Former Canucks Thread 2023-24 Off-Season Edition

[Sexy Necksy Garland]

Would yall take prime Kesler or Jt Miller rn.

To me it's basically the same player. Kesler never did 41 again. Can Miller continue to play Selke level defence from the middle?

 

[vadim sharifijanov]

To me it's basically the same player. Kesler never did 41 again. Can Miller continue to play Selke level defence from the middle?

jt has certainly upped his defensive game and kes did have a two year offensive spike.

but to me they are different kinds of two-way players. one is a primarily offensive guy who is very strong defensively and the other was the best defensive center in the world put in a position to score at the absolute ceiling of his physical abilities.

what’s bigger: the distance between 9th in pts twice and 15th and 22nd in back to back years, or the sizeable defensive gap?

but maybe the answer lies in miller only getting five (out of 194) selke votes, while kesler appeared on more than three times the amount of hart ballots (out of 126).

 

[VanJack]

Dylan Guenther with two goals in the opener tonight against Chicago. I know he doesn't technically qualify as an 'ex Canuck'.......but he was the ninth overall pick in the 2021 entry draft, traded by Vancouver to Arizona in the disastrous OEL trade.

Can you imagine what he'd bring to the Canucks right now?.....@#!#@$% Benning!

 

[Jyrki21]

Dylan Guenther with two goals in the opener tonight against Chicago. I know he doesn't technically qualify as an 'ex Canuck'.......but he was the ninth overall pick in the 2021 entry draft, traded by Vancouver to Arizona in the disastrous OEL trade.

Can you imagine what he'd bring to the Canucks right now?.....@#!#@$% Benning!

I keep seeing "they wouldn't have drafted him anyhow" as a "defense" of Benning on Twitter ("we were bad at identifying talent anyhow" shouldn't be much of a defense), but... is this actually true?

At the time I know he was the guy everyone was talking about as likely to be in the Canucks' slot. I know that draft was wonky to begin with, but he was definitely the name I was hearing most about going in.

 

[StreetHawk]

It was a wonky draft. The OHL kids didn't play. We were talking about MacTavish as an option and he went 3rd. As for D, after Clarke, there wasn't a Dman taken til 25/26 with Ceulsmans and Lambos.

 

[Jyrki21]

As Travis Green is set to begin his coaching career here in Ottawa, I think back to a prediction that @MS made at the start of the 2017-18 season, when Green scratched Brock Boeser for the first two games of the season -- a season in which the rookie Boeser would go on to be the team's best and most dynamic player. He suggested it would probably end up being the most memorable moment of Green's Canuck coaching career.

I think he was right?

I guess if not, maybe the lockdown in the 2020 bubble playoffs against Vegas?

(Side note, if Boeser has those two more games to his name before being injured that year, there's a decent chance he would have hit his 30th in that rookie season and saved many years of fan angst about achieving a round number).

 

[Hit the post]

I keep seeing "they wouldn't have drafted him anyhow" as a "defense" of Benning on Twitter ("we were bad at identifying talent anyhow" shouldn't be much of a defense), but... is this actually true?

At the time I know he was the guy everyone was talking about as likely to be in the Canucks' slot. I know that draft was wonky to begin with, but he was definitely the name I was hearing most about going in.

Brendan Gallagher Hockey Stats and Profile at hockeydb.com

Statistics of Brendan Gallagher, a hockey player from Edmonton, ALTA born May 6 1992 who was active from 2008 to 2025.

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In Delorme's defense, he was in Sweden scouting.