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  1. The only merit this has is that Benning tried to land PK before and the deal fell thru. The team needs are different now and the fact that he is right handed is the only real reason to acquire him, now that we have Hughes playing. Might as well sign Adam Mcquaid if that's the reasoning we're going to be using to acquire $9 mil plus players. At least Mcquaid would fill more of a need.
  2. I don't care what anyone says...Malkin should be on the table. No question. Pittsburgh needs more depth. Case in point, this season's playoff disappointment.
  3. Yeah, but I don't think New Jersey makes that trade or any others like it. It was a joke.
  4. I wonder if NJ would take Hutton for him straight up? He is a top 4 dman after all *cough* Edmonton *cough*
  5. I don't think it's THAT worth it to go and get Jack Hughes. If we had lucked out and got the pick, that's different. We have more pressing needs than the pick. You make the call, you ask what they're looking for, and figure out whomever you would be willing to part with. End of the day, you don't go spending your money on a Ferrari when you live in a 2 bedroom apartment with leaks in it. You just actually fixed one of the biggest ones, there's still a couple more to go.
  6. After Clendening, I would rather not get a D from Chicago. That cost nothing, but it wasn't really anything we got anyways. If they are willing to part with them, it makes me think they're not as good as we think.
  7. Baertschi won't be playing much longer at the rate of his concussions. One more and he's done for. Best to plan as if we won't have him and if he's still around and not clogging up the lineup when he's here, it's a bonus.
  8. Means the pick gets traded.... I hear Winnipeg has some right handed defensemen and doesn't have a 1st rounder this year
  9. I kind of think he might have been playing hurt for the latter half of the season, TBH, which would explain why he (no pun intended) petered out. Honestly, just adding a little more body fat would help, as long as he keeps his conditioning going. Keep his protein and carbohydrates at a healthy and level. It's most important that he gets faster and that he plays as many games as possible. He missed what? 15-20 games earlier in the year. Had he not been injured in those games, are we in the playoffs right now?
  10. I feel like because a win isn't expected, it could maybe happen. For me, I just hope that no one below us moves up. That will at least guarantee us 9th. If one of the teams above us in the draft rankings moves up, good on them, but screw any of the teams who bump us from below. I hope you guys get some bad juju next year!!! Chicago is always screwing us!! What the hell?!?!?
  11. Yeah, he's punching above his weight class though. Like alot of players on this team. That's why we aren't making the playoffs. Like when Chris Higgins played those years on our second line when he's a 3rd line player. That kind of thing. Great to fill in like he has, but we're still losing and that's a problem. Also just like when a baseball team's starter goes down and then you gotta pull from the bullpen to get one of them to make a start and you know damn well they're gonna try their best, but that it still won't be good enough because he isn't playing the role he's meant to play.
  12. To me, there's a huge gap in skill level between Tanev and Stetcher. Stetcher has taken a step to get better this year, but let's face it, this isn't the kind of defenseman he was meant to be when we signed him in the first place. I think JB kind of has to decide what direction we're going in this year on the back end. For me, there HAS to be a defenseman on the right side who can chew up some of the hard minutes Tanev has had to play every season. We need him playing more than 60 games. Secondly, if we're re-signing Edler and keeping Hutton, Juolevi should probably be looked at as a piece which can upgrade this defense immediately in a trade. I like the idea of being able to call him up, but that right side needs to be augmented big time. Getting that piece on the right side is going to hurt, no matter what way you slice it.
  13. Right now I have to say the leads we have been coughing up. Can we not have this be a thing next season?
  14. That's because they don't want to deal with trading a big contract of a player over 30 to anyone. They're not so easy to lose, should you have to lose them. What he should have said is "We weren't willing to offer up that kind of term for someone who would be in their mid 30s when the contract expires."
  15. I have a rhetorical question for you: Since 2014, who have the Canucks had to share the load of hard minutes on the right side? The answer is no one who can play at a high enough level to ease the difficult workload. Having a guy like Jett Woo in the system develop and step in soon would be of HUGE benefit to Tanev. There's a hole on the right side needing to be filled and I am sure if there's a white board in Jim Benning's war room, it has a big a$$ circle around that slot with a need for a sure thing to fill it.
  16. Agreed. I am honestly wondering how long it takes til Crosby "Ballard's" Gudbranson for his lack of hockey sense. Maybe Malkin will do it?
  17. Is that you, Kyle Dubas? What are you doing on these boards?! For real though anything higher than 9 will handicap our team from signing our home grown talent going forward and that's pushing it. Petey will be over 10. Boeser likely between 7 and 8. Also Bo is into his new contract too. If Quinn Hughes pans out like he is figured to, that's even more money to 4 guys. Trust me...it's the wrong time to be adding a ppg free agent. We'd have to dump a pile of salary somehow. Eriksson comes to mind.
  18. We need a winger for Bo next year for sure. That being said, I would be more interested in looking at the trade market in the off season. We can't just be sinking that kind of money into free agency yet. We don't want to end up like Toronto will be very soon. Get our big guys locked up long term and then grab the big free agents before taking a run at the cup. I'm talking Petey, Boeser, maybe even Quinn Hughes when he gets to that point. If Mark Stone wasn't a UFA this year, I would suggest him.
  19. I have to admit, I have questioned this lately. I still think it's Bo, at this point, but after seeing how competitive Petey is, I am definitely questioning it. It's really interesting seeing that competitive streak out of a Swede. He wants to win. He's not satisfied. Petterson's interviews are genuine and don't sound rehearsed at all (unlike his really bad commercial with Capilano Audi.) It feels like night and day compared to the Sedins. I know they wanted to win, but if they lost it was kind of like "Oh well. We have things we got to work on and we'll do better next time." Petey is visibly mad when he doesn't win. Not for a lack of skill or try. He holds himself and his team mates to a higher standard and he wants that because he wants to win and he wants them to win. If that's not captain material, I don't know what is. I'd probably let it go one more year, TBH.
  20. I think the situations kind of cancel themselves out. Lu's early career speaks for itself. All the way up until Van started kicking a$$ about 10 years ago or so. Brodeur and Henrik and their shoot out win totals kinda suck, but should still be respected. There's a reason why Grant Fuhr is still highly respected even. Most of it is holding the 1 goal wins. He was still not great, but he held his teams in. Just like Chris Osgood used to. Just because Lu doesn't have it between the ears to own it in high pressure situations like a shootout just reflects why he isn't even higher on the list. He should be. I can tell you this...if we could swap out prime Lu for prime Brodeur or King Henrik in 2011, I take that deal every time and we'd have a cup win. Winning is what matters. Not all the exceptions.
  21. Actually that doesn't exactly matter. Sami Salo got injured in the summer of 2010, playing ball hockey and snapped his hamstring. Canucks placed him on the active roster to start the season and then immediately put him on LTIR afterwards, otherwise they couldn't use that money to punch above the cap. Same idea. They use McEneny to start the season, put him on LTIR. He could have made the team. Nobody knows for sure *wink*. Then send him down right after he is healed up. It's better to take every single inch the CBA is going to give you instead of leaving it. If they don't need it, oh well.
  22. Oh boy. This is the ol' LTIR for more cap room trick again.
  23. Guess who were/are also rebuilding. The Oilers. Didn't that basically start after they made the final 12 years ago? They didn't get guys on their back end who knew how to win and the rebuild seems to continue. Even WITH Connor McDavid. Buffalo is in the same situation. Why do you think Jay Beagle was signed?! He's here for more than just playing. He has been playing playoff hockey for years and years now. Almost as long as the Oilers have been rebuilding. It's just like anyone...you start losing, you lose a little confidence, and it goes from there. Before the season starts, I want to see one. Just one defenseman in our top 4 who has been playing consistent playoff hockey in the past 5 years. The kind of influence that could have on the rest of the team in the dressing room would be tremendous.
  24. That's actually not good enough. Edler and Tanev have not played playoff hockey in going on 5 years now and are so far removed from a winning culture that it's not even funny, Gudbranson is hella injured always and has played 1 round of playoff hockey in his career, and MDZ has had a spotty career at best. Right now, that experience is not good enough. This d core has been okay with losing for far too long. I don't want Quinn Hughes to end up also being okay with losing.
  25. Hughes could make this team next season. Honestly though...that's a scary thought because our D-corps hasn't played any meaningful games since Willie D's first year coaching the Nucks. Having Quinn Hughes and/or Olli Juolevi following the example of defensemen who know how to consistently win games in the NHL is pretty important. If he isn't gonna learn that here, then he's gotta go to Utica and play top minutes. I don't wanna see him fizzle out like all the players who Edmonton has shat thru.
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