several lines last game with Boeser again and no Hughes or Miller. Also, we're clearly playing a different kind of game now. We've done it four or five times now in the last month.

I think it'll take more than a few days for him to recover his confidence and form. I'm really hopeful the 4 Nations and playing with some of his countrymen and friends and people who seem to really respect him will help boost him up and reset.

He'll just need to keep his head up vs. the USA.

 

[JT Milker]

He unretired at 34 during the dead puck era in the middle of the season and put up 143 point pace in like 40ish games.
Think about this, a guy who put in like a month or two worth of workout after years of not doing shit came back in the middle of the NHL season in an era notorious for hooking and boring ass defensive hockey and lit the league up because his offensive IQ was so insane.

If he was in his prime and actually had the conditioning of modern athletes, he would destroy this league because nobody would be able to stop him.

You legitimately think a player that never hit 200 points would now hit 300 points, about double McDavid’s best season, with exponentially better defensive schemes, goaltending, and overall league depth? If you’re not being facetious, you’re completely ignoring how human progress works.

 

[Canucker]

Also, why are bagging on EP?
Do you not recall the team yelling from the bench "Selke, Selke!"
He had his chances last game and there's a clear change in chemistry on the team with the injuries and lineup changes.
He's played several lines last game with Boeser again and no Hughes or Miller. Also, we're clearly playing a different kind of game now. We've done it four or five times now in the last month.

Probably because he's being paid like a top 5 player in the league at $11.6m and playing like a $5.5m Philip Danault.

 

[Just A Bit Outside]

Just like MP, there's too much smoke around Norris.

I'd be shocked if he didn't end up in Van at some point.

 

[Bgav]

Just like MP, there's too much smoke around Norris.

I'd be shocked if he didn't end up in Van at some point.

The smoke seems fan generated tho? I haven't seen any legit reports talk about it

 

[sting101]

Mercer or Cozens lets gooo

Norris' shoulder is mush no thanks

 

[iceburg]

Also, why are bagging on EP?
Do you not recall the team yelling from the bench "Selke, Selke!"
He had his chances last game and there's a clear change in chemistry on the team with the injuries and lineup changes.
He's played several lines last game with Boeser again and no Hughes or Miller. Also, we're clearly playing a different kind of game now. We've done it four or five times now in the last month.

He has been playing like a defensively solid, 70 point center, for over a year now. IMO, given that length of time, people are right to think that this could be what he is. At 26 years old he is in his prime. Whether he can regain the production that he had in 22/23 is an open question. It should be noted that he has only played 16 months of his entire career (Oct 2022 to January 2024) at greater than a point per game pace.
So, is he 22/23 Petey or is he the Petey he's been for the rest of his 7 year career. Don't get me wrong, the latter is a very valuable asset. The problem is they're paying him like he's 22/23 Petey. My hope is that he regains his production, remains defensively solid, and earns 11.6.

 

[Kickassguy]

Is Norris really worth his current cap hit? I'm skeptical. Mind you, if he's what it takes to keep Hughes, I'd give him a raise, to boot.

 

[sandwichbird2023]

You referenced them as an authority on the situation, and took my opinion that medical staff is definitely not a reliable authority as proof of how out to lunch anyone defending EP is so yeah, thanks for agreeing with me in that end on that.

And for the record EP isn't getting a pass from me. He needs to figure it out. I think the injury was the origin of the problem last year, and that having his offseason hampered was a big part of the problem for this year, but I am also sure that the injury is not the only problem at this point. It would be nearly impossible to slump for a year, get dumped on by fans, mgmt and even some of your own teammates the entire time, and not develop some other problems along the way. It's up to him to move past whatever off ice stuff is causing problems, whatever that may be.

Well the training/coaching/management staff seems to have learn from their Petey lesson and is now letting/forcing Hughes to sit out games until he is better. Even though Hughes' agent said it wasn't anything serious, they are holding him out and not risking it.

I was hoping that trading JTM away would've give Petey a huge boost, but I kind of knew that wouldn't be the case. Had Petey just start scoring like crazy soon as Miller is gone, that would've meant he was dogging it when Miller was here, and Petey is too much of a professional to do that. You still see the effort on the ice, it's just that he can get nothing done offensively with it. I think this season is a write off, hope he comes back a new player next season.

 

[sting101]

Norris has been bad 5v5 for the first 3 yrs of his contract and has 5 more.

He makes 8 million and his best asset is his shot off the half wall on the PP where Pettersson plays

He's had 3 shoulder surgeries

Other than that he's a good 2 way top6 C trying to regain his form and confidence

A lot of risk.

 

[wonton15]

The smoke seems fan generated tho? I haven't seen any legit reports talk about it

To be fair, management has pulled the trigger on some moves with little to no smoke, coming out of nowhere. I’m sure they’re poking around Norris

 

[Vector]

Hughes

• Has not played healthy for stretches this season
• Team USA is preparing for the possibility of Hughes not playing in the 4 Nations Tournament

Marcus Pettersson

• Really nice piece of business
• Canucks are retooling on the fly

Drew O’Connor

• Will try to re-sign him
• Don’t view Pettersson & O’Connor as rentals

 

[Phrasing]

I wonder how Boeser took the news that a newly acquired player was signed so quickly when he’s expressed he’s wanted to re-sign here.

 

[arttk]

You legitimately think a player that never hit 200 points would now hit 300 points, about double McDavid’s best season, with exponentially better defensive schemes, goaltending, and overall league depth? If you’re not being facetious, you’re completely ignoring how human progress works.

He hit 199points in 76 games... chain smoking with like bare minimum conditioning playing with pylons.

I wonder how Boeser took the news that a newly acquired player was signed so quickly when he’s expressed he’s wanted to re-sign here.

check the price tag?

 

[JT Milker]

He hit 199points in 76 games... chain smoking with like bare minimum conditioning playing with pylons.


check the price tag?

So you legitimately believe someone could score 4ppg in today’s NHL. Let me have some of that nostalgia brother.

 

[arttk]

So you legitimately believe someone could score 4ppg in today’s NHL. Let me have some of that nostalgia brother.

considering nobody thought he would be good coming out of retirement and then he came in mid season, played half a season during the dead puck era and put up 140ish point pace which is close to what McD is doing today but in a much more open offensive era. Oh nevermind the fact he came back from cancer and popped 53 points in 17 games.. so yeah in this era, it wouldn't be suprising for him to put up that many points.

 

[SelltheTeamFrancesco]

I feel like if the Canucks are looking at the C position, and considering some potentially depressed assets that they can get for a discount price while weaponizing some of their cap space, Josh Norris is the likely target - he has the added bonus of making Quinn Hughes a happy camper. I'd take the trade off of keeping Hughes happy when it comes to Norris' injury history.

I don’t mind Josh Norris. This team is devoid of players that are good on power play, they could basically run it through him and his shot. He has become a stellar penalty killer this year. Norris is also, playing some of the toughest mins 5 on 5 for forwards this year and doing an okay job. That is why his 5 on 5 numbers this year look bad.

He been a lot more physical this year, and the Senators have kind put him all over on pp when his office is the left flank. Although I think he would do quite well in the bumper spot where Horvat used to set up shop.

When it comes to his injuries like Pettersson fans have no real idea. If the Canucks look at the medical and come to the conclusion he is healthy then that is good enough for me. One thing I read from Senators fans that would have me quite worried is that he was throwing out his shoulder out taking faceoffs. The acquisition costs should be lower than Cozens so that is a plus. And everyone knows him and Quinn are good friends too.