2020/2021 Around the League Thread

[Frankie Blueberries]

Its absolutely incredible how much just gets completely glazed over.

Literal home grown Vezina calibre prime aged goalie, let walk, for nothing.

Imagine if Jets just let helley walk to the oilers, or gibson to the kings, vasi to the Panthers, for nothing, over 6m yr.

Yeah, but imagine if the Jets, Ducks, or Tampa instead had about $30 million in cap tied up with Eriksson, Myers, Ferland, Sutter, Baertschi, Beagle, Roussel, and Spooner.


They would suck, bye bye Cup from Tampa.

 

[GetFocht]

Markstrom with that beauty .789 percentage. That's a premium performance for 6 million.

 

[Pastor Of Muppetz]

Flames lose..Matt Tkachuk has hissy fit at end of game..

 

[Bojack Horvatman]

Markstrom with that beauty .789 percentage. That's a premium performance for 6 million.

And he has a .928 save percentage the other games. Tyler Myers is getting paid 6m to get scored on as much or more than half the other teams in the league.

 

[Breakers]

Flames lose..Matt Tkachuk has hissy fit at end of game..

That play by Muzzin was amazing

 

[4Twenty]

Calgary sure starts poorly in 1st periods. They were the better team after 1.

 

[GetFocht]

And he has a .928 save percentage the other games. Tyler Myers is getting paid 6m to get scored on as much or more than half the other teams in the league.

You mean .928 save percentage from Vancouver playing its absolute worst hockey. He let 5 goals in his first game before that.

Lmao, his save percentage is now .911, yah that .928 save percentage argument didn't last too long.

 

[Egghead1999]

Flames lose..Matt Tkachuk has hissy fit at end of game..

That is beautiful .

 

[mathonwy]

That is beautiful .

Hahah... so awesome

 

[AwesomeInTheory]

You mean .928 save percentage from Vancouver playing its absolute worst hockey. He let 5 goals in his first game before that.

Lmao, his save percentage is now .911, yah that .928 save percentage argument didn't last too long.

3.70 .888
4.33 .890

The Canucks goaltending, on the other hand, has been stellar.

 

[Mr. Canucklehead]

That is beautiful .

Yeah, I enjoyed this.

I know Tkachuk is ridiculously talented, but I also find him fundamentally unlikeable. He doesn’t have benefit of the doubt from me when it comes to plays like what happened with Campbell, because he’s always going out of his way to get a piece of someone. To see some players give him back a bit of his own game is almost as much of a treat as watching him have a tantrum over it.

 

[I am toxic]

Yeah, I enjoyed this.

I know Tkachuk is ridiculously talented, but I also find him fundamentally unlikeable. He doesn’t have benefit of the doubt from me when it comes to plays like what happened with Campbell, because he’s always going out of his way to get a piece of someone. To see some players give him back a bit of his own game is almost as much of a tread as watching him have a tantrum over it.

Yep.

Wish we'd drafted him.

Then traded him.

I want the Canucks to be led by class acts, like the Sedins, Horvat, Petey, Tanev, Hamhuis, Hansen etc the list is long and distinguished

 

[GetFocht]

3.70 .888
4.33 .890

The Canucks goaltending, on the other hand, has been stellar.

I didn't realize we are paying 6 million for 6 years for a goalie as well.

I bet either Holtby or Democrat normalizes and will have similar stats to Markstrom.

 

[AwesomeInTheory]

I didn't realize we are paying 6 million for 6 years for a goalie as well.

I bet either Holtby or Democrat normalizes and will have similar stats to Markstrom.

Thanks for making my point.

I'd imagine that Markstrom's stats are going to be closer to .925 than the .789 you were touting earlier.

Markstrom is a good goalie, but the Canucks were probably wise to walk away from the term he was asking. No need to slag him.

 

[sandwichbird2023]

I didn't realize we are paying 6 million for 6 years for a goalie as well.

I bet either Holtby or Democrat normalizes and will have similar stats to Markstrom.

Similar in what way? If you are suggesting by season end that the combined numbers of Demko and Holtby GAA will be within say 0.1 from Markstrom, and S% will be say within 0.05, I'll take that bet.

 

[CanucksSayEh]

Apparently Stone won't get suspended, cuz he hit Bozak in the chest rather than the face. Never mind that he never had the puck.

....

Aaron Rome.

 

[mossey3535]

It's behind a paywall, but Ingoal magazine had Marky easily 2nd-3rd in the Vezina race last year. I trust them a lot more than most.

 

[Fire Benning]

lmao the usual suspects dumping on players once they leave the organization as usual. I guess when your lovely GM is paying nearly 15 million dollars for players to literally not play on your team you have to keep grasping at straws to make him look good.

 

[deckercky]

Letting markstrom go had nothing to do with this season, it has to do with seasons 3-6. Same as tanev.

The Canucks have bad contracts, but regardless of those bad contracts and the impact of allowing some key players walk, I think the team accepted that it was not in a position to compete this season and didn't want to be dealing with more bad contracts 3 years down the line.

If the goal is a cup, it was a reasonable (but tough) path to take.

 

[Intangibos]

Love Tkachuk. Yeah it's cringe when he has his little temper tantrum, but it's pretty f***ing cringe when Miller has his little tantrum because he lost a puck battle and then lost another one because he was too busy screaming having his little tantie on the way to the bench.

They're competitive. It's silly to us because we're not them and we're not professionals playing at the top so we can't relate. Tkachuk is just mad because Toronto got to leave with a smile on their faces having got Tkachuk good at the end. It's the agitator personality type, he wants to make the game not very fun to play for the other team. That's Tkachuk's game and they got him this time and he doesn't like it, and it's probably a good thing for him, his career and his team for him to really not like it.

 

[elitepete]

That is beautiful .

That’s hilarious

Wtf was the moron doing at the end there? Such a clown lmao.

He’s still a beast though and should be a Canuck. Hope the Lames lose him for nothing when his contract is up.

 

[elitepete]

The Canucks have bad contracts, but regardless of those bad contracts and the impact of allowing some key players walk, I think the team accepted that it was not in a position to compete this season and didn't want to be dealing with more bad contracts 3 years down the line.

If you know anything about Benning, you know this is bullshit.

 

[CantStoptheBrock]

Letting markstrom go had nothing to do with this season, it has to do with seasons 3-6. Same as tanev.

The Canucks have bad contracts, but regardless of those bad contracts and the impact of allowing some key players walk, I think the team accepted that it was not in a position to compete this season and didn't want to be dealing with more bad contracts 3 years down the line.

If the goal is a cup, it was a reasonable (but tough) path to take.

Agreed, and it's why despite all the complaining, nobody here will simply state that they would have signed those players to those contacts. It's really quite interesting. Usually it's easiest to say "we should have signed this player to this contract!" In year one of the deal, and yet nobody is stepping up to the plate to back up their beliefs.

 

[Fatass]

Agreed, and it's why despite all the complaining, nobody here will simply state that they would have signed those players to those contacts. It's really quite interesting. Usually it's easiest to say "we should have signed this player to this contract!" In year one of the deal, and yet nobody is stepping up to the plate to back up their beliefs.

What? Do you have 99% of the posters here on ignore, or something? Of course we are a better team with Marky, Tanev, and Tofu. Benning didn’t sign these three, because he has 20 plus million tied up in toxic (pretty much dead) contracts.
Why do you think Miller said he was shocked, and (even) Bo said he was surprised with our not resigning those three top UFAs?

 

[Fatass]

Yep.

Wish we'd drafted him.

Then traded him.

I want the Canucks to be led by class acts, like the Sedins, Horvat, Petey, Tanev, Hamhuis, Hansen etc the list is long and distinguished