Last night was hard. As much as I know this is a learning curve year, It would still be super awesome to send McDavid golfing.
You never want to anticipate a long run way of success. Better to be in the present and worry about the future when the time comes. As we all know Championship windows end sooner than it seems. There is always going to be the next exciting up and coming team.
However, the Vancouver Canucks seem to have awaken from a bleak and dark nine year stretch and the fan base seems alive and well.
Winning the Cup is the ultimate prize but the amount of luck it takes is immense that it is important to have reasonable expectations. Just so we don't bang our heads on the wall too hard and call our team overachievers.
At, 25, Elias Pettersson is the Canucks long term first line centre. It's interesting to note that the Canucks last first line centre was Hendrik Sedin and when he was Pettersson's age the entire NHL was lockout in 2005 and the twins were hardly generational players at the time.
If the EP 40 is able to match what the Canucks did in the eight years after the lockout, the Canucks should have a future that looks like this:
| 2025 | Miss playoffs | ||
| 2026 | 2nd Round | ||
| 2027 | Miss playoffs | ||
| 2028 | 2nd Round | ||
| 2029 | 2nd Round | ||
| 2030 | SCF loss | ||
| 2031 | 1st round | ||
| 2032 | 1st round | ||
| 2033 | Miss playoffs | ||
| 2034 | 1st round | ||
| 2035 |
Miss playoffs |
In the next decade, if the Canucks made the playoffs 7 out of 10 times, is that something that you would sign up for or are you willing to think the Canucks are poised for something better.
Curious to what people would do.
