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[GDT] Around the NHL | April (10-16) 2022
mll replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in General Hockey Discussion
A fan found his Venmo account and posted it on twitter. -
[Rumour] J.T. Miller Trade/Contract Talks
mll replied to Podzilla's topic in Trades, Rumours, Signings
That's what a GM was asking Friedman - why would they want to take back the Canucks' problem and be forced to deal with that QO. They all know that Vancouver is reluctant to qualify him at that number. -
Friedman hopes that players won't accept the report and writes: https://www.sportsnet.ca/article/players-should-think-twice-about-accepting-findings-of-nhlpa-beach-report/ "I’m not a lawyer. I don’t know the full extent of reporting rules. But, after reading this passage, I don’t understand how anyone can claim there wasn’t any “systemic failure” here. We have what its own doctor called a credible report of a sexual assault. And it didn’t go anywhere. I don’t understand how Donald Fehr, NHLPA leadership and Cozen O’Connor can look at this and claim anything but systemic failure."
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[PGT] Arizona Coyotes at Vancouver Canucks | Apr. 14, 2022
mll replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Canucks Talk
Bonino played on a broken ankle in the 2017 finals. -
[PGT] Arizona Coyotes at Vancouver Canucks | Apr. 14, 2022
mll replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Canucks Talk
This season but next year Fox starts a 9.5M deal coming off his ELC + Zibanejad is getting over a 3M increase to his current deal. They traded Buchnevich in prevision of those increases. They already have a cap penalty because they've exceed the bonus cushion (will come out of their end of season cap space estimated currently at 4.9M). Fox will most certainly hit his performance bonuses and they might have a few others - comes out of the estimated 4.9M end of season cap space too. Anything in excess gets rolled over into next season. -
[PGT] Arizona Coyotes at Vancouver Canucks | Apr. 14, 2022
mll replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Canucks Talk
LE's environment on the ice changed significantly in Vancouver and he wasn't able to adjust. LE played with Krejci who was an amazing playmaker. In Vancouver his C was mostly Sutter. Benning thought Sutter had more offensive upside and was simply stuck behind Crosby/Malkin - turns out he was solid defensive C and didn't have that untapped playmaking skills. The Sedins play down low and LE too, was known for being a garbage goal scorer. A forward had to stay up high and that's not where he typically plays. The chemistry with the Sedins was overstated. They played at most 4 games together on the international stage before he signed. Vancouver was regularly in the playoffs so they hardly ever played in the worlds at the same time. For the Olympics, LE was a late addition the 1st time and the 2nd time Henrik was injured. -
Mike Bossy Islanders Icon passes away at age of 65
mll replied to MikeBossy's topic in General Hockey Discussion
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[PGT] Arizona Coyotes at Vancouver Canucks | Apr. 14, 2022
mll replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Canucks Talk
Rangers traded Buchnevich because of concerns over an upcoming cap crunch. Fox, Zibanejad, Panarin and Trouba are all at 8M and more. -
[PGT] Arizona Coyotes at Vancouver Canucks | Apr. 14, 2022
mll replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Canucks Talk
If he's chasing money he's at risk of being in the same situation as Erik Karlsson. Some of those top contenders like Pittsburgh, Washington are at the tail end of their windows and will likely soon be facing a rebuild. Miller comes across as extremely competitive and I would think that he will also want to have more than just a few tries left. Promising teams like Colorado, Florida have already identified their core and can't see them paying him over MacKinnon, Huberdeau/Weegar. Even NYR have already committed long term to Panarin, Zibanejad, Trouba etc. For those teams his value was more the 2x playoffs runs at an incredible cap hit, but have a harder time seeing them giving him that retirement contract. Rebuilding teams (Arizona, Anaheim, Chicago) or those building around cores just as young if not younger than Vancouver (NJD, Buffalo, CBJ, etc) don't make much sense. Then there are the teams with no cap space like SJS or Minnesota. Guerin doesn't even want to trade futures (says they'll need them to weather those buyout years). SJS has ambition but they are stuck with all those retirement contracts handed out. Vegas, Toronto, Tampa seem to be also running out of cap space. Armstrong says he prefers to have a lot of good players than pay for 1 or 2 superstars - lists cap management as one of the 5 reasons they finally won the Cup. Carolina's AGM Eric Tulsky did a lot of work on ageing curves so hard to see them committing to Miller given his conclusions. There's not that many teams left. I don't think Allvin is lying when he says he'd like to try and keep Miller. He won't get paid that mega deal but they have arguments to convince him. There's a pretty long runway with Pettersson/Hughes/Demko already so good and with still room to grow. He has a key role on and off the ice - has been their go-to player and has strong influence in the room. Aside from Karlsson, there's also Taylor Hall - he was asking the moon and never got the contract he hoped. Jones wanted to get paid and now Chicago has announced they are rebuilding. Vancouver has a much clearer path than a team that could abruptly change course. -
[Rumour] J.T. Miller Trade/Contract Talks
mll replied to Podzilla's topic in Trades, Rumours, Signings
Bettman projects that the escrow balance will be reimbursed by the end of the 2024/25 season. Was again confirmed at the recent GMs' meeting. The CBA is only into effect until 2025/26 but will automatically extend for another season (till the end of 2026/27) if the escrow balance is between 125-250M at the end of the 2024/25 season. -
[PGT] Arizona Coyotes at Vancouver Canucks | Apr. 14, 2022
mll replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Canucks Talk
Landeskog was on the trade block at the same time as Duchene - everyone was available other than MacKinnon back then (and their top prospects). Sakic was mocked as GM not all that long ago. Colorado finished with only 48pts in Bednar's 1st year in 2016/17 - 21 pts worse than 2nd last Vancouver. Sakic had brought in several veterans to try and remain competitive but that plan completely failed and they were heading towards a rebuild. Sakic decided to change course and turned over nearly half their roster with him saying that if you're going to lose might as well do it with young player developing - ie there was no value in losing with veterans who weren't going to be part of their future. Somehow bringing in youth had them turn things around and make the playoffs and it was no longer necessary to trade Landeskog. -
[GDT] Around the NHL | April (10-16) 2022
mll replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in General Hockey Discussion
Freezes the puck with his skate before kicking it to Reilly away from Ottawa's Gambrell. -
They just gave Hamilton a 9M deal - pretty strong indication that they never considered going after Hughes and understand that he's obviously not available. If anything they'll just wait another 5 years till he reaches UFA and see if he wants to return to the US. This deal makes NJD worse and creates a significant hole in their lineup. Hischier is producing at a 0.9 ppg while taking on toughest matchups while playing a solid 200ft game. It's not a player they can easily replace. There's only 1 puck and it's atypical to have a D like Hughes that has the puck more than the forwards in the o-zone and not every teams wants that. Can't see them giving up Hischier for Hughes - their Ds are sufficient for how they play. Boeser doesn't really have the foot speed to fit NJD either.
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[Rumour] J.T. Miller Trade/Contract Talks
mll replied to Podzilla's topic in Trades, Rumours, Signings
The cap is now going to increase per a so-called lag formula - was part of the changes introduced in the CBA approved ahead of the bubble. This should avoid the cap being artificially too high and limit escrow going forward. They've agreed on an escrow scale for the transition - the cap was artificially too high + they have to reimburse the escrow balance (over 1 billion) due to the pandemic. Escrow started at 20%, was formula based this season, will drop to 10% next season and then down to 6% for the remaining length of the CBA. It's only once the escrow balance is reimbursed that the lag formula will come into effect - till then the cap can't increase by more than 1M. -
[Rumour] J.T. Miller Trade/Contract Talks
mll replied to Podzilla's topic in Trades, Rumours, Signings
Obviously not - it never got really serious per Friedman although it did leak that he would waive for only Boston and Vancouver (was Arizona's 1st attempt to trade him - Canucks got Schmidt that off-season). On the 2nd run when he finally got traded, Boston had already backed out. Just gives an indication of how long they've been looking for a top-4 LD on top of Carlo and it's only this TDL that they've finally filled that hole when it's been a priority for so long. They also considered Chychrun. -
[Rumour] J.T. Miller Trade/Contract Talks
mll replied to Podzilla's topic in Trades, Rumours, Signings
Getting Carlo doesn't feel particularly realistic even in a Miller trade. Boston have been looking for another LD for quite some time - reason why they were initially in on OEL. Now that they've fixed that hole in their lineup don't see why they would create it all over again. -
Sounds like elbow - Kuzma just tweeted this:
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[Rumour] J.T. Miller Trade/Contract Talks
mll replied to Podzilla's topic in Trades, Rumours, Signings
Not a chance - CBJ are building around Sillinger, Johnson and co. Miller is far too old to fit their timeline. -
[GDT] Around the NHL | April (10-16) 2022
mll replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in General Hockey Discussion
As they say - just in a different stratosphere and not just about points. -
[GDT] Around the NHL | April (10-16) 2022
mll replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in General Hockey Discussion
He's received upwards of 6M apparently - even fans from other teams have been contributing. -
[Rumour] J.T. Miller Trade/Contract Talks
mll replied to Podzilla's topic in Trades, Rumours, Signings
The thread was opened when Benning was still GM. The Canucks were struggling so other teams were trying to take advantage of Benning possibly trying to save his job. Lots has changed since. -
[GDT] Around the NHL | April (10-16) 2022
mll replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in General Hockey Discussion
3rd of the division plays the 2nd of the division in round 1. If they get through that round they would play the winner of round 1 between the top of the division and wildcard 1 (as Colorado will play wildcard 2). It's only in round 3 that they could potentially face the 2nd/3rd of the Central assuming either team win their 2nd round.