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Imagine If The Canucks Got Relegated To The AHL | Halford & Brough



Mike and Jason engage in a little bit of Euro footy talk, and how there’s nothing relegation in North American sports.

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21 Comments

  6. WhiteGD

    They should swap the worst nhl team with the best ahl team once a decade. So on average whoever has the worst record over that decade gets booted

  7. Chris Thornycroft

    That's the problem. They're not even bad enough to be a contender for a 1st overall draft pick. So they're in that wonderful limbo that Canuck teams since 1970 mostly like to be in. Not good enough to even be a perennial playoff team and not bad enough to do anything about it. Or smart enough to draft and develop well. The early 90s had basically the best Canuck teams I ever saw. The Zoomers will obviously say 2011, but in terms of overall depth at every position, grit and skill, 1994 was the far better team, and that wasn't even as good a roster as they had in 92 or 93. There were almost no glaring holes in those teams. If anything, 92 was probably the best team they ever iced because they had Bure and Larionov on the same team. Sure, the late 90s had Mogilny and Bure, but Bure had checked out by that point, gotten injured, and Mogilny after that first full year was hit or miss. The Canucks won't get any better until there's a dramatic change in organizational philosophy. Nobody wants to give up on the last decade. The problem is that the last decade was a complete and utter failure. We have to stop getting attached to individual players and do what's necessary for the team to succeed.

  8. Nhan Nguyen

    And Vancouver fans are so loyal that they are still buying tix no matter what. So there is literally no incentive from management to players to do better because they get paid either way!

  9. ApplePieClub

    Relegation would eliminate tanking. North American sports needs to at least test a relegation system

  10. Per Edliden

    Relegation is standard in the swedish hockey league, SHL. Before you get relegated you face off vs the second divisions best team, if you lose you're out. If you win you can stay. It's pretty fair in my opinion and it's kinda fun seeing new teams join the league from time to time.

  13. J Lau

    Relegation/promotion is the norm in thw world of sport.but in North America, the worst team is AWARDED with the jackpot.

  15. Nabil P

    Yeah could you imagine making something up! These guys can be morons sometimes!

  16. John Randle

    Or the Calgary Flames!!!! The AHL Team in Calgary the Hitman Paly a Far Better Game!! These "Relegation system" Must be Brought into the North American Pro Leagues. It Holds the Owners Reasonable for the Team they Put together!!! This MUST BE DONE!!!

  17. J Neilson

    I always thought it would be cool to have NHL and like NHL2. Maybe like 24 teams and 16 in the other, teams pay 80% salary if they're in 2. Would open things up for cities like Houston, KC, SLC, OKC, Victoria, Indianapolis, Hartford, Cleveland, Quebec, Hamilton

  18. Carleton Rutherford

    If a person is buying an NHL hockey team for almost $1 billion, he's not going to want risk having his team relegated to a tier 2 league. The owners wouldn't accept that as an option.

  19. Kellan Johnson

    Relegation and franchising can't happen together (relegation with drafts is also problematic). It definitely can't happen with a cap. But getting rid of Anaheim, Chicago and Columbus would have made a lot of sense. Most EU football leagues are just unfettered capitalism with a few exceptions for well run clubs. Generally biggest wallet has a pretty big advantage. This is the opposite of what the NHL wants.

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