Should be noted there were rules:
□ Team: two goalies, six defencemen, 12 forwards and one foundational player
□ Members must have played at least 225 games with the Canucks
□ At least one member of the all-time team must be from the 2019-20 Canucks
□ Players are slotted in positions they played with the Canucks
□ One line must be comprised of defensive standouts, aka a checking line
□ One pair must be comprised of suffocating defenders, aka a shutdown pair
□ Lines and pairs are put together because they fit together, not because they are necessarily the first, second and third best at their positions
□ Foundational players are defined as players part of the fabric – the DNA – of a franchise
□ Last cuts by position are exactly as advertised, the players who just missed selection to the all-time team
It's fine. I'm not sure the Sedins and Bure fit stylistically but whatever. Courtnall and Tanti could be subbed out for a number of other players but I'm don't have any major quarrel with them being there. Would replace Lidster with Snepts but handedness makes it difficult. That he's not even a final cut is atrocious. Don't have a good read on guys like Lidster(RD) and Kearns(LD) over Salo(RD) or Bieksa(RD) so I'm fine with the guys I know. Crazy to think we had Ohlund, Salo, Bieksa, and Edler all at the same time.
They have AV as the coach with Gillis and Quinn co-GMing.
The final cuts were:
G: Richard Brodeur, 1980-87
LD: Ed Jovanovski, 1999-06
RD: Kevin McCarthy, 1978-84
LW: Greg Adams, 1987-95
C: Cliff Ronning, 1991-96
RW: Alex Mogilny, 1995-00
Jovanovski and McCarthy continually get overrated but that's the way of offensive defencemen. The tough choices for me would have been Adams vs Courtnall and Mogilny over Tanti. Just don't have a solid read on everything pre-1997.
