[Article] Canucks’ Tyler Myers Has Milestones to Hit in 2023-24

[RWJC]

Canucks’ Tyler Myers Has Milestones to Hit in 2023-24

 

The Vancouver Canucks preseason is underway. With the 2023-24 season so close, certain players could be gearing up to hit important career milestones individually or with their respective teams. With Tanner Pearson getting traded to the Montreal Canadiens, resolving some of the Canucks cap uncertainty, it appears defenceman Tyler Myers will begin the season with the organization. It is often surprising to realise Myers is entering his fifth season with the team. Considering the flack he sometimes gets from the fanbase, it’s important to acknowledge the notable milestones he is swiftly approaching. Assuming he will stay with the Canucks for the final year of his contract, let’s look at some of them he could hit this season.

 

 

Myers Could Reach 1,000 Games

 

The biggest milestone Myers could reach that is tangible is playing his 1000th game in the NHL. He currently sits at 918 games played, exactly 82 away from reaching number 1,000. While it is the most impressive on this list, it is also the most unlikely. Myers is projected to play on the third pair this season behind Filip Hronek, Ian Cole, Carson Soucy, and, of course, captain Quinn Hughes. While his physicality and defensive play add some stability to the defence corps, it wouldn’t be shocking to see the team rotate Myers with younger defencemen throughout the season.

 

 

While the competitive Canucks blue line is a reason why Myers may be absent from a game this season, it appears that should be the only reason. His bill of health with the Canucks is impressive. Last season he only missed four games. The season prior, in 2021-22, he played a full 82-game campaign. Myers can undoubtedly hit the 1,000-game mark this season, barring an injury.

 

Assuming the coaching staff doesn’t sit him due to his play, we could see a Myers 1,000-game silver stick ceremony in the Canucks season-closer. Where’s the Canucks season-closer you ask? Winnipeg. Now, wouldn’t that be an amazing moment?

 

 

Move Into Top-100 of Canucks Scoring

 

The following few milestones are not as momentous as reaching the 1,000-game mark, but they do mean something. The Canucks history book is rich with fan favourites spanning decades. Myers, who joined the team in the 2019 offseason, is on the brink of entering the top-100 all-time scoring list in Canucks history.

 

Currently, Myers has 77 points in 283 games with the Canucks. To crack the top 100, he needs to score 17 points to surpass Taylor Pyatt. However, teammate Andrei Kuzmenko can also reach Pyatt this season; therefore, Myers would need to hit 18 to guarantee a spot by the end of the season. If he does this, he will pass Christian Ehrhoff, who has 94 points in a Canucks uniform. While Myers’ offence has dwindled over the past two seasons, he should be able to score just enough to squeak in.

 

Over the past two seasons, Myers has scored at a 0.21 points-per-game (P/G) pace. Using the last two seasons as a baseline to project this season’s stats, we can predict that Myers should be a shoo-in for about 17 points. If he plays all 82 games, or just around it, he should be within striking distance of passing Pyatt and Ehrhoff, making this another milestone to watch.

 

Other Minor Scoring Milestones for Myers

 

Some other minor, rapid-fire milestones Myers could hit this season are: breaking the top-30 in Canucks scoring and goal-scoring by a defenceman and reaching the 350-point mark in his career. Currently, he sits at 342 career points. A mere eight will get him to the spot. While 50-point intervals aren’t typically recognized, as a defenceman, it’s a more impressive feat.

 

To break into the top 30 of goals among defencemen and pass Yannick Weber, Myers would need four. He’s currently tied for 36th all-time with 14. He needs to score four goals, which Myers has not done since the 2020-21 season when he scored six. Despite the low threshold, the defenceman has a combined two goals over the last two seasons, making this milestone a bit of a stretch.

 

The final minor milestone for Myers is entering the top 30 of scoring among Canucks defencemen. This one, he will likely hit a quarter of the way through the 2023-24 season. He currently has 77 points as a Canuck. He needs a quick four points to pass Michel Petit (81) for 30th all-time in franchise scoring for defencemen. The mark is easily the most doable of any milestone stated. Pointing out these smaller milestones is to give credit to Myers. Despite often facing criticism from fans, he is inching up the franchise’s record book, which is something to celebrate.

 

Whether Myers hits these milestones depends on his health, staying in the lineup, and not getting traded. While a feat like reaching 1,000 games depends on him playing in every match this upcoming season, the team records, such as Canucks’ scoring milestones, are possible even if he misses a dozen games for any reason. Aside from the 1,000-game milestone, these accomplishments may appear small; however, it is important to celebrate players on their feats. The 2023-24 season is quickly approaching, meaning names, such as Tyler Myers, will shuffle around in the Canucks record book.

 

September 27, 2023 by Alex Wauthy

 

https://thehockeywriters.com/canucks-tyler-myers-milestones-in-2023-24/

[Integra250]

I want to see him get the "traded out of Vancouver" milestone

[RWJC]

Then I think you will be quite pleased by end of the season

[Sophomore Jinx]

[Coconuts]

It'd be cool to see him hit 1k as a Canuck but yeah, it's unlikely. He'll likely hit it somewhere else next season. Probs moves into the top 100 though. 

[Sabrefan1]

It seems like years ago that I told people that Myers was overrated.  Oh wait, it was.

 

I'd just like to rub it in a bit now.

 

 

 

Maybe the Canucks' front office will pick up the always overrated Rasmus Ristolainen next for a cool 5 million/AAV?

 

Edited September 27, 2023 by Sabrefan1
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[cripplereh]

Contract year so anything can happen.

[CRAZY_4_NAZZY]

As much as I hate his game, his importance to this club is huge.

 

With the lack of depth on the blueline, Myers is going to be a big contributor to our success or demise.

 

We need Myers to take a big step and produce for this team.

[snowman955]

As he seems more prone to errors. Waive him . Play someone who dives a damn

[helmetparade]

after he demolished keith i hope he thrives wherever he is

[brownky]

If Myers hits anything, milestone or not it'll be called a penalty anyway.

[RU SERIOUS]

Myers can  S%#@ My    

[RU SERIOUS]

Myers future .......     

[Coconuts]

22 minutes ago, RU SERIOUS said:

Myers future .......     

 

That's not a tank

[IBatch]

Love him, hate him or indifferent, chances are after this season he's going to end up top 150 all-time for NHL defenseman in points.  

[IBatch]

It's also of note, 1000 defenseman have played 231 or more games.   Only 123 have played 1000 or more games. 

Edited September 28, 2023 by IBatch

[IBatch]

18 hours ago, Sabrefan1 said:

It seems like years ago that I told people that Myers was overrated.  Oh wait, it was.

 

I'd just like to rub it in a bit now.

 

 

 

Maybe the Canucks' front office will pick up the always overrated Rasmus Ristolainen next for a cool 5 million/AAV?

 

SabreFan1 great to see you back!  Want to swap teams (you can have our roster, we get yours..).   Sister franchises in fan suffrage.  11 missed playoffs in a row (and counting).   I'd swap BTW.   But you guys earned it the hard way.   Both franchises deserve a freaking break.  

Edited September 28, 2023 by IBatch

[Sabrefan1]

2 minutes ago, IBatch said:

SabreFan1 great to see you back!  Want to swap teams (you can have our roster, we get yours..).   Sister franchises in fan suffrage.  11 missed playoffs in a row (and counting).   I'd swap BTW.   But you guys earned it the hard way.   Both franchises deserve a freaking break.  

 

Thanks for the welcome.

 

No thanks on the roster swap.  I'll keep the roster we have. 

 

There is a systemic problem with the Canucks organizational leadership.  The owner is willing to pay to put a good team on the ice, but the former coaches and GM's have just been cobbling together mid teams year after year.  The team does just well enough year after year to get draft positions just outside of the prime grouping.  Thank God Hughes was still available 5 years ago.

 

Vancouver should be a frickin' destination location for top free agents, but it's not because the org hasn't been able to get it's act together.  It's basically Hollywood North.

 

As for the Sabres, they're living proof that if the organization and team suck bad enough for long enough, by the time you finally do stumble and back into a good GM and coach, you can really set yourself up for sustained success.

[Ds4quality]

I kinda think Myers would have done a lot better if Canucks defensive coaches were a little better. 

[NewbieCanuckFan]

47 minutes ago, Ds4quality said:

I kinda think Myers would have done a lot better if Canucks defensive coaches were a little better. 

He's gotten old.  Happens to all athletes.  Nature of longer term deals is that most players will decline at the end.  He played well for us for a while.  He didn't stink like manure for the entirety of their contract unlike some of other Benning's acquisitions.

[Snoop Hogg]

No mention of his snow angel milestone. He only needs 7 more to reach 2000.

[IBatch]

23 hours ago, Sabrefan1 said:

 

Thanks for the welcome.

 

No thanks on the roster swap.  I'll keep the roster we have. 

 

There is a systemic problem with the Canucks organizational leadership.  The owner is willing to pay to put a good team on the ice, but the former coaches and GM's have just been cobbling together mid teams year after year.  The team does just well enough year after year to get draft positions just outside of the prime grouping.  Thank God Hughes was still available 5 years ago.

 

Vancouver should be a frickin' destination location for top free agents, but it's not because the org hasn't been able to get it's act together.  It's basically Hollywood North.

 

As for the Sabres, they're living proof that if the organization and team suck bad enough for long enough, by the time you finally do stumble and back into a good GM and coach, you can really set yourself up for sustained success.

Feel for you.   And your organization as a whole.   Mike Peca led team with Hasek ...  Was your 2011.   Peca was one of my favourite young Canucks, would have preferred him to Morrison, but bet it stung when you lost Mogilny.   

 

11 years is way way too long to miss the playoffs.   I blame expansion for that as much as a run of organizational miss-haps.   Even five years or half a decade is too long, but now it's going to be pretty common.  Almost impossible to do what St. Louis did with their run of playoffs.   That's a record that never will be broken.   CAR also missed 9, and look at them now.   EDM ... what was it?   Must of sucked losing that lottery for Eichel lol. 

 

Look at your team now.   No glaring weakness (goaltending maybe the one question mark?), possibly the best young D of a group that includes Makar, QHs, Fox and Heiskanen (Dahlins first half was a legendary pace if he managed it, and unlike QHs, he blocks a lot of shots and hits) ... Power.    One of the better lines in hockey.   

 

EP was also a great pick.   Unlike some I don't consider QHs dropped on our lap, rather he went around exactly where he was predicted to go.   EP was off board.  

 

JB rushed things.   And Allvin is going to have a very very tough road trying to give EP/Demko/Miller/QHs a chance to win as a group.  

 

Unfortunately, so far things have gone pretty much how I felt they would.  Back in circa 2014.   It was just as bad as starting from scratch under the old expansion rules.  Zero prospect pool.  Assets weren't recycled and almost impossible to do.   No Linden trade because it wasn't available.   Claused up roster right down to good role players in Hansen.   Said best case, parts of the next core (that's this one), and the following one we'd be able to get back to being a contender.   Each final appearance took longer to get there.   And now with 32 teams (and maybe more in the future)...and crap taxes - Buffalo also has crap taxes...The odds just aren't with us. 

 

Feel the Canucks will get this season, and at most all of next one, to make it work.   Otherwise, the plug will get pulled and we are in for some more serious pain.    OTT did it right.   

[Sabrefan1]

23 hours ago, NewbieCanuckFan said:

He's gotten old.  Happens to all athletes.  Nature of longer term deals is that most players will decline at the end.  He played well for us for a while.  He didn't stink like manure for the entirety of their contract unlike some of other Benning's acquisitions.

 

I've watched him play since day 1 on the Canucks.  If Benning had signed him to a reasonable contract, he would have been considered a serviceable D-man rather than an underperformer.  Myers has never matched his play to his contract.  Rasmus Ristolainen has the same problem even at 1 million less AAV. 

 

I'd blame the Sabres old coaches for those two if they both hadn't had their best years at the very start of their careers.

[Conscience]

Most chaos/60

[Sabrefan1]

8 hours ago, IBatch said:

Feel for you.   And your organization as a whole.   Mike Peca led team with Hasek ...  Was your 2011.   Peca was one of my favourite young Canucks, would have preferred him to Morrison, but bet it stung when you lost Mogilny.  

 

Mogilny wore out his welcome in Buffalo.  After healing from his 2nd leg break, he weirdly became a bit of a whiner.  John Muckler and Mogilny did not get along.  Peca and McKee became beloved in Buffalo afterwards. 

 

I was happy for Mogilny though when he did well in Vancouver and was very happy with his new home.

 

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11 years is way way too long to miss the playoffs.   I blame expansion for that as much as a run of organizational miss-haps.   Even five years or half a decade is too long, but now it's going to be pretty common.  Almost impossible to do what St. Louis did with their run of playoffs.   That's a record that never will be broken.   CAR also missed 9, and look at them now.   EDM ... what was it?

 

You're being too kind.  It was organizational incompetence through and through that caused this drought. 

 

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Must of sucked losing that lottery for Eichel lol.

 

Sucked way worse when it became obvious that Eichel was an underperforming d-bag.  There was hope he'd become generational.  He didn't.  Though honestly he gets to thumb his nose at Sabres fans now that he has a cup to his name.  Can't argue with winning and he has something that untold thousands of Sabres fans went to the grave wanting just once.

 

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Look at your team now.   No glaring weakness (goaltending maybe the one question mark?), possibly the best young D of a group that includes Makar, QHs, Fox and Heiskanen (Dahlins first half was a legendary pace if he managed it, and unlike QHs, he blocks a lot of shots and hits) ... Power.    One of the better lines in hockey.

 

I think Devon Levi is the real thing.  I'd like to see him earn his way into the starter position and have Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen become his backup.  As for the Sabres D, 3rd pairing and #7 could end up being a weakness this season.  I'd like to see an Olofsson trade possibly address that.  Olofsson has addressed the trade rumours more than once and has said that he doesn't want to be traded out of Buffalo and that he thinks his 2-way play has improved, but I'm skeptical.

 

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JB rushed things.   And Allvin is going to have a very very tough road trying to give EP/Demko/Miller/QHs a chance to win as a group.

 

When I left CDC, the JB apologists and rump kissers were still singing about how great of a GM he was.  Even though everyone else knew his days were numbered.  When the alert popped up on my phone that he was fired, I actually said out loud in the middle of the store I was in, "finally"!  That got me a few looks.

 

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Unfortunately, so far things have gone pretty much how I felt they would.  Back in circa 2014.   It was just as bad as starting from scratch under the old expansion rules.  Zero prospect pool.  Assets weren't recycled and almost impossible to do.   No Linden trade because it wasn't available.   Claused up roster right down to good role players in Hansen.   Said best case, parts of the next core (that's this one), and the following one we'd be able to get back to being a contender.   Each final appearance took longer to get there.   And now with 32 teams (and maybe more in the future)...and crap taxes - Buffalo also has crap taxes...The odds just aren't with us.

 

Winning and a 10-15% premium on contracts helps negate the US state tax stigma.  At least that's what GM's have said to The Athletic in the past.  Now that the Sabres are winning and there isn't much outside pressure on them, players are vocal about wanting to stay here. 

 

Teams like the reigning champs though will always have that no state tax advantage.  They have more cap space to work with because they can sign players to lesser contracts.

 

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Feel the Canucks will get this season, and at most all of next one, to make it work.   Otherwise, the plug will get pulled and we are in for some more serious pain.    OTT did it right.   

 

People have said it before, the Canucks are just bad enough to miss the playoffs, but just good enough to land outside of a prime draft spot.  Add to that, the worlds worst lottery luck, and it feels like the Canucks should start sacrificing goats to the hockey gods.

 

Here's a tidbit that hasn't made it loudly outside of Buffalo.  Many here think there's a chance that Pegula is looking for a local interest to sell the Sabres to.  His favourite toy has been the Bills since he bought them in 2014 and the Sabres have always lost him millions per season.  He recently shuttered the umbrella company that all of his Buffalo and Rochester sport clubs were under.

 

Personally I think he's just ending the costly changes and streamlining operations that his wife created since most things were pretty redundant and top heavy in their organizations.  He always let her do her thing to keep her happy.  But now that she's retired as a result of the stroke she suffered, he is going medieval on those changes and getting rid of her people left and right.

Edited September 30, 2023 by Sabrefan1