[W.HI.P]

Despite making the Finals, the Canucks are the worst run franchise in the NHL.
In hockey, you need to draft to build a team, its as simple as that.
The Canucks are not built on drafted players.
No team in the NHL has picked up more free agents than the Canucks.
Picking up a free agent includes picking up a player that is in the later part of his career.
Usually it involves a player that was let go due his value on the ice being lesser than the amount of money that he is due.
In other words overpaid.
Last year, the Chicago Blackhawks won the cup, based on key players such as 22 year old Toews and 21 year old Kane.
The year before it was the Penguins, with its key players like Fluery 24 years old, Malkin 22 years old, Crosby 21, and Staal 19 years old.
Even the ducks, despite their veteran defenders, held key drafted players like Getzlaf 22 years old, Perry 22 years old, and Bobby Ryan at 20 years old.
The Canucks key players are all over 30, therefore their trade value is diminishing each day that passes as they head towards retirement.
Their youngest player of any value is turning 27 Kesler.
The rest of the team is basically compiled of old, overpaid free agent pick ups.
Now, i'm not against picking up 1 or maybe even 2 free agents in a year where you're making a legitimate claim at winning the stanley cup, but you can't do that year after year after year.
All these teams that win the cup, end up trading away their older players ASAP, trading them for draft picks and/or young prospects.
The Canucks have done nothing of that sort, resulting in the Canucks being at this present time, in the worst predicament of ALL NHL teams.
The Vancouver Canucks are the perfect example of how not to run a franchise.
This kind of management cannot be rewarded with a cup.
After the Canucks fail to win this cup, they will go down as the wrost NHL franchise in the history of the NHL.
No team has won less Stanley cups than the Canucks, and no team presently in the NHL has a dimmer future than the Canucks.

The solution?
Trade Luongo, the Sedin's and Kessler, for draft picks and young prospects, and perhaps they'll have a competetive team again in 6-7 years from now.
If they don't.....well, we'll witness a weakness that has never been seen before.