Confirmed with Link: Canucks re-sign F Drew O'Connor to 2-Year, $5M Deal ($2.5M AAV)

[beachcomber]

Guentzel wouldn't have signed here.

 

[thecupismine]

Solid deal, people saying a touch much always look at contracts from 2 years ago instead of looking forward.

Quality bottom 6 contributor who plays the way management and Tocchet wants. His speed is a much needed element.

O’Connor, Joshua and Sherwood are a great collection of bottom 6 wingers who are good at getting results at ES (fourth guy will likely be a ~1 million dollar replacement level guy). Next stop is fixing that top 6.

 

[AlainVigneaultsGum]

Fine with this. I've liked DOC's game so far.

 

[Regress2TheMeme]

I liked what I've seen from DOC so far. He brings speed and energy to whatever line he's on. I just hope he keeps it up now that he's got contract security. We need him to be more Sherwood and less Lafferty.

 

[sensodyne17]

Guentzel wouldn't have signed here.

If we acquired him at the deadline and gave him a huge offer from the get-go? Feel like the chances would have been higher than 50%. Guentzel should have been the target, not Lindholm.

Carolina was penny pinching Guentzel so he walked away.

 

[alternate]

I'd rate this signing as "fine."

Probably a bit higher AAV than I'd ideally like, but not so much an overpay that it's going to have any significant impact on upgrading other roster slots.

Probably would have preferred 3 years at that AAV, but better 2 years than 4 so I'll take it.

Like the way he's looked so far. Like the size and speed he brings to the lineup. Now I'd like to see some STs utility added to his game.

 

[kanucks25]

Fine with this, not gonna quibble over a few 100k.

Rather just get him locked in than risk the likes of EDM or VGK going after him like they were rumored to be before we traded for him.

 

[Jroach]

Lol, after losing our prized acquisitions last season in Lindholm and Zadorov to the Broons, Ruthervin aren't taking any chances on these guys being rentals.

Good value. I would have gone another year with him on that AAV for sure, but you can't complain.

 

[krutovsdonut]

i feel like o'connor is a $2m player but i guess it is a brave new cap world. i am happy to see them get it done.

 

[MS]

Great signing. I figured 3 years/$2.25 so the AAV is a little higher but less risk.

 

[VanJack]

Both O'Connor and Marcus Pettersson would have been solid 'rental' pickups from the Pens. But now that they're both signed to extensions, it was an excellent piece of work by Allvin.

Not only did he acquire two very good NHL players--he also jettisoned the second years on contracts for Heinen and Desharnais. And almost as importantly, managed to retain the Canucks 2025 first rounder.

If the Rangers continue to flounder down the stretch, the conditional first rounder the Canucks acquired from New York and then flipped to Pittsburgh, will probably slide to 2026 anyway.

 

[Curm]

Good signing. He's still fairly young with size and speed, is a good on the forecheck, and defensively decent.

With the cap going up, he might have received a little more money and term in the summer.

 

[iceburg]

$20Mish in cap space next year really with only Boeser, Lankinen and Suter to sign if they choose to. There's room to add one $8M guy if they decide to keep everyone else.

 

[strattonius]

CAP is climbing. Cheap pretty low risk deal for a player that will have some stretches of good play. He's getting way more as a UFA.

I don't think Suter is coming back. Could easily see a 3x4M deal for him and I think they can find better use of that money.

 

[StreetHawk]

CAP is climbing. Cheap pretty low risk deal for a player that will have some stretches of good play. He's getting way more as a UFA.

I don't think Suter is coming back. Could easily see a 3x4M deal for him and I think they can find better use of that money.

4/6 of the bottom 6 come to $9 mill. Probably capping the bottom 6 spending with 13/14 forward as well at like $13 mill total. So have like $4 mill left for the final 4 spots on next years roster. 13/14 F at like $1.6-$1.7 mill. The 11-12 F at like $2.4 mill between them. So really at most 1 guy at like the Sherwood/Suter cap hit.

Will need to upgrade the top 6F.

 

[geebster]

Lol, after losing our prized acquisitions last season in Lindholm and Zadorov to the Broons, Ruthervin aren't taking any chances on these guys being rentals.

Good value. I would have gone another year with him on that AAV for sure, but you can't complain.

Definitely dodged a bullet with Lindholm.

This is a good deal, incredibly low risk given our cap situation for next year. Going to need to get a legit top 6 center and figure out what the heck we have in Pettersson and Boeser moving forward, but our middle/bottom 6 have a lot of nice pieces with DOC and Sherwood etc.

 

[Yultron]

Really happy with the term and that it’s only 2 years . I like O’Connor a lot as a player and how this management group is putting their stamp on this team .

Everyone not named Hughes , Lekkerimacki and Willander should be available as Allvin and Rutherford out there stamp on this team and O’Connor has been a solid addition early on .

Especially with that snipe on the Penalty Shot against the Sharks recently

 

[F A N]

Kind of figured we give him what we gave to Heinan. Heinan was more established and coming off a strong season but the cap is rising so it kind of even things out.

I've liked what I've seen so far but it really comes down to whether he contributes like a 3rd line player vs 4th line player if we're going to get value out of the contract.

Good signing. He's still fairly young with size and speed, is a good on the forecheck, and defensively decent.

That sounds like Podkolzin. I know a lot of posters don't think it's a big deal trading Podkolzin, but Lazar, Lafferty, Heinan, O'Connor etc. were all acquired because we have little to no options internally. It is obviously not difficult to find a replacement but at the same time more often than not we're also paying a premium whereas if you draft and develop a guy he could be a 24 year old making $1M AAV the next two years.

 

[VanillaCoke]

Solid, thank god i dont have to watch heinen anymore.

Lankinen next pls.

 

[ChilliBilly]

Rank this as "Fine".

We need some top 6. Boeser has serious regression this year. +/- is very bad. 40G last year, on pace for 30 this year.

Hopefully the Canucks will play decent hard ball with him; he is just not due a big raise. Sadly it will cost to replace him in this market.

Have some cap space but need to Sign Boeser Lakinan and Suter ... that will give us 21 of 23 roster spots filled for next year.

Edit - this assumes that EP2 Raty Lekkerimaki and Mancini will challenge for spots next year. We will be in good shape cap wise.

 

[ziploc]

Bottom 6 = Blueger, DoC, Joshua, Sherwood, and 2 of Aman, Bains, Raty, PDG.

This assumes Hoglander and Suter are filling in in the top 6, which is less than ideal.

 

[F A N]

Rank this as "Fine".

We need some top 6. Boeser has serious regression this year. +/- is very bad. 40G last year, on pace for 30 this year.

Hopefully the Canucks will play decent hard ball with him; he is just not due a big raise. Sadly it will cost to replace him in this market.

He did suffer a concussion that derailed his season.

On pace for 30 is still on pace for 30 and he delivered last playoffs. The ability to replace him is a big problem. I can see Boeser coming down on the AAV but that will be in exchange for a 7-8 year contract with no move/trade protection at least matching that of Debrusk's. Realistically it should land between $7.5 to $8M for 7-8 years.

 

[racerjoe]

He did suffer a concussion that derailed his season.

On pace for 30 is still on pace for 30 and he delivered last playoffs. The ability to replace him is a big problem. I can see Boeser coming down on the AAV but that will be in exchange for a 7-8 year contract with no move/trade protection at least matching that of Debrusk's. Realistically it should land between $7.5 to $8M for 7-8 years.

It has been reported the big sticking point is term as the Canucks don't want to go that long.

 

[logan5]

Allvin doesn't wait. If they wanted Boeser, he would be signed. The org must be thinking he is too slow, and believe Lekk can replace his 30 goals and be a better faster forechecker. Get some assets for boeser at the deadline and repackage for a top 6 C and top 6 winger. Lots of cap space to work with.

 

[F A N]

It has been reported the big sticking point is term as the Canucks don't want to go that long.

I don't doubt that and I get it. At the same time, if I'm Boeser and I'm seeing Debrusk, Lindholm, and Horvat get offered 7 year deals, it's hard to be accept less.

Allvin doesn't wait. If they wanted Boeser, he would be signed. The org must be thinking he is too slow, and believe Lekk can replace his 30 goals and be a better faster forechecker. Get some assets for boeser at the deadline and repackage for a top 6 C and top 6 winger. Lots of cap space to work with.

That's not true. I mentioned this before, this management group has shown a consistent pattern of starting low and increasing their offers. There was reportedly a huge gap between the Canucks' initial offers to Horvat and Miller and where the Canucks' final offer ended up. Zadorov is another example of where the Canucks refused to offer more than 4 years and then later offering him 6 years. Hronek's deal took some time too but the two sides essentially just closed the gap in AAV.

Horvat is probably a good example as we made a final offer to him before trading him (I acknowledge that he was having a career year).