Biff Tannen
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4 hours ago, CanuckRookieFan said:
Is he tho? He is entering his prime dude was at a 2.0 points per game pace and just unamonously voted as "the best player in the NHL"..
Coming off a deep playoff run McDavid said this game is a "statment" basically he wants to show Oilers fans last season wasn't a fluke and he is about to take it out on Canucks with maximum power.. look out.
This is the same guy who called everyone ignorant for thinking any team charges more than $9 for a beer.
I feel much better. Connor get's 0pts and is -3 tonight.
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2 hours ago, Bounce000 said:
This is almost the equivalent of giving Rathbone that kind of money.
Come on, that's a slightly ridiculous comparison.
SpoilerRathbone's scored a goal
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The arguing over defence numbering is both funny and reductive. Chemistry, deployment, team balance, and handiness all play a pretty big role.
There are some overly pesimistic assesments but the defence is a weakness, QH is great but his game will suffer if he has to play 25min+ 82 times. It's marginally better at the bottom end but that's not really enough, I think it's clear they need a quality RD (#1-4 is fine). Hopefully I'm wrong or we can just outscore our problems because the D is what it is for now.
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3 minutes ago, Goal:thecup said:
Dickie was getting paid in Pounds Sterling was he? jk
All the LTIR, waivers, starting roster, etc, is to be resolved today isn't it?
PA & His Large Band are deserving of some serious credit on this trade: got cap room, did a cap dump, got rid of non-performing player, moved a forward for a D, got a player with grit who can also back it up, all for a 2nd round pick almost 2 years from now, in an extremely difficult trade market with most teams having almost zero cap space.
Oops, good point. The way things are headed that will turn into a pay cut.
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1 minute ago, stawns said:
Where is Aman going to play with milker, horvat, Petey and lazar down the middle?
I realised just after saying this that I briefly forgot Lazar existed. So yeah Aman probably will be mostly in Abby
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8 hours ago, Ghostsof1915 said:
That's whats wierd, but Cap Friendly has him on the roster.
They changed Cap Friendly so it shows the current team instead of the projected roster. Nucks have too many players so Plasek will be in a group of waiver exempt guys getting sent down. Presumably Plasek is injured and that's the reason it hasn't been done already.
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43 minutes ago, Drakrami said:
so.. Im just wondering.. Karlsson and Aman seems to be in the lineup. So did we just trade a 2nd away so we can free up roster spots to keep Karlsson and Aman? Both players doesnt stand out to me at all. But both are Swedish and Allvin is Swedish. Too much Swedish love?
No. We have 27 players on the roster atm. Karlsson and Aman are exempt from waivers, though I suspect Aman will be with the big club for some/all of the season. Dickinson was sent packing to rid us of the £1.5m of his salary that couldn't be buried (plus it saves the owners £6m over two years, which was probably a factor too).
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17 minutes ago, -Vintage Canuck- said:
By my count, 7 out of 64 players (11%) placed on waivers are ex-Canuck players.
What's the average number of teams they've played on though? Assuming it's 3ish that's not much over the % you'd expect. At least I think it is, I'm not gonna do the actual maths.
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44 minutes ago, JM_ said:cap friendly is showing us with 60k in cap space this morning, so I'm assuming all of Ferlands LTIR is still available to us? or maybe we paper down Hogs, Kuzmenko and Hoglander to make room for 1 day? not sure how the mechanics all work.
Sending Hogs to Abby twice feels like cap circumvention.
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34 minutes ago, mll said:
OEL, Hughes, Schenn, Poolman, Rathbone, Burroughs, Wolanin + now Stillman gives 8 healthy Ds in camp. At some point Dermott and Myers are going to return. Only Rathbone is waiver free.
You're right ofc. Cap friendly has Wolanin and Rathbone as non-roster but they're not yet. My point was mainly that without Stillman we'd probably have one more league min contract so the saving would be more than $300,000.
(though I suppose the inverse could be said for Dickinson)
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29 minutes ago, GB5 said:
According to CapFriendly he Canucks could save around 1.1 million per year in cap if they waived Dickinson. The difference or savins in cap space from this trade is 1.3 million.
Stillman better be solid roster player to be worth giving a second up to get if the difference in cap savings from waiving the player vs the trade is $200,000 per year.
- 2022-23: $750,000 + $375,000 = $1,125,000
- 2023-24: $775,000 + $375,000 = $1,150,000
But without Stillman we'd only have 5 healthy D on the roster, someone from Abby would need to be recalled so the saving is still over $1m. Does seem a little steep but I'm hoping he works out, besides it's only 64th OA so that's practically a 3rd.
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12 hours ago, Eddie said:
This does really suck for the fans who only pay their SN sub to watch Canucks hockey. Yeah its only preseason but all us mad keen hockey fans love watching these games, even if they are sometimes frustrating bad, there are so many stories and points of interest in them still.
I wouldn't mind the streams if the quality wasn't appauling. I can't even see the puck in the res the last 2 came out at looked about 420p or something horrific. Didn't mind the commentary team but the audio quality was terrible and all over the place.
would be great if they could stream to YouTube or another platform with a widely adopted smart TV app too so we all didn't have to spend yet more time huddle in front of a bloody laptop etc.
These might all seem like lofty demands but its 2023, an age where a child can stream in 4K from a smart phone in a 3rd world country in the middle of a hurricane ffs.
It is!?
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25 minutes ago, EddieVedder said:
Poolman stinks. Rathbone isnt going to make this team over myers and dermott
I'm assuming that's the current D given injuries to Myers and Dermott. For all his flaws I don't think anyone has Myers as #9 on the depth chart.
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On 10/4/2022 at 10:49 PM, aGENT said:
They don't have to "put him on LTIR" as you stated after the season starts. He'd already be on LTIR.
Hague....
I'm a bit confused. What do you think is the difference between putting a player on LTIR and getting a player who is on LTIR? Is it just a semantics issue or is it a cap benefit?
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Everything @mll has said about the cap and LTIR is right and they've said it better than I could so I'm not going to rehash it too much. People claiming Ferland's contract (or LTIR in general) has value seem to be using a slightly confusing definition of 'value'. A healthy $3.5m player who isn't wanted and isn't going to play is worth less than $3.5m LTIR, but both have negative value. In the same way Van would have had to add lots to shift LE 3 years ago, if he had an 'accident' the cost to shift would drop but he wouldn't suddenly become an asset.
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6 hours ago, Phil_314 said:
Honestly it looks kinda dicey if Dermott's out and Rathbone's not ready (not confident in what we have in Poolman and Dekeyser).
If we could say swap Ferland back to Carolina to get Ethan Bear, and someone else inexpensive for PO Joseph (former 1st round pick), I'd like to see if we could have someone else be a poor man's top-4 in a pinch (in our situation I think we could do worse than collect D-men and see who sticks in what role).You do know it was Ferland who got hit in the head and not Don Waddell?
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20 minutes ago, grumpyone said:
funny....I've seen an awful lot of ex-canucks 4th liners/8thD-men on waivers in the last 4 days.
maybe they weren't good enuf after all
Or maybe there's just a fine line between fringe NHLer and the waiver wire. I'm tempted to go through every player who's been on waivers so far and what teams they've played for, because I suspect Canucks won't be top of the list.
Though I'm not that bored, yet.
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On 9/2/2022 at 1:03 AM, Sharpshooter said:
Prediction - He is released from the team.
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7 minutes ago, JM_ said:
sure but who goes with him? even if someone wants Ferland we then need to shed a roster player to be cap complaint don't we?
Why would we need to shed a player? As it is Ferland's contract is on the cap but our cap is increased by that amount, though it's possible I'm missing something.
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1 minute ago, aGENT said:
It does to a team already planning on operating in LTIR.
I get there are some clever workarounds but I think it's a stretch to say it has value. No one is going to pay to take the contract, it just might not cost quite so much to get rid of it
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26 minutes ago, AngryElf said:
Why would this make sense? Doesn't he have real value on LTIR?
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8 minutes ago, wai_lai416 said:
i watched some highlights.. it seems hughes drifts back to the left side quite a few times in the offensive zone and it was especially noticeable on the 1st goal that he setup. we have both OEL and Hughes on the left side of the ice with no defenseman on the right. i think that's going to be an issue in the long run that'll get exposed.. you can't blame hughes it's his natural instinct to play and drift over to the left.
I would've thought it's the complete opposite, it's an issue in the short term and it's just a question of how long it takes Hughes to adjust. If we're partly blaming it for at least one goal in the first game he's played I'd say it's already been exposed.
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21 hours ago, BureBurrito said:
This guy is slow as molasses - rather the Canucks pick up another Dman (Subban for 1 year to play with Hughes)
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5 hours ago, iceman64 said:
After seeing some of JR and Al's interviews, they don't seem concerned about signing Bo after signing JT for a hefty raise.
Are you thinking what I'm thinking?
Bridge deal until the salary cap rises as projected in 2 years?
I think it could be their thinking or trading off cap space ala Garland etc worst case scenario
Ok so if it were a bridge deal what would give him?
Same as JT?
And back
loaded starting after a year into it to take advantage of a higher cap in 2 yrs?
I can see that but do you risk it and really have your hands tied if the cap doesn't go up and your options are severely limited?
Because then there's Podz and Kuzmenko to sign next year. Well Kuz is still a question mark sort of but Podz will need a big raise for sure.
Still chuckling with his shot breaking the arena glass lately...
I think the league is about to get a wake up call that Podz has entered the building!
Anywayyyyy back to Bo, thoughts?
Still holding out that Klim makes it next season and makes things easier on a ELC..
I might be misunderstanding, but are you saying sign him to a long term contract but with low values at the beginning to 'bridge' the time until the cap goes up? If so, no that won't work. Cap hits are based on AAV of a contract, not what the player actually recieves that year.
If that's not what you mean and you just want to sign him to a short contract at a low value, as others have said, why would Bo do that?
[Rumor] Canucks interested in Jacob Chychrun as a TDL acquisition
in Trades, Rumours, Signings
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In fairness I'm assuming the people keeping this 8 month old thread alive are talking about acquiring Chychun now, not at the TDL. I can't see it happening though, the ask would be far too high.