Harold Drunken

Good point.

Vegas and Seattle sure broke the mold. I remember when expansion teams used to be bad for a decade before even sniffing the playoffs!

If your a southern American city with multiple other larger sports franchises to compete with, Gary Bettman wants to be in you.

Honestly, if Beauvilier finishes the year the same way he's been playing I don't think we'd have to retain anything.....IMO he's a steal right now at $4.15m.

The Canucks employ a lot of people that are a lot better at math than me, they'll find a way. If they were confident in trading for Hronek they likely have already done the projections etc. and are fine with it. There will be some moves made this summer, that cap will go up a bit but it's obvious they need to move a winger or two, and doing something with one of OEL or Myers (god I hope it's both) will go a long way too. They'll be fine.

I wonder who Tampa will play in round 2

Without Demko this is a tie game at least lol Demmer is so important to this teams success.

Diguiseppe needs to stay on the 4th line man he's a fire cracker

Brisbois has been surprisingly dependable...Wolanin looks like he deserves a longer look too.

I'm all for tanking.....but I will NEVER hope for a loss against the leafs. F&#k the Leafs! Go Nucks.

This....what management is saying, and they seem to be doing are completely disconnected. Between the Horvat trade and now looked good, then we took on more $$ and traded picks....I just don't know what to even think anymore haha

20 years from now " Where did you play in the NHL Vlad?"

If you're French, the Canadiens want you.

Literally the entire fanbase has been screaming for one, including the beat writers and journalists for the team lol. You are literally in the fringe minority if you didn't want a proper rebuild. Re-tooling on the fly has been the exact opposite of entertaining for the last decade........if you haven't noticed?

Fair enough trade, really no issues with it. I really thought Lazar would add some much needed grit and work ethic to our bottom six by watching him in Boston but it really hasn't translated. He was pretty invisible out there most nights, when healthy.

Myers just doesn't have any mojo right now, I literally watched him pass the puck to a player who didn't have a stick last night.

I will say that's a very good point, just because Benning couldn't do it that doesn't mean a different group can't. Even though I was/am on the full rebuild train, I have more confidence a Rutherford led front office can do it than an Aquilini/Benning tandem. Time will tell if they are successful or not.

Yeah I don't actually know what the supposed package was so tough to say do it or don't do it too so that's a good point. The Penguins don't have a young center to offer anyway. Like you said, we could potentially turn the picks from a Miller trade into a young center if needed or use the cap room we gain by him leaving to target a center in the off season.

It's crazy to me that Edmonton is comfortable with that goalie situation headed into the playoffs. They may not really have a choice, but still....can't see them making a run unless they can score 5 a game in the playoffs.

Fair enough, I thought Dreger was touching on this as well but I might be mistaken. Dreger is pretty thorough.

Thing is, Miller is a better winger than centre anyway...and getting his cap hit off the books allows the team flexibility to go out and get a real centre in the off season or other that's not locked into a huge contract until he's 37.

That completely depends on the direction of the team. If they are tying to stay competitive and "re-tool" then yes. If they were rebuilding then it wouldn't really matter. Based on what they've said, yes they would need a centre in return.

There's some sources I'm reading this morning saying there was an offer from Pittsburgh for Miller which was a package of picks with no retained salary and they didn't accept it because they wanted a center in return. This is frustrating because getting JT's hit off the books would be a big win.....if they were ok with taking a step back which we know they aren't. My point is, they somehow want to shed cap and yet get more competitive and better as they do so.....that sure seems like unrealistic expectations to me but what do I know.

lol take it easy Chief