Get your vote in - Canucks Somewhat Realistic #2 Center Options

[lawrence]

Heres my personal proposal

• Trade Cydil for Norris to bolster depth. Keep our captain happy.
• Sign playmaking winger Drouin to spark Pettersson’s production.
• Re-sign Boeser to maintain scoring stability.
• Retain our 2025 1st-rounder to draft a top center prospect.
• If 2026 trends downward, strategically reset and draft another impact center.
• Build around Pettersson/Hughes while integrating youth (Willander, Lekkermäki, Mynio plus our future top 2 centers) and vets.

This balances immediate competitiveness with future flexibility, ensuring a core foundation and optionality to pivot.

 

[DFAC]

Heres my personal proposal

• Trade Cydil for Norris to bolster depth. Keep our captain happy.
• Sign playmaking winger Drouin to spark Pettersson’s production.
• Re-sign Boeser to maintain scoring stability.
• Retain our 2025 1st-rounder to draft a top center prospect.
• If 2026 trends downward, strategically reset and draft another impact center.
• Build around Pettersson/Hughes while integrating youth (Willander, Lekkermäki, Mynio plus our future top 2 centers) and vets.

This balances immediate competitiveness with future flexibility, ensuring a core foundation and optionality to pivot.

Adding Norris, Drouin and resigning Brock might give us the softest top 6 in the league.

 

[LordBacon]

I'd sacrifice Benning's beautiful black hair for Bo to come back as 2C.

 

[lawrence]

Adding Norris, Drouin and resigning Brock might give us the softest top 6 in the league.

It adds offence, and if it doesn't work out, we can trade them off for assets follow by a full tank.

 

[vcanuck]

trade Quinn for a Kings ransom

tank for Gavin McKenna

 

[me2]

Why is Norris considered available? Buffalo will want to see him play for an extended time before they think about moving him. The only way to get him before then is either offering them a better centre or a big overpay.

 

[Bleach Clean]

I wonder if Tampa trades Cirelli?

They have $7m in cap space. They could deal Bjorkstrand to get under, but they still doesn't resolve their depth at RW or RHD.

Paul could be another option to deal as well.

 

[Jerry the great]

I wonder if Tampa trades Cirelli?

They have $7m in cap space. They could deal Bjorkstrand to get under, but they still doesn't resolve their depth at RW or RHD.

Paul could be another option to deal as well.

Cirelli gets some of the hardest 5v5 minutes of any C in the game and generally eviscerates the competition in those minutes. He's doing now, what Ryan Kesler did for us in that teams prime but doesn't get the PP1 time. His contract is an absolute steal and trading him would leave a bigger hole down the middle than currently exists elsewhere. They'll ride out next year, because a ton of cap opens up the following season.

 

[ginner classic]

I am thinking cap dump forwards that can still play. Couturier, Zibanejad. I am also interested in guys like Pinto who may have some upside.

 

[ginner classic]

Dach for free.

 

[strattonius]

Barzal is elite. Whether he'd play C or W is irrelevant since the team needs a plethora of both. Problem is I just really doubt he's available.

 

[lawrence]

Barzal is elite. Whether he'd play C or W is irrelevant since the team needs a plethora of both. Problem is I just really doubt he's available.

Have to wait and see who is their new management and what their plan is going forward.

Cirelli gets some of the hardest 5v5 minutes of any C in

i love the idea of getting him. But I do feel his stats a little inflated.

Why is Norris considered available?

Just a idea to get this conversation going. He fits our age group, he is “proven” centerman he’s expensive as hell and injury prone, but I do anything to keep quin Hughes happy. Of course nobody is willing to overpay for Norris.

 

[Bleach Clean]

Cirelli gets some of the hardest 5v5 minutes of any C in the game and generally eviscerates the competition in those minutes. He's doing now, what Ryan Kesler did for us in that teams prime but doesn't get the PP1 time. His contract is an absolute steal and trading him would leave a bigger hole down the middle than currently exists elsewhere. They'll ride out next year, because a ton of cap opens up the following season.

I'm aware. It's his lack of offensive polish on the PP that may have Tampa consider this year as his peak.

If there's a chance to get him, the Canucks should pay up big.

 

[Jerry the great]

I'm aware. It's his lack of offensive polish that may have Tampa consider this year as his peak though.

They can get rid of Bjorkstrand to gain cap space. So it would be a move that shores up their RHD position. Maybe a lesser C+ RHD return would get it done.

He's the type of target that would make great sense for the Canucks.

Lack of offensive polish? he was a top 20 ES scoring C deployed like a shut down guy.

There are plenty of guys that would make great sense for the Canucks that we'd have an equally low chance of ever acquiring; but i thought this was a thread for "somewhat realistic 2C options"?

 

[Bleach Clean]

Lack of offensive polish? he was a top 20 ES scoring C deployed like a shut down guy.

There are plenty of guys that would make great sense for the Canucks that we'd have an equally low chance of ever acquiring; but i thought this was a thread for "somewhat realistic 2C options"?

It's realistic. Every player has a price and Tampa has to make cap decisions (just like they did with Sergachev).

I edited my post about polish on the PP. Overall, Cirelli isn't someone I would categorize as a skilled player. He gets things done though. For this team, that's more than enough.