timberz21

Yes, but what about the tradition of handcuffing the next management team with a bad contract, that the Canucks seems so keen on perpetuating?

I like Soucy a lot, but he's a career 16 min TOI player. At that price tag, we'll be asking him to be a top 4 D, which he hasn't really been in his career. Wonder, how effective he'll be when we ask him to play 18-20 minutes a night. For me it has to be under 4M$, but as a UFA with a thin D market, i'm afraid it won't.

All feeling aside, we need a reliable, stable 3C, not 1 year bandaid. There is too much uncertainty with his health right now. I can see him signing a 1 year deal for cheap with a team like Tampa, Boston, Vegas, LA, etc. But to sign with a team like us, I'm assuming he'd want to get paid and get some term, and that contract won't be cheap and most likely will become an anchor. I can definitely see him signing in Winnipeg if no contenders shows any interest. Whether, they are blowing it up or not.

Too bad, wish he would've chosen Calgary, would've made one of our division rival weaker.

I hope that 1st rounder is top 10 protected

Cap goes up, but salaries go up too. OurPlayers coming off ELc and RFAs will cost more, not to mention UFAs So it’s all relative, but we’re still wasting 2M per year while most teams aren’t. .

I knew it wasn’t real, but I thought it would’ve been Elias Pettersson (dman) lol

Didn't know Pens fans were running hockey OPs in Pittsburgh. Honestly, if anyone was interested in Garland, pretty sure he would've left during last trade deadline. Clearly nobody wanted to make a run at him and I'm pretty sure it wasn't because the asking price was too high, considering cap hell Canucks are in, they would gladly let Garland walk for free if they could.

Every GMs says yes please!!! But there is a reason Uncle Gary likes a hard cap and max fixed terms and cap penalty buyout....it protects rich teams to spend unlimited money without any consequence, therefore protects Owners' pockets and league profitability. Parity is nice but, this is where I think richer teams needs to step up and voice their opinion. They are financing teams like Columbus, Arizona and Florida's but don't get an advantage of attracting good players due to salary cap/taxes/currency rates.

League minimum, why not.

I don’t think Horvat and Miller are good comparable for Peterson. They are great players but Peterson, although still early, looks destined to be among the Elites. In recent years signing like Doughty, Pietrangelo and Tavares comes to mind for comparable. All got pretty good contracts for 28-30 years old UFA. Tavares was younger than Petey would be only because he came into the league earlier.

Can't just look at the money. You have to look at time/term too. Yes the price will go up, but would've also been UFA at 29-30 years old. Meaning he would've probably needed to be sign to another huge (14-15M$ by then?) 6-8 years deal, bringing him to 35-37 range with most likely the last 5 years as a burden contract or lose him to another team. Right now, we secured 3 cheaper years and will cost more going forward, but we assure his services until he's 32-33, most likely still a very good NHL player on an expiring contract. Also will probably sign before the CAP explose in the coming years, so that contract should age well even if it's pricy for a couple of years. Who knows what the future hold, but $$$ is only one part of the equation, term is the other.

As far as I know, this is first major injury. His shoulder surgery was also schedule so he could start the season ready, otherwise if the Canadiens were in playoffs contention they said he would have finished the season.

Players he paid the big bucks to though.

I wonder if Kevin Weekes polaroid his forehead when they broke the trade to him back then?

Based on Bobby Mac's ranking which is based on NHL scout survey's says Barlow is one rank ahead. I guess there a lot of NHL scout who have no clue. Honestly, I haven't seen either play, so I won't pretend to know which one is better. However, there is a tendency when a player like Milan Lucic comes out of nowhere and suddenly becomes a dominant power forward or a Zdeno Chara becomes a top pair D, everyone is looking for the next one. Guys like Kassian, Crouse, Greenway, Sustr, Tryamkin, OIeksiak, Hayes are hyped up thinking they are the next one. I can see the same thing happening in the next few years after the immergence of Tage Thompson. Usually, lead to a lot of disappointment... If he's the best player, fine with me, but if we are banking that he's going to grow into his body to reach his potential, that's a stretch IMO. Sometimes that hides the fact that his big body is compensating for his lack of skills against smaller/underdeveloped juniors and when he starts playing against men, the lack of skills catches up. Not saying that the case for Wood, as I have said, I haven't seen him play. Just hope that's not the case with him.

Any chance they can bring Crosby too?

Let's just say if Arizona wins one before us, I'm done with the NHL.

Which one is going to Arizona? 1.12PPG regular season Matthews or 0.88PPG playoff Matthews? Not going to win a cup with the latter.

So the lesson here for Nurse is, instead of trying to fight someone in the last 5 minutes next time, just swing your stick with 2 hands near his head instead. Same results and you don't get the risk of being punched in the face.

Maybe once the small market Senators sells for close to 1B$, then FA might start to do the math. Hopefully, Ryan Reynolds' group lose on the Senators and he joins a group to buy the Canucks.

While you're not wrong about the quality of goalies back then, everything else was also different. Gretzky didn't have the composite sticks. Also ice/arena conditions are also much better these days. So it's all relative IMO, you can't compare eras. To me the biggest difference between now and then is the depth of teams/parity. Back then 4th liners weren't on the same planet as Gretzky, sending them against the 1st line was suicide. But now, you can have a 3rd/4th line that can stop a McDavid, Crosby, Matthews during a shift, game or even an entire playoff series. I don't know when NHL started tracking TOI, but I would assuming Gretzky was higher than Crosby's or McDavid.

What about salary retention? Basically, your paying a portion of a players salary to get rid of him. Phoenix is retaining 6M$ total on OEL over 6 years. With inflation and salary cap increase, I can see salary being retained for more than 15M$ in the future