Which UFA center would be the best fit on our third line?

[WEwantCUP]

jarrett stoll, and not only because he just won the cup, I've always thought he'd be a perfect fit

[Sedinery22]

Paul Gaustad I've been saying this all year

[nd84]

Gaustad or Stoll.

[ButterBean]

Stoll is the best guy on that list. Too bad he'll re-sign with the Kings or get overpaid on the open market. Gaustad would be decent but he doesn't really put up that many points.

[NP-4815162342]

Ott,Morrison,lappy

[Pears]

Gaustad would be sweet. If we picked him and Penner up for the third line

Ponikarovsky - Gaustad - Penner

Higgins - Lapierre - Hansen

That bottom six is HUGE.

[oldnews]

Bring back the Bull.

[canucks_dynasty]

Gaustad.

I wanted him a few years ago...back when we acquired Lapierre. He's big, strong on the puck, and good faceoff %. A prototypical 3rd line checking centre. Then hopefully AV will have confidence to roll 4 lines instead of shortening the bench (which he always do). Problem is...Gaustad will command $3-3.5M as a UFA. I think it's worth the money to have a quality centre. But that's just me.

[Langdon Algur]

Stoll would be great but I agree his value may be a little too high right now

Pahlsson would be my second choice

failing that between Lappy and Manny I think we have the 3rd line covered already.Edit- pretty sure Madden is going to retire, but as he has family on Vancouver Island it would be fun to see him with the Canucks.

[BoKnows53]

Gaustad, Mo, or Koivu would all be great fits imo

[Shift-4]

Slim Pickens

[Xbox]

Eberle

[CB007]

None of the above. Manny and Lappy are on contract year. No need to upgrade 3rd and 4th line centres. Spend the cap money on a top 6 or top 4.

Or a real crash and bang bottom 6 winger.

[Jaku]

I would love to see Gaustad in a Canucks jersey.

[LeanBeef]

Jason Chimera, Shawn Matthias, and Steve Ott would be good fits but we need to trade to get one of them

[Canuckfan4Life4]

Jay McClement.

[Edlerberry]

Stoll brings more offense than Gaustad. He is as good or better on faceoffs, and he is hard to play against. He is a premium 3rd line or a decent 2nd line center. He can play 2nd unit PP and has a much better shot than Gaustad too.

As a pure Checking role, Pahlsson or Gaustad are both options, with Pahlsson having the Swedish connection. If we could sign Stoll to 3 years I'd take him first.

The thing Stoll gives us is the versatility to move up into a top 6 C role when we have an injury (whereas right now, we're kinda SOL)

[Line Juggler]

Olli Jokinen, that way Kesler can focus more on a defensive role, oddly enough that's when he was the most offensive.

[JasetheCanuck]

Stoll or Gaustad.

[CanucksSayEh]

Oh how quickly we went from trading away a centre, due to an abundance in that position, to needing a damn centre............someone done goofed.