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Ilya Mikheyev

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  1. I agree that the most visible failures were systematic + to do with the back end. I would be happy if they replaced Baumer. I doubt Larry Robinson would return at this point. But I think there are some interesting names out there. Karl Taylor is probably close to being in line for a head coach job, but maybe he'd wanna cut his NHL teeth as an assistant, and his AHL teams have been tight defensively. Craig Ramsay has been active for the last 5 years in Slovakia and was known as a solid systems guy in Tampa when they won the cup - also coached with Roger Neilson during the one decent Philly run of that era. Coached under Scotty Bowman as well. If the Canucks are looking for an exp. guy, could be him. Wonder how Brent Sutter is feeling these days after firing himself as the Red Deer head coach too.
  2. Anyone know the current contract statuses of Brown & Baumer? Kirk seems like a Newell Brown replacement considering he is an experienced PP associate coach. Like Brown, he's had a up and down years but I could see him being a change-for-the-sake of change hire. Of course he has lots of different experience and could play any role. As Don Taylor stated, Muller could just be a replacement for Manny Malhotra as he was not replaced.
  3. I'm guessing NYR is really high on Schneider right now so might be a hard sell - value-wise it's not terribly off, although the Rangers already have 3+ LD under contract for next year so Juolevi would be in a similar place as here. I'd definitely consider it if I were Benning
  4. Too high of a price IMO. I want the Canucks to land Clarke too - but there isn't enough separation in skill to trade the 9ao+ a 1st for him. Clarke isn't worth Willy Eklund + a 1st for example. Was shocked to see that the NHL.com writer is predicting that the Canucks will land Brandt 9th overall. I strongly doubt he's correct, but fingers crossed that he falls.
  5. I think after the latter half of Clarke's season (and the fact that he had a latter half...) puts him as a certain top-4. Hope he fall tho! I like Willy Eklund too tho
  6. Fair assessment true, but I wonder if they would've skipped Quinn for positional need if he was 6'2
  7. As cute as two Hughes would be, I agree with the above, Brandt Clarke fills a bigger need for the Canucks if they're moving up
  8. Quinny dropped cuz of his size. His brother really doesn't have that issue. I bet he goes top-6.
  9. Yeah sure, but they came 12th in the league in win percentage, didn't make the playoffs, and are losing potentially most of their top-6 - so it's good they have some cavalry coming in Plasek
  10. This is good news for Canuck's inaugural season with the farm in Abby. With both Lind and Gad potentially moving on thru ED or waivers, Baer leaving as FA, Anas & Stevens being folding back with St. Louis post-covid, Lockwood in competition for 13th forward spot on the Canucks - already with a team that didn't have a great year anyway.
  11. Why "no chance"? His camp has stated he wants to try for an NHL team. The Canucks have space in their top-9 for young players to compete for, his brother who he is very close with plays for the Canucks and the Canucks have longstanding ties to Swedish players at this point. Sure there's other teams in the running, but 0 chance sounds extreme no? As for the OP I don't think it would be in the realm of possibility to hand Emil a spot in the top-6, nevermind the top line. He's had one great season in Sweden and will have to earn his spot. I think he's definitely worth giving a 1 year contract too (similar deal as Tkachev to the Kings) and seeing if he can translate his success over here.
  12. I know most fans would hate this idea right now but one way a deal could be worked out is possibly including Jack Rathbone who is ED exempt, the bones of a trade could be something like: To WPG: Jack Rathbone, (high) 2nd 2021, Kole Lind To VAN: Copp/Appleton, Stanley, late pick 2022 Canucks can protect their new players and Winnipeg gets an exciting prospect + decent future with the 2nd. Stanley plays a type of game that no Canucks D really does right now, Hamonic being the closest, and a Stanley - Myers bottom pairing seems good to me. Kole Lind can't be protected by either team so he would likely be taken by Seattle and increases WPG chance of keeping Brossoit who they like Both Copp and Appleton play high energy hockey and with Pods coming in would really fill out the top-9 nicely. In general this trade makes the Canucks a more physical, puck hungry team. I think the Canucks could use Appleton more - being right-handed partly - and might be able to leverage him out with the price they'd be paying _____(FA?) - Petey - Boeser Hoggie - Miller - Appleton Pearson - Horvat - Podkolzin Motte - Beagle (if LTIR, maybe Sutter) - Highmore Roussel Hughes - Hamonic Edler/Juolevi - Schmidt Stanley - Myers Juolevi/Edler, Bowey FA candidate for another LW could include: Granlund, Emil Pettersson, Nick Foglino, Janmark, Hyman (dreams), Blake Coleman, Goodrow, Sheahan. Who knows, certain 9OA players might also be ready to make the jump such as Willy Eklund or Cole Sillinger
  13. I'd love to see him here if he'd consider Vancouver. Thinking he'd probably prefer a win-now mentality team as he enters his prime but who knows.
  14. Omg maybe RNH-to-Vancouver rumours will fill the void left by Sakic-to-Vancouver & Niedermayer-to-Vancouver rumours
  15. Hell ya . With Miller as a true C option the Canucks could have a pretty deep forward core: ______ - Petey - Boeser Hoglander - Miller - _______ Pearson - Horvat - Podkolzin Motte - Beagle - Highmore Inserting one more solid top-9 winger (signing Granlund, Palmieri, Armia?) into there would really would be ideal. Maybe give Emil Pettersson a PTO too?
  16. only way he holds value is if Caps retain 25%+ cap hit or take wasted cap space back I like Kuzie but 7.8 is ridiculous
  17. LET'S GOOOOOO edit: WHAT HIS CAP HIT IS 7.8??????????????????????????
  18. This is an interesting discussion for sure. I think you're right - it'll either be Appleton or Copp exposed amongst Fs- I think more likely it'll be Copp at this point, but with the right incentive you never know. They're probably also gonna be unable to protect Logan Stanley which might be more tempting for the Kraken I don't think Appleton has played a minute of center at the NHL level unless I am wrong? NHL.com tells me he's taken a total of 27 faceoffs in his full career so far. So it might be a stretch to count on him as a center I wouldn't sleep on his offensive output either. Scoring per 60 5-on-5 he would've been 5th on the Canucks this year, ahead of Horvat and Pearson for example Canucks seem to have space to protect one more forward. And at 900k next year, he's definitely a mile-ahead of Lind or Highmore at this point for 3rd line RW. The Jets don't really have space for to protect any D either, so the swap would have to be pick and prospect based. I'm sure the Canucks' high 2nd this year would get their attn, but a second piece would likely be needed.
  19. Dang, looking more and more like Brandt Clarke will be in the top-4. Gotta believe one of Luke Hughes or Dylan Guenther could fall to 9th.. right? right?
  20. I think Edmonton will likely re-sign him, but I do agree he would be a good fit here, a Stevens-Niedermayer type pairing with Hughes. I also don't think 4.5M is far off in terms of fair value, but a 5.25Mx5y wouldn't surprise me on the free agent market. Not a ton of a high quality RHD coming up (per usual) - Hamilton, Barrie, Vatanen & Larsson - and none are as good defensively or physically as Larsson is.
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