Value of: Demko + Virtanen to Toronto

[Rowlet]

you dont have years of control on demko though. marsktrom will be back and demko will be plucked by seattle

Cool, there's only a few #1G available this summer and the market will be there eventually, and if it isn't, I'd rather lose Demko later and keep Virtanen than trade them both for cap relief for players who can also be taken via expansion, and Seattle will need some veterans and bottom 6 players, they may want Beagle or Roussel

 

[604]

Fleury gets my attention. I'd much prefer a right handed D however.

I consider Beagle a contributor, unlike most of my comrades here, but even I admit his value is closer to negative than to positive.

Demko+Virtanen is a steep order though. Dzingel is not valuable to us. Our offense is deep enough to run with, and with Beagle going, we need inexpensive, effective bottom six players to offset. That and cap space and RHD.

Honestly most of the Canucks dumps are contributors (except Eriksson).

Sutter and Baertschi are not worth dumping because they only have 1 year left. Next year, when they come off (along with Edler), you use their cap to re-sign Pettersson and Hughes.

Beagle, Roussel, and Eriksson - who have all filled a role these playoffs are the guys who we can't afford to keep. Beagle and Roussel contribute quite a bit but we can't afford to pay them and Sutter to be a $10m 4th line.

 

[Cogburn]

Honestly most of the Canucks dumps are contributors (except Eriksson).

Sutter and Baertschi are not worth dumping because they only have 1 year left. Next year, when they come off (along with Edler), you use their cap to re-sign Pettersson and Hughes.

Beagle, Roussel, and Eriksson - who have all filled a role these playoffs are the guys who we can't afford to keep. Beagle and Roussel contribute quite a bit but we can't afford to pay them and Sutter to be a $10m 4th line.

It's a matter of comparing those contributions to their cap hit to me. Baertschi contributed least (by merit of Green and Benning demoting him), followed by Eriksson, Sutter, Benn, Beagle and Roussel (at least in my mind). Towards then end, the players listed are contributing almost to the level I'd expect. However, anyone I listed I feel is replaceable, or even someone we can improve on with players already in our organization. Ideally, due to cap hit and term, Eriksson would be the player I'd pay most to leave, but Toronto, who this thread is about, doesn't have the capspace to take Eriksson, or any of them really, and that's really the only realistic payment that I see us accepting.

 

[sittler rules!!!]

Do you think Demko can reach Andersens level though?
Or just more of a gamble to go with two 1b/2a options in Campbell and Demko while saving cap?

Kinda like the idea. I like Campbell. He is a battler, a fighter. Something Anderson seems to lack. Given the chance I think Campbell may surprise.