Trading Edler and Hansen away is a great step, but keep in mind, the owners want to win so no matter who we hire, the owners have a big say in what happens. Chances of the Sedins being traded away are slim to none.
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Trading Edler and Hansen away is a great step, but keep in mind, the owners want to win so no matter who we hire, the owners have a big say in what happens. Chances of the Sedins being traded away are slim to none.
As a Nucks fan I'd do that in a heartbeat
Edler is garbo and needs to be carried by his d partner
Don't think the nucks braintrust would even consider moving him though because he's big and toolsy
Jim Benning and Co love big toolsy players with 2c brains
LOL
Tyler Johnson is worth significantly more than Edler. You have your plus on the wrong side
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“in the light of that, how do you react to both media and fans when they start talking about the tank?”
Benning responded in kind:
“Yeah, well, I understand the thinking in that, but we have too much pride in this organization. I know how bad our fans want to win, but that’s just not an option for us. We’re going to go out and compete hard every night and try to win games. I’m confident in the job we’re going to do scouting, wherever we pick, we’re going to get a good player in the first round.”
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"We want to stay competitive while we’re transitioning our young kids, our next group of core players. We don’t want our fans to come to the game and get blown out every night so we can get a top-five pick every year. We want to be competitive and have our kids develop in meaningful games, so we’re trying to walk the fine line of being competitive and drafting and developing our players to get them up and going."
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He doesn't believe in tanking because it'll ruin the kiddies
“We want to be competitive,” Benning told the media Wednesday afternoon. “We want to develop our kids in a winning environment, so we want to be competitive for a playoff spot.”
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"Our goal is to develop young players in a winning environment, to make the playoffs, and ultimately we want to compete and win the Stanley Cup,"
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"What we’re trying to do is we’re trying to add core prospects ‘on the fly’, as you’d say," Benning continued. "We have a good team, but we want to develop those young players in a winning environment.
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"You can have a lot of good young players, but if they don’t learn and understand what it takes to win and (if) they (don’t) have older players showing them the right way to play and how to win, you end up with a team full of real good players that never wins anything."
Edler makes too much for too long and we have no need for another defender especially LD, Tanev I'd consider. Ideally we'd trade Johnson for a cheaper and younger forward, Boeser or Horvat.
Der Jaeger
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they tried to get him last time he was on the block
How does Brock Boeser and a 3rd round pick sound?
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because lol Jets
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Why so serious?
Agreed! Blow it up...
However, our ownership believes it's more valuable to make playoffs
Der Jaeger
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they tried to get him last time he was on the block
How does Brock Boeser and a 3rd round pick sound?
I think Vancouver needs to move salary to make a Kane trade work.
I'd do Boeser, Sbisa, and a 2nd.
Counter: Kane, Will Borgen, protected 2017 1st for Juolevi and Sbisa. Really just testing Canuck fans on how they value Juolevi.
You dont trade your top prospects for a player like Kane. What a useless trade. Buffalo takes that every day and night.
Both Boeser and Juolevi are worth more than Kane.
Loui Erikson might be available and is a 30 goal scorer ... oh wait you already have him and he didn't score a single one yet... oups sorry 'bout that !!!
Yeah he did
Its just scary from a canucks perspective that the Sedins are pretty much single handed keeping the VAN franchise from being a full blown dumpster fire, like expansion team kind of bad.
They clearly dont have too much time left and the Canucks pipeline is poor at best.
You have to wonder how Benning just keeps prolonging the inevitable because no amount of changes this year or next will get them to a cup or event beyond first round playoff appearance
Just give the Sedins a trade out for a chance at a cup, get as much as you can for them, and start stocking up
They clearly dont have too much time left and the Canucks pipeline is poor at best.
You have to wonder how Benning just keeps prolonging the inevitable because no amount of changes this year or next will get them to a cup or event beyond first round playoff appearance
Just give the Sedins a trade out for a chance at a cup, get as much as you can for them, and start stocking up
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These bandaid solutions are the exact reasons the Canucks are a mediocre aging team with limited prospects to be excited about.
I've nearly had it with the moves they have made. If they give up more pics for mid tier players I'm done. Everyone has seen the the transactions page right? I mean the amount of pics the Canucks have dealt away is insane.
The feeling around the Canucks is so stale (which reflects in the support in stands and atmosphere at the games). Compare the Canucks to other Canadian teams and their prospects? Sort of makes me want to chunder in the toilet.
Burrows and Edler just to start need to be dealt. Once and for all, I'm begging Canucks ownership. Accept a rebuild and actually commit to it. None of this garbage on the fly "re-tooling". The Canucks are hideously boring to watch right now. Give us some excitement!!!!
Please
I've nearly had it with the moves they have made. If they give up more pics for mid tier players I'm done. Everyone has seen the the transactions page right? I mean the amount of pics the Canucks have dealt away is insane.
The feeling around the Canucks is so stale (which reflects in the support in stands and atmosphere at the games). Compare the Canucks to other Canadian teams and their prospects? Sort of makes me want to chunder in the toilet.
Burrows and Edler just to start need to be dealt. Once and for all, I'm begging Canucks ownership. Accept a rebuild and actually commit to it. None of this garbage on the fly "re-tooling". The Canucks are hideously boring to watch right now. Give us some excitement!!!!
Please
Really hoping this is just a casual rumor. It would be easy to put Horvat in the top-6, he's been excellent thus far except for coach WD deploying him in defensive situations. Eriksson is not going to continue to have 0 goals, he's just snake bitten at the moment. If we are trading for a 20 goal scorer, Tanev isn't leaving. If Tanev is traded, it'll be for a Trouba-type player.
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The waiver wire whips by too fast for Canucks braintrust. A move cannot be run by the owner, argued, then sold to the coach in that amount of time.
JuniorNelson
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I think this is accurate. Nobody is in danger of losing their jobs. Their actual job is to play golf with the owner and not laugh at his hockey ideas. Sedins are in this elite inner circle. How else to explain their uncontested top line positioning every season? They aren't top liners and haven't been for years, yet...?
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