Canucks got smoked in Dallas, beat an AHL goalie in Nashville, tied in Washington and got hammered in Philadelphia on their current 6 game road trip.
It's a broken record. If the Canucks play a team that has an NHL goalie they get 1 goal at best.
And then they play for the shootout.
It's not exactly a recipe for winning.
What's confounding is the media on TSN1040 and SPORTSNET650 that refuse to admit that the team Jim Benning put together is absolute shit.
What the media fails to report, or doesn't know, is that other teams don't give a flying F about the Canucks.
"But the process was good in Washington!" Ya, so they needed a 5-3 PP goal to tie it up.
Washington was drunk. I mean come on people, was it really that long ago when the Canucks were No. 1 in the NHL and would play 5 minutes in a game and win? When the Canucks took nights off against crappy teams and still got a point? Where they played the "How little can we play against _____ and still win?" game?
5 on 5 they're absolute garbage - the worst in the NHL in November and getting worse.
Yes, I guess technically they're still in the playoff hunt, but not by this weekend. It's come and gone.
The horses are out of the barn.
What's more confounding is that it's a team that Canucks GM Jim Benning and crew looked at and said, "This is a playoff team!" and traded a 1st round pick for JT Miller who is turning 27.
Miller is a neat little player who might get 25 goals. Yay! But the point is HE'S 27 !!! The 1st round pick is 10 years younger and might be a 1st OVERALL pick. And so it's an automatic trade loss.
Quinton Hughes has an amazing 2 goals !! He has 13 points on the PP all of them from eye are 2nd assists! Yay! Look at me! I'm on the PP! We beat an AHL/KHL goalie Pekka Renna for 5 goals in Nashville and I got points! Other than that he's invisible.
They compiled a crop of D that at best will score 15 goals this season - Cale Makar in Colorado is closing in on 15 goals at the 23 game mark and he plays D and is going to win the Norris Trophy, Calder (DUH!) and the Hart Trophy.
That's what tanking does for you. It gets talent! Not picking 7th or 5th - you have to get in that Top 4 -- and really the Top 2 to get bonafide game changing talent.
The Canucks don't have any bonafide game changing talent and I know that because they average 1 goal per game.
They have ZERO centers.
I mean who looked at that roster and said, "We're good! Let's go for it!"
How did you not notice you had no centers on the team?
Complete crap.
To sum up Jim Benning's drafting --
If the Canucks offered Elias Pettersson, Brock Boeser and Quinton Hughes to Colorado for Cale Makar - Colorado says NO! Are you kidding me? NO! Of course not.
This "rebuild not really rebuilding going for the playoffs every year" has failed. Period. End of story.
Why on Earth Jim Benning and crew and Travis Green are still employed here is a complete mystery.
And why the owner won't commit to an actual rebuild, not a fake one, is also a complete mystery. You're not making the playoffs with that crap.
And so you're not getting further ahead in the selling tickets department.
All you've done is compounded the misery. You're delaying the inevitable. The TANK must begin in earnest.
Bo Horvat - trade for picks
Tanev - trade for picks
Edler - trade for picks
JT Miller - trade for picks
Jakob Markstrom - trade for picks
Elis Pettersson - entertain offers
Brock Boeser - entertain offers
PUT THE FOR SALE SIGN UP !!
Whatever you want - it's for sale for the right price!!
Get back into the draft and get the 1st overall pick that must be a franchise center - THEN AND ONLY THEN DO YOU START THE REBUILD.
Until then - everything goes for the right price.
There's nothing there that wins you a Stanley Cup. Nothing. Zip. Nada.
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