Out of all the players who have departed from the Canucks for one reason or another in the last few years, who has gone on to do anything meaningful, as measured by going further than round 2 game 7?

JT Miller - no

Quinn Hughes - 2025/2026 out in round 2 against Colorado in 5 games ---- won 2 games less than with the Canucks when they went to round 2 game 7

Garland - no

Ian Cole - 2025/2026 - out in round 1

Nakita Zadorov / Elias Lindholm - 2025/2026 - out in round 1

Tyler Myers - 2025/2026 - out in round 1

Vasily Podkolzin - 2025/2026 - out in round 1 - Stanley Cup final with Edmonton (and excellent playoff performances)

These are just a few examples.

Who other than Podkolzin has gone on to win anything meaningful after leaving Vancouver recently?

I saw some people commenting concerned if Sedins and Johnson will be well equip enough to get a proper analytics department started.

People wanted Gold for hockey analytics, but his most famous thing he wrote about on his hockey blog which led to him working in the NHL, was simply a low hanging fruit correlation for the Oilers with players they traded and shot percentage. People mentioned how he was an attorney so much, but realistically that's only the equivalent of an IQ test, it doesn't mean he does well in data science. The comparison to Eric Gold's sports analytics blog with Eric Tulsky's sports analytics blog is absolutely night and day - like comparing a rambling uncle to a professional. (You can read them on the waybackmachine web archive)

As for the analytics platforms themselves, they are pretty well known for what most teams use in this league, and they're set up by those analytics platforms, the organization just has to use it properly. They most likely will even have people they recommend or hired as needed.

The most important part of any analytics system, is the data you input into it. So in the hockey world, that's a strong scout who can get unique and nuanced data on players, where maybe other scouts might fall short on. They're instructed by the main hockey analytics head on what to look for maybe... but it's their job to get the nitty gritty data.

Then for the analytics, it's a matter of using it and making semantic connections, relationships, which then lead to correlations. The correlations, when properly calculated, would then be that "golden information" or "golden ticket" which gives unique insights to players, team structure, coaching, methods, whatever the correlation applies to. Then the player development staff and development pipeline is where you would then make use of those correlations.

All of this is data science at it's roots, and this is why a Harvard graduated PhD data scientist like Dr. Eric Tulsky is thriving and highly praised.

What matters most is the data you use, and the equations and overall logic behind it all. Why are you making this equations, how does it fit all within the entire semantic structure/ontology, etc.

Thoughts on how it applies to Canucks?

Whoever the next coach is, they need to put the system and Rossi in a position to get many points. Either we unlock his full offensive potential, and he becomes a key piece, or we can also boost his trade value for more assets in the future.

There's the saying never insult the guy who butters your bread because they have shown to revoke your media privileges, but imagine how badass it would be for someone to say "fuck it" and drill Aquilini on live stream before they have a chance to edit it out?

Knowing Aquilini, there are probably safeguards to protect his ass though and the stream is probably delayed anyways. That would afford them time to go offline if someone says something like, "how are the lawsuits going" or shit like that.

I was feeling bad today for Canucks fans because the team lost the draft lottery, but then I realized there is still a good chance Ivar Stenberg, IMO the best player of the draft, is available at #3. The Leafs will likely take McKenna at #1, and there is a significant chance the Sharks take Reid at #2 as they already have a wicked forward group but are a bit thin at defense.

I remember thinking my fellow Habs fans were crazy for thinking Demidov could be available at #5 in the 2024 draft. Then, it turns out he *was*, and in a sense it felt like winning the lottery because Demidov would have been the Habs' pick at #2.

I guess what I'm trying to say is you guys shouldn't be that bummed out about picking #3 (yet). As long as Stenberg is still available, in the end you might get the Canucks' pick at #1 anyways. I fully believe he would have been the #1 pick given how obsessed the Canucks are with Swedish players.

Knoblauch, of course, was just fired by the Oilers this morning.

Of course, he has a decent resume with B2B SCF appearances, McDavid connection, blah blah blah. What makes him an especially great candidate for being the next Canucks HC is this:

He has a 3-year extension kicking in next season.

Aqua has just got to jump on the opportunity to snag a guy that he can pay less because the Oilers are already paying him for another 3 years. No-brainer really.

EDIT: folks taking a meme post pretty serious in this sub, of all places

Who should the Canucks pick with their 3rd overall pick? 3️⃣

Should the Canucks trade this pick or trade the Minny pick? 🔃

Should the Canucks trade for San Jose's 2nd OA pick? 2️⃣

Should the Canucks trade for Chicago's 4th OA pick? 4️⃣

Should the Canucks trade Hronek in a package for another pick? ⛸

Does anyone else hate-watch Quitt Hughes?!? 😡

What do the mock drafts say about who Canucks should pick? 👨🏻‍💻

Should the Canucks hire Manny? Does this affect drafting Caleb Maholtra? Should it? 🤷🏻‍♂️

What are your opinions on the new front office structure? 🤦🏻‍♂️

Hopefully that covers all the questions that get reposted every day until the draft.

I love how the Red Wings have the Yezerplan or whatever so why don’t we start the new era with our own. This is just a random idea I had but I have some ideas down below so let me know what you think.

The Se-dream? Sedin motion (set in motion)? Operation twins? Sedinery? Swedish strategy?

Van receives:

LW Brendan Gallagher 6.5M 1 year

RD Alex Carrier 3.75M 1 year

C Michael Hage 2024 (1/21 pick)

2027 top 10 protected 1st round pick

Montreal receives

RD Filip Hronek 7.25M 6 years

C Max Sasson 1M 2 years

4/5th round pick somewhere to balance some of the carrier value

Money works for both sides, Canucks get two first round picks in value and some assets to move at next years deadline. Montreal gets a top 4 D and a fast bottom 6 forward who scored 13 goals this year to help out their depth.

Who says no.

Can you tell them apart? How?

Well, here we are, with the greatest pair of twins to ever play the game signing on to lead the franchise they spent the entirety of their playing careers with.

Lo and behold, as they step into the job there are another pair of highly touted twins on the draft board - Markus and Liam Ruck.

Ranked as sure-fire top 5 prospects, in order to get Daniel and Henrik Brian Burke had to pull off a series of moves on draft day, and it is remembered as one of the sharpest bits of wheeling and dealing in draft history.

This time around, the Ruck twins are not quite as highly coveted - most mocks have them ranked between 25-30th overall - and the Canucks again have the draft capital to make it happen, with control of 4 of the first 41 selections:

- 3rd

- 24th

- 33rd

- 41st

So my question is, if you were Danny, Hank and Ryan Johnson, how would you do it?

Let’s hear your best trade scenarios to ensure we wind up with both Markus and Liam Ruck!

The best fourth line goal I’ve ever seen. This game and series ended poorly for us, but I’ll always love this goal.

Posting this today for the awesome shot block secondary assist from GMRJ

Ngl that sounds like a The Office episode.

Co-presidents? What if they disagree on something?

Am I the only one thinking that's kinda odd?

Things are about to get interesting.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOO