The other problem is that a lot of people in this town THINK they know more about hockey than they really do, kind of the way the nouveau riche think they know about caviar and thoroughbreds and Rolls Royces. Going to Canucks games is a "cool" and "glamorous" thing for corporations to treat their clients to, even if neither knows anything about hockey... but they like to PRETEND that they know EVERYTHING about hockey, and spout off about it at every opportunity.

Obviously this isn't true of EVERYONE in the stands at the games, but I think Vancouver holds an unfortunate position in between the "true" hockey towns like the Original Six cities, where even the big money "gets" hockey, or the small markets where there AREN'T all those big-money playas who hold most of the season tickets... and the non-traditional-hockey-market towns where there are a passionate fans who KNOW they don't know that much about hockey, but enjoy it anyway.

Just a thought... he could be used as part of a trade package to another team thats close or below the cap floor to pad the deal.

i never complained about naslund, bert cooke or kesler. naslund wasnt comfortable with AV's system. Bertuzzi pretty much just changed after that game with Moore, Cooke does what cooke does best. and kesler is still developing. Cloutier is just too funny as a choker and letting shitty goals in.

Pyatt just doesnt really do much. He was pretty much playing between the 1st, 2nd and 3rd line last season and if he only could get like 37pts thats pretty much stank imo.

lol...thats so true. i remember my HS social studies teacher telling us that BC loves to be first in everything. whether its good or bad. crime, poverty, taxes, health...etc, etc

^ sooo damn true. unbelievably true.

And typical Canucks fan who thinks he knows it all and goes on a rant because someone spoke up and made an opinion about a player on the team. Must we go through this every season? :rolleyes:

any predictions where we finish this season with what we have done SO FAR:

9-10th > in the conference.

you think we won't make the playoffs?

fuuuuuck.


i say 6th in the west, 2nd in the division.

we'll win the division.
both calgary and minni got shittier up front.
as for edmonton and colorado their goalies lick.
if we get sundin i think we can make 2nd in the conference to detroit :D

so where does it tell about the signing. All I can see is it says nucks but there's nothing saying about he has actually signed. This could be a move to make the moose a better team tho.

calgary got shittier up front?

Camallerri with Iginla is going to be a deadly combo..

if anything imo teams around us are still much better, and have improved more with proven talent then we have.

^ factor in bert as well

No im not the typical Canuck fan. Cause the typical Canuck fan whines and bitches and makes their own dumb opinions about the team. Someone that never looks at the bright side and always has something negative to say. Like u!


the point is, ur an idiot, ur complaining about a guy that still contributes to the team by putting pucks in the net. Thats wat hes paid to do and he does it at a bargain price. Next thing u know ull complain about Burrows not scoring enough goals when he only makes like $500,000 and complain about edler if has a bad sophmore year who makes $550,000

exactly, if bert can step it up and even have another 40p season, the flames are going to be tough as hell to play against

^ on top of that, i think with iginla there, bert may have a rebirth so to speak. iginla commands a lot of respect around the league, and maybe that sort of confidence will help bert out

i still don't see how people can think sundin is past his prime. the man has been consistently putting up points, i think at over a ppga for the last couple years and has played 70 or more games for as long as i can remember. he didn't just score a few goals last season, he carried toronto on his back for the better half of his career and that's what we need him for here. and he's not asking for that type of money, wasn't it just our desperate offer?

sundin hasn't played with a skilled player since mogilny and yet he still has managed to put up PPG with a bunch of lesser players

Really mature and you must have no life whatsoever to go back and quote my posts. You're ranting about so called "typical" Canucks fans and shit but what do you call yourself? You sound like a little whiny bitch who gets offended with opinions that aren't positive. Grow the hell up buddy.


And just to make it clear AGAIN, I have a problem with Pyatt not using his size. He's our biggest forward and he could make a bigger impact if he used his size a little more often.

I could see the Oilers at the top of the NW because they're deadly offensively. Goaltending is a problem but you just don't know what goalie might get hot next season.

Pyatt's never going to use the body, he plays soft and i really dont see his game evolve past this point, he is too bad of a skater.

everyone has a right to complain about a team that makes u pay about 100 bucks a ticket then dosent even make the fukin playoffs.

meh, i find that argument to be irrelevent, or the one people who cant afford to go to the games use. [not saying u cant]

It's not even the paying $100 per ticket, but the salaries these players make which should allow fans to criticize them and put them under the spotlight when things aren't going the way the fans know what the team is capable of.
If every fan was to just keep quiet despite the team playing poorly, then they'll continue to play poorly as noone has come out to saying anything. Feedback leads to improvement, but I guess some of the ways fans express themselves can be pretty harsh. However, once again, if you're making 6 million bucks a season (compare this to 100 g's doctors make to save lifes), then you better be able to handle all the criticisms from the fans.

Um, don't they still have both Garon AND Roloson?

aka florida LOL