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Opening roster 3 years ago



Opening roster 3 years ago

by therehego29

40 Comments

  1. TheAngryChickaD

    Jesus christ and we had playoff aspirations…

  2. BroliasBoesersson

    I just threw up in my mouth a little

  3. mcdonaldsfiletofish

    Still upsets me how we needed to pay to get rid of Dickinson. He was decent in Dallas, he’s decent in Chicago, and he should’ve been decent here

  4. grooverocker

    Jim Benning was an absolute travesty of a GM.

    He would have given Hoglander 5 million AAV.

  5. -GregTheGreat-

    Canucks legend Juho Lammiko. I remember when we had that Motte – Lammiko – Highmore line that we thought was the shit because it was able to not be an outright liability for 12 minutes a night, which was big for us back then.

    Now none of those players would even be on our first AHL line. As much of a beauty as Motte is, the guy has a career high of 15 points.

    To show how far we’ve come, our lowest scoring roster regular (Blueger) put up a 34 point pace last year

  6. DisplacedNovaScotian

    Burroughs? Do we really need him?

  7. haihaiclickk

    Anyone would’ve been better than GMJB but not in my wildest dreams would I have thought that the replacement would’ve been *this much* better.

  8. avmp629

    It’s a miracle that team managed to stay in playoff contention until game 80

  9. Striking_Economy5049

    That….is underwhelming in comparison

  10. meanseanbean

    Huh. I guess I completely blocked out how bad we were…

  11. Canucks_98

    Someone needs to tell me again that Horvats leadership was the reason we couldn’t win a game

  12. Twatts71

    For whatever reason I thought this team had playoff potential, so I bought a quarter season ticket package. The highlight of those 11 games was half the arena chanting fire Benning. Fun times

  13. BakaNano

    What would it have looked like if Dumbo Jim didn’t run out of time?

  14. emmeisspicy

    I’ve watched nearly every Canucks game for the last 14 years and I do not remember a Dowling. He played on the first line?!

  15. Moe_Beaslee

    All hail Rutherford and Alvin! Thank you for bringing us from laughing stock to serious contention in such a short time. You two are beauties. Let’s f**king go!

  16. Remember when all the cruft when on the trade block and no team ever wanted them

  17. Donkey_punch91

    That lineup makes you want to puke

  18. Young2k04

    Dowling, Highmore, Lammikko, MacEwen, Petan, Pods, Burroughs, Hunt, Poolman, Rathbone would not crack our roster today. We’ve come a long way

  19. bleedblue4

    I had a weird love for Macewan for some reason

  20. WiFiForeheadWrinkles

    Looking at this roster vs the one we have now, it’s a wonder we even won games lol

  21. N4ZZY2020

    Can’t believe Benning thought that was a good roster. No wonder he ain’t GM anymore **anywhere**.

  22. eexxiitt

    The core of boeser, Petey, Hughes and demko, and soon to be Miller. Thank the heavens.

  23. phantomgiratina

    Ah the days where dowling and petan were on the roster

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