Vancouver Canucks Are Acting Like They Are New At This

What the heck are the Vancouver Canucks trying to do? Vancouver is looking like a lost puppy surrounded by wolves, and this offseason is doing nothing to better the franchise. I’m sorry I like the Canucks; they seem to have a classy look to the way the play on the ice, but this has gotten out of hand. Someone needs to tell GM Jim Benning that he is tossing darts at a wall and hoping it turns into a Stanley Cup run.

It seems that the Vancouver Canucks are playing two different games, according to a report from CBS Sports Vancouver has 11 players on the roster over the age of 29, including eight players that are age 32

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or older. Can someone tell me how this is even happening? I know tanking is taboo, but Vancouver traded the best goaltender they have in favor of an aging

Ryan Miller

who I’m sorry is not much above, and who’s best years are well behind him. Maybe that’s exactly what the Canucks have in mind; field a roster just good enough to look like a team but in reality they want to sink.

The pressure to win now can be daunting and at least at surface level the Canucks don’t have the talent to pull it off.

I guess this is all extended shell shock from the mess that was John Tortorella; let’s face it that man was straight out bonkers. Looking at the Vancouver Canucks roster you can see that on the talent front the Canucks need a ton of help. Their offense is centered around a pair of 34-year-olds, and there seems to be little effort by management to do a proper rebuild. Now, they have added Brandon Sutter. At 26-years-old Sutter brings the possibility of a thirty point scorer to the roster, but I don’t see this being anything more than adding third line talent to a team full of third line talent.

One bright spot in the Canucks future might be Bo Horvat. He is young and managed to put up 25 points in 68 games last season. The issue is going to be he needs third line minutes to grow and mature into a NHL talent, but the addition of Sutter makes me wonder how that can happen.

If I’m a Vancouver Canucks fan I want answers, and right now all the Canucks are doing is piling on more questions. The team is lost in the Great White North, and needs to pick a direction. If you’re going to rebuild; then do it already. This patch the hole to save the sinking ship does nothing more than keep you a float for the short-term. Despite making the NHL Playoffs last season the Vancouver Canucks are proving that they are simply not ready to skate with the NHL elite. There needs to be long-term plans, and with the current roster set up the plan may very well be adding residents to a local Old Hockey Players home.

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