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Originally posted by DjCommisad you want to pay that turd $2.2m? go right ahead. First of all we don't have $2.2 of cap space left, second of all, I'd rather waive fitzpatrick and bring back columbe and waive chouinard and bulis and use that money to swing a deal for a second line winger. our defense is better this year, and lunongo, tho letting in a softy here and there, is way better than clouts (pulled tonight after stopping 2 of 5 shots in 9 mins against PHOENIX). our problem is we can't score. and i don't see the logic in paying $2.2m in a capspace world for a dman who scores ONE shootout goal in 82 games. granted is was a good goal. he got paid not for his offense or his physcial play, but apparently somethings there cuz he was +35 on a team that got scored on almost as much as it scored. a good defensive defender is one that doesn't get noticed (ie ohlund, or neidermeyer) and malik got noticed a fair bit (box). ah well. he wasn't THAT bad but i never liked him so no convincing me otherwise.

In the so called "New NHL" and the insane contracts, 2.2 for Malik is a great deal. Waiving all those players would never happen because, they suck are are over paid. Teams have to actually so intrest and claim them off waivers for us to clear some cap space. Are you just pissed because he screwed up on the Gelinas goal in game 7 of '04? I really think Malik was solid and has played much better defesivly in the NY.

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Originally posted by Joca In the so called "New NHL" and the insane contracts, 2.2 for Malik is a great deal. Waiving all those players would never happen because, they suck are are over paid. Teams have to actually so intrest and claim them off waivers for us to clear some cap space. Are you just pissed because he screwed up on the Gelinas goal in game 7 of '04? I really think Malik was solid and has played much better defesivly in the NY.

gelinas is insane, such a clutch playoff performer. sad we let him go. he's aged now and pretty much done.

nah every time i turned the tube on malik was taking a dumb penalty or the other team had a wall of their players either untouched and screening or running our goalies over. malik was brought in as a stay at home physical defenseman. his lack of speed didn't help but we had offensive dmen for that anyways. but what bothered me was from what i saw (and i admit i didnt watch every game, not even half really) he wasn't physical. while almost every dman we have takes penalities, he was taking ones that seemed to result in a goal against us or ones that would kill any momentum we had or were building. he must have been more solid than i gave him credit for, to put up numbers like he did (+35) on a team that ran the run-and-gun.

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Oh, man... Not a good night tonight...

it's like one step forward, two steps back! no second or third line scoring!

A-a-and we managed to get 3 guys injured, including the seemingly fragile Salo...

^maybe we are playing for draft picks next spring

we have a lot of draft picks next summer, including LA's 2nd for cloutier. i'm thinking next year's draft will be a decent one, so hopefully our scouting staff can do good for once, ever. i mean you can never tell who will develop properly, but with all these tests these days.. i mean look at some of our recent first round picks.. kesler (03).. nathan smith (00).. brad ference (97).. josh holden (96).. mike wilson (93).. libor polasek (92).. alex stojanov (91) (who redeemed himself by being traded to pens for naslund and then retiring the next year). first rounds that have panned out into nhl players umberger (01).. bryan allen (98).. guys who have potential cory schneider (04).. bourdon (05).. and guys that are solid sedins (99).. and ohlund (94)..

granted these have been over a long period of time and the scouting staff have obviously changed many times over that period, plus the style of hockey has changed so not only are teams looking for different things each year but a team's direct needs due to player development, trades, retirements, signings, etc affect drafting as well as management and coaching staff. but really. maybe one or two years here and there you pick a guy that just tanks out for whatever reason (family, career change, injury, not mentally tough enough, over-estimated their value, etc) but we have such a bad list.

btw, anyone who thinks a big trade will happen anytime soon is in for a surprise. everyone keeps calling for a move, but there's no cap space to make a move. the two things I can possibly see happening this year is

A. the coaches and GM can talk the owners into paying off salary to send guys to the minors (ie bulis/chouinard). by paying off their nhl salary we can waive them to the minors and free that space. by you're asking brand new owners to dip into their own personal pockets to pay millions of dollars (granted 'they' say teams can earn up to $1m approx. per playoff game in revenue from various sources so even waiving one player to try to free space to make a move to get us into the playoffs could work out).

B. we find someone desperate enough to take someone off our hands (ie pushing for playoffs - depth - or a rebuilding team) for picks. most teams heading for the playoffs already have that depth and don't want overpaid 3rd-4th liners.. while teams in rebuilding don't want overpaid players taking up ice time from their developping youth, so again we're stuck.

There is a
C. We trade salary for salary (but who the hell wants our rejects/underachivers for an achiever?). some rumorered morrison and cooke and a prospect/pick to philly for forsberg, but why would any team want both of those guys? i can see some teams wanting cooke's energy and grit for 1.5... MAYBE.. but morrison is stuck here unless you can find a buyer (ottawa, atlanta, chicago and philly have all been rumored all year because all could use a setup man but morrison sucks).

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We definately need more offense, when was the last time we scored more than 2 goals? We're last in scoring for crying out load... The only line that can produce right now is the Sedins-Naslund line, lord know what's going happen to our team when one of them gets injured or Luongo gets injured...

I'll put much of the blame to Nonis, lots of bad signing and managing our salary cap. I have no idea why we didnt re-sign Burke in the first place...

Things are not looking too good for the Canucks right now, when you look at the standing it doesnt look too bad... the NW Division is pretty tight but Calgary and Colorado has a few games in hand and we also can't win against our divisional opponent and if we continue our scoring slumps there's no way we're going to make the playoff. We need some changes fast!

Anyway make sure you guys vote RORY FITPATRICK! This goal by him should motivate you to vote!



Remember you can vote as many times as you want!

sign bondra, trade bulis to st louis for a prospect and waive chouinard until the playoffs when we might need his face off skills.

sign bondra to $700 plus incentives.

put naslund, bondra and mo together, and put anyone with the twins until pyatt comes back.

some say they should sign allison. both are old, both are injury prone, and although alison put up almost a pt per game pace with toronto last year, there's obv. a reason why no one wants him, not even calgary or ottawa or any other centerman desperate team, he's SLOW and he's injury prone. bondra hasn't been signed b/c he wants too much to play anywhere but washington.

and this rory thing is really retarded. why should we let a bum like him make it over guys who have more talent and have put in more effort this season than him? pffff this thing is getting way out of hand. even though this thing was started by a guy in new york who was a fan of him when he was in buffalo, everyone who is or isn't a canuck fan thinks this is all about 'dumb canuck fans being dumber than normal'. then again maybe stunts like this will smarten up bett-tard-man and he'll pull the online fan voting/balloting that is pretty much leaves it open for stuff like this. i almost like the old way when there were fewer teams and every gm/coach picked their best player to go and the remaining slots were filled by the next best players.

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Originally posted by DjCommisad gelinas is insane, such a clutch playoff performer. sad we let him go. he's aged now and pretty much done. nah every time i turned the tube on malik was taking a dumb penalty or the other team had a wall of their players either untouched and screening or running our goalies over. malik was brought in as a stay at home physical defenseman. his lack of speed didn't help but we had offensive dmen for that anyways. but what bothered me was from what i saw (and i admit i didnt watch every game, not even half really) he wasn't physical. while almost every dman we have takes penalities, he was taking ones that seemed to result in a goal against us or ones that would kill any momentum we had or were building. he must have been more solid than i gave him credit for, to put up numbers like he did (+35) on a team that ran the run-and-gun.

Malik was definitely not brought in as a physical defenceman. Last night's game reminded me of the Canucks of a few years past. Outscoring an opponent to win! Good to see but i'm sure it'll be back to 2 goals a game for the next 5

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