WDYTT: Are the Vancouver Canucks better or worse heading into 2021?

Welcome back to WDYTT, the only hockey column on the internet with a full no-trade clause.

And speaking of welcoming back, news broke this week that the NHL is aiming for a January 13 start-up, which would mean that training camps are inbound before the end of the calendar year.

That also makes this the perfect time to formally assess the Canucks’ offseason.

Markstrom, Tanev, and Stecher are out. Schmidt and Holtby are in, and all of Vancouver’s young assets are a year wiser.

ICYMI, we spent the last couple of weeks examining that very topic in our For Better or For Worse series.

Now, we want to give you a say, because this week we’re asking you:

Last week, we asked:

Your responses are below!

I like the Flying Skate and Flying V, but the black and yellow colors don’t really fit. They are great for a game here and there.

It’s the green, blue, and white 1970-72 Hockey Stick jersey!

I think the Flying V in green and blue would have made a great retro jersey, better than the one Adidas came up with.

Original stick jersey in classic marijuana green and ocean blue gets my vote.

Saw a homemade blue and green Flying V that I was hoping would be the retro. As for actual jerseys, classic stick-in-rink for me.

Okay. Let’s take this even farther back in time for the dinosaur crowd. The WHL Johnny Canuck jerseys from the early ‘60s, which were blue, red and white. It would have to be #8 with Phil Maloney’s name on the back. You didn’t specify it be strictly NHL, and without that old Western League franchise there’d have been no NHL Canucks as we know it. Just sayin’…

My favourite logo is the modernized stick-in-rink. If they can alter that to be a white logo on a white jersey (IMO, they’ve sort of neglected the white jerseys, for all of the different generations), then that’d be my vote.

The Black Skate jersey.

Johnny Canuck. Hands down.

Stephan, we have a problem — Mark Messier bribed me with Lays potato chips so I can’t have just one.

The toss up for me would be between the white/blue jerseys with the orca. I’m also a fan of the maroon and black West Coast Express alternates and the 50th Anniversary black retro jersey. By the narrowest of margins, I’d pick the maroon and black, but all three are beauties.

Which one to pick, there are a lot and they are all very different. The Messier-era jerseys with the silver and dark blue are certainly out, those were too different from Canucks colours and should be forgotten

For me it is either the Linden-era blacks or the stick-in-the-rink blue and greens.

I was at the December game against Buffalo last year and the Canucks wore the blacks. Gotta say, they looked awesome and for me this is nostalgic as these were the colours when I was a teenager. I take the blacks by a slim margin over the blue/green stick in the rink jerseys.

Honorable mention to the third jerseys last year with the modified stick in rink with blue and green and no white… those were pretty hot and if they wore them more, they could easily become my favs.

The one that Horvat is wearing.