it depends on the person, my dad worked like crazy all his life and he was working until he was like 77 and he was able to do it because he was at a very very high level. Even though he was able to work till 7, I noticed that after he hit 70, he would just randomly doze off. At some point, your age REALLY kicks in and there just isn't enough stamina.
Working for Aqua can really help with that decision.
It does depend on the person but the question is whether JR is interested in the retirement life. Dozing off and lacking stamina isn't the same as not wanting to continue working at a job where his primary role is to oversee the entire operations.
I think getting first overall every year and winning the cup every year while having 8 million in cap space is the best option.
drance doesn’t have a plan, he has whining. He has stupid bullshit because he knows his rebuild idea will be unpopular and is dumb anyway.
What are they supposed to do?
More aggressive?
You can strategy pursue various objectives, one of which is to secure a high draft pick in a deep draft. Nothing hairy fairy about that, it’s astute asset management and this marginalizing that is why we have sucked for the last decade.
Why even be a Canucks fan if you want them to dump their best players for lottery tickets?
No but I don’t want to see Hughes and Pettersson traded for futures, which is the reality of getting a high pick.
I want them to win, I enjoy when the team is good, I don’t enjoy when teams take the boots to us for years at a time. I personally prefer to see management take the most statistically likely process to succeed, given the variables that are in play. Nothing is guaranteed, but the more picks you have the more likely you are to hit on a late round bloomer, and the higher your draft position the more likely the player is to be a game breaker. This team is still poorly constructed and still has contracts that are handcuffing them, Demko, Pettersson and Hughes are not getting younger and the stock pile of young, cheap, prospects isn’t particularly deep.
I wanted to add, you’re the one that said I wanted to do this every year which is totally incorrect. But a year in which the team is swamped with bad contracts and has a historically bad penalty kill and loses its starting goaltender is a good year to do it. Drance is simply pointing out the shortfalls of the team, I have no idea why this would trigger you so much. It’s clear we spend to much time on wingers, it’s clear they high end centers and defensemen rarely if ever come available
I don’t understand why this is controversial in a "winning a cup" context. If you want to win the cup, it is the best path full stop. NA leagues are designed this way with the draft and salary caps. The leagues themselves are aware of this with anti-tanking rules that aren’t very effective.
Edmonton and Buffalo took 10+ years
