I can see Raty as as 3C who wins faceoffs a la Malhotra. That's likely his ceiling which is totally acceptable at a low price point. The gaping hole in the lineup now is 2C and how they will address this is anyone's guess. The free agent market is looking thin for centers so it'll have to be via trade as there's really no one within the organization that can rise to that role.

yep... and one of EP2.0/Lek/Willander is going to have to be packaged if it's trade.

Can't get something good without giving up something good.

Forget the 2C. Canucks don't even have a 1C at this point. lol.

Canucks need to win all remaining 8 games with Blues/Wild winning 4 of theirs to get in.

Or more grimly.... even if the Blues/Wild lose all their remaining games, Canucks need to win 4 of their last 8 games, lol.

See you next season boys lol

had the goalie pulled for 3.5 minutes and didn't get scored on. i guess that's a win

Suter is turning out to be pretty good.

When Suter has more goals than your 1C at 1/4 the cost FailFish

^ so did Debrusk, Garland, Sherwood, Boeser, and Hughes (of course).

I get why Canucks werent able to extend or trade Suter. He must be asking for $11mil/yr

Ovie scores his 890th career goal!

-five more goals for Ovie to break Gretzky’s record.


https://youtu.be/K_amml8fWwA?feature=shared


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At this rate, wonder which game it will happen, the tie and then the record!

It'd be cool if he broke it on the very last game of the season, vs. Pittsburgh on Apr 17th.

Hope he gets it at home for the Caps fans

I think a lot of people were banking on it happening at the Columbus game when I was reading reddit a while back, so their sixth game from now.

lol, my question is would he do it on an empty netter? Either the tie or the record breaker.

I think the coach said he doesn't care and will let it happen organically. But one has to wonder if it would suck if he gets put out there in an empty net situation for the big milestone goal that's going to be played on highlights for decades to come.

I'm sure many of his 890 goals were empty netters; it's fine if he breaks the record with one

He's already got the record for empty netters what's one more at this point I'm sure he just wants to get it over with

It would just give haters a reason to asterisk his record breaking goal. Pretty stupid and petty imo and I'm not even a fan of Ovi in general.

Probably not considering when he passed Gordie Howe you practically refused to score an empty netter but eventually gave in and did anyway because it was in front of the fans at home.

how about an own goal by the opposing team that he gets credit for? :lol

Ovi's office is the slot area near the right faceoff circle.

I'm sure that all goalies know that a quick shot is coming from Ovi from that area. Stopping that shot is another matter though.

The Great 8 has arguably has the quickest shot release in the NHL.

Although his shot may not be the hardest, his release is lightning fast.

-would be great to see him score his historic 895th goal as a one timer in the slot near the right faceoff circle.

Ovi's office!

If Ovi breaks the record on an empty netter it’ll make for a lame highlight to replay over the years. I’ll never forget watching Gretzky “run” on the ice when he broke Howe’s record against the Canucks :okay:

891 for Ovi ! 3 more to tie, 4 for the record.

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Ovi just casually walking in from the face off dot. lol. No one guarding him at all. Almost seems like they want to give him that goal.