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Are you suggesting if the Canucks went full tear down, Petey and Hughes would somehow leave the team for zero return?

$5.2million QO due next season to retain him too.

I'm not opposed to that optimistic point of view. My prediction was we'd be a playoff team this year. I'd hope Hronek is a penalty killer as a top 4 defenseman.

That's the problem when you have such a limited prospect pool and lack of draft capital. Every high pick has to be a home run and every prospect has a massive magnifying glass on them the moment they join the organization. I don't really see a way out of that besides drafting as early as possible and often as possible for at least a couple of drafts in a row. Maybe I'm not creative enough.

If we got a d man as good as Hronek in the draft I'd be significantly more stoked because we'd get 3 years of an ELC and then likely a bridge deal like Hronek is on now. We pay the additional 2nd and the relatively much higher cap hit in the immediate for the guarantee. I'd say that'd be a really smart move for a playoff bound team. Not sure I get it when it's the 27th place team doing it. This season hasn't exactly been a 'one off'.

Vancouver fans deserve a competitive team again Vs Our singular focus and goal is to compete for the stanley cup and until I think we are ready for that I will not make any buy now moves One could argue the Vancouver message is the same thing just more vaguely stated. I prefer the state it directly approach, myself.

That's the first I've seen someone say top 10 in the league potential. What makes you say that? I'd love for that to happen. He has the same number of 5on5 goals as OEL right now, so I'm seeing more of a #3/4 guy, powerplay specialist. But I'd love to be wrong and see him rise into that upper echelon.

Explanation from Stevie Y on the moves they made

There is very little cost control here. Hronek not going to accept his QO unless he takes a big step back next year, which is the opposite of what we want. It's nice we don't lose his rights as a UFA but that's about it.

Flurry of small moves closer to the deadline. Will be shocked if anything major happens.

Anyone who approaches life like this, is alright by me.

I hadn't thought about it that way. Bruce said a lot of good things about JT but yeah, you could be right.

Problem is how do we add Pettersson at 4mil or whatever his contract is while we just added 4mil in Hronek and we still have OEL on the books? I guess we trade draft picks to get rid of some players?

Don't blame me, I voted for Kang

Damn you. Damn you all to hell.

Hey hey I know, I sawr it too

If we somehow add another top 4 RHD who is defensive minded and bring back Schenn, move Bear... IDK, we could be good next year.

It's just trendy to hate on Miller because of his contract and the fact that they chose him over Bo.

Has anyone tried the marshmallow experiment with Aquilini?

Well duh. We all are.

ITS A ONE HOUR THING OFF WHO WILL THING WHO WONT THING WHO WILL THING THE BEST celebrities, do they know stuff? What do they know? Let's find out!

I haven't paid attention to him at all this year. Hope for his sake he's been wisely investing his $$ because seems like he messed his whole long term value up last off season!

Do you think Hughes is going to want to be on a losing team at any point ever? No NHL player should ever want their team to rebuild or even retool by acquiring draft picks.

Was just thinking it's super weird Klingberg hasn't been traded.

You need to lay out an 182-point, 5 year turnaround plan or else you couldn't possibly be able to say anything about anything.