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The Official 2026 Off-Season Thread: Revenge of the Nerds

C Horvat (31) $8.50 x5
W Barzal (29) $9.15 x5
W Palmieri (35): $4.75 x1

C Schenn (34): $6.50 x2
W Holmstrom (25): $3.65 x1 (+1 RFA)
W Ritchie (21): ELC x2

C Pageau (33): $4.85 x3
W Duclair (30): $3.50 x2
W Maccelli (26): $2.50 x1 (+1 RFA)

C Cizikas (35): $2.50 x1
W Heineman (24): $1.10 x 1 (+1 RFA)
W MacLean (27): $0.85 x1

W Palat (35): $6.00 x1
(W Engvall (30): $1.85 x4)


D Schaefer (19): ELC x2
D Pelech (32): $6.15 x4

D Pulock (32): $5.75 x3
D Romanov (27): $6.25 x7

D DeAngelo (31): $4.50 x2
D Mayfield (34): $3.50 x4

D Kessel (26): $0.85 x1


G Sorokin (31): $8.25 x6
G Vanecek (30): $1.00 x1
(G Varlamov (38): $2.75 x1)
 
I'm always the optimist, so I'm banking on a 2028 with Matthews and McDavid.

Can't help thinking about the McKenna to McDavid goals, second assists to MacKenzie. Too bad McMann left.
 
Willy sleeps unbothered on the subway, Matthews is besties with our biggest pop star and we barely even look at him as American, and McKenna has made more public appearances in a week than Mitch made in 7 years.

Such a brutally tough place to play.
 
Feels like since Miller is long gone, and Hughes was traded halfway through the season, he's talking about what he ended the season with over there, but just my interpretation, of course. Might be all three of them.
 
Fwiw:

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I mean...reading between the lines it looks like Miller and the Canucks tried forcing Pettersson to be something that he isn't, he didn't respond well to it, making it all worse and it devolved from there as they just kept trying to force it on him. I mean, you can criticize Pettersson for maybe not being intense enough or whatever gritensity stuff they were trying to instill in him, but it sure sounds like the toxicity came from around him. If you don't think the guy has "what it takes" you trade him, you don't spend multiple years trying to "toughen up" a grown ass man.

*edit* Also, to clarify. That Brad Richardson quote came after a season where a 21 yr old Pettersson dropped 18 points in 17 playoff games including game winners in 2 of their 3 wins against Vegas in the 2nd round.
 
LeafOfFaith said:
Feels like since Miller is long gone, and Hughes was traded halfway through the season, he's talking about what he ended the season with over there, but just my interpretation, of course. Might be all three of them.
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Once a room is broken though, it's broken. I'm sure it's heavily cliqued up with everyone sticking to their group of a few buddies. That's usually what happens on shitty teams with bad rooms.
 
Pettersson is a lazy bitch tho I'm pretty sure. He's what this market used to think Willy is. They couldn't be less alike.
 
MindzEye said:
Once a room is broken though, it's broken. I'm sure it's heavily cliqued up with everyone sticking to their group of a few buddies. That's usually what happens on shitty teams with bad rooms.
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Yeah, bad teams are a disaster zone. If not rebuilding and stacked with youth and soon to be retiring vets, it's as toxic an environment as there can be. Guys who want to win don't want to be on the team, kids get beat up for every mistake, arguments and shit that carries over into the dressing room. If anyone has played any organized team sports, there's nothing worse than losing to get teammates at odds with each other. Vancouver seems like a bit of an extreme case, but clearly there was a lot going on.
 
LeafOfFaith said:
Yeah, bad teams are a disaster zone. If not rebuilding and stacked with youth and soon to be retiring vets, it's as toxic an environment as there can be. Guys who want to win don't want to be on the team, kids get beat up for every mistake, arguments and shit that carries over into the dressing room. If anyone has played any organized team sports, there's nothing worse than losing to get teammates at odds with each other. Vancouver seems like a bit of an extreme case, but clearly there was a lot going on.
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Reading a handful of articles on those years, it seems to have been a full on sanctioned push by the organization to get the leadership group (Miller, Hughes, etc) to lean on Pettersson to "toughen him up". Which considering that we're talking this happening during the seasons Pettersson was dropping 102 & 89 points sounds more like a case of shitty management group not understanding how to get through to anything but a prototypical hockey player personality and just insisting on trying harder and with more toxicity to mold him into something they thought he needed to be....while he put up elite #1 centre production.

Can't really blame him for not wanting to deal with it all. Fuck you, pay me.
 
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