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[Rumour] Bo Horvat Trade/Contract Talks
wai_lai416 replied to HOFsedins's topic in Trades, Rumours, Signings
His stat was heavily inflated the first year with Tavares on the PP he hasn’t even come close to the 27 ppp in his first year.. and he haven’t came close to his 1st year production ever since Tavares is gone and he is the top line center playing against other teams top defenseman. I think he’s better than .7 he’s more of a 65-70 point guy. Or if you get a real 1c ahead of him then he can prolly reach the 80+ playing inferior matchups. -
[Rumour] Bo Horvat Trade/Contract Talks
wai_lai416 replied to HOFsedins's topic in Trades, Rumours, Signings
Lmao Dubois is signing with Montreal.. he and his agent already “leak out” his prefer destination is Montreal to tank any value he has. Yet you still wanna talk about acquiring this headache and signing him to a long term contract. He has selfish written all over his face. Me first team second guy lol. -
[Signing] Islanders re-sign Mathew Barzal
wai_lai416 replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Trades, Rumours, Signings
how is barzal the perfect comparison? other than the first year inflated stats with tavares he have less points and less ppg than Pettersson every single season other than the season EP missed half the shortened season. even with the poor 1st half of last season he still finished comfortably aheard of barzal while playing with a rotating cast of wingers. EP is not a 11m player right now based on the current cap.. but he can very well be a 11m player if the cap jumps up to 88.5mil when he's due for a contract. as 11m would be equivalent to 9.5mil now at the current 82.5 cap EP agent will 100% let ep contract expires and wait for NHL to announce next season's cap before beginning negotiation.. he ain't going to negotiate a contract based on the 83.5mil cap.. he'll wait until the cap jump up to 87-88mil before beginning talk. -
it's still risky to shed 2.75mil waiving player running the minimum 12 forward 6 defense 2 goalie.. you would literally have to waive dowling poolman/dermott and assign hoglander and then bring them back up after we assign the players on LTIR. hoglander is probably a good bet to get assigned and then called back up right away. dermott will probably get claimed on waiver so you'll probably have to waive poolman. while poolman probably won't get claimed it's still a risk as bad as he is to run with no depth on defence.
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so who's paying their contract for the retirement? the NHL? Lehner and Weber ain't coming back for the playoff it doesn't even matter.. the only time LTIR matters is during the season when a player is injured and they magically delay their return till playoff. the loophole have been there forever.. and tampa is the only team that have abused it to the extreme.
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so wats the difference between vegas have LTIR vs player should be automatically retired? if the LTIR players are automatically retired.. they are still under the cap vs having to put them on LTIR to get under the cap. it's not like those LTIR players on vegas is coming back for the playoff where they'll have an extra 15mil worth of players.
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lol so none of the top 3 centers are playing.. the only 2 good capable defenceman ain't playing.. both starting goalie and backup ain't playing.. vs pretty much edmonton's A lineup.. will we see a double digit blowout? who the hell do we even have playing center.. dickinson lazar dowling aman/dries? canucks doesn't seem to value preseason building chemistry at all.
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We need to make a trade pretty soon to address our defense
wai_lai416 replied to Odd.'s topic in Canucks Talk
Toronto have superior top 9 compared to Vancouver last season that can mask a lot of their defensive issue. When their forwards able to control and play with the puck mostly in the offensive zone they won’t need to rely on their defence as much in the regular season. They are also insanely good in the faceoff 55% as a team and every center is well over 50% in the draw minus kerfoot. Who didn’t take many anyways. They ain’t as reliant as the canucks are on their goalie to bail them out coz the other team don’t have the puck as much. Their top 6 forwards takeaway compared to Vancouver is also pretty insane.. Matthew alone is 90+ takeaway closest we have is 56.. bottom line Toronto forward can mask their defensive problem. Vancouver forward can not do the same hence is much more reliant on the goalie. Toronto makes life easy for their goalie. We create chaos for ours. -
We need to make a trade pretty soon to address our defense
wai_lai416 replied to Odd.'s topic in Canucks Talk
i don't mind miller at his price.. and probably horvat.. what we don't need is a 4.75mil in mikheyev. he's an overpaid luxury item. sure he's an upgrade for our PK.. but 4.75mil for pk? offensively he produced similar to pearson.. and will eat up a top 9 spot from say a hoglander. we dont need 4.75mil++ wingers playing on a 3rd line role. between boeser garland and mikheyev one of them will be on a 3rd line. -
3-2-1 against Chicago Philadelphia Seattle Detroit buffalo every team that competed for the 1st overall pick is nothing to be proud of.. losing to Detroit and blown out by buffalo. We played poorly in most of the games and every game we started off no showed for the 1st 10mins or the entire 1st period
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when your team missed the playoff 7 out of 8 years i dont think you have excuse for not giving a rats ass about preseason.. especially when we have came out of the gate flat the last 3 season. if it's ok for vets to not give a rats ass about the game until the last 1 or 2 game of the preseaon.. then what the point of even playing them?? they might as well just do practice and drill. why is it other teams vet put efforts into the game but it's ok for our vets to put in 0 efforts? what does it show the younger players? dont have to give a f about preseason? thats why we start slow every season coz people here think it's acceptable to have efforts like that in the preseason. again no one said you need to go 100% and win every game in preseason.. but does it even look like they gave close to 50%? most the guys were like 10-20% effort last night at best.
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Preseason game is not about winning or losing. But the effort level is what’s concerning. Vets not giving a rats ass about the game. They look unorganized the defense looks chaos. There haven’t been much improvement from game 1 now to game 4. Sure the other teams dressed a better lineup.. but we did the same for 2 of those game and still ended up losing to an ahl team and the way we lost wasn’t pretty. Last night our nhl level lines were outplayed by Seattle most shift. You can’t tell me it’s only preseason and we will switch the on switch when season starts. Losing game is not an issue the effort level is.. and it’s pathetic to say the least
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lol nothing is going to get clear thru the court.. this is family court.. not criminal or civil court.. they are just deciding whether or not he needs to pay child support.. not whether or not he abused the kid.. unless the nhl wants to investigate nothing will be cleared. if this affects the player on the ice.. then they are not professionals.. might as well say all the canadians should boycott team canada while they are at it.