You can do that in the NHL? In MLB, free agents who are signed in the off season cannot be traded until a couple months into the regular season. This is to prevent teams from signing players they don't need and trying to extort prospects away from other teams.

^ You can do that in the NHL and NBA.

i dont see anything wrong with it

it is a business after all
so why not do the best you can

http://d.yimg.com/eur.yimg.com/ng/sp...1219512425.jpg
then and now 10 years later

lol from the canuck forum

holy fuck, NO SUNDIN... the similarities are too scary and i dont want to be back in that crap ass dark era staring at mess..er sundin

thats awesome, except there different type of players

wow pretty freaky

whether or not we get sundin, i'm really looking forward to this upcoming season :)

i'm not. we are gonna suck so bad.

Was Sundin offered the captaincy? I thought I heard Gillis say he didn't offer him the 'C' :\

I don't imagine he would be offered the C. I'm a believer that you should reward the players that have stuck with the organization through out the ups and downs and their voice will be a lot more powerful in the locker room.

He was not. Gillis said on Team1040 that he has not offered Sundin captaincy but it might be something to consider.

Willie Mitchell 4 captain plz.

^ Mitchell ftw
BC boy, has heart, is very vocal... best candidate

^ whao finally changed your profile pic

think sundin would be the type who thinks
fuck im too good for this im not gonna follow mitchell's lead

Hopefully Sundin doesn't have a change of mind about retiring (if the reports from Sweden are true), signs with a couple weeks until training camp and shows up out of shape. This will be the worst case scenario for the Canucks.

Does anyone here honestly think that if Sundin were to sign with the canucks he wouldn't be the captain???? cmon..

it makes no sense to me why he would be captain. especially if its at most 2 years. you're gonna want someone who not only has been in the organzation for a while, but will stick around for many more years to come. it's gonna be mitchell or ohlund (although he's injury prone). Sundin may still lead but he wont wear the C.

This whole thing is a fuckin joke, how can you not know if you're going to play or not? You either do or don't know... exactly what Yzerman and other guys said... if you're done you KNOW you're done, you're at peace with it the second the 3rd period buzzer goes on the last game of your last season.

If he's not training or anything, it's too late even NOW to start that crap for the start of the season besides the fact this whole non-decision thing has gotten past ridiculous.

I hope not...then that would really be the Messier saga all over again. Messier probably felt he was too good to follow Linden's lead. He and Keenan pretty much made Linden voluntarily give up the C

^ so thats what really happened??

i think i was probably too young back then probably gr4 or 5
to really know or care what goes on in the background
I thought Linden just gave it up cause he felt it was the right thing to do
or at least the media made it look that way can't really remember


I just liked to watched hockey especially when Bure was playing

Oops I guess I was wrong, I was probably too young to recall as well but from wiki:

But I wouldn't be surprised if Messier did influence Linden's decision since he made the Canucks take Maki's #11 out of semi-retirement for him.

All I know is that Messier is a fuck face.

LOOOOL :haha:

IMO, the criteria for captaincy is not who has been in the organization the longest nor will be in the organization for years to come. IMO, longevity aside, the sole criteria for captaincy are the impact players. The difference makers in a game.

Sundin is it (if he comes here). Mitchell, though a great defenceman, is not.

Despite Sundin being a forward, he is also a defensively responsible player. He can most definitely lead a team on the offensive end, and on the defensive end as well. Mitchell only shines on his own end of the rink. In the offensive end, Mitchell is almost a non-threat.