25 Seasons of My Vancouver Canucks

[Shanedawg]

I've just completed my 25th season as GM of the Vancouver Canucks. Love 'em or hate 'em, they are what they are and I've had fun playing out season after season with the team. This is my personal history of the 25 seasons where I'll be making notes of player histories, rookie campaigns, trade histories, drafts and the occasional facepalm moment in the team's 25 years since beginning.

I will comment that I was completely new to EHM when I started this and wasn't aware of some of the bugs/issues that were around when the game began. Some players have made-up names, even at the start and some of the earlier trades wouldn't have worked out after the patch, but nonetheless, I've kept going, post-patch and made-up names from the start doesn't really matter after 20+ seasons.

This then, is the history of "MY" Vancouver Canucks...

[sorry. This is going to start out fairly light with a number of What the Dickens? trades before things finally start getting really interesting... 25 seasons takes a while to get through ]

[Shanedawg]

2006-07 - The Inaugural season...

Season Results: 58 W 20 L 4 O/SL
Awards Given:

• President's Trophy
  William M. Jennings Trophy - Roberto Luongo
  Roger Crozier Saving Grace Award - Roberto Luongo

Dave Nonis "resigned" on August 30, 2006 and I took over as GM. The fans weren't happy with someone as "fresh" as me taking over, but here's where we are.

It was 3 days before I made my first trade:
3 4th round picks (Atlanta's 2007 pick, Canucks' 2008 & 2009 picks) were traded to NY Rangers for D Marc Staal.
And the next trade was also with the Rangers 2 days later:
The rights to Denis Grot and a 6th round pick in 2007 to the Rangers for Bryce Lampman.

Transactions:

• Jan Bulis, Canucks' 3rd round pick in 2009, 4th round pick in 2010 and Rangers' 4th round pick in 2007 traded to the Edmonton Oilers for Rob Schremp.
• Yutaka Fukufuji & Mikko Jokela signed as Free Agents.
• Atlanta's 5th round pick in 2007 traded to the Toronto Maple Leafs for Chad Kilger.
• Luc Bourdon traded to the Minnesota Wild for Matt Foy, Mikko Koivu, & Kurtis Foster.
• Jamal Myers & Stephen Peat claimed on waivers.
• Canucks' 5th round pick in 2007 traded to the Edmonton Oilers for Ethan Moreau.
• Jocelyn Thibault & Jason Bacashihua claimed on waivers.
• Canucks' 5th round pick in 2008 and the rights to Alex Vincent traded to the Minnesota Wild for Mattias Weinhandl.
• Canucks' 7th round pick in 2007 traded to the Columbus Blue Jackets for Tomas Kloucek.
• Rory Fitzpatrick traded to the NY Rangers for Jed Ortmeyer.
• Josh Green traded to the Montreal Canadiens for Aaron Downey.
• Alex Burrows, Chad Kilger, Nathan McIver, Jocelyn Thibault, Tommi Santala, & rights to Marty Schmidt traded to Pittsburgh Penguins for Evgeni Malkin, Jordan Staal & Pittsburgh's 1st round picks in 2007, 2008, & 2009.
• Michael Grabner traded to Detroit Red Wings for Valtteri Filppula.
• Canucks' 6th round pick in 2008 traded to Ottawa Senators for Bryan Marchment.
• Claimed Brad Tapper on waivers.
• Kurtis Foster & Jed Ortmeyer traded to Toronto Maple Leafs for Alex Ponikarovsky.
• Jannik Hansen traded to Tampa Bay Lightning for Eric Perrin.
• Claimed Chris Chelios & Andrew Peters on waivers.
• Signed Andy Roach, Sean Venedam, Mike Wilson, Sean Brown & Juraj Melichercik as free agents.
• Canucks' 7th round pick in 2008 traded to Detroit Red Wings for Brett Lebda.
• Tyler Bouck, Matt Cooke, Mike Brown, & Lee Goren traded to Pittsburgh Penguins for rights to Sean Collins, NY Islanders' 3rd round pick in 2007, & Pittsburgh's 3rd round pick in 2007.
• Yutaka Fukufuji traded to Detroit Red Wings for Red Wings' 5th round pick in 2007.
• Lukas Krajicek traded to Boston Bruins for David Krejci & Martins Karsums.
• Canucks' 1st round pick in 2007 traded to Chicago Blackhawks for Mikael Holmqvist & Canucks' 3rd round pick in 2007.
• Canucks' 6th round pick in 2009 traded to Columbus Blue Jackets for Canucks' 7th round pick in 2007.
• Signed Juraj Simek as a free agent.

2007 Entry Draft

• Rd 1, 2nd overall (from Pittsburgh): Sam Gagner
  Rd 2, 46th overall (from ??): Nick Pageau
  Rd 2, 59th overall: Dustin Jeffrey
  Rd 3, 61st overall (from Pittsburgh): John Hughes
  Rd 3 63rd overall (from ??): Nikolai Lukyanchikov
  Rd 3 89th overall: Nick Ross
  Rd 5 145th overall (from Detroit): Scott Murphy
  Rd 7 209th overall: Evgeni Kurbatov

More to come....

[Shanedawg]

2007-08 - Season 2

Season Results: 51 W 28 L 3 O/SL
Awards Given: Roberto Luongo, 2nd Team All-Star

• Notes:
• I wasn't happy with Alain Vigneault, so at the end of our playoff run (a 4-0 sweep by San Jose in the Western Conference Final), I let him go. 4 days later, I hired on Peter Laviolette.
• Not sure what I saw in Mikael Holmqvist or if it was karma working against me after pillaging Pittsburgh on so many occasions, but I lost Holmqvist to waivers and he went back to Anaheim after playing only 10 games for the Canucks (10 1-0-1). Chicago took my 1st round pick and grabbed Aaron Rooney. I got back my 3rd round pick for 2007 and chose Nick Ross. More on them later, obviously, plus a look at what happened to Mikael Holmqvist.

Transactions:

• Canucks' 3rd round pick in 2008 & 5th round pick in 2009 traded to the NY Islanders for Sean Bergenheim.
• Artem Chubarov traded to the Minnesota Wild for Stephane Veilleux & Stanislav Neckar.
• Mikko Koivu traded to Boston Bruins for Petr Kalus.
• Ethan Moreau & Bryce Lampman traded to Pittsburgh Penguins for Penguins' 2nd & 3rd round pick in 2008, 2nd round pick in 2009.
• Andy Roach, Brett Lebdam Zdenek Bahensky & Martins Karsums traded to Pittsburgh Penguins for Marc-Andre Bergeron & Penguins' 1st round pick in 2010.
• Marc-Andre Bergeron claimed on waivers by Pittsburgh Penguins.
• Maxime Ouellet claimed on waivers from New Jersey Devils.
• Slava Kozlov traded to Florida Panthers for Stephen Weiss.
• Valtteri Filppula traded to Colorado Avalanche for rights to Derek Kolarik.
• Stanislav Neckar traded to Washington Capitals for Matt Bradley.
• Denis Gauthier claimed on waivers from Philadelphia Flyers.
• Canucks' 7th round pick in 2009 traded to Dallas Stars for Niklas Hagman.
• Sean Venedam, Mike Wilson, Jari Kauppila & Dany Sabourin traded to Pittsburgh Penguins for Steve Shields a& Penguins' 1st round pick in 2011.
• Petr Kalus & Canucks' 3rd round pick in 2010 traded to Ottawa Senators for Kaspar Daugavins.
• Denis Hamel claimed on waivers from Ottawa Senators.
• Brendan Morrison traded to Toronto Maple Leafs for Zach Hamill & rights to Korbinian Holzer.
• Penguins' 3rd round pick in 2008 traded to Dallas Stars for Mathieu Dandenault.
• Mikael Holmqvist claimed on waivers by Anaheim Ducks.
• Scott Thornton claimed on waivers from Los Angeles Kings.
• Canucks' 5th round pick in 2010 traded to Tampa Bay Lightning for Justin Keller.
• Turner Stevenson traded to Boston Bruins for Bruins' 3rd & 7th round picks in 2008.
• Taylor Pyatt claimed on waivers by Tampa Bay Lightning.
• Stephane Veilleux claimed on waivers by Carolina Hurricanes.
• Mathieu Dandenault traded to Florida Panthers for Thrashers' 3rd round pick in 2008.
• Kevin Bieksa traded to Carolina Hurricanes for Hurricanes' 7th round pick in 2008 and Penguins' 4th round pick in 2008.
• Ryan Kesler traded to NY Rangers for Stephen Valiquette & Rangers' 5th round pick in 2008.
• Jason Bacashihua traded to Ottawa Senators for Stars' 4th round pick in 2008.

2008 Entry Draft

• Rd 1, 12th overall (from Pittsburgh): Geordie Wudrick
  Rd 1, 22nd overall: Tyler Schmidt
  Rd 2, 37th overall (from ??): Travis Ehrhardt
  Rd 2, 42nd overall (from Pittsburgh): Danick Hudon-Paquette
  Rd 2, 52nd overall: Mike Pelech
  Rd 3, 78th overall (from Atlanta): Kyle Hunchberger
  Rd 3, 87th overall (from Boston): Curtis Cowan
  Rd 4, 102nd overall (from Pittsburgh): Max Strang
  Rd 4, 111th overall (from Dallas): Kelsey Tessier
  Rd 5, 139th overall (from NY Rangers): Alex Pietrangelo
  Rd 7, 184th overall (from Carolina): Sal Matic
  Rd 7, 198th overall (from Boston): Vinny Saponari

More to come....