Are the Canucks the Leafs of 16-17?

[KE19]

Fighting for a wild card spot one year removed from the basement of NHL led by a new face of their franchise.

Do you see the Canucks following in the footsteps of the Leafs' Shannyplan and becoming a dynasty for years to come?

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[Hansen]

The Canucks are having a near identical season to their horrible record last year (bottom 4 spot ruined by a win streak in the last 12 games too), the only difference is that the entire Western Conference from Wild Card spot out is doing just as bad.

Our defence is absolutely pathetic after our top pairing, though Hutton and Stecher are showing some promise. Elias Pettersson and Jacob Markstrom have won us too many games by sheer will alone for us to be in any sort of serious playoff consideration, the rest of the team just can't get it done.

 

[The Grim Reaper]

Do you see the Canucks following in the footsteps of the Leafs' Shannyplan and becoming a dynasty for years to come?

Leafs need to win a first round playoff series, let alone 3-4 cups, before we anoint them a dynasty.

 

[BlueDream]

I’m gonna go with an easy “no” here.

 

[CherryToke]

If we get a top 3 pick this year, yes probably.

Hopefully we don't try to take any short cuts by overpaying free agents and f***ing the cap situation.. like the Leafs did.

 

[BostonBob]

Do you see the Canucks following in the footsteps of the Leafs' Shannyplan and becoming a dynasty for years to come?

If you are a Canucks fan you had better hope that they don't have the same sort of " dynasty " that the Leafs have had.

 

[HamiltonNHL]

Leafs' Shannyplan and becoming a dynasty for years to come

Leafs
Haven't
Won
a
Playoff Series
Yet.

 

[HamiltonNHL]

My big tip is to stack the blueline first.
Keep the points low.

 

[PattyLafontaine]

Leafs
Haven't
Won
a
Playoff Series
Yet.

I like it. LHWAPY!

 

[HamiltonNHL]

Our rebuild has resulted in no Left Wingers and no natural Right D worth bragging about.

Best of Luck.

 

[TeddyBare]

I love labelling dynasty's before the 1st championship.

 

[Billy Kvcmu]

No

 

[NiL8r87]

Dynasty isn't really fair but the Canucks have quite the solid group of young talent. They might need a better goalie however and Rielly and Gardiner had already been baking in the league for a few years prior, whereas the Canucks young defencemen are all going to be coming into the league and will need development time. Their star forwards of Matthews, Marner and Nylander are probably a bit better than Pettersson, Boeser and Horvat collectively and they had Kadri, Bozak and JVR as well. A high pick in this draft will help them inch closer but I wouldn't expect them to advance at the same speed as the Leafs team did.

 

[Advanced stats]

While toronto has large potential to become a dynasty and the rebuild has been overwhelmingly sucessful, Toronto hasn't accomplished anything yet.

That said, Vancouver just doesn't have the elite pieces Toronto has

 

[M2Beezy]

God I hope not, when we are ready for the playoffs again I want our guys to actually have a thirst to compete and win an actual series. The prime time television coverage would be cool I guess but id actually prefer a playoff winning team than a media darling

 

[BruinLVGA]

Fighting for a wild card spot one year removed from the basement of NHL led by a new face of their franchise.

Do you see the Canucks following in the footsteps of the Leafs' Shannyplan and becoming a dynasty for years to come?

You need to explain your definition of "dynasty", first...

 

[Mickey Marner]

The Canucks have a PTS% of .492 and a -18 goal differential.

The Leafs had a PTS% of .579 and a +16 goal differential.

 

[Pyrophorus]

If you are a Canucks fan you had better hope that they don't have the same sort of " dynasty " that the Leafs have had.

Since you didn't specify "had", I'm sure the Nucks would love to have 13 Cups.
I'm sure your fanbase would too.

 

[Pyrophorus]

I do agree, there is no dynasty....c'mon....

 

[Windy River]

Fighting for a wild card spot one year removed from the basement of NHL led by a new face of their franchise.

Do you see the Canucks following in the footsteps of the Leafs' Shannyplan and becoming a dynasty for years to come?

Second paragraph is a tad presumptuous.. lol.

 

[Halla]

leafs had 95 points that year
Nucks are on pace for 81

easy no

 

[Halla]

If you are a Canucks fan you had better hope that they don't have the same sort of " dynasty " that the Leafs have had.

Cups

Tor - 13
Bos - 6

 

[MrThomas]

Since you didn't specify "had", I'm sure the Nucks would love to have 13 Cups.
I'm sure your fanbase would too.

Wow I didn't know that Canucks don't have even a single Cup at all. That must be a some kind of record. But yeah Toronto's last cup is like 50 years ago? That's also very very bad.

 

[lawrence]

nah, the Leafs were a powerhouse team in2017, the Canucks are not.

 

[MrFunnyWobbl]

in b4 Benning gives Pettersson 15M for 4 years.