y2kcanucks
Better than you
A fair enough point on your part (ie Benning hasn’t acquired a 1st rounder since 2014), but he also expressed interest in recouping the first that he lost in the Miller trade.
Given our upcoming cap crunch, along with the expansion draft, I could see Benning making a play.
My best guess is that the Canucks will proceed forward with Markstrom, and will either move Demko for a first, or will combine Demko with one of your buddies (Eriksson, Sutter, etc.) to clear cap space.
Here's a spoiler: he won't. That "expressed interest" was just because of the heat he was getting for bending over to Tampa and pissing away a first round pick even though he had all the leverage in the world.
Teams don't pay draft picks to help another team out of a cap crunch, well..unless it's Jim Benning on the other end. The Canucks will be forced to pay a draft pick to fix their cap crunch, and Benning, if he's still here, will be shocked by it because he's not a smart person.
What team is trading away a 1 for Demko? What has he done that makes him worth a 1?