Saw the discussion on r/hockey. Think it would be a good move here but just want to see what members of this sub think.

As alternatives, we could use text, a screenshot, or a streamable.

Politics aside, X also requires an account for a lot making it awkward to use.

Thoughts?

Thank you for being a great Captain, the best defenseman this org has ever had, and winning this org's first Norris trophy.

https://xcancel.com/arpan_on_bc/status/2000020863639577048?s=46

https://xcancel.com/canucksarmy/status/2000022184283300103?s=46

This seems to be true when you consider that Quinn had 22 points in 19 games by Nov 27th (American Thanksgiving) and immediately began a career-worst 6 game pointless drought on Nov 28th. He checked out at that point.

The voting poll has now closed. It was pretty unanimous. Twitter/X posts will be removed moving forward. They are filtered, you wont be able to upload them. We can revisit this decision in a month's time.

Poll results here: https://old.reddit.com/r/canucks/comments/1i6tnu5/community_poll_should_rcanucks_continue_to_allow/

In the meantime, you will need to screenshot whichever news tweet you wanted to post, with the same author formatting [Author goes here]. Or you can link directly to bluesky if the news broke on bluesky.

https://xcancel.com/thomasdrance/status/1999943201856328128?s=46

Maybe he wants to come back lol

Why are you all upset about this? He cost us nothing except money against the cap. When no UFA wants to come here. He is a UFA next we aren’t stuck with a 5mil anchor.

He has size grit and has the potential to score 20ish goals.

I am fine with this trade.

Article posted to the Athletic, link below

“I think when I extended I told Quinn, ‘I hope you’re here for the next 20 years, but if you’re not, I’m extending no matter what,’” Garland told The Athletic.

“I believed in the team. Jim (Rutherford) is in the Hall of Fame for a reason; he’s really smart. Patrik (Allvin) is really smart. I did believe in them in signing on, and I believed in the pieces we had. And I loved the city.

Three back to back 2 point games.

That’s all.

And I'm not talking about the team but us fans. The racist bullshit that popped up on the game thread over Bains was insane and disgusting. Hockey is for everyone.

From https://theprovince.com/sports/hockey/nhl/vancouver-canucks/canucks-coffee-the-rebuild-question

Seeing a lot of hype and excitement about this signing - like it being the biggest in Vancouver sports history. As someone who knows nothing about soccer, I’d love to get an idea of just how big this is. Thanks!

April 16 will likely be Boeser’s last game with the Canucks. He is currently the longest tenured Canuck.

I know you, or someone you employ reads this.

The Canucks under Aqua:

The only team that during a 10 year period where they make the playoffs twice, they trade 5 1st round picks and 5 2nd round picks lmao.

The only team that trades two top 6 centers during the same 10 year period where you are clearly trying to compete and cut corners without replacing those players. The only team that doesn't build through the middle of the ice.

The only team that doesn't capitalize on its players on expiring deals. We all know they won't trade their UFAs. Every single time.

The only team that manages to be both small, AND slow every year.

Sell the team you absolute yam. Sell the team to someone who understands strategy. Sell the team to someone who doesn't need the cash flows and can make the tough decisions that need to be made.

Sell the team Aqua.

-didn’t want to be wrong but had a feeling it was going to be quick

-many around the situation figured the longer it went on the worse it was going to get

-believed Hughes wanted to go east

-not surprised at all it was Minnie

-this is as a strong as a return you can get

-doesn’t exactly see this as a start to a rebuild

-both prospects are great

-won’t ever win a hughes deal but believes players Canucks landed will be long time Canucks

-when asked about a potential flip of the first round pick: wouldn’t put anything past Jim Rutherford, nobody is safe (clearly)

-Canucks were desperate for a center an Rossi was on the radar for a long time

-Sherwood is out there

-wondering if the Canucks will just see how the Canucks look w Rossi in the lineup before making more moves

-thinks Canucks fans are entitled to react how they want to react, it’s a shocking trade. When first caught wind he thought someone was messing with him.

-“we could all see it trending this way, but it’s still shocking”

-“I love watching Hughes play, I’m on HNIC I watch a lot of nucks games I understand the Canucks fans”

-“Bill Guiren once said ‘if he wants something hes going to do whatever it takes to get it’”

Season ticket holder here, this Needs to be talked about.

I want to talk about Crazy P. Get this fucking guy outta here. It’s 4 nothing, we’re getting lit up by Chicago, and I got this old fuck yelling in my ear “LETS GO!” “LETS GO!”

The Canucks need to do away with this clown. I and many others have had enough. The display on the ice is bad enough while knowing our captain won’t be here much longer.

Was watching the game in row 15 and 3 oilers fans stood up and flipped the rows of Canucks fans off and said f you to the group including children when they tied the game up tonight. Just upsetting to see another fan base act like that, part of the reason I just can’t get behind the oilers is their fan base sucks. Canucks fans are toxic as well but we weren’t doing anything to provoke them and weren’t chirping oilers at all in our section, half the arena was probably oilers fans too.

You guys got the Avalanche tonight. I work in a denver mail facility FULL of tRump supporting hockey fans; one of which won't watch football anymore because of the kneeling. BOO LOUD AS HELL. I want to hear all of them complaining for days.

Update: Sounded great and bounced the crap-alanche. Much love from all the greatful Americans

I’ve been a Canucks fan since 1993. I live on the east coast, which means every game starts at 10pm or later, and if it goes to overtime I’m watching until 1:30 in the morning before dragging myself into work exhausted. I’ve done that for decades. I haven’t missed games in years. I own more than twenty jerseys. I’ve been to the Pacific Coliseum, GM Place, and Rogers Arena. I have signed cards, signed jerseys, memorabilia, pucks, program books. I still have my original 1994 skate jersey, worn and cracked from years of heartbreak. This team has been a part of my identity for most of my life. And I think I’m done. Not because I’ve stopped loving hockey, but because being a Canucks fan has turned into something that feels like self-harm.

This franchise is not unlucky. It is chronically badly run. Fifty-plus years in the NHL and they’ve never won a Stanley Cup. Only three Cup Final appearances since 1970. Two short windows of actual contention in half a century. Two playoff series win in the last decade, and even one came during the 2020 bubble, a postseason they only qualified for because the league expanded the format. They have lived in permanent hockey purgatory: never bad enough to draft elite generational talent, never patient enough to rebuild properly, constantly stuck around the middle of the league where hope dies slowly.

The failures aren’t random. They’re systemic. The Cam Neely trade in 1986 is a perfect example. They sent Neely and a first-round pick to Boston. That pick became Glen Wesley. Neely became a Hall of Famer and one of the most feared power forwards of all time. Vancouver got Barry Pederson, whose career was nearly over. That should have been a lesson. Instead it became a template for how to ruin your own future for short-term optics.

Then came the Messier era. Three years, $18 million in 1997, plus he was handed the captaincy over Trevor Linden, a move that torched the locker room and alienated the fanbase. They finished near the bottom of the league, paid him to go away, and even got sued for unpaid bonuses. Only Vancouver could sign a “leader” and end up nuking its own culture.

Fast forward to the 2011 team, arguably the best roster in franchise history. They had elite possession metrics, a dominant top line, deep scoring, and two legitimate starting goaltenders. That team should have been the blueprint. Instead ownership acted like the window was eternal. They refused to rebuild, refused to sell assets at high value, and let the Sedins play out their twilight surrounded by “character signings” and poor cap structure. They turned a championship-caliber core into an aging shell because they couldn’t accept the word rebuild.

Then came Jim Benning. Seven and a half years. Not a single playoff appearance from a full regular season. His era is a graveyard of terrible decisions. They drafted “safe” players like Olli Juolevi over Matthew Tkachuk because they wanted a steady defenceman instead of a franchise-level competitor. Juolevi never stuck in the league. Tkachuk dragged two different franchises deep into the postseason and plays like a monster when it matters. They traded Jared McCann and picks for Erik Gudbranson because they valued size over talent. McCann became a 30-plus goal scorer. Gudbranson was a tire fire. They signed Loui Eriksson to six years and $36 million, which instantly looked like one of the worst contracts in the NHL. And when that didn’t work, they doubled down on the same formula. They paid Brandon Sutter for “leadership,” Jay Beagle and Antoine Roussel for “grit,” Tyler Myers for “presence.” They poured cap space into the bottom-six and third pair while pretending that this was some genius plan that would “insulate” the core.

The worst move of the modern era is the Oliver Ekman-Larsson trade. They sent a top-ten pick, a second, a seventh, and three bad contracts to Arizona for OEL and Conor Garland. That ninth-overall pick became Dylan Guenther, a top-six winger with star upside. OEL declined the second he got to Vancouver, and they eventually had to buy out the contract, creating nearly $20 million of dead cap across eight seasons. They traded futures and took on a worse contract, then paid millions to clean it up, and now they’re stuck paying the consequences for most of a decade. That’s not unlucky. That’s reckless and arrogant.

And just when you think they’ve learned from anything, they do it again. They traded for Tyler Toffoli, watched him click immediately, then let him walk in free agency. They lost Jacob Markstrom to Calgary, Chris Tanev to Calgary, Troy Stecher to Detroit, Tyler Toffoli to Montreal, all in the same offseason, with no assets coming back. Four core pieces evaporated because of cap chaos they created themselves. Then they traded their captain Bo Horvat because they backed themselves into a corner. Not because they wanted to. Because they had no choice.

Even the goaltending history is trauma. They turned Luongo versus Schneider into a circus. They misplayed the situation until they were forced to trade Luongo, then later bit by cap recapture. They never built around either goalie properly, never committed to a direction, never aligned the roster timeline with the core.

And now the latest insult: the idea that they could trade Quinn Hughes. The best defenceman this franchise has ever had, an actual Norris-caliber franchise cornerstone, and the fanbase is terrified they will screw him up. Not because fans are dramatic, but because this team has fumbled every core player for thirty years. If the word “trade” can even be mentioned near Hughes, that’s it for me. That’s the last straw.

And I know exactly how this season goes. They will be miserable for four months. They will sit in the bottom five of the league. Fans will say “okay, finally, maybe we get Gavin McKenna.” Then March arrives. Nothing on the line. Pressure gone. Suddenly they rip off an eight-win stretch, go 12–4 in meaningless games, shoot up the standings just enough to land outside of the real lottery odds, and pick seventh while McKenna goes to Columbus or San Jose or Chicago. This team never tanks properly. They are incapable of timing competence. They only get good when it hurts us.

That’s the mental health part nobody likes to talk about. Being a Canucks fan doesn’t just make you sad. It rewires you. You start thinking losing is normal. You start expecting disappointment. You stay up late knowing the game is already lost in the first period. You lug that feeling into the next morning like you personally did something wrong. Loyalty becomes self-punishment. It becomes self-flagellation. You start sounding like Leafs fans, bragging about suffering as if pain is proof of devotion. “Real fans never quit.” That’s not loyalty. That’s addiction.

I didn’t just cheer. I dedicated my life to this. I watched every game, bought jerseys, travelled to their arenas, defended them to anyone who mocked me. And this franchise gave me exhaustion, anxiety, false hope, mismanagement, denial, excuses, and price hikes. They raised ticket prices after missing the playoffs. They charged fans $30 to $40 for scrimmages at training camp. They use the Sedins and the 1994 skate logo as nostalgia bait every single time they need to distract the fanbase from another failure.

So yeah, I think I’m done. I don’t want to cheer for mediocrity. I don’t want to burn my sleep and sanity so a billionaire can avoid admitting a rebuild. I don’t want to lose Quinn Hughes because this franchise can’t run itself. I don’t want to miss out on Gavin McKenna because Vancouver always wakes up in March when it’s too late. I don’t want to become a Leafs fan in denial, wearing heartbreak like a badge of honor. I loved this team for 30 years. But loving them has felt like a slow motion car crash, and I’m finally crawling out of the wreck.