On April 22nd, 2012, Dan Hamhuis stumbled at center ice. Jarret Stoll picked up the puck and in the blink of an eye, the Canucks season was over. Their contention window was slammed shut. There was no wave of youth on the way to help the Sedins, Burrows, Bieksa, and Luongo. In this video, I look back at the terrible drafting that led up to this point.
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Worst Canucks draft of all time?
So it Wasent the refereeing
great video, subbed….. fuck off with those random black dots on the images though… well actually, i guess my monitor thanks you for the cleaning
they lost because they had 2 sisters on the same team.
i believe that if mikael sammuelsson hadn't been sidelined for the final and kesler's hip hadn't given out the canucks would have won the cup so i don't actually agree with you. they built a cup winner but you need luck on your side as well.
Bro, I haven’t watched this channel in a while and HOW TF DO YOU NOT HAVE 15k 😭
Edler-Subban, what could have been oh my 😢😢😢
The 2011 canucks had a core mostly made up of draft picks from before the 2005 lockout. Sedins 1999, Bieksa 2001, Kesler 2003, Edler and Hansen 2004, hell they even got Burrows undrafted. Just amazing value on picks and signings yet none of that was working after the lockout. Problem is, most of these players were at their peak and everything after would be downhill.
Patrick White was used as a trade chip for Ehrhoff. They could have traded a 1st round pick from draft 2007 – 2012 for roster help that could have gave more depth to the canucks playoff runs that could of potentially led to a cup.
You did a good job putting this video together, but man was it depressing. I didn’t realize the Nucks had zero draft picks that ever played an NHL game in the years you mentioned. I sure hope all of us Canucks faithful can finally stop holding our collective breath and finally cheer for them winning the cup soon.
In the same "no support" category , Price played without a 80 points player in front of him for nearly 15 years lol.
good
The Burke Era and drafts was the only respectable term other than Pat Quinn…
It is amazing how great we would be as general managers with the benefit of ten years hindsight. Every team in the league would win the cup every year.
Great synopsis. Sheds some light on the lean years!
Ron Delorme is at fault here.
Nothing new here, Vancouver has the worst draft record in NHL history when you go through their year by year pics from 1970 to current year.
It's crazy seeing it like this how badley we missed
Great vid. Small thing, Kyle Palmieri is a winger and absolutely wouldn't of been a good Kesler replacement as a result haha
In a way the sedins themselves caused this. Ever since they arrived the organization bent over backwards for them (never demoting them in the early days when they weren't producing and never taking them off the same line even for one period). Then when they started producing that left no space for prospects to aspire to and the organization placed no emphasis on giving the kids an honest look because it was always about catering to the sedins.
I loathe no team more than the canucks and I don’t really know why. As a calgarian I did not despise them this much in the old days with the black and yellow and I was a Bure fan, but I just can’t pinpoint why I hate the team. It just feels like old toilet paper. Is anyone else experiencing this feeling ?
Oilers fan here, loved seeing Vancouver lose in 2011…. And in 2023!… soooo, quit trash talking the oilers, we are getting the Stanley cup 2025 :3 …. Also…. You can’t shock the nhl anymore, nucks with a bullseye on them cause they shocked the entire league, that’s just a one off
If PK Subban and Alex Adler were on the same line we would have had more turnovers than ever both of them known for making stupid turnovers PK Subban would have made Adler worse and Alex Adler would have made PK Subban worse not only that PK Subban wasn't tough enough and his career fell apart pretty easily once he hit 29
I've always wondered why the Canucks contender window wasn't longer. Now I know. Great video!
I hated Gillis
Vancouver wouldn’t have made it past the stars let alone the Oilers keep dreaming. Oilers tied the series 2 goals away from the Cup shut the F&@k up.
they came just 1 win short in 2011 so saying that that bad drafting cost them the cup is kind of a stretch. Yes their draft record was sketchy but in the early 2010s, they were one of the biggest faces in the league given they had come just 1 win short of the cup and pulled off a rare feat of winning 2 straight presidents trophies in both 2011 and 2012
Best Cody Hodgson story ever.
Let's not forget either about who was chosen after their 1st rd pick in '05.
Could you imagine a Sedin/Kopitar 1-2 punch??? That's guaranteed cups.
still blubbering over the picks from 12 years ago. As is people can know how a draft pick will pan out before they've ever played a game….lol too funny