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Mr. Canucklehead said:


Seems a bit laughable at first - but age wise fits the Canucks' needs, and if I'm not mistaken, Allvin and Rutherford acquired him once before?
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Unfortunately McCann hasn't really played center for a few years. Everything I've heard about him for a while is that he's much more suited for the wing.
 
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McCann better option than most others, twelve million cap space just enough for him and Norris (cozens)..
 
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Mr. Canucklehead said:
If I recall right, there was a guy who was only involved with the team in a very limited capacity - I want to see Andrey Pedan? Or maybe Nikita Tryamkin? - who said Jared McCann had an "attitude".

Other than that, I think there was some horrific quote from Benning about Florida calling him to offer Gudbranson and Benning immediately offering up McCann or something stupid like that.

All of that is to say, I don't think there was any issue with McCann in Vancouver other than Benning being Benning and just shitting away assets for garbage.

EDIT: I'm giving myself a gold star, it was in fact Andrey Pedan who had an issue with McCann. Interestingly, the article also has a quote from Matt Bartkowski's Mom, and it begged the question - McCann or Virtanen?

www.vancouverisawesome.com

Jared McCann acted like 'lonely star', says Andrey Pedan

(or, why trading a 19-year-old because of character issues is pretty silly)
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Just another JT Miller.
 
bossram said:
If you trade Boeser for assets and then bring in McCann, you kinda extend the competitive timeline for another couple years in a cap-efficient way. McCann at $5M will look pretty good under the cap increases. I wouldn't mind that at all.
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It'll be interesting to see what he costs. Shot the lights out a couple years ago but now on his second dip year in a row (not particularly big dips though). PP there is in flux with the additions of Stephenson/Kakko/Montour and the emergence of Wright. Good contract for a youngish guy. probably won't be cheap to get.
 
McCann bounced around the NHL a bit before his breakthrough with the Kraken. Losing him isn't what hurts for the Canucks. What hurts, is who they lost him for--Erik Gudbranson. Ugghh!
 
Jroach said:
What do you offer for him?

A 1st and Raty as a base? How much more would you need to add on top of that?
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I think they’ll probably want someone like Hoglander back as well but that’s probably something I’d be comfortable giving up for McCann (1st + prospect + young forward). Nothing too crazy like Lekky or D-Petey. Not sure they’d want Raty considering they have a lot of young C’s. Maybe Kudryavtsev.

Also I wonder if GM’s are hesitant on throwing their 2026 1sts considering it’s a deep year. I don’t think there’s been a 2026 1st traded unless you count the Miller conditional 1st.
 
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Mr. Canucklehead said:
If I recall right, there was a guy who was only involved with the team in a very limited capacity - I want to see Andrey Pedan? Or maybe Nikita Tryamkin? - who said Jared McCann had an "attitude".

Other than that, I think there was some horrific quote from Benning about Florida calling him to offer Gudbranson and Benning immediately offering up McCann or something stupid like that.

All of that is to say, I don't think there was any issue with McCann in Vancouver other than Benning being Benning and just shitting away assets for garbage.

EDIT: I'm giving myself a gold star, it was in fact Andrey Pedan who had an issue with McCann. Interestingly, the article also has a quote from Matt Bartkowski's Mom, and it begged the question - McCann or Virtanen?

www.vancouverisawesome.com

Jared McCann acted like 'lonely star', says Andrey Pedan

(or, why trading a 19-year-old because of character issues is pretty silly)
www.vancouverisawesome.com www.vancouverisawesome.com
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There was quite a bit of smoke at the time that McCann (and Virtanen) was an immature little shit who rubbed a lot of people the wrong way ... but he was 19 and should never have been in the NHL, and is now a 10-year vet who basically hasn't had a whiff of controversy around him since that initial season in Vancouver.
 
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LemonSauceD said:
I think they’ll probably want someone like Hoglander back as well but that’s probably something I’d be comfortable giving up for McCann (1st + prospect + young forward). Nothing too crazy like Lekky or D-Petey. Not sure they’d want Raty considering they have a lot of young C’s. Maybe Kudryavtsev.

Also I wonder if GM’s are hesitant on throwing their 2026 1sts considering it’s a deep year. I don’t think there’s been a 2026 1st traded unless you count the Miller conditional 1st.
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I think the main hesitation for them would be trading McCann within the division, but that's not a bad package at all for them.
 
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VancouverJagger said:
Cap space isn't a huge concern right now..........To move Hogs and his 3 mill salary simply to clear cap is pretty dumb imo and there's a reason why he hasn't been moved until now..........The time to trade him would have been BEFORE he signed his extension after he had his 20 something goals..........I would have been totally onboard then as he had solid value........now I doubt he's worth more than a 2nd.......if that

Clear cap with Soucy..........not Hogs
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Cap space is not important now but it will be next year. Just like every year when we run out. Some people continually underestimate that imo. To be honest now is uncertain and not worth wasting money on. Several posters have done up the projections for next year and we are tight as heck like usual. If we want to upgrade some type of tweener has to go or we just roll out the same team again. I know I don't want that. Hogs is the logical guy to upgrade on as he doesn't even have a defined role on the team and makes more money than he returns.

Trying to force Hogs into providing utility at the cost of a desirable addition just feels like a waste of effort and cap space. I would trade him for cap space, a roster spot, and whatever we get back. I couldn't care less if we don't get much, a second or third would be awesome. I would have traded him before the extension too.
 
We’re going to be saying the same things about Cellebrini on the Sharks. I remember watching our game on Prime against them and the play by play kept saying he was 18 years old.

We’re gonna blink and he’ll be 30 years old.
 
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I'd be extremely surprised if the Canucks spend any type of premium asset (i.e. 2025 1st rounder) on a winger. I could see them doing another double move, however, and flipping whatever the return on Boeser is for a replacement winger if they end up moving him.

I think they'd move quite a bit for the right centre.
 
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TruGr1t said:
I'd be extremely surprised if the Canucks spend any type of premium asset (i.e. 2025 1st rounder) on a winger. I could see them doing another double move, however, and flipping whatever the return on Boeser is for a replacement winger if they end up moving him.

I think they'd move quite a bit for the right centre.
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Especially a right shot center
 
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