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With the Hronek, Provorov, and Ekholm trades , Calgary’s asking price is going to be at least a 1st round pick, a 2nd or equivalent, and a good young forward. Hanifin is also better than the names above so that also needs to be factored in. None of which we can afford to pay.

What’s the point of the draft with that logic.

Looks like Boeser is going to stay a Canuck for at least another year. Currently as it stands: Kuzmenko/Pettersson/Beauvillier Mikheyev/Miller/Boeser Hoglander/_______/Garland Joshua/Aman/Podkolzin PDG Hughes/Juulsen? Wolanin/Hronek Hirose/Myers Woo Rathbone I hope we don’t sign any UFA’s unless they’re RFA’s that other team didn’t sign. If we can get someone like Trent Frederic, 25 y/o, on a solid 3 year contract, we can have him play as the 3C. We need to run it back for one more year with the same team. If we make the playoffs somehow, great, keep Myers and Beauvillier for a full season. If we are middle of the pack, trade them at the deadline, and call up some guys to fill those extra spots. If Boeser and Garland play a full season with top 6 minutes and perform well, they’ll be easier to trade next off season. Patience is something our franchise needs. Wait for opportunities to arrive.

Benson and Garland are not similar players at all.

Vey Gudbranson Eriksson Clendening OEL Pedan Bonino Goldobin Sbisa Baertschi Holtby Del Zotto Myers Etem Granlund Roussel Beagle Hamonic Megna Chaput Bartkowski Gagner Juolevi Sutter Virtanen Desjardins Spooner Larsen Benn Leivo Tryamkin Burmistrov Leipsic Poolman Boucher Gaudette Schmidt Tanev/Markstrom/Toffoli walking Vrbata Petan Skille Cracknell Nilsson Halak Rodin Vanek Ladies and gentlemen, Benning. Every. Single. Player. Benning. Brought. Was. Absolute. Trash. With the exception of Vanek. Worst GM in franchise history.

Ideally, Simashev would be the better pick IMO, but I’d be fine with Willander. But yeah unless Leonard or Benson are available at 11 (Dvorsky definitely won’t be), we are poised to take a defenseman. We’re going to need this defenseman in Year 3 and 4 of the OEL buyout to play on an ELC. Any one of Reinbacher, Willander, or Simashev will be a welcome addition to the blue line. Im hoping D Pettersson can become a regular for us in a year or so.

I’m pretty certain they go with a defenseman in this draft. Canucks need a top level talent defenseman that will be on an ELC during the big OEL buyout years. If Benson is taken, I’m almost certain they’re taking Willander. If both Willander and Benson are taken, they’ll trade down.

We had 13M play on the 4th line in Eriksson Roussel and Beagle and then we trade them fo— Decided to not finish that sentence. At the end of the day, our franchise is a joke. Laughing stock of the league.

I want to do unspeakable things to Benning. Is that a fair reaction?

@-SN- Hi SN, could we have an OEL emoji pls

4.7 is better than 7.2 lolll

Cap is expected to hit $100M by 2027. By the end of the buyout, who knows how much more it’ll be. We are fine, as long as management can manage cap competently from here on out. No more Mikheyev type contracts.

I called it long time ago, may I have a cookie pretty please

I’m okay with this. Cap is expected to go up when the OEL penalty hits us the hardest. if management can just be competent in cap management, we can survive. As well, this increases Garland and Boeser’s trade value. We now don’t need to scramble and pay someone to take one of these contracts. Teams won’t feel the need to try and take advantage anymore because of our new existing cap space. Another positive is that we can now also take back 1 year cap dumps inexchange for prospects or picks. Buying out OEL was an inevitability if we wanted to legitimately try and ice a competitive team within the next 2 years. Whether we bought him out this year, next year, or 2 years from now, we would still only save $3M for those two years where the cap penalty hits the most. A $2.1M penalty whether it was an extra year, two, or three is easy to navigate considering the cap will be 100M by then. Even at 50% retained, OEL would cost us 1st round picks and our younger assets which this team cannot afford to give up if they’re trying to be competitive in the same time frame. OEL buyout had to happen. It is better it happened this year where we have an immediate $7M to work, because, indirectly, our other moveable assets were losing value and becoming increasingly hard to move due to the non existing cap space in the first place, largely due to OEL.

This was an Aquilini move. Aqua man saves 13 million.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

Hughes/Willander _______/Hronek Pettersson/Woo Could be a solid d core in the near future assuming we draft Willander. Need a big Canadian LHD

f**k u

Sutter was a good skater and had some speed as well. I think Danielson being a close comparable to younger Sutter is kind of accurate. Which is why I’m not as high on him as others.

Ownership isn’t the one making trades. Benning goes to the owner about a trade, all he has to do is sell it to Aquaman and it’s a done deal. FA has blame for sure. But us being where we are today is mostly Benning. That OEL trade set us back 6 years that’s what I’m referring to. There is absolutely no way we can afford to re sign Petey, Hronek, our RFA’s, while also signing players to key roster spots, while OEL is taking is up 7.2M. OEL needs to be bought out next year if we have any chance at salvaging our core’s future.

Woof woof woof

Benning singlehandedly set us back 6 years.

Seeing who Vegas won with… I hope OEL gets bought out and Beauvillier, Boeser, Myers, and any lacklustre player gets shipped out with a warning label “Please handle with care, fragile”