The 2014 NHL Season - Two Accounts, No Cups - Page 124

On March 11 2014 13:31 CorsairHero wrote:
can the canucks be anymore of a joke? They're lacking goaltending.. 6 goals against in a period lol

make that seven .__.

On March 11 2014 14:39 Blisse wrote:
sorry, but outshot 44-23 and we still win 3-1. WHERE ARE YOUR STATISTICS GODS NOW?

haha hopefully we dont die versus the sharks

On March 11 2014 14:48 CorsairHero wrote:
With the trade deadline a week behind us, I wanted to communicate directly with our Season Ticket Members. You are a very important part of the Canucks family, and I’d like to give you more insight into last week’s developments and our plan for the team going forward.

In addition, I will be inviting you to participate in a webcast after I get home from the GM meetings and upcoming road trip. I want to articulate our plans with you openly and want to give you an opportunity to ask questions so that you have a greater understanding of the vision.

Our mission remains the same: to win the Stanley Cup. Last summer we said we had to make some changes to our team. We need to get younger, faster and stronger to succeed. That process is happening now, as we look to retool by surrounding our veteran stars with new, young talent. You can look at Anaheim as a recent example of a team that has retooled successfully.


Trading Roberto was not an easy decision. We are grateful for his tremendous contribution to our team and city, and we wish him much success. But the moves we've made go beyond goaltending. We are now younger and we are getting deeper. We've added a big, strong 6'4" centre in Shawn Matthias, who is excited to be here and will help this team now. And we believe in our talented group of prospects, including Bo Horvat, Nicklas Jensen, Frank Corrado, Dane Fox, Brendan Gaunce and Hunter Shinkaruk, who will be part of our short and long-term success. We are also well positioned financially, having created over $5 million in cap room to make the right deals for this team. That's in addition to the $7 million we expect the salary cap to increase next season.

We approached the deadline with long-term success in mind. We were prepared to make a hockey deal on trade deadline day, not a short-term fix. The players offered at the deadline did not fit our vision of where we want our team to go. We need to get younger and more balanced to be more competitive, and we didn’t see the right players to accomplish that goal. We are not willing to compromise our long-term vision for the sake of change.

We are committed to putting a winning team on the ice for you. Our ownership is supportive and will invest whatever it takes to bring the Cup to Vancouver. As we move towards this goal we will continue to invest in your arena and Canucks fan experience.

Thank you again for your continued support. We are enduring a challenging period, but your passion makes it possible for us to put our team in a position to compete. Our organization is committed to doing whatever it takes to win, and we want you to be here with us when we achieve our goal.

Sincerely,



Michael D. Gillis
President and General Manager
Vancouver Canucks

Originally, the intent of this piece wasn’t to flail away at the lifeless corpse of the Canucks. It wasn’t to pile on a team that’s already been beaten and bloodied. Halfway through the game, in fact, we had the top to a column that said, sure, the Canucks have been terrible. But they’ve won two in a row, they’re still only four points out of a playoff spot and seven of their last 15 games are against teams that are currently out of the playoffs.

If they just win the games they should win and sneak out a couple more, who knows where this could end.

This presupposed, of course, they were capable of holding on to a 3-0 lead on home ice to the 14th-place Islanders. But Monday night marked a new low in a season that is constantly establishing new lows.

This time, the Canucks jumped the shark. Now the question becomes, where do they go from here?

Monday night marked one of those games that should cost someone their job. Right now that looks like head coach John Tortorella but, really, what good will that do now? Against a team that was without John Tavares, but was with a lot of players you’ve never heard of, the Canucks opened a 3-0 lead and actually had the faithful feeling good about their team and their chances.

And then, in a nightmare sequence, the Canucks allowed seven goals to the Islanders. Seven goals to the Islanders in one period. Seven goals in 20 minutes. To the Islanders.

On March 11 2014 14:50 Orcasgt24 wrote:

Toronto has been on the good end of terrible stats for the better part of 3 years. They never have the puck yet win games. All these puck possession and turnover stats mimic Edmontons pretty closely but the Leafs still manage to win some how

On March 11 2014 14:50 Orcasgt24 wrote:

Toronto has been on the good end of terrible stats for the better part of 3 years. They never have the puck yet win games. All these puck possession and turnover stats mimic Edmontons pretty closely but the Leafs still manage to win some how

On March 11 2014 23:45 Flaccid wrote:
You know as little about how the human heart functions as you do about hockey.