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Aquillini's PR team: "we know how to turn the public opinion. Look, he's one of you! He's also sooo upset!" Stfu

We'll have about 3-4mil of space with LTIR apparently. But yes, it would be a dream if we did absolutely nothing until late in the summer, and only do some bargain bin shopping. The credit card is maxxed out. It's time to line up at the dollar general. Shopping at whole foods is off the table.

It's pretty insane. The team is run as if they have been a perennial playoff team over the last decade and just needs that one or two extra players to get us to the cup finals. When in reality, if they had just leaned into being bad and been patient, we'd likely actually have assets and cap space right now, and actually have options to maneuver the current NHL landscape.

UFAs = bloated contracts. We might find another schenn like gem, but we don't need a ton of cap space for bargain hunting like that. Wasteful to give up premium assets to move point producers, to try to sign new UFAs. We don't have assets to make another Hronek trade, unless you're talking about trading more 1sts and 2nds over the next couple drafts. Constantly trading 1st and 2nds is a great example of how to wreck your franchise. See: Canucks now.

Vegas - Florida is gonna be a heck of a series.

Depends entirely on who is available at 11, and which contract(s) would be going back. If Benson or Sandin-Pellikka are available at 11 and they make this trade, I'd probably be pretty upset. If OEL is going to Chicago... maybe less upset. But would he even waive his NMC for that?

He's my least favorite player on the team but I'd still rather keep him than give up a pick to move his contract.

It's actually quite real.

Seems like it's because the owner will only hire managers who tell him "just a couple years to right the ship"

And then what, sign more UFAs to bloated contracts?

Holy f*ck spell amateur correctly if you are going to call someone one.

Saves about 4-5million on the cap I think

Try adding a few more 1sts and maybe they'll hang up politely instead of laughing you off the trade call.

It's simple math: trade high picks to get rid of big contracts so we can sign new players to big contracts. Step 3: profit.

Never mind all of that, we've got 20th place to achieve!

I have had a hard time watching bedard highlights all year because I knew we wouldn't get him. Chicago ...barf...

Ew, girls.

Not sure. I know next season will be a fresh start and I'll be cheering for canucks to win, unless they pull the same crap they've been pulling at the start of the season for a 3rd year in a row... then I'll be cheering for Tanklin Celebrini. But I do know I came about as close to not caring as I've ever been with the Canucks this season, and I'm having a lot of fun watching other teams in the playoffs... which is really sad to me.

only if they are really good tho

I'm with you on the logic behind it. But are the owners in on it? If not, wouldn't at least some of them pay for some secret investigation? A lot of money on the line... you'd think unless all 30 were in on it, something would have been exposed...

Pretty much. Yet another reason why the results make me wanna vomit.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/novacapsfans.com/2023/05/08/chicago-blackhawks-reportedly-sell-1-9-million-in-season-tickets-in-first-hour-after-winning-2023-nhl-draft-lottery/amp/ Big revenue generator already, that Bedard.

Should get a really good player that will be 2-3 years out from being an NHL player if developed correctly. Chicago though... *spits on the floor *

Utterly depressed Chicago won it. Any team but Chicago. I don't even care we stayed at 11 and it was a complete waste of a season. F****ing Chicago. Wtf. F****

That's why building teams need as many picks as they can get... and need to commit hard to player development. Looking at the playoff teams right now in the 2nd round Carolina has 10 players on their roster they drafted and developed, including key core members like Aho, Necas, Pence, Jarvis, and Kochetkov New Jersey has 13 players on their roster they drafted and developed, including core members like Hughes x2s, Hischier, Bratt, Severson, Marcer, and Bastian, among others Florida only has 4 players they drafted and developed, but those include Barkov, Ekblad, Verhaeghe, and Lundell, and they utilized two players they drafted - Weegar and Huberdeau - to acquire a unicorn player in Tkachuk Toronto has 8 players they drafted and developed and those are mainly their core; Matthews, Marner, Nylander, and Reilly. Knies looks pretty solid and Liljegren has potential, and they brought back Schenn. Dallas has 10 players they drafted and developed. Again, key core players like Oettinger, Robertson, Benning, Heiskanen, and Hintz, among others. They also used their drafted players like Eriksson, Morrow and Smith to acquire Seguin. Seattle only has one player they drafted, Beniers, so I'll call them the outlier with an obvious reason: expansion team. Vegas has 9 players they drafted and developed, and are another outlier...but, again, expansion team. And they used a player they drafted, Krebs, as a key part of the Eichel deal along with Tuck. Finally Edmonton, a whopping 15 players drafted and developed, including McDavid, Draisatl, Nugent Hopkins, Nurse, Skinner, and Yamamoto, among others. Not every draft pick is going to hit, but drafting and development is clearly the most likely way to build a consistent winner. Simply trading for players and signing free agents constantly seems significantly more difficult. It's like buying something used, maybe it's refurbished, maybe it'll work out amazing, but its a heck of a lot better to draft and develop an army of players, and then use those assets to acquire top tier players like Eichel when those situations arise. Canucks have 7 players drafted and developed on the roster. Out of this, Petey, Hughes, and Demko are out key players. Boeser is on the bubble and could get his game back next year. Podz is a maybe with a lot of potential. We need more of these guys, we need more draft picks. We need an army.