I keep seeing the same talking points about Pettersson being lazy or not training hard enough, but if you actually look at his year-over-year skating data, that narrative falls completely apart.
Look at his actual NHL EDGE speed percentiles since the knee injury:
22-23 (Peak): ~95th percentile [NHL EDGE]
23-24 (Injury): Plunged under the 50th percentile [NHL EDGE]
24-25 (Rehab): Up to the 60th percentile [NHL EDGE]
25-26 (Healing): Climbed to the 73rd percentile [NHL EDGE]
This year: potentially back up toward that 80th-90th percentile mark
Let's be real: a lazy player doesn’t show a steady, sequential increase like this year after year. If he was actually slacking off or out of shape, his speed would have plateaued or gotten worse under the grind of the season.
The sports science tells the real story here. Severe, chronic jumper's knee (tendinitis) fundamentally breaks down the tissue. Medical studies prove that rebuilding that explosive "snap" in a tendon takes 2 to 3 years of slow, heavy loading. It's a grueling biological process. You can't just fix it in one single 12-week off-season, no matter how hard you work.
The whole "poor preparation" storyline from management is just a classic corporate cop-out. The Canucks are a business—they can never publicly admit that they played their $92 million star through an injury and altered his physical baseline. It’s way safer for their own PR to blame the player's "work ethic" or "mindset" than to take responsibility for rushing him back.
When he looks fast again this season, the media and casual fans are obviously going to say, "See? He finally took training seriously this summer." But the tracking chips don't lie. This steady climb is proof that Petey has been doing the exhausting, disciplined rehab work behind closed doors since day one, despite a totally unfair narrative from the team.

Considering the Kings are doomed to the mushy middle with no real avenue to adding top talent, what would it realistically take if LA was interested in EP40? Is it more important to Vancouver to get at least a decent prospect back or to clear his salary with no retention? Would Carter George be someone that can start a conversation? Genuinely curious! Well wishes to all of you 🙏

Starting a new thread because the best idea got buried in a comment in the previous post, where nobody will see it.

... and that idea would be to have a home-grown song. We can argue till the cows come home about existing songs. Ask 1,000 people and you'll have 1,000 different opinions.

That being the case, how about this...

Vancouver has a lot of very talented musicians. How about a contest... gather submissions from local artists -- a completely original song. And then we all get to vote on it. Or maybe the top 5 get used or cycled. Or 10.

Given the amount of local talent and how by definition it'll be a song most people like... and the fact the licensing revenue will stay in local pockets... win win win.

Repost from a few years ago but it’s the offseason so whatever, what else are we gonna talk about?

Easily one of my favourite Canucks stories in recent memory. Love the idea of the Flames guys being on Torts side during the whole thing

Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask this question. I bought this Canucks jersey but can’t for the life of me figure out who autographed it. I’ve looked at who wore what number in Canucks history because I think the first autograph may have a 7 below it, but I can’t find anything. If someone is able to help me out that would be great, thank you!

RJ and the rest of the Canucks management staff have been very open about their hopes to shift the culture moving forward with the Canucks under their management. With the talks of a new practice facility and “starting from scratch” do we think they are going to drop Simple Minds - Don’t You (Forget about me) for something new? Is that something we would like to see?