Kevin Biestra

I thought I was a Canucks fan but you and your Dad sound like you take the cake in that regard. Jim Robson would be proud of you.

Nice little record for Wensink. Legendary depth guy for those Bruins...I think he was one of Don Cherry's eleven 20 goal scorers that one season. As for Brent Ashton...great player that we traded away very early. He went on to have a great career.

I think 1991 to 1995 was a better time than the Naslund / WCE years. The Canucks had their division titles and were impressive in the playoffs every one of those seasons even in the years they only went one or two rounds. 1991 was the Ronning magic year with his LA series where he was better than Gretzky. 1992 or 1993 was the comeback from down 3-1 in the series against Winnipeg and then I think they came back from down 3-2 against St. Louis in 1995. Plus the comeback from 3-1 against Calgary in 1994 (and almost against the Rangers). The first half of the 90s the Canucks were consistently very good. 1994 didn't just come out of nowhere. The Canucks were consistently comeback kings in those years as opposed to consistently frustrating in the playoffs during the Cloutier years. 1982 was the only good playoff run of the 80s but the 80s Canucks - Snepsts, Brodeur, Tiger, Smyl, Rota, Fraser, Gradin, Garrett, Butcher etc. - were very easy to cheer for and relate to. Hard working guys who made teams like Gretzky's Oilers earn their two points and once in a while beat them as well.

Ewwww... That's like losing your virginity on prom night to a rhinoceros with leprosy on a bed of broken glass.

Classic game. I don't think many Canuck fans that were paying attention that year won't remember the game. I think Patrick Roy said it was the best or one of the best games he had ever seen a goalie play. 1982 warn't no fluke though. That was King Richard turning into a demigod.

I thought Irbe was quite good as a Canuck. A winning record when the team went 25-43 and every other goalie got their ass kicked. I wanted to keep him going forward and Carolina sure got a lot of miles out of him.

Man it was nice to see Gino take out one last opponent on the ice there. Orland, Ronning, Babych... This is one of the better promos that has been done. The old guys stole the show.

George Soros sold Pettersson's one timer to pocket the profits and make us eat bugs.

Yeah we actually acquired Geoff Sanderson twice and both times gave up on him pretty quickly. We had his Whalers setup man Andrew Cassels as well and at least he stuck and scored some points.

Hopefully things will improve and no reason they shouldn't on paper. But I said the same thing when we acquired Sean Burke but then we just gave up after he went 2-9-4 and cut our losses with the near Hall of Famer. Expected (or hoped for) bigger things from Derek Roy, Eric Weinrich, Jimmy Carson, Gary Leeman, Stephane Morin, Vladimir Krutov and several others with decent resumes in their Canuck days.

Horvat is actually like 10 goals away from matching Henrik Sedin's career total. Pretty impressive but it was time to get his air of leadership out of the room and move on. Quinn... Loved the team he put together but man did we trade away some great ones to make it happen. Snepsts, King Richard, Tanti, Skriko, Barry Pederson, Lidster, Butcher, Dan Quinn was good in his brief time as a Canuck, Rich Sutter, Sandlak. That's just off the top of my head and not including retirements and aging out like Smyl and Reinhart. Complete overhaul from the very good 1989 playoff team to the 1994 version. And complete overhaul from 1982 to 1989 as well...the only commonalities I think were Smyl, Snepsts and Butcher. From 1989 to 1994...maybe just Linden, Adams and McLean.

Heh I remember when dudes used to just set up a table in the mall with tubs of cards from the 70s and 80s and you could pick any five you wanted for a dollar.

I think he got inducted around the same time as Dick Duff who was a good player but not as good as Federko. But yeah I've heard Bernie's name come up in commentary as the guy to debate.

Bernie Nicholls, Bernie Federko, Larry Murphy, Phil Housley, Brian Propp. Ron Francis was another one kind of like Gartner.