Imagine If The Canucks Got Relegated To The AHL | Halford & Brough

Mike and Jason engage in a little bit of Euro footy talk, and how there’s nothing relegation in North American sports.
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[@SaveznaRepublikaJugoslavija]

Canucks managed to sign so many bad expensive contracts that they maxed out their salary cap without even making it to the playoffs. How? How do they do it?

[@theevilascotcompany9255]

Reminds me of the crappy Maple Leafs team of Kessel-Bozak-Phaneuf when they were at the cap still with their terrible performance somehow.

[@carletonrutherford1799]

Ask Frankie Aquilini. Ask him how sticking his nose into hockey business has messed up the team. Not wanting to accept that the Canucks need to be real bad for a couple years, to get really good in the future. So he had Benning signing guys in an effort to stay competitive. The problem with the Canucks starts at the top.

[@carletonrutherford1799]

If a person is buying an NHL hockey team for almost $1 billion, he's not going to want risk having his team relegated to a tier 2 league. The owners wouldn't accept that as an option.

[@kellanjohnson2107]

Relegation and franchising can't happen together (relegation with drafts is also problematic). It definitely can't happen with a cap. But getting rid of Anaheim, Chicago and Columbus would have made a lot of sense. Most EU football leagues are just unfettered capitalism with a few exceptions for well run clubs. Generally biggest wallet has a pretty big advantage. This is the opposite of what the NHL wants.

[@jaret217]

I always thought it would be cool to have NHL and like NHL2. Maybe like 24 teams and 16 in the other, teams pay 80% salary if they're in 2. Would open things up for cities like Houston, KC, SLC, OKC, Victoria, Indianapolis, Hartford, Cleveland, Quebec, Hamilton

[@esteads2.010]

slow news day guys?

[@whitegd4100]

They should swap the worst nhl team with the best ahl team once a decade. So on average whoever has the worst record over that decade gets booted

[@HogSZN]

Poor buffalo fans

[@Statsy10]

Which would be Buffalo, just as they are putting together a killer team. That makes no sense.

[@peredliden6965]

Relegation is standard in the swedish hockey league, SHL. Before you get relegated you face off vs the second divisions best team, if you lose you're out. If you win you can stay. It's pretty fair in my opinion and it's kinda fun seeing new teams join the league from time to time.

[@tsikkitsikkiBANGBANG]

And the best part is that every game of the season counts. Real, competitive sports till the end. We miss that here in Finland.

[@eydercornileous622]

Relegation/promotion = survival of the fittest

[@Statsy10]

Bayern Munich just won their 11th consecutive league title. Don't tell me the way European football is run is the best way to go. The parity the NHL has achieved makes it pretty damn entertaining on a year-to-year basis.

[@footballforlife2643]

​@@Statsy10the same thing can be said about the golden state warriors I don't expect a braindead Canadian to understand Also every team that play in Germany give bayern there best players for cheap....so is that there fault too or what Please do us a favor stick to ur own sports

[@nabatron21]

Yeah could you imagine making something up! These guys can be morons sometimes!

[@jasonbornne7767]

Okay you guys are trolling at this point 🤣🤣🤣

[@politicalbandwagon4989]

…why?

[@goaliecoachmike]

How about relegating the Coyotes?

[@dennisjex2965]

No better than ahl team

[@jlau5484]

Relegation/promotion is the norm in thw world of sport.but in North America, the worst team is AWARDED with the jackpot.

[@salvatoredecicco1761]

Vancouver has rioted before... If this happens a riot again?

[@geoffroi-le-Hook]

Relegation / promotion is the capitalism of sports. The draft / draft lottery is the socialism of sports.

[@BrokenhornKT]

Or the Calgary Flames!!!! The AHL Team in Calgary the Hitman Paly a Far Better Game!! These "Relegation system" Must be Brought into the North American Pro Leagues. It Holds the Owners Reasonable for the Team they Put together!!! This MUST BE DONE!!!

[@christhornycroft3686]

That's the problem. They're not even bad enough to be a contender for a 1st overall draft pick. So they're in that wonderful limbo that Canuck teams since 1970 mostly like to be in. Not good enough to even be a perennial playoff team and not bad enough to do anything about it. Or smart enough to draft and develop well. The early 90s had basically the best Canuck teams I ever saw. The Zoomers will obviously say 2011, but in terms of overall depth at every position, grit and skill, 1994 was the far better team, and that wasn't even as good a roster as they had in 92 or 93. There were almost no glaring holes in those teams. If anything, 92 was probably the best team they ever iced because they had Bure and Larionov on the same team. Sure, the late 90s had Mogilny and Bure, but Bure had checked out by that point, gotten injured, and Mogilny after that first full year was hit or miss. The Canucks won't get any better until there's a dramatic change in organizational philosophy. Nobody wants to give up on the last decade. The problem is that the last decade was a complete and utter failure. We have to stop getting attached to individual players and do what's necessary for the team to succeed.

[@applepieclub5012]

Relegation would eliminate tanking. North American sports needs to at least test a relegation system

[@coryjohn4057]

Hopefully the media would follow. Because at best we have AHL coverage

[@freduncle9999]

They're missing the point. When team goes down, team goes up. Now imagine your local AHL team winning the 1st place in a season and going up to the NHL. imagine 2-3 NHL teams going down a year and 2-3 AHL teams going up as result. crazy stuff. for fans, some can die from the happiness.

[@Hoovie9596]

The Canucks are NOT going to be relegated to the AHL…..moving on

[@NowAndToEternity]

And Vancouver fans are so loyal that they are still buying tix no matter what. So there is literally no incentive from management to players to do better because they get paid either way!

[@DarylRenz]

It is where they belong