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Signing Bieksa Over Ehrhoff Was A Big Mistake


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Bieksa wasn't a mistake and he will be great again come playoff time.

The bigger mistake will be if we sign Edler to big money and long term.

We need to get rid of Edler and Schneider(if we have to and not Luongo) and get Shea Webber if it takes a 3 team deal. This team needs solid tough defense and Edler is definitely not that.

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Know what we should have done? We should have signed all of the defencemen in the league so nobody else had any then trade them Alberts for Giroux and and and and.. uh..

OK. OP is out of his mind, the stupid it burns, etc.

Bring back the minus.

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Bieksa wasn't a mistake and he will be great again come playoff time.

The bigger mistake will be if we sign Edler to big money and long term. <---- AGREE

We need to get rid of Edler and Schneider(if we have to and not Luongo) and get Shea Webber if it takes a 3 team deal. This team needs solid tough defense and Edler is definitely not that. <---- COMPLETELY DISAGREE

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I am afraid that we might over value Edler, but he's a pretty tough defenseman. Maybe not a shutdown guy like you might want, which is why he shouldn't be overvalued.. but I think he's going to be effective in the playoffs.

For a young, top-4 defenseman like Edler, if we sign him at 3.25 again I'd be happy.

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Cap issue is not as easy as it sounds. Ballard's contract at 4.2 million wouldn't be enough to keep Erhoff . The Canucks offered him 5 million and Christian turned them down . Yes you could have waived Ballard to the minors and someone could have picked him up for nothing but we still be on the hook for Ballard's contract or at least half of it and it would still go against the cap.

One more thing it doesn't matter how much the Canucks have made in last years playoff it has nothing to do with the Salary cap.

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After last year's playoffs you would have had to be crazy to sign Ehrhoff over Bieksa, but for the record, the plan was always to sign them both if they were willing to accept reasonable deals. They offered Ehrhoff the same deal they offered Bieksa, and he said no thanks.

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Ehrhoff was a valuable player as a play maker. Bieksa was a fringe 7th defenseman right before the 2010-2011 season. He got a couple of good bounces, a lucky break with Ballard being down early in the season, and he got his mega deal.

Bieksa is not a bad player, but certainly not worth the almost $4mil per season if he's not playing on the edge and dropping the gloves. His size is a liability.

Ehrhoff had a certain intelligence about him. He would find the right shooting lane, or make sure that the puck was tippable. The pucks that bounced off the goalie would also be easy to tap into a wide open net. Just look at how few tap-in, or tip-in goals this year by the Canucks and you will know what we are dealing with here.

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