20-21 Season Tank Thread (MOD WARNING IN OP)

[valkynax]

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Can't remember when was the last time I made an actual thread but, I think...

Benning and Weisbrod need to be fired, and both would need a restraining order that would bar them from approaching anywhere within 100 km of the team.

Green has been called out, I tried my best to give him the benefit of the doubt but him providing AR an undeserving sanctuary after last night's game is not acceptable. I wouldn't straight up say fire him (mostly because it will likely give Benning more time), but if we did, I wouldn't mind it.

Aquaman needs a heavy dose of reality.

EDIT: as some pointed out, this might not be a bad year to tank, as we only need to suffer 50 something games of misery instead of 82. I don't know how the prospect pool looks, quite frankly I don't care because us getting top 3 pick is like praying for a pink dragon for a free nickel. This is about getting Benning's fat ass out of town, and pull Aquaman back to our dimension.

EDIT2: as the mod's message said, let's keep this tight and clean, else we won't have a tank to drive anymore.

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[Lindgren]

I"m on the tank, but that means considerably more to me than a good first round draft pick.

Management should now be trying aggressively to unload as many of the older vets as they can, along with some of the younger players that don't look like they have a future on a contender.

My list, in rough order of importance, but for different reasons: Myers, Miller, Pearson, .
Sutter, Holtby, Virtanen, Gaudette, Benn, Eriksson, Rousell, Beagle, Baertschi.

The goal should be to get at least one (part of the return for Miller) but ideally two (a return from a creative packaging of assets like Gaudette and other picks, perhaps) more pick in the upcoming first round, a few more picks in the bottom rounds, and cap space to use to take advantage of teams facing difficulties heading into the expansion draft.

Anyway, I shall continue to cheer for three point games on the out-of-town scoreboard. Go Senators!

 

[Dab]

 

[WTG]

 

[MS]

This really needs to be called the Frank the Tank Thread.

 

[xtra]

This gonna be shutdown cause the other side will be crying about it soon.

 

[valkynax]

This really needs to be called the Frank the Tank Thread.

how Aquaman feels about himself:

 

[Hit the post]

St Anger was an underappreciated album.

 

[M2Beezy]

Tragic this thread needs to exist 7 years into the GMs job

 

[geebaan]

I only care about a tank, if it means changes in management

everything else is irrelevant

 

[WTG]

Tragic this thread needs to exist 7 years into the GMs job

This is what we like to call a Throwback Thread.
Back in the Tank with Frank.

 

[WTG]

I only care about a tank, if it means changes in management

everything else is irrelevant

TRUE

 

[BenningHurtsMySoul]

This had better stay open.

Season is a write-off. Take the Ottawa wins away and we have the worst record in the NHL. The departed players were so much more important than management thought. The room is clearly not right at the moment.

Go for Luke Hughes this year, and your defence is set for a decade plus. Even if he's gone, there are some quality dmen available in the top 5. Offensively it is a very thin year, but we are mostly good on that front.

 

[xtra]

I could actually see this being the year we finish third last in the league but Seattle gets our position in the lottery and wins the lottery to get first overall lol

 

[MS]

I only care about a tank, if it means changes in management

everything else is irrelevant

Yup. I couldn't care less about the draft pick.

The worse this season goes, the more certain we can be that the rot in the organization will be addressed and the morons running this team will be gone.

 

[Dab]

This really needs to be called the Frank the Tank Thread.

 

[DS7]

Tank Threads rn on this board:

 

[VanillaCoke]

Definitely need a tank thread to blow off steam and not fill every other thread.

Canucks are bottom 3, there's absolutely no reason why we cant have a thread on this disaster of a season.

High draft pick, new management.

 

[Fatass]

Frank the Tank leads the way! Go Frankie Go!
Lucky Luke Hughes!

 

[Lindgren]

This gonna be shutdown cause the other side will be crying about it soon.

I don't think so. Even on 650, during the game, they were referring to this as a "lost season." When I heard that I thought I'd open a tank thread today, but the OP beat me to it.

 

[rypper]

It's time for a change. 7 years on the job and we're still here making tank threads. Bring in someone new with an actual long term vision and start clearing as much dead weight and ufas as possible.

It doesn't even have to be a full scale teardown, someone with any kind of eye for pro scouting should be able to bring in pieces to supplement our stars.

 

[Izzy Goodenough]

Extreme Tankist alert:

I am of the opinion that every year might as well be a full tank year until such time a team has the quality of players to make a run for the championship.

In terms of when you can gauge this, I was taken by a report, a few years ago, that NHL Nintendo could simulate a season and come up with the eventual cup winner and the predictions were basically accurate for several years running. So technically all the Nucks need to do in order to decide to end the tank, is enter their roster with the other rosters and run the simulations.

In other news, the canucks are likely at least 6 decent forwards and 2-3 decent defensemen from ever winning in the simulation let alone the Cup.

 

[Fatass]

I am of the opinion that every years might as well be a full tank until such time a team has the quality of players to make a run for the championship.

I terms of when you can gauge this, I was taken by a report, a few years ago, that NHL Nintendo could simulate a season and come up with the eventual cup winner and the predictions were basically accurate for several years running. So technically all the Nucks need to do in order to decide to end the tank, is enter their roster with the other rosters and run the simulations.

In other news, the canucks are likely at least 6 decent forwards and 2-3 decent defensemen from ever winning in the simulation.

And, thanks to Benning, add a goalie to that list of needs.

 

[I am toxic]

20-21 Season Tank Thread.

 

[Fatass]

This gonna be shutdown cause the other side will be crying about it soon.

The thing is there really shouldn’t be a “side” in this. All Canuck fans (I’m thinking) just want us to be a team good enough to compete for Cups. The process for teams to get to that level almost always requires top five draft picks. Getting those picks requires losing, which (of course) sucks as a fan to watch. But losing is more accepted if there is a clear plan in place to build (through these top picks) a very good team. hence we need to Tank, but darned if I didn’t wish it was planned, and not done by mismanagement.