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The Canucks are quietly the only team to not win a game so far

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Sidney the Kidney said:
I mean it wasn't *just* because of his response to the reporter that I said he gives off jerk vibes. That just happened to be another example of him coming across as a jerk.

In any case, he could have answered differently. Something to the effect of miscommunication on a play and the two of them hashing out what happened and it not being anything that doesn't happen dozens of times per game amongst teammates. Still a nothing answer, but at least it doesn't come across as being a dick.
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yea i understood what you were saying, was saying i get people seeing him that way but that this instance i dont think is him being a jerk. sure he coulda said something like that, but dont have any issue with how he answered. some of its anyones individual opinion too where mine is i just dont think there's a reason to ask someone about a personal conversation regardless of if it being animated and caught on cameras. because of that i have a longer leash with rejecting the question that way but as i've said my opinion on the matter doesn't mean its the rule. there's obviously people who think its ok to ask and thats their right
 
They are still what, 4 points out of 3rd in the division? They go on a 3 game win streak and they are right back in it. As an outsider, I still believe they can make the playoffs. They have to start putting up some wins now, though. It can definitely "get late early" as someone wise once said. LA Kings just last year finished with 99 points, they won their first game of the season then immediately went on a 0-5-1 stretch. These stretches happen sometimes.
 
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DS7 said:
The room has frankly never recovered from losing Markstrom and Tanev. Defense has never been the same since that offseason.
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The Gr8 Dane said:
Am I dreaming or did Canucks fans not swear they had a bunch of good players / decent core. Hate to see it

Gonna have to press the reset button in Canucks land me thinks
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Well that's the thing, we do.

I'm not directly comparing our teams obviously, but the 2017 Avalanche happened with a lot of the core of a Stanley Cup winner.

That's what makes it more mystifying and terrible. We know the team isn't built very well in terms of having too many good forwards of the same type and barely any good D. But we are not this bad.

Which means it's a psychological thing that's going on, which is almost worse.
A lot of good players who have been good players many times, playing absolutely awful and looking like beginners. It's quite troubling and probably speaks to a shattered dressing room.
 
What happened? Canucks fans were confident everything would be different if Boudreau was given a full season.
 
MarkusNaslund19 said:
Well that's the thing, we do.

I'm not directly comparing our teams obviously, but the 2017 Avalanche happened with a lot of the core of a Stanley Cup winner.

That's what makes it more mystifying and terrible. We know the team isn't built very well in terms of having too many good forwards of the same type and barely any good D. But we are not this bad.

Which means it's a psychological thing that's going on, which is almost worse.
A lot of good players who have been good players many times, playing absolutely awful and looking like beginners. It's quite troubling and probably speaks to a shattered dressing room.
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Actually only 5 players on that team were on the cup team.

MacKinnon
Landeskog
EJ
Compher
Rantanen (who was a rookie).

Everyone else is different. Things actually didn't start to turn around for us until after the Duchene trade which changed the culture of the team and MacKinnon took off after that. Then of course Makar etc etc.
 
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Awful defence, overrated forwards, and Demko isn't carrying them right now. They aren't this bad but they aren't that much better than this. Hard to imagine them turning this around with any haste.
 
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DS7 said:
The room has frankly never recovered from losing Markstrom and Tanev. Defense has never been the same since that offseason.
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Why would you care about losing Markstrom when you have Thatcher “Top 5 goalie in the NHL” Demko? Seems like a weird comment…
 
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After jerseys thrown, Canucks feel fan frustrations: 'It's something that hits home'

The Canucks have started 0-4-2 in a season when a return to the Stanley Cup playoffs was officially declared the organization’s target, and for the second season in a row, fans protested what appears to be another broken promise by discarding their home jerseys on the ice.
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It's been a lot of years in the rebuild stage and. . . at this point in the season, it just feels like it's never going to happen, like we’re never going to win again.
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Things you love to read from your pending UFA captain lol
 
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Suntouchable13 said:
They are still what, 4 points out of 3rd in the division? They go on a 3 game win streak and they are right back in it. As an outsider, I still believe they can make the playoffs. They have to start putting up some wins now, though. It can definitely "get late early" as someone wise once said. LA Kings just last year finished with 99 points, they won their first game of the season then immediately went on a 0-5-1 stretch. These stretches happen sometimes.
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exactly, its fun to make fun of and poke a team that gets off to a bad start, but in reality its still October and still less 10 games have been played per team. Anaheim got off to a 1-7 start a few years ago and made the playoffs. There is still the benefit of having 70+ games left.

The concerning thing about the Canucks are the play of Demko and the rumoured locker room rift. It might take another coaching change to wake them up, which of course is a damning thing to say about a team that needed a a coaching change last year. Management is going to need to make some changes regardless and last year shows us that made coaching isn't the problem and it could be in the room. A lot of the times teams can hunker down and say "the answer is in the room" I don't think it is with the Canucks. I don't think Boudreau is to blame at all, but he might need to go just to shock the system because its the easiest move and you don't need a dancing partner to make it.

Its still early and tons of runway left, but there are concerning factors with the team make up itself that tells us they might not come out of this without major intervention.
 
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Still cannot believe they let Tanev walk.

Really shocking to lose a player like that for no reason. Then bring in OEL? Just terrible.
 
Empoleon8771 said:
That's definitely what you want to see from the guy you just signed to an 8 year deal :laugh:

Idk why people thought the Canucks would be good this year. Their defense was the problem last year and they did absolutely nothing to address that, instead deciding on bringing Mikheyev.

Is anyone surprised by them struggling? They're not spending money well at all. They're overpaying their mediocre core which prevents them from having sufficient depth or defense. Demko at $5 million is great, but all of their other core guys are either fairly paid or overpaid.
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Canucks went downhill ever since they sent Bonino to Pittsburgh

NorthernFlicker said:
Still cannot believe they let Tanev walk.

Really shocking to lose a player like that for no reason. Then bring in OEL? Just terrible.
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I’m so frustrated with this team’s decisions.
One bad decision after another.

The most annoying of it all is, they are squandering real young talent.
 
They look the same to me as last year, but last year Demko was saving their bacon. He has not been up to par yet.
 
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NorthernFlicker said:
Still cannot believe they let Tanev walk.

Really shocking to lose a player like that for no reason. Then bring in OEL? Just terrible.
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If by 'they', you are also referring to fans and media, then you would be correct. Pretty much everybody wanted Tanev gone, his play was declining and incredibly injury prone when he was with the Canucks. You'd also be a fool to think that Tanev's game would get better if he stayed with the Canucks; he'd probably be retired on LTIR.
 
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Raistlin said:
once it hits 0-6-2, logic says its time to go all out for Bedard. but, Vancouver teams always roars back to be a bubble team after the new years.
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Sadly they are probably too good of a team to really be in the Bedard sweepstakes but not good enough to make any noise even if they reached the playoffs.
 
The Canucks are better than this...which is the problem. They're a mediocre team that won't be bad enough for a top 3 pick but is capped out with a lot of long-term deals that would be tough to move. They're on the treadmill.
 
Numba9 said:
If by 'they', you are also referring to fans and media, then you would be correct. Pretty much everybody wanted Tanev gone, his play was declining and incredibly injury prone when he was with the Canucks. You'd also be a fool to think that Tanev's game would get better if he stayed with the Canucks; he'd probably be retired on LTIR.
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The ironic thing is that Tanev hasn't missed a regular season game since leaving the Canucks which is something of a miracle to be honest.
 
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