Vancouver911

I see the value in the pick ups but when it was stated the Canucks were going to go younger they made moves today that means most likely:

1)  Gaunce is waiver bound (which is fine, good chance he'll clear anyway)

2)  One of Goldobin or Leipsic will be gone (either in a trade for scraps or waivers)

3)  Gaudette starts the season in the AHL

4)  Pettersson is the only rookie on the roster in October

I get the depth, and it's probably for the better, but this doesn't sound like getting younger.  I would be happier if I was 100% confident management is willing to waive veterans for rookies that have proven to be too good in Utica, but I'm not.  There are two forward vets, Baertschi and Sutter, that have tradeable contracts.  And I have zero interest in trading Sutter (this year at least, his hard minutes are too valuable).  Eriksson, Beagle, Gagner, and Roussel are not tradeable contracts so I hope management is willing to waive them when the time comes.

Overpaid on the new additions but it doesn't matter much. We won't be competing for 4 years.

I don't imagine we'd have a hard time getting a contender to pay for Beagle or Roussel if we were to retain cap in a couple seasons, especially with the cap likely to continue climbing. Both of em are players playoff and cup contenders want in their bottom six. Hell, even without cap retention I still imagine someone would bite.

Both players reportedly had many teams after em, it's why we overpaid a bit on term and avg to bring them here.