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My Favourite, Gone too soon, RIP Luc, We miss you
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Does not exactly show him a ton of confidence, I do wonder if he struggled at training camps or something?
Nothing about it is a bad sign, they always wanted another goalieBad sign for the Canucks.
This, if Silovs is relied on the team needs a solid backup plan so they don’t derail is progression. Even with Demko 100% healthy they were going to get another goalie to ease Silov’s workloadI think it's more to give Silvos a chance to make mistakes without being thrown right back in pretty much every night. We'll likely platoon both him and Lankinen until Demko is ready.
Why not offer him the deal Wedgewood got in that case? Or was it just a matter of Lankinen and his agent overplaying their hand earlier in the offseason?He was really good in Nashville, wish we re-signed him had we known Askarov was gonna be gone.
So signing a better goalie than skinner for 800K is a bad sign for Canucks?? Actually with Demko injured or not we needed another backup like Lanky. A reliable backup that allows Canucks to be able to have another option if Silovs falters or gets injured. Depth is very important and Canucks have that in spades when it comes to goalies: Demko, Lankenin, Silovs, Tolopilo, Fergusen etc. It allows Canucks to also reduce Demko workload.Bad sign for the Canucks.
probably the latter.Why not offer him the deal Wedgewood got in that case? Or was it just a matter of Lankinen and his agent overplaying their hand earlier in the offseason?
Yeah I've noticed that with the way the Canucks contracts are structured, in the absolute worst case scenario, if they have a terrible start, and are missing the playoffs by deadline, they can actually do a quick re-tool, and build around Pettersson, Miller, Hronek, core in the future.Sprong and Lankinen could give Vancouver some interesting TDL moves
It’s weird seeing Vancouver with an actual decent management group that thinks a step ahead.Yeah I've noticed that with the way the Canucks contracts are structured, in the absolute worst case scenario, if they have a terrible start, and are missing the playoffs by deadline, they can actually do a quick re-tool, and build around Pettersson, Miller, Hronek, core in the future.
He's a soon to be 30 year old journeyman forward making the league minimum. He isn't anyone's favoritepdg is tocchets favourite guy. he isnt getting sent down depending on how well he does in camp. likely aman/friedman or juuelsson
Silovs save pctg was .881 in the playoffs.It's also entirely possible that Lankinen outplays Silovs and/or the kid even takes a step back from his play in the playoffs, in which case Silovs can go down to the minors as well.
He wanted to go to a contender and the only contender with a spot open due to injury was Canucks. He made 2 mil in chicago as a backup and now makes less than half playing for the Canucks.I find it hard to believe another team didn't offer him more, especially on a one year deal.
My guess is he wanted to play for the Canucks and their training staff to ramp up his value and finally caved to their offer.
He is going to play like a Rockstar and get a nice contract next year