Yahoo Sports Playing for pride could cost Canucks dear
In a tumultuous season in which the Vancouver Canucks fired its coach and traded its captain, the team finds itself hanging onto extremely slim hopes of a playoff wild card spot, whilst seeing its percentage chances of drafting generational talent Connor Bedard dropping close to zero.
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JULIAN MCKENZIE: Drew Livingstone on Twitter from the STPN saying that the Kings are the best team since February 1st.
OMAR: Yeah. I don't think people are talking about the Kings-- the Kings enough, man, like.
JULIAN MCKENZIE: Nope. And they got rid of Jonathan Quick which just might be a good thing? Maybe? I don't know.
SAM CHANG: They lost to the Canucks.
JULIAN MCKENZIE: Oh.
OMAR: Oh, do they really?
[LAUGHTER]
Well, you know, every good team loses to the Canucks.
JULIAN MCKENZIE: They win them all!
OMAR: Right, in Toronto.
JULIAN MCKENZIE: Forget who had mentioned this the other day. I think actually, I think it was Keith Yandle. I think he just kind of just said like, you know, imagine if the Canucks hired Rick Tocchet a month earlier. They might actually be in the playoff chase and he might not be wrong.
SAM CHANG: I think that they are the playoff chase.
JULIAN MCKENZIE: Well, I mean, they're a little farther back.
OMAR: Oh, God.
SAM CHANG: They're 5 points away from dropping out of the top 10 in the draft and a 0% chance of landing Connor Bedard.
OMAR: The Platinum Zero. Zero tank awareness. I--
SAM CHANG: Just can't stop winning. Can't stop winning.
OMAR: It's so funny that Sam called it too.
JULIAN MCKENZIE: Yeah.
SAM CHANG: Like no-- no hyperbole, Sam called this one on our live tripping them in November.
[LAUGHTER]
OMAR: It's so-- they make no sense.
JULIAN MCKENZIE: They don't make sense. They never made sense.
OMAR: And I get it. It's not players that tank it's the organizations and managerial staff that tank, but like, man.
