The Vancouver Canucks.
Grr!
I'm a sports geek.
Spent some time, recently, learning about these new fangled stats economists are gleaming from hockey games. They're amazing, these numbers. Simply fascinating. It's really opened up the game for me, allowed me to watch the games in a whole new way.
And my joy at these new stats are tempered by the Canucks. The Can'tnucks. The Goddamn Fucking Canucks.
This has really been a summer of discontent for me, watching the off-season roster moves the Canucks have made.
I suppose one could count last season's extensions of Dorsett and Sbisa as off-season moves. But when I do that, it makes this summer seem a great deal worse.
My goodness. This Canucks team is going to be filled with question marks throughout the line up. So many rookies will have to take roster spots throughout the year. And the questions arise from the fact these rooks have never actually outplayed the outgoing veterans for these positions.
And the veterans that are on the roster are my age. Or older. That's no good. Hockey is becoming a young man's game. Or rather, it has already become a young man's game. The few veterans that do stick it out through their thirties generally are rare and elite talents.
Thirty-plus year old fourth liners shouldn't be trade targets when you're the GM giving up the second/third-liner twenty-something year old roster player (and draft pick), otherwise you're losing the trade, automatically.
And trading the team's best goalie (for a sub-par return) in favor of the goalie whose stats place him in the bottom half of the league's starters is also a bad move.
How bad? We don't know. It could potentially ruin the Canucks' chances of making the playoffs.
Giving up roster players in bad trades, and letting useful free agents walk in the off-season only ever takes away from a team
Ah well. Am I entertained by all this? I suppose I am. I haven't seen the Canucks get disemboweled like this since the mid nineties. Watching all this fascinates me in all the wrong ways.
Go, Canucks.
Grr!
I'm a sports geek.
Spent some time, recently, learning about these new fangled stats economists are gleaming from hockey games. They're amazing, these numbers. Simply fascinating. It's really opened up the game for me, allowed me to watch the games in a whole new way.
And my joy at these new stats are tempered by the Canucks. The Can'tnucks. The Goddamn Fucking Canucks.
This has really been a summer of discontent for me, watching the off-season roster moves the Canucks have made.
I suppose one could count last season's extensions of Dorsett and Sbisa as off-season moves. But when I do that, it makes this summer seem a great deal worse.
My goodness. This Canucks team is going to be filled with question marks throughout the line up. So many rookies will have to take roster spots throughout the year. And the questions arise from the fact these rooks have never actually outplayed the outgoing veterans for these positions.
And the veterans that are on the roster are my age. Or older. That's no good. Hockey is becoming a young man's game. Or rather, it has already become a young man's game. The few veterans that do stick it out through their thirties generally are rare and elite talents.
Thirty-plus year old fourth liners shouldn't be trade targets when you're the GM giving up the second/third-liner twenty-something year old roster player (and draft pick), otherwise you're losing the trade, automatically.
And trading the team's best goalie (for a sub-par return) in favor of the goalie whose stats place him in the bottom half of the league's starters is also a bad move.
How bad? We don't know. It could potentially ruin the Canucks' chances of making the playoffs.
Giving up roster players in bad trades, and letting useful free agents walk in the off-season only ever takes away from a team
Ah well. Am I entertained by all this? I suppose I am. I haven't seen the Canucks get disemboweled like this since the mid nineties. Watching all this fascinates me in all the wrong ways.
Go, Canucks.
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