Former NHLer and Sportsnet 650 Canucks Analyst Jannik Hansen joined the guys and talked about the buzz of the playoffs returning to the city and looking back on the Canucks season.
Jannik is my favourite Canucks media guy now. Loved him when he played for the Canucks, and now he breaks down the Canucks like no other. Hope he is on TV with the Canucks next year...
Jannik makes a terrific analyst. He knows his stuff and he's concise and to the point. You get a lot of analysts who talk in very flowery language and don't really give you anything concrete that means anything, either to a hockey player or to a fan. He was also the perfect 3rd line forward. In many ways, he was Dakota Joshua except that he was a better skater.
I feel Joshua and Zadorov would be my big team free agents to target. They bring the nastiness that is so important for playoff success to this team. While Myers will accept a pay cut, I don't see him accepting something less than 3 million, which would make him too expensive in my opinion. Lindholm and Hronek I would let walk (it would suck to lose Lindholm, but I agree with Hansen that you can't hold onto three centers while having essentially just one scoring winger in Boeser).
I hard disagreed with Hansen when he said if Canucks lost game 6 then Edmonton would win the series, and I pretty much always agree with Hansen. Turns out of course he was completely right. He couldn't have been more right. Great, underrated analyst.
I hope JANNIK HANSEN's TWINS will be ready by 2036, The next YEAR OF THE DRAGON. If only HANSEN went with the CANUCKS in 2017 on top of the GREAT WALL of CHINA maybe, HE is the one to make sure the CANUCKS wear their LOGO and THE NEW HORIZON would have come instead of CHAOS.
