Odd.

For reference, Byram's played 72 NHL regular season games, he won't have a ton of leverage for a big deal. That works great for a Colorado team that needs cheaper pieces in the lineup, particularly ones who could develop into impact players. 

They don't need Podkolzin, they have Rantanen, Lehkonen, Nichushkin, and Landeskog as top six wingers. Podz and a 1st isn't going to stir the drink for their current roster more than Byram. 

The reason Byram is so valuable for Colorado is because he'll likely be cost effective given his lack of an NHL resume, his being hurt will probably work against him regarding his next contract. He's also got top four, if not top pairing upside.

Colorado's pretty much capped out as of right now and Mac's 12.6M deal will kick in next season. Their 2C, Compher, is also a pending UFA and he's up to 42 points through 61 games in a larger role. He'll need a raise from his current 3.5M and bottom line is that a team with contention aspirations in Colorado needs a 2C. 

Colorado may need to move one of Manson, Girard, or Toews to free up some cap space. They have several players they need to re-up and Johnson's expiring 6M will go directly to MacKinnon. 

Byram might be a good fit for the Canucks but moving him doesn't make a lot of sense for a cap strapped Colorado club if he can be had on a more cost effective deal, which he probably can be. 

eichel gets nearly 19 mins a game too. 4G 0A and a team-worst -7.

mccann 11 mins, 5G 1A and plus 3

So what you're saying is...

...MCCANN IS BETTER THAN EICHEL!!!

There's less than 5 months separating them in age as well. Don't get me wrong, Eichel is the better player, but McCann is going to be a beauty himself

Well damn.

@-Vintage Canuck- The Oilers haven't been in the upper half of the conference standings since Messier left.

Have only won 3 playoffs games since...

Stamkos - Matthews - Boeser

@Odd. yep

Why would Stamkos play LW of all positions?

I was high on him pre draft last year. Still think he is worth a 7th round pick

Way better pick up than some plug like Sawyer. You should always go for these guys over some enforcer with 6 points in 54 games..

He's still eligible for the draft, was ranked by CSS I believe. He's been a great addition here in Portland

kindergarten

in all honesty, im in my senior year

lol. i'm sure you can miss. won't kill ya. At least skip everything after 10 or 11.

Well the reality is I like Rogue One, and the Original Trilogy and that's it.

But the prequels were better than the sequels by Disney.

Just my 2 cents.

Everyone has different opinions.

Prequel has the best memes and gave us the Clone Wars animated series which is honestly peak Star Wars content in my book. I didn't even watch the third part of the most recent travesty, like you I substitute reality for my own. 

Yeah I watched The Force Awakens, and was so disappointed. I stopped watching afterwords.

I was actually out golfing with some random flames fan today and I broke the news to him... he was not happy in the slightest! 

Not to mention there’s literally only 400k difference in taxes Lfmao 

Going to CP?  That's like walking down East Hastings street at night waiving a few hundred dollars in each hand.

He's there.

He's actually the fat kid destroying hotdogs in section 112.

we treat hotdogs with respect in my section. wtf

The team winning game three wins the series.  TBay still has a good chance to come back.  

It should be 2 games. It was a dirty play but no need to have it carry into next season.

tampa will winnext game they havent had 2 games thisbad in 3-4 yrs the other vets will show up next game they needed a wake up call

Hell no, we don't need to defend the 0-0 tie. AV's problem is he coaches not lose, instead of coaching to win. 

Too predictable, too conservative. He'll get hired again by Montreal. 

Loved AV.  He seemed to have a good sense of humor.  If he gets fired, when does Sather get the axe too?

Sather wouldn't get the axe.  Sure, he hired AV, but he left the GM role a while ago.  Gorton will get at least one chance to hire a coach.

No way overpay for Laffy and Schneider that throw in first doesn't make up the loss of Miller and the Canucks top prospect Jack Rathbone. Kravstov is a wild card.

Much rather Garland to the Rangers for Chytil, Lundqvist, and a 1st to start negotiations.

Take it and run.

Okay with moving Rathbone. Already have Hughes.

As much as I want miller to stay it would have to be something like that for me to be on board 

We'll have to wait at least another season, he's got another year left on that big ol' 10.5M contract 

Lol You know what the worst thing a GM can do is say &^@# it!

Sign to the minimum?

Probably. Definitely more refined skating in all aspects with the new skates for sure. I’m  going to be paying attention more closely to his edge work as well as balance, two things he aruguably needs most work on. 

Honestly just get him going with Bo’s power skating coach and he’s well on his way to being an elite skater. 

Good lord. That made me monumentally more excited. 

Petey's so good he has to handicap himself to give the other guys a chance.

The Canucks have the best individual player in the league for every line-up slot.

even eriksson is better than neal

@Elias Pettersson the problem with Messier wasn't skill, the problem was he was a lazy floater who was a cancer in the locker room.  Monahan is an excellent comparison to that waste of oxygen.  A true leader would have knocked that chip-binging piece of garbage out for being a complete disgrace to the franchise.

Messier is absolute scum and his tombstone should be a urinal.

If you build it...

@Qwags will come.

@Qwags

Remember when Mats Sundin had hair?

a big scary Alex Biega 

With 20 or 30 more career goals.

"Somebody" better beer that soccer geek, eh.

Annnd, here ya go.

Not really sure I understood what you are proposing... but you had me at "beer"!

city tv at 3pm

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Believe me, the offense was playing womens field hockey today

Slackers can't even score a point in women's field hockey.

yah, pitching had nothing to do with it. 

I thought Stecher looked REAL GOOD

Gonna get  "alotta looks"

Oh I just realized that lol. Still though, I feel that Labate will be one of those late picks that'll actually pan out. 

Carcone might also be something. 

Gaudreau was a gamble that won big time for Calgary, but it was a gamble.

Are we seriously excited about potentially having a bottom line guy in our forward prospects?  That's all we have up front to be looking forward too?  That's it?  Does this not show we need some bloody elite prospects in our forward group?  

I was thinking the same thing TR. However, McDavid/Draisaitl. 

Trade down to  Arizona. Get OEL from them along with their 1st

I'll believe OEL will get moved when I see it. 

Ya, that franchise exists because Canadian fans pay for it with revenue sharing.  It's a JOKE!  

Really, they can't even GIVE AWAY the friggin seats for free, for the bloody playoffs!  Fishing shows draw more TV viewers down there than hockey.  99 out of 100 people on the streets there don't even know they have a hockey team, or even know what hockey is.  

i lost about 1500 lol wtf?

i gained over 400

^^ givem back !