Rathbone 3 assists on his debut in the AHL.

"Jack (Rathbone) walks the line in the o-zone as good as anyone I've seen in this league." - Trent fucking Cull

Suddenly the Canucks have insane amount of Dmen that can walk the line Hughes, Schmidt, Rathbone lol, from having literally no one for the past few years haha

probably gonna score more points professionally than Chatfield by season's end.

Lolnucks bottom 6 Pointwise is like 2nd worst in the league. Gp 24 and they scored 25 points together lmao. Shows how much virtanen and gaudette regressed. Motte has been out for like 10 games and he contributes 6pts to that. You know ur fucked when Sutter and beagle provides 6 and 5 pts a piece. Then there's players like virtanen, gaudette, Roussel etc. who are suppose to provide much more points than those old guys that aren't tasked to rack up points.

I expected nothing from Virtanen or Roussel. But it's sad to see Gaudette regress so badly. Still creampuff soft but now he's also useless on the PP. fuck man

To be fair, pp2 rarely get a fair shot. They get scrap seconds on the PP. Like 20 to 30 seconds left of pp and they start on their own zone. So basically 1 chance to bring it into their zone and setup for a shot. Hard to match 17 goals from last season by pp2. Although I feel Schmidt and myers bomb on the point seems like an upgrade from last year too.

I expected virtanen to at least get 10pts at worse, but it seems like that would be at best lmao.

It does suck to have the bottom 6 earn more money than our top 6, and they're not pitching in much. It's a shitty problem but if the Canucks never hit the jackpot Petey with the 5th pick, horvat would be our 1c, Sutter 2c, beagle 3c and gaudette 4c, which lines up as a fair payment for them linewise. Can't wait til these contracts expire, Lind is looking good for a bottom 6 too. I wonder what they'll do with Pearson, if they'll sell him while he has value or just extend him cuz horvat always had different players on his wings before Pearson.

Bottom-6 is ass and overpaid.

Welcome to every year under Benning.

How is this news

https://theprovince.com/sports/hockey/nhl/vancouver-canucks/canucks-prospects-tracker-rathbone-breaks-new-ground-the-last-days-of-tryamkin

Rathbone is smurfing in the AHL, can't wait til he joins the NHL. He looked fricken good in camp, but he was really raw on how the system worked, AHL should help him develop that part of his game.

Tryamkin would be a huge upgrade to Benn, i actually wanna see him play with Hughes. He's always been a smooth skater for a huge guy. Would probably be able to keep up with Hughes. This team suddenly doesn't need puck moving dmen anymore, as Hughes, Schmidt, Rathbone etc. Seems like they need more "stay at home" dmen, which Tryamkin fits the bill. He blocks, PK's, big, hits, skates well. I just wanna see him overpower 4 guys again like they're 5' 100lbs, like he did 4 years ago against the Ducks

AHL is grooming Lind to become a center, since the canucks are lacking in that department, with Gaudette not working out. When Sutter and Beagle departs, i hope someone in the team steps up and takes over their role. Otherwise gotta pray some decent 3/4C is available in FA.



last season was decent tho, Virtanen and Gaudette on pace for 40+pts a piece in sheltered ezpz minutes. The bottom 6 contributed a lot. This season everyone in the bottom 6 isn't contributing, so regressed to the fact that Sutter and Beagle leads with pts in the bottom 6 while taking on harder roles and their focus isnt to get points on the scoreboard. Shows how much others are underperforming with Motte being an exception.

This post was edited by Secksii on Mar 1 2021 03:51pm

Sprite jerseys removed, Canucks hold their lead and win in convincing fashion. Coincidence? I think not.

Idk about this tho, too much good shit happened in this single game, I'm worried all the good charm is used up and its back to bad bounce february again.

- Schmidtty finally gets rewarded for his plays
- 2nd pp got a goal, Sutter got an assist
- gaudette gets 2 pts
- Hoglander finally gets a long over due goal, his Michigan attempt was a tease
- 3 deflection goals from a point shot all goes in
- myers continues to impress
- the team displayed one of their best defensive games and won
- virtnanen actually looked good, and gave a fuck
- Demko shutout
- lotto line produces

This post was edited by Secksii on Mar 2 2021 08:35am

apparently one of the top prospects for the 2021 draft is called Owen Power

it's decided, we must tank

This post was edited by Hizkuntza on Mar 2 2021 08:42am

This year, there's no clear cut #1. So like any top pick can turn out great. It's kinda like peteys year when top end was meh but u can come out with steals like makar and Petey etc. Hischier ain't bad but clearly if redraft happened he's not going 1oa.

It would be such canucks thing for them to finally win a lottery and draft a bust.