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  1. Hughes cant even play passable defense on his own side.
  2. How exactly can we afford that? 5 guys making 5-8 million. And not one true #1 guy among them. 4 of them 30+.
  3. No way in hell we give up 9th for him. He is significantly overrated and we would be trading 1 year of cap hell (even with retention) for how ever many he has left.
  4. Hopefully not with the Canucks unless it is Eriksson, Roussel, Beagle, Ferland, and the rights to Edler going back the other way with them retaining 3-4 mil on his albatross contract every year.
  5. A veteran backup for half or less of the cap hit would have been adequate though. Every year several adequate goalies are available for cheap. Its over-insuring against a minimal to moderate at best risk.
  6. You do realize that Holtby himself was regressing pretty badly when signed, right? Demko could have flamed out for sure. But looking at it now what was the risk that it would have made our season that much worse if he had some growing pains? The team was pretty bad anyway. A rebuilding team that is letting their starting goalie walk away as a UFA should not then go out and try to sign another starting goalie. Just let the young guy see what he can do and then make adjustments if necessary. Goalies are some of the cheapest players to acquire.
  7. So did Teemu Selanne. But they werent 21/22 at the time coming off their already low elc contracts having made next to nothing yet.
  8. We need the 25 y/o version of Hamonic. Short term deal for Hamonic imo. Locking him up longer at big money means no chance to upgrade the top pairing going forward. Schmidt not being saddled in a total shutdown role with Edler would help.
  9. Never gonna happen. What if one of them gets a career ending injury? What if their play takes a step back? What if Benning uses all his new cap space signing guys longer than 1 year and leaves himself short to re-sign them next summer? No agent in the world or the nhlpa would support that move. There used to be actialreasonable second contracts in the nhl. Those days are gone. Thanks Dubas.
  10. It was Benning's loyalty to Eriksson that brought him to Vancouver. He overrated the guy his entire career. Benning was apparently one of the key guys driving the narrative that Eriksson for Seguin was a good idea. Eriksson ultimately did fool Benning though. 6x6 says hi.
  11. Montreal and Islanders is my hope. Tampa and Vegas would be good hockey. But its like watching two people you want to beat up instead beating up each other. Satisfyingly Unsatisfying.
  12. Loyalty is important. But hockey is a business too. And as such sometimes you have to do whats in the best interests of the team, not just the player. The argument you are making would probably make more sense if Tanev was not let go without even talking to him about staying. Hamonic has been here exactly 1 year. They owe him no loyalty to overpay him based on that. Edler has been rewarded multiple times including his last contract where he was paid more than market value and had a nmc so he could not be traded. Plus he still was given a big role despite his declining play.I think the Canucks have been exceedingly loyal to him and dont owe him a twilight years contract.
  13. I think it was on the tsn story on the habs winning. Guy got infected by the Vegas douche disease when he went there.
  14. Same. Except I would rather see Toronto beat Vegas if they played lol. Although the cap shenanigans by Tampa make me unable to cheer for them if they get to the Finals. I would even root for Vegas, as sick as that will make me.
  15. Man I just saw Stone answer a question if losing at the last minute did some emotional damage. I think based on how pissed he was,the question itself caused him emotional damage. Is it just me or do all Vegas players and their coach come across as arrogant, self entitled douches?
  16. If Edler comes back he will not likely be a 6/7 guy. Last year, where the team was bottom of the league, he was relied on as a go to guy when he clearly had lost a step while Juolevi sat. One of Juolevi or Rathbone will sit to make room for Edler in the top 4. Same coaches (other than Shaw), must make the playoffs approach meand too much risk there will be the same view on who the go to guy of those 3 will be. Anything more than 1 year, 1 million or so with a clear understanding his minutes will be lowered significantly, I say let him walk.
  17. The thing is, without even talking to Tanev or Toffoli, as they both stated, no one can assume it would have taken what they got offered elsewhere to keep them. Both wanted to stay and given the covid thing, who knows if they would have taken less term and/or dollars if offered before they got competing offers? Losing them to better offers is not an issue to me. Losing them without even seeing what it might take to keep them is just negligence and a huge unforced error.
  18. Its actually a great idea for them. They lucked out but should be much improved this upcoming year. So next years draft picks arent likely to be in the lottery. And if they are, the Canucks wont win the lottery anyway lol. If I was Drury I would do it. Nothing at all to lose imo.
  19. I agree it would be almost a certainty the Canucks would match. But it could certainly mess up their cap situation a bit more. Dolan is an unstable owner. And Drury is not a part of the old boys club. I would rather not take a chance of them doing something stupid. The Rangers never seem to have too many problems offloading cap either. If they set their mind to it they could pull it off.
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