I like it. Price is cheap. Obviously don't love what it implies about Demko's health (and possibly even Silovs as well). But most of the rumblings on Demko seem...not great. So this is really solid "insurance" to be able to pick up a solid backup goaltender on the eve of the season like this, for a second year in a row.
Gives Lankinen an opportunity to play for a good team...should get a decent workload splitting with Silovs until Demko is back. Silovs was decent in the playoffs, but still very inexperienced and it's hard to say he's ready for a "starters" workload, even if just for a couple months, but especially if it ends up being longer.
Kind of an awkward situation potentially when Demko is ready to roll...in that you have to either demote your young future guy in Silovs, or bury a guy in Lankinen that you just signed, ostensibly on the idea that he was going to get significant NHL starts this year. But you can sort of cross that bridge when you come to it...and hopefully Silovs doesn't feel too undermined in the whole process. I think it should still be pretty clear to him that he's the future, with a clear path to significant starts behind un-durable Demko, even if it ends up with him spending some more time in the AHL this year.
It's the sort of move the Canucks kind of had to make, in light of the Demko situation. Can't afford to be slow coming out of the gates, or have shaky goaltending costing them points and digging a hole early. Not with expectations where they're now ratcheted up to for this season.