as much as I hate Jagr, I'd LOVE to see what he could do with the twins. He did score 54 goals (123 pts!) only 2 years ago, I could see him putting up 40+ with the twins. Shanahan would also be very good imo.

Fuck it, lets sign Jagr, Shanahan, Sakic, Forsberg, Nolan, Fedorov, Selanne. Put together our own '97 allstar team.

the thing is even if we get top draft picks, we'll fuck it up somehow

I really can't imagine them fucking up with the #1 draft pick unless they pick Tavares and he ends up being worse than speculated or has a bad injury (got to find someone to blame, right?) and vice versa if drafted with Hedman. I'm almost sure they'd draft Tavares from the looks of it currently.

Speaking of Nolan...

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I can't believe he didn't get mvp that year

Speaking as a Sabres fan, I think Gillis should get on the phone with Reiger ASAP for some forwards as both teams can help each other out. Theres not too much left out there in terms of UFAs and Gillis' best option to get forward help might be thru trading. Sabres have way too many forwards, especially RWs and desperately need a hard hitting stay at home D man. They lost the bidding on Orpik and are currently talking to Jason Smith, if Smith falls thru perhaps a Bieksa for one of the Sabres RWs not named Pominville would benefit both teams.

Sabres RW
Pominville
Bernier
Kotalik
Stafford
Afinogenov
Kaleta

On another Canuck related note, has anyone else been following the prospects camp? Grabner has put on a lot of muscle since last year and is about 185lbs, hes been training hard and aims to be at least 190lbs by training camp. If the Canucks can't bring in any UFA forwards maybe time to give Grabner a shot?

Fuck that. I'm a Canucks fan through-and-through, regardless of if they're having a top tier or bottom feeder year. I've gone to many games over the years that I knew they would lose, but went to cheer 'em on regardless.

where do you put him though? the 3rd and 4th lines are pretty much full with 3-4 extra's to fill in spots

http://communities.canada.com/thepro...h-rangers.aspx

Gold!

You don't put a goal scoring sniper on the 3rd and 4th lines.

Grabner is a fast skating sniper and should be put on the 1st/2nd line. Putting him anywhere else is like asking Krajicek to play a stay at home defenseman role.

http://mirtle.blogspot.com/2008/07/2...whos-left.html

updated list of UFAs available

love number one

canucks should resign Brad Isbister

I dont know about you guys, but when my #1 team, starts going down the toilet,
it agitates me, and makes me feel like every things hopeless. Maybe cause, just 2 seasons ago, we were in the playoffs, and it was such a memorable high point..

Time to just sit back until october and see what MG does by then.

Hordichuk Vs. Stortini. Got something to look forward to.

and jaarko ruutu

J.Ruutu signed with Ottawa Sens.

Nice...now we got conspiracy theories haha

http://forum.canucks.com/index.php?s...c=204629&st=80

its all true.

quite interesting Theory, im hoping its not true......

Because Kesler plays with fire. There's a difference.

Bye Nazzy. Thanks for being part of our team.

trade to get lombardi?

stastny?
trade for nash? joel lundqvist? Dustin Brown? frolov? these ppl signed?

are fans going to see naslund same way as bure?

Anyways Bure was always top 5 highest paid player in the NHL through out his career. Even he didnt give a shit about charity which Vancouver Canucks are all about CHARITY AND MONEY

there's still some decent offensive talent out there
no tier 1 players for sure but some that may give the canucks possibly 3 lines that can score.... get a finisher for the sedins (shanny maybe or recchi), sign a 1A line to compliment the sedin line... IE demitra,nagy and vyborny? and things dont look so bad... yea its not the blockbuster we all have envisioned but we could possibly have as our lines
sedin sedin recchi/ shanny (shanny is a monster on the pp too)
nagy demitra vyborny/bochenski/recchi/shanny
kesler burrows raymond
johnson wellwood hordichuk/pyatt

extras: cowan pettinger

if i remember the positions rite then u know the team doesnt look too bleek

dammm that really makes alot of sence