News Article: SI/HN predicts what the Canucks will look like in 2020 (in 2017)

[David Bruce Banner]

My apologies if this has been posted before, but I thought it would be good for a larf...

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[Mr. Canucklehead]

Good God. Kill it with fire!

 

[Tables of Stats]

It's almost like making predictions about team line-ups is a mug's game and that anybody who reads anything into them should take me up on this bridge I have for sale.

 

[NoShowWilly]

It's almost like making predictions about team line-ups is a mug's game and that anybody who reads anything into them should take me up on this bridge I have for sale.

It's why I've given up predicting prospects or getting too excited about anyone. I don't know f*** all about predicting these guys and don't watch anything close to enough junior hockey.

 

[iceburg]

WOW...that is impressively bad.

 

[M2Beezy]

What

 

[Diversification]

To be fair, you can't predict trades and free agent signings. So they are, by nature, doomed to fail.

 

[Zombotron]

Source:
2020 Vision: What the Vancouver Canucks roster will look like in three years

 

[Reverend Mayhem]

Good God. Kill it with fire!

2nded. My lord. What a fool's errand. Guess FAs don't exist anymore. Why waste time on this? lol

 

[VanJack]

Yikes! Instead of the 'Lotto Line" the Canucks have three 'draft lottery' lines. If that lineup had ever actually hit the ice, Jimbo would have walked the plank at the same time as Linden.

 

[ChilliBilly]

The most amusing line in the whole thing is that in a few years, once free of the Sedins contracts, it doesn't appear that Jim Benning will face a scary cap conundrum ....

 

[rypper]

Kole Lind in the top six, Virtanen on the fourth line lol.

 

[hellstick]

Gagner, pillar of our bottom 6.

 

[Javaman]

It's wrong because it's missing Dahlin, J. Hughes, and Lafreniere.

 

[Paulinbc]

The most amusing line in the whole thing is that in a few years, once free of the Sedins contracts, it doesn't appear that Jim Benning will face a scary cap conundrum ....

And fortunately now that ferdaddy is headed to ir, neither do we.

 

[Tables of Stats]

These guys have already proven that they have no idea how things work with this gem, "Loui Eriksson gets paid like a No. 1 right winger, but I project a buyout of his final three seasons by the time 2019-20 rolls around." Obviously, they never looked into just how buyout proof his contract actually is.

 

[701]

Can't wait for Pettersson to become a worthy Sedin successor one of these next couple of seasons. In the meantime, thank god for Granlund and the defensively gifted Dahlen. Our team is so fortunate to have them as stalwarts filling whichever net. Even my wife won't let me sleep right on her, so thanks for the warning but I'm pretty sure Dahlen wouldn't like that either, even though, you know, there's nothing wrong with it

 

[Javaman]

These guys have already proven that they have no idea how things work with this gem, "Loui Eriksson gets paid like a No. 1 right winger, but I project a buyout of his final three seasons by the time 2019-20 rolls around." Obviously, they never looked into just how buyout proof his contract actually is.

*Experts*

Some people actually pay money for this sort of drivel. Sad but true.

 

[Tables of Stats]

*Experts*

Some people actually pay money for this sort of drivel. Sad but true.

I just purchased a subscription to The Athletic for the comedy value of some of their takes.

 

[SeawaterOnIce]

Schroeder- Hodgson-Rodin

 

[604]

They got 3 of the top 6 fwds, starting goalie, and 0 of the defenseman.

I think based on this, I'm starting to feel that Benning might actually be doing a decent job. Out team is significantly better than it was projected to be.

 

[rypper]

Imagine that powerplay running through Jordan Subban.

 

[ChilliBilly]

And fortunately now that ferdaddy is headed to ir, neither do we.

Yeah that will give us all of $1.5M in Cap space, which goes to Hamonic. We need some cap space to be able to sign podkolzin, but the really sad part is that if we had cap space, we could be picking up great players for nothing right now.

 

[Bitz and Bites]

Yeah that will give us all of $1.5M in Cap space, which goes to Hamonic. We need some cap space to be able to sign podkolzin, but the really sad part is that if we had cap space, we could be picking up great players for nothing right now.

Yes,we could have a much younger,faster,cheaper,and more effective bottom six and some better defensive depth if we weren't bogged down with all the overpaid UFA's Benning has signed.Ugh.

 

[Wildcarder]

Sea of Granlunds...