Messier Leadership Award nominees

[puckhead]

And by 6 of 7, you mean that they missed the playoffs the year preceding Messier's arrival because they had already started to decline, yes?

They would've made the playoffs in 1999-2000 had he not been injured. They were 4 points out, and he missed 16 games (during which the Canucks were 3-9-4). The team was improving under their new core, whereas they were winning fewer games each season from 1993 onward under the old guard of Linden and McLean.

1993: .601 WPCT
1994: .506 WPCT
1995: .500 WPCT
1996: .482 WPCT
1997: .470 WPCT

valid points.... so then you bring in a $20 million Messier to help them get WORSE????

not quite sure that's the standard practice for 'rebuilding'.
they made out like bandits trading Linden, I'll grant you that.
they got to draft the Sedins because they were an utterly shit team.

that was a accidental rebuilding if i ever saw one... because messier led them into the fucking toilet.

 

[Eddie_Shack]

Damn good points, Q, but it'll be a shame to watch Hitler shit in your mouth while you rot in hell for using "Yashin" and "Yzerman" in the same sentence.