Quoting: NYR1983
I’m not upset or embarrassed. This is your acgm and everyone else above thinks it’s laughable. I’m not running or conceding anything other than there’s no point to continue this.. you are desperate to hear someone say you’re right and you have every right to believe you are. We aren’t going to see eye to eye and I’m fine with that. Your organization Has been playing coach roulette and starting a retool but they sure as heck aren’t selling JTM. They moved Bo and that was the big change along with coaching, and I’d bet they make playoffs next year. When I say 3-4 years for players to be nhl ready that’s not even star quality. Look at Raty along with so many others. Your late 1sts will be “good” in 6 years, but nhl ready in 3. Your stars want to compete now not in 5+ years or high is likely when they are ready to sign new contracts too. What I’m saying doesn’t seem to be getting through to you and that’s fine. You’re certainly not going to be the GM and the real GM certainly isn’t going to do your master plan. So you’ll have the rest of your life to believe that you’re correct 👌🏼
You seemed upset because you've somehow claimed we're never going to see eye to eye, and you're walk away completely exasperated by having had to talk to me. Mostly based I think of misinterpreting what I said about the bubble yr.
Atu Raty is a 20 yr old 2nd rounder. And we're really happy to have him. He's played NHL games. You wanna look at guys who've gone late 1st and 2nd round in the last few yrs that are excelling? Try Wyatt Johnston, JJ Moser, Dawson Mercer, Braden Schneider, Yegor Chinakov, Bjornfoot, Krebs, Tomasino, Kaliyev. Do you think the Canucks want Hoglander or would we prefer to have dealt that pick for a high priced veteran?
I get that it takes time and patience to draft and develop but it's the only way to be successful. It's basically the only way to acquire top talent. The problem I have is your solution is literally what the Canucks have done every yr for the last 5 seasons. Trade picks and make hero swings to get better short term at the expense of future assets. And it hasn't worked. We were near the bottom of the league again and that was with obtaining a 40 goal scorer for free and paying him 900k. Every yr its we have to go all in or Petey and Hughes will walk. Hughes is signed for 5 more yrs. Petey is an RFA when his deal is up. The only way these guys walk is if we keep doing this thing where we try to make the playoffs as soon as possible at the expense of actually acquiring depth through the draft and not being pressed right up against the cap with a team that at best squeaks into the playoffs. Our roster is crippled by our cap situation.
I'm not expecting management to do what I've suggested. They've made it clear their agenda is making the playoffs asap. I made this to show what I would do and why. I am here backing up my reasoning and you are suggesting the Canucks do what they've been doing. You gotta come with some actual reasoning if I am going to be persuaded. And don't just give up on the conversation because you got overwhelmed with facts. Integrate them or show why they're less convincing that what you have to say is.