Derek Forbort

We gave him his 1,000th game and then he didn't play any other games.

And then on the final game, you know, the Canucks do the, like, jersey off the back thing where they give their jersey to someone on the final game and Even Derek Forbort, who barely played a game for the Cubs.

R.I.P.

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Brendan Gallagher, Paul Cotter, Luke Shen, and Jamie Oleksiak.

They lose Nils Hoglander, Marcus Pedersen, Teddy Bluger, and Derek Forbort.

I didn't think this team could get worse, and they got worse.

Like, not to completely shit on the Canucks here, but...

And even once you get past the, some of the fringe names, even some of the more established guys trying to figure out, we know you're on the team, but are you gonna play in the top six? Are you gonna be in the bottom six? Who are you gonna play with? There are still lots of, uh, questions to be answered, and all those are gonna be important, uh, topics to watch for in camp.

I want to quickly talk about Luke Schenn and his role because the way I view it, Harmon, you make really good points obviously, um, but the way I view it with Luke Schenn is do you remember last year, Derek Forbort, the conversations we were having early on? It was, "Okay, Derek Forbort's here in case DPD isn't exactly ready, and he's gonna play, and DPD and him are gonna split, split starting opportunities.

That's what's gonna happen.

It's gonna be like a rotation of sorts, or those guys are gonna go in and out of the lineup." It's not exactly what happened, obviously 'cause Derek Forbort got hurt, but, like, that's how I view Luke Schenn is Luke Schenn is there as Victor Mancini insurance, for lack of a better term.

Uh, a- and you're right, like, it is gonna matter if Mancini can push him.

But in terms of roster spots, I just don't see much that I'm looking at and being like, okay, like, here's a guy from Abbotsford who's gonna really push, even if it's Kudryavtsev, Riley Patterson, throw whatever name you want.

Um, key additions including Brendan Gallagher, Jamie, Jamie Oleksiak, Luke Schenn, uh, Paul Carter, and Akil Thomas.

Subtractions include Marcus, Marcus Pettersson, Nils Höglander, Evander Kane, Teddy Blueger, Pierre-Luc, Oliver, Joseph, Derek Forbort, and Curtis Douglas.

For the Vancouver Canucks, Alex, one reason for hope and one reason for concern, or a lot of reasons for, for concern.

Yeah.