Quoting: Artman91
LA was one of the hottest teams ending the 2020-21 season. We have prospects who will improve this season. Danault is a shut down forward. Arvidsson can be a 25-30 goal scorer still, especially playing with Kopitar. Defensively you have guys like Roy & Anderson who are improving more & more. LA Kings have one of the best chemistry lineups. Look out for guys like Vilardi, Moore, and Athanasiou. LA Kings are a much better team than Vancouver. Anyways.. you’re stating the kings were a bottom team and out of a sudden they a playoff team, Vancouver was last place in the division last season and you’re saying they’re gonna be 2nd-3rd place team.
Clearly you have absolutely zero knowledge about the Vancouver Canucks.
Reason Number one why we sucked last year: Our number one center Elias Pettersson was injured for 30 games
Reason number two: our entire team got COVID
Reason number three: because of COVID our schedule was hell. 19 games in like 30 nights.
Our team has made extreme changes this offseason. I say the Kings can’t all of a sudden become a playoff team because they made 2 additions
The Canuck have finally solidified their top 9 with the additions of Dickinson, a Danault like shutdown center for our third line. We also added Conor Garland who is a solid top six winger to play with Bo Horvat. With the additions of Dickinson and Garland, Bo Horvats line can finally focus on offensive and scoring and let Dickinson handle the defensive responsibilities. We also have an up and coming prospect in Vasili Podkolzin who will fill our third line. We also added Oliver Ekman Larson. If he can return to form in a refreshing new environment, he is a huge upgrade over slow and aging Alex Edler who you added to your defence core. We also added Tucker Poolman who is quite better than Jordie Benn. We also got rid of Holtby who absolutely sucked last year and replaced him with a cheaper steady backup to mentor Demko.
The Vancouver Canucks have made so many changes and upgrades and if you can’t see that, then that’s unfortunate. We finally got rid of Loui Eriksson, Roussel, Beagle, Virtanen, and Holtby who all sucked, and we used that money and made improvements. Obviously our d core is not the greatest but we have a top 10 offensive team right now with our great top 9.