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It was a fantastic trade for us. At 68 million a player should be the one driving his line. Bo is a supporting role guy.
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With Bruce coaching Demko had to steal a lot of our wins. The change we are seeing now in how we play is what needs to carry over to next season. If our owner allows JR to mske the coaching change last summer, like he wanted to, then maybe this year doesn’t go do bad in the first place?
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[PGT] Vancouver Canucks at Arizona Coyotes | Mar. 16, 2023
Alflives replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Canucks Talk
What’s the trade cost for a guy like him? Trade down (from our first) at the draft to get a late first and a second and then flip the second for Kuraly? Would that be enough? -
Demko is our most important player. We don’t have good enough supporting role depth to win with below average goaltending. Management has retooled enough where average goaltending is all we need to win. When they have completed retooling our D, then we will win with below average goaltending. And when Demko plays like Double Bubble Boy we will be a great team again.
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[GDT] Around the NHL | March (12-18) 2023
Alflives replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in General Hockey Discussion
Wonder if Drouin had a legitimate reason? -
[PGT] Vancouver Canucks at Arizona Coyotes | Mar. 16, 2023
Alflives replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Canucks Talk
Raty is way better defensively than Karlsson. But management might prefer Raty works on his offensive game in the minors for another year. I think we bring in a 3C from the free agent market. It will be an older guy too. Like what Beagle was. But this management will only go a two year deal at most. -
[Report] Jordan Binnington suspended 2 games
Alflives replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in General Hockey Discussion
How could anyone, not living in St.Louis, be a fan of Binnington? The other players in the league must very much enjoy pushing his buttons and watching him explode like he does. -
[Signing] Sabres sign Devon Levi
Alflives replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Trades, Rumours, Signings
Sabres and Sens are both looking up with their young players. -
Fortunately Raty’s greatest strength is his extremely high hockey smarts. The best 200 foot players are over the top quick game processors. Snd those guys go t need to be overly fleet of foot. ROR, PB, and others use their brains to be ahead of the play. Raty will for sure be a defensively sound centre. The question is whether he will be enough of an offensive threat to fill the 2C role (and push JTM to wing) or whether he tops out as a 3C and is more like Malholtra.
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[PGT] Vancouver Canucks at Arizona Coyotes | Mar. 16, 2023
Alflives replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Canucks Talk
You think we just might keep Myers until the 2024 TDL? -
[PGT] Vancouver Canucks at Arizona Coyotes | Mar. 16, 2023
Alflives replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Canucks Talk
Seeing that list makes the timing of acquisition of Hronek appear even all the smarter. -
I think Hronek, new Beau, and Raty will always be compared to old Bo in our market. We still talk about the Linden trade and how that set up for the development of our most successful teams ever. This trade has a similar potential. And Raty is a key piece. He grows into a 2 C and pushes Miller to wing and that’s an incredible win for us. Add Hronek as a D carrying our second pairing and it’s beyond great. Then we got new Beau too!
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New Salary Cap. New Player Representative
Alflives replied to Sharpshooter's topic in General Hockey Discussion
Even if we got a compliance buyout what are the chances our owner would cut the cheque to get rid of OEL? Of course he should, regardless of whether it’s a compliance buyout or a regular one. I just doubt he will in either circumstance. -
[PGT] Vancouver Canucks at Arizona Coyotes | Mar. 16, 2023
Alflives replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Canucks Talk
That’s very smart. Maybe Beau at 4.5x2? We could trade Garland and clear 5. Allocate that to Beau. -
No. It’s smart management of cap allocation. It’s what we should do, but our owner won’t. So we will spend 7.2 per year for four more years to play in our bottom pair. And very likely we see that 7.2 in the press box. So we will add the cap of the guy who takes OEL’s spot. Now it’s at minimum an 8 mil cap hit for a bottom pairing guy. It’s clear the smart move is to buyout OEL this summer.
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Interesting post. Headache causing though. IMHAO our owner won’t buyout OEL. It’s way too big a cheque for him to cut. (He should, because it’s best for our club, but he won’t) So we play OEL for the four seasons on our bottom pair. He eats 7.2 mil in cap. It’s too bad. That cap could be allocated elsewhere to make us better.
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Tank Hard for Bedard - Playoff chances are already Slim
Alflives replied to Provost's topic in Canucks Talk
Exactly which move new management made is short sighted?