Management Thread | Regular Season Edition

[theguardianII]

@F A N & @Jyrki21 I spent a lot of time over the last couple days trying to figure this out. I talked to a Penguins beat writer and on yesterday's Canucks Conversation David Quadrelli and Patrick Johnston added a bit more info. The short of it, when a player is sent down for cap purposes they do not have to report. However, if it is a game day in the AHL then they do have to report. When the Canucks first sent Brannstrom and Bains down, it wasn't a paper transaction and both had to report, according to Thomas Drance. No idea if they kept doing this or subsequent assignments were paper transactions.

I think some of this bouncing back and forth might be financially related. 80K isn't a lot of money and each day on the big club's roster is a massive pay increase.

With the cost of living in the Vancouver area that extra few grand really helps and what player with a family or not really wants to live on the edge.

 

[Hodgy]

What I saw was quite a bit worse than that. I'm not grabbing my pitchfork yet, maybe he comes back Dec 3 at 100%. But it's close at hand, it's entirely believable to me that they majorly bungled another injury on this team.

There was that one time, I think with the Higgins injury, that they hired what appears to be a doctor that was t competent, and I think in circumstances like that it’s more than fair to criticize management.

But if they hire objectively competent doctors and follow their advice then notwithstanding the consequences it’s hard to fault them imo. Was there another circumstance other than Higgins?

 

[rypper]

I think some of this bouncing back and forth might be financially related. 80K isn't a lot of money and each day on the big club's roster is a massive pay increase.

With the cost of living in the Vancouver area that extra few grand really helps and what player with a family or not really wants to live on the edge.

It goes both ways. With the bouncing up and down Bains and others have done, it helps the Canucks cap picture for the deadline but hits the players wallet.

But calling up a guy like Elias Pettersson for a few days, not playing him, he still gets rewarded with some extra money.

 

[Vector]

It goes both ways. With the bouncing up and down Bains and others have done, it helps the Canucks cap picture for the deadline but hits the players wallet.

But calling up a guy like Elias Pettersson for a few days, not playing him, he still gets rewarded with some extra money.

They’ve also had a couple opportunities where hey could have sent players down on off-days and didn’t.