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So 28/29 is our new "age gap." Lankinen, Sherwood, Heinen, Debrusk, Zadorov, Lindholm, Old D-Petey, they're all 28/29 this season.

With Fernstrom gone, we've essentially traded the first 3 picks from last year's draft and we traded NYI's 1st, our 2nd, and our 3rd round pick in the 2023 draft. The return that is still with us? Hronek and one could technically say Old D-Petey due to Fernstrom's inclusion in the trade with the Penguins.

I'm fine with the Hronek trade. At the very least we essentially got him starting from age 26 so we effectively have him through his prime years. We paid a slightly lesser price for Old D-Petey. For those who are concerned about term for Zadorov (which management was) there's no way Old D-Petey gets less unless the Canucks overpay in AAV.
 
We went from Pettersson, Miller, and Horvat to Pettersson at 50%, Chytil (one hit away from retirement) and the likes of Suter and Blueger down the middle. Unless the plan is to offer sheet Bedard or throw $20 million at McDavid next season, I don't see how this team can contend.
Yup. I mentioned this in the M. Petey trade thread, but our forward setup worked because there were two 1st line centers that could each play with a non-top 6 forward.

Now that it's thrown out the window they're in desperate need of a legitimate top 6 center (lmao good luck with that) and probably another top 6 winger.

Also this team is screwed on the faceoff dot. You got Blueger at 50%, and Petey/Suter/Chytil at 40-43%.
 
So 28/29 is our new "age gap." Lankinen, Sherwood, Heinen, Debrusk, Zadorov, Lindholm, Old D-Petey, they're all 28/29 this season.

With Fernstrom gone, we've essentially traded the first 3 picks from last year's draft and we traded NYI's 1st, our 2nd, and our 3rd round pick in the 2023 draft. The return that is still with us? Hronek and one could technically say Old D-Petey due to Fernstrom's inclusion in the trade with the Penguins.

I'm fine with the Hronek trade. At the very least we essentially got him starting from age 26 so we effectively have him through his prime years. We paid a slightly lesser price for Old D-Petey. For those who are concerned about term for Zadorov (which management was) there's no way Old D-Petey gets less unless the Canucks overpay in AAV.
No, Hronek was 24 when he was traded. Pettersson is 28. That’s a big difference, and a pending free agent.

The value of which is probably not such a high pick, but again having to dump a bunch of money in errors in scouting made it higher.

It’s a whatever trade if we’re able to re-sign him. But it speaks to the impatience of management.
 
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You guys think the team is currently worse than it was under Benning? Jesus.
Are you trolling?The forward lines are the worst we've had since old Sedins carried Granlund to 20 goals. Jimbo left the franchise in shambles but the forwards were much better than what we have now. The bald bros did an excellent job for one season but managed to f*** up everything after the season ended. Right now we look like Arizona during OEL's prime. You should be prepared from some terrible hockey with not much scorring from the canucks.
 
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Are you trolling?The forward lines are the worst we've had since old Sedins carried Granlund to 20 goals. Jimbo left the franchise in shambles but forwards were much better than what we have now.
You could have prime Crosby on Benning’s team and be a perennial lottery team.
 
Has this management group actually made us worse? When they took over we had Miller Pettersson and Horvat down the middle and Hughes. Now we just have Pettersson and Hughes.

I mean yes, but that was clearly not the plan. I was a Horvat over Miller guy at the time, but there was no way you could predict two grown men would start acting like teenage girls.
 
You could have prime Crosby on Benning’s team and be a perennial lottery team.
Because Jimbo could not build a defence to save his life and was a moron. JR is smart but very impatient and ego driven. Jimbo's incompetence is not an excuse for JR to piss away talent. He plugged a hole on defence but created a huge one on offence.

Right now JR has 1 excellent season and 2,5 bad ones. I give him a pass for the 2021/2022 and 2022/2023 seasons since he had to fix Jimbo's mess but the this terrible season is all on him.
 
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