Canucks fan coming in peace and alliance. You guys have been very welcoming in the Off Day Thread, so I wanted to share my lucky GIF. with you that not only applies to your game today, but would also make Torts lose his mind:
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Best of luck today and Happy U.S. Thanksgiving
Van is gonna be a threat soon. Good to see they were finally patient and rebuilt the right way(tho we are seeing alot of teams catching on now) instead of forcing it by adding top FAs and paying too much. Who end up not panning out and setting the team back. Loui's contract is finally up next year? That will also help.
Credit to their scouting too. They've done better than teams who got 1st and 2nd pick in some of those drafts. Landing Pettersson 5th overall. Hes way better than Patrick and Hischier. Thats basically like Canucks getting 1st overall. Getting Hughes 8th overall? Wings really messed up there, but a tough situaton with Zadina falling to them. Wings desperately needed a dman like him too. Anyway another steal for Vancouver. Boeser 23rd overall in 2015 who has 140 pts in 166 games is gonna end up being one of the best in that stacked draft. And so on. The one mistake was not taking Tkachuk. How is Juolevi doing anyway? Still projected to be a top dman?
In past years with them being this close we'd usually see them(and alot of teams) go for it all. Like what the Oilers did by making a bunch of trades and handing out big contracts after making the playoffs once. Yet Canucks are remaining patient and their time will come where they are back on top. Was looking forward to a Pens / Canucks cup back then but we got embarrassed by the Bruins.
Build thru the draft. Dont force a rebuild.
Pens started it with their drafting(well getting lucky that Sid/Geno were the two available at the time) and GMs finally came around , realizing thats the way to go(after years of whining about the Pens "tanking") , now every team is doing it. But purposely tanking now instead of just being a bad team for a handful of years. And fans rooting for it. Back then it was ....frowned upon
