Pacific gonna be real tough this season. Not sure I like the Canucks chances regardless of who they add. No way this defence will hold. Injuries will come as they always do and there is zero depth to account for that eventuality. Gonna get lit up again, sewering demkos trade value…. (Trade him now!)
The team is simply not strong enough to insulate the goaltenders alla Anaheim, Philly, Arizona, etc. They’re likely going to further handcuff themselves with overpaying depth players, forcing them into heavy minutes which will expose their deficiencies… and Stay away from Soucy please! He’s a third pair guy. Don’t pay or give term to third pair guys ffs! Just like you shouldn’t pay 3rd line wingers or 4th line energy players. Draft and save your cap for your top 3 Cs and top 4 Ds… then add around them with efficient short term contracts and elcs… mayyybe add term for 1 or 2 impact/elite top 6 wingers that pair well with your C core… I know it’s easier said than done… but holy smokes it’s management group after management group repeating the same mistakes!?
Just not enough depth at any position except overpayed skilled wingers that are defensively incompetent. Boeser, Garland, Kuzmenko, Beauvillier… like common… just over 22 million committed to inconsistent Smurf one dimensional wingers!!!. What a joke of a franchise. Don’t get me wrong, I’ll support the team until the day I die… but man its frustrating to be a Canucks fan right now.
2011 build had Hank Kesler Hamhuis Edler Bieksa Salo Ehrhoff Ballard Luongo as the invested core. Only winger making over 3M was Danny Sedin… a hall of fame player. Samuelsson, Raymond, Burrows, Torres, Higgins all efficient deals, all played roles, all brought different elements and had diverse skill sets. All of which had max term of 4 years.
That build brought this franchise a lot of success. We are so so soooo far off of this template.