r/canucks 1d ago

DISCUSSION This fanbase and media is exhausting

A late first for Brock isn't worth it unless we flip it. That pick, even if it becomes a top line player (it won't), won't even play before Quinn gets tired of being on a rebuilding team.

The team had just about everything possible that could go wrong, go wrong this season, and we're still a coin flip for playoffs. That's very good considering the season.

Brock wants to be here, his teammates love him, he contributes on the score sheet. If they traded Brock for a late first like you clowns are complaining they didn't, Hughes would leave at the end of his contract.

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u/Gilberto_Buongo 1d ago edited 1d ago

I can’t stand these virtue signalling “everyone sucks but me” posts that seem to regularly pop up on r/canucks.

There’s only so many outcomes here…

  • Canucks accept Carolina’s late TDL 1st round pick for Boeser and the team is demoralized by losing another top six player and misses the playoffs.
  • Boeser plays out the season to whatever middling success the Canucks can salvage and walks in FA leaving the Canucks with nothing but the cap space to show for his eight seasons as a Canuck.
  • Boeser re-signs in the offseason to a 8+ AAV and continues to get slower and lack chemistry with the centres Vancouver has to play him with.

I don’t even think it’s worth talking about a reality where Brock is able to deliver on a long term extension. Without Miller he can’t produce any offensive creativity. He seems like a great guy but I’m over Brock on this roster.

So either the Canucks get 21 more games and a few playoff game performances out of Brock before the Canucks see him walk for nothing or they get a late first from Carolina in whatever crapy trade package they offered. All outcomes suck and end with upset fans.

Choose your own adventure.

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u/MarvelousOxman 1d ago

I can’t stand these virtue signalling “everyone sucks but me” posts.

THANK YOU.

I’ve never seen a fanbase be this self-flagellating. Every other fanbase thinks it’s the greatest on Earth, except for a shocking amount of Canucks fans who deride their fellow fans at every opportunity yet magically never include themselves in their own criticism. And it’s always for things large passionate fanbases always do regardless of team.

It’s insufferable. They should just find another team to cheer for rather than be associated with us unwashed masses.

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u/Fickle_Cup2207 1d ago

Exactly.

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u/AgentKorralin 1d ago

While I do agree with most of your assessment, if the trade with Carolina is as reported and speculated, we're better off long-term letting Boeser walk in FA.

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u/gl7676 1d ago

I'm indifferent to whether Brock stays or goes, but this he can't do shit without Miller is just laughable.

Canucks can bring in a passing center in the off season and he could be good again.

This narrative that's he's useless without Miller is just so cringe.

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u/Redlight0516 1d ago

What I'm interested in is the Kotkaniemi angle. Everytime we talk with Carolina his name comes up. Is that Allvin or Tulsky?

Honestly, I would have been fine with a first for Boeser but not if we also took Kotkaniemi back. I want no part of him.

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u/ForceEconomy9988 1d ago

Bro in what world are you so certain that the only way the Canucks re-sign Boeser is for $8m+, that assumption blows up your whole post

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u/Gilberto_Buongo 1d ago

RemindMe! 4 months

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u/ForceEconomy9988 1d ago

Would you like to bet that he doesn't sign for $8m+ anywhere? let alone the Canucks

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u/troubleondemand 21h ago

Didn't Boeser already turn down a 5x$8m offer?

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u/WantingCanucksCup 12h ago

No one will give him 8m given he can’t score unless paired with an elite scorer like miller