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What if they don't make it to FA? Parayko already makes 5.5mil in salary this year What benefit does a 37 year old RHD make for our team.

Oh damn meant to say ankle haha. Had half of his ankle removed. I don't recall the same occurring for OEL

Oleskiak signed with Seattle for 4.6 per

LOOOOL. Only ON CDC, if you're not trading Raymond, Ballard and a 1st for other team's prime young franchise cornerstones on cheap deals like a makar, fox, mackinnon, isles Tavares, then the trade is an automatic fail

Wtf. Karlsson tore his achilles. LOST HIS ABILITY TO WALK. How is this comparable.

Who are you signing with your cap space next year? Are you signing seth jones? People on this board like to pinpoint specific players that fit the mold for our team (aka all the available RHD in the NHL), BUT nhl players are humans and may have no desire at all to play for the canucks. Adam Larsson clearly didn't, Jones definitely doesn't want too, list goes on and on. You can't just start penciling in free agents because we have cap and we're a "nice city "

He plays great when he's on Sweden with actual NHL players and not muddling his career away in Arizona where there's no fans, and no passion for hockey. He's probably pumped to play with some fellow countrymen and play some meaningful hockey for the first time in his NHL career. You can crunch numbers as much as you want but hockey players and humans in general are emotional beings. He could've been burnt out in Arizona for sure. Look at James Harden situation in Houston at the beginning of the year

Yes yes yes!!!

8 years is a franchise cornerstone player level length of contract. You're essentially handing the keys of your franchise to these guys. Doing this for Hyman makes no sense to me haha. Role players like this shouldn't get more than 4 years in my opinion. I'd rather lose out on all these sorts of players, than overpay and have them sticking around and being complacent.

Best goalie in EAs NHL series

Yes, darn players using the rights and privileges they are entitled too.

What would you say if it was us winning the lottery every year? Would we be complaining then?

Well this draft really doesn't have a clear cut number one franchise altering player. I for one would be happy to not have to pay a RNH, Yakupov, Eric Johnson, ekblad, Reinhart, hischier, Patrick, galchenyuk sort of player "top prospect money". This reminds me of the hischier, Nolan Patrick draft, how are those duds doing nowadays? All top 3 picks aren't all equal in quality. This is a weak draft up top, it doesn't hurt. Now if there was a mcdavid, matthews, dahlin, mackinnon up there....yeah it would hurt. The next two drafts have high end prospects like that though.

I for one don't mind not winning thr lottery. Top picks generally tend to have massive second contracts and can take up a major portion of a team's cap space. At around our number, you can still find quality players and generally have more of a deep, balanced and more cap friendly team. I feel you can stay competitive longer due to thr fact that these players tend to need more time to marinate and take a bit longer to reach their peak, hence are cheaper for the earlier portions of their career. Our captain was picked 9th as well!

Toronto going for it. Since one Canadian team is guaranteed a spot in the semis, they may as well go for it. If their goalie gets hot for a few series, anything is possible.

You literally have way less fortunate people being affected by covid in a far greater manner than some rich hockey player. It is what it is, it's a business after all. If JB is going to start making emotional decisions, he should maybe step down.

Bottom six role? Our GM prefers signing aging "high character" veterans to NMC multi million dollar contracts who can barely lace them up anymore to fill out our bottom six

A slump at the beginning of the year always looks worse on paper than a mid-season slump

Stick in the rink is literally one of the most unimaginative, simple and boring logos out there. Sure its clean, but it literally has two elements to it. Its essentially a dumbed down version of the Habs logo with zero history. Thr Johnny canuck logo would literally be the only logo with a human in the entire NHL (and one of few in pro sports actually), and in today's political climate and makeup of Vancouver, how many people other than the few rapid supporters would want to wear a jersey with a bearded Caucasian man on it. This leaves us with our orca.

Literally none of our defenceman could do anything against the knights when it came to gaining the zone and creating offense. The best offense is defense. Barrie could ultimately help us out a lot, playing for his hometown team as opposed to the hated Leafs lolol

I know goalies tend to stay good later into their careers, and Markstrom has been improving every year, however; he's just not good enough in my eyes to justify a NMC and that term. Sure he stole us some games last year, but he's not a top 10 in my opinion. Maybe top 15, but not top 10

Oh man what a deal. So happy.

I don't get the people worried about losing Rathbone or Juolevi. OEL is like the end product of what you'd hope for any of those guys to be, if its possible, why not trade them straight up for the end product and call it a day.

Of course it is, but St Louis is also the crime capitol of the USA. AP has the means and the interest to pick his destination now to set up him and his children in a place for years to come. I think sometimes us Vancouverities are spoiled by where we live, but just because someone is born somewhere, it doesn't mean they want to spend the rest of their lives there.