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[Zombotron]

I feel like it's a bit of a tell that this is speculation coming from dumb media instead of information from the team when all these guys who are listed as Cs on the summer UFA lists but don't actually play C are the names being brought up.

Who are your favourites?

 

[VanillaCoke]

I can totally see (fear) Podz reaching his potential on Matthews' wing.

Matt Boldy would have been so awesome.

Boldys the answer..

I don't see pod reaching the ceiling many here still think he has, I don't think that ceiling was ever that high after draft day

 

[SeawaterOnIce]

Boldys the answer..

I don't see pod reaching the ceiling many here still think he has, I don't think that ceiling was ever that high after draft day

Potential was always a lesser Hansen-like 30 point player for me. Some people hear "power forward" and go nuts with projections. Guy has meh skating, inconsistent hands and ultimately lacks that persistent motor to get involved thoughout the entire 60 minutes.

Jury is out on Podzolkin but I would be happy if he finds a spot on the 3rd line and refines his game into a bottom 6 grinder.

Really wish we had sold "high" on Rathbone last year. Hopefully this management group sells "high" on Podzolkin if he's not tracking well next year.

 

[Reverend Mayhem]

I feel like it's a bit of a tell that this is speculation coming from dumb media instead of information from the team when all these guys who are listed as Cs on the summer UFA lists but don't actually play C are the names being brought up.

I'll be deadly honest, the number of people who can't read between the lines and figure out what is speculation and what is reported rumour are frightening.

Dhali even says "I *expect* the Canucks will go looking..." how can that be construed as anything other than speculation? Then there's these takes how there are "so-called insiders", when really it's just people reading headlines and turning speculation into rumour themselves.

 

[Bitz and Bites]

OEL is a clear buyout candidate IMO. The formula I use to make most of the decision is simple. OEL cap - buyout cap - replacement player cap must be greater than zero. So the question is can you find a player that is equivalent or better than OEL at a number that makes the formula work. In the 2 years you mentioned as concerning we're talking roughly 2.4M. I think it is very reasonable that we can find a player that is as good or better at that cap. Especially if we are talking about what OEL might look like 2 years from now. As it is we're on the hook for 7.2M in those same years you are worried about. I think that a buyout offers us a better opportunity to make use of that 7.2M. One way or another we've got 5M in dead cap because an underperforming player is dead cap relative to their underperformance.

Another benefit to the buyout is the short-term cap crunch. The cap savings for the next 2 years is about 7M and then 4.8M. With other terrible contracts set to expire within and just after this window, the flexibility that we've all craved is there for the taking.

There 4 years of 2.1M dead cap afterwards is the downside. It's annoying but not crippling. When that time comes it will actually be 2M in additional space compared to the previous 2 years. Hopefully the world is a better place and the cap will have risen and 2M is barely relevant. Alternatively we're in a WW3 hellscape and we won't care anyhow.

This is the year for the buyout. 300k/yr savings and a 2M savings 8 years from now is useless. Especially when the largest cap relief comes with a buyout this year when it has incredible utility. That said, If they keep him this year then next year makes sense too.

Yeah, if the Canucks medical staff thinks that OEL’s injuries are chronic, which is a strong possibility going by his last 4 seasons, and he’s unwilling to go on LTIR and wants to keep playing, then a buyout this summer is the best option.
Having that extra 7M in cap space next year and 4.8M the following could be huge to set ourselves up down the road. We could use that cap space this summer to take on one or two bad contracts from capped out teams for first and second round picks which could then be used to move out bad contracts like Boeser or Myers without retaining or could land us a young useable player in return. A defensive LHD or RHC would be an ideal target.
If that doesn’t work, we could also use the cap space for an overpriced short term contract coming back in a Boeser or Myers swap, only for a more needed player who can bridge the gap until some prospects are ready to come in on ELC’s when the 4.8M cap hit arrives. At that point we’ll need several young players on ELC’s or league minimum deals filling out the bottom of the roster but it’s pretty much guaranteed to be a better option than having a even older and more ineffective OEL taking up 7M of cap while bleeding goals on the back end.

Those first two years of an OEL buyout definitely have a ton of utility if used correctly, the middle years at 4.8M are manageable given where our prospect pool is (most are a couple years away but there should be enough ready to fill holes in the lineup by then), and the last four years at 2.1M kinda suck but it does open up 2.7M to give raises to players coming off their ELC’s who’ve earned one and hopefully the cap has gone up by then as well.

 

[Vector]

All of the potential NCAA free agents that the Canucks have rumoured to be interested in are playing their first NCAA tournament game this Thursday.

Sasson & MacAllister (Western Michigan) - 11am
Livingstone & Hirose (Minnesota St.) - 2pm
Malinski & Andreev (Cornell) - 2:30pm

This is a single elimination tournament so these players are free to sign once they are done.

 

[Vector]

 

[MS]

Was one of the most interesting guys available because he’s 20 and not 24.

 

[Vector]

Was one of the most interesting guys available because he’s 20 and not 24.

An actual prospect and not a guy who needs to be in the NHL immediately.

 

[MS]

An actual prospect and not a guy who needs to be in the NHL immediately.

He literally was playing at the WJCs 8 months ago.

 

[Nucker42]

I am weary of gavrikovs price tag, do you pay him 6?

He’s pretty young, Tanev got 4.5… I would go 5 x 5…. I think he’s pretty low risk and wouldn’t be a Myers type signing…. He’s very defensively proven….

 

[andora]

He’s pretty young, Tanev got 4.5… I would go 5 x 5…. I think he’s pretty low risk and wouldn’t be a Myers type signing…. He’s very defensively proven….

Yeah i would probably do that

 

[Nucker42]

All of the potential NCAA free agents that the Canucks have rumoured to be interested in are playing their first NCAA tournament game this Thursday.

Sasson & MacAllister (Western Michigan) - 11am
Livingstone & Hirose (Minnesota St.) - 2pm
Malinski & Andreev (Cornell) - 2:30pm

This is a single elimination tournament so these players are free to sign once they are done.

Every guy on that list would be a good pick up but I have them in tiers because why not…

Tier 1:
Livingstone

Tier 2:
macallister
Malinski

Tier 3:
Andreev
Hirose
Sasoon

 

[Vector]

He’s pretty young, Tanev got 4.5… I would go 5 x 5…. I think he’s pretty low risk and wouldn’t be a Myers type signing…. He’s very defensively proven….

I will be very interested to see how he tracks. I’ve posted a couple of times about his and Zub’s compatibles. Zub had a better season and is tracking as a bit better of a player but Gavrikov will come with a UFA price-tag and his performance with LA will go a long way towards setting his price.

 

[Get North]

What's the line-up for next year? I got:

Kuzmenko-Pettersson-Beauvillier
Mikheyev-Miller-Boeser
Podkolzin-Dries-Kravtsov
Joshua-Aman-Studnicka
Hoglander-Raty-Garland
Pearson-Karlsson-Di Giuseppe
Klimovich

Hughes-Hronek
OEL-Bear
Brisebois-Myers
Dermott-Woo
Rathbone

Looks like cap is going to be tight even if Pearson and Poolman are on LTIR. I suggest trading Garland for defencemen. There's too many forwards and not enough quality defencemen. Keeping the lines same if they continue playing well in the last 13 games, but pretty sure we'll need a better 3rd line C.

 

[racerjoe]

What's the line-up for next year? I got:

Kuzmenko-Pettersson-Beauvillier
Mikheyev-Miller-Boeser
Podkolzin-Dries-Kravtsov
Joshua-Aman-Studnicka
Hoglander-Raty-Garland
Pearson-Karlsson-Di Giuseppe
Klimovich

Hughes-Hronek
OEL-Bear
Brisebois-Myers
Dermott-Woo
Rathbone

Looks like cap is going to be tight even if Pearson and Poolman are on LTIR. I suggest trading Garland for defencemen. There's too many forwards and not enough quality defencemen. Keeping the lines same if they continue playing well in the last 13 games, but pretty sure we'll need a better 3rd line C.

I think it is about 4-5 months early to project much at this point.

 

[Cianide]

Kings fan coming in peace. What position does JT Miller play most of the time? Wing or center? And what position is he best at?

I believe I have seen him play both positions. That is all.

 

[Vector]

Faber is a good listen. Been extremely impressed with his work over the last year.



Brings up some names I haven’t heard before. One of those is Brandon Furry of Mankato; 24 year old forward.

Says he’s heard the Canucks are in on LD Hardy Haman-Aktell and RD Filip Berglund. Haman-Aktell is Pronman’s #1 spring free agent. Berglund is a former Oiler pick that spent last season in the AHL.

Faber mentions four other Swedish players but does say they aren’t necessarily connected to the Canucks: Jacob Stenqvist(RD), Samuel Johannesson(RD), Marcus Sylvegard(RW), and Linus Oberg(RW).

 

[Vector]

Kings fan coming in peace. What position does JT Miller play most of the time? Wing or center? And what position is he best at?

I believe I have seen him play both positions. That is all.

He’s been playing exclusively cente since Tocchet took over. Spent all over last year at centre. Earlier this season and two seasons ago he was either a wing or playing a hybrid centre role.

He’s not a defensive ace and needs his wings to do more than usual defensively when he’s at centre but his passing and offensive skills are so good you want him to play there.

So it’s a bit of a complicated question because it seems to entirely depend on whether you’re getting an engaged Miller.

 

[Cianide]

He’s been playing exclusively cente since Tocchet took over. Spent all over last year at centre. Earlier this season and two seasons ago he was either a wing or playing a hybrid centre role.

He’s not a defensive ace and needs his wings to do more than usual defensively when he’s at centre but his passing and offensive skills are so good you want him to play there.

So it’s a bit of a complicated question because it seems to entirely depend on whether you’re getting an engaged Miller.

Yeah defensively liable, uninterested Miller? No thanks.

 

[Vector]

Yeah defensively liable, uninterested Miller? No thanks.

Majority of his time as a Canucks he’s been fantastic. Even when he was stinking up the joint earlier, he was still producing offensively. He’s second season here was inconsistent as well. For 2.5 seasons he’s been excellent, 1 very good, 0.5 ugly but productive.

 

[Cianide]

Majority of his time as a Canucks he’s been fantastic. Even when he was stinking up the joint earlier, he was still producing offensively. He’s second season here was inconsistent as well. For 2.5 seasons he’s been excellent, 1 very good, 0.5 ugly but productive.

I could see Miller being traded for a bag of pucks and a junior hockey stick.

 

[Vector]

I could see Miller being traded for a bag of pucks and a junior hockey stick.

So you’re no longer coming in peace, then?

 

[Cianide]

So you’re no longer coming in peace, then?

No I'm public enemy number one now. lol

 

[DonnyNucker]

No I'm public enemy number one now. lol

No I don’t think anyone cares. You aren’t clever or funny. Sigh, trolls suck these days