Everyone needs a hobby
But.. but.. B-Bruce there it is?
Funny, Rutherford knew we leaned on Demko hard last season, I even brought a link, says as much in the first fifteen seconds
He also acknowledged they need to do more during the summer, probably via trade, but still said our defense was good enough to win
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/rutherford-fixing-canucks-defence
The caveat to this is it's not something we can replicate
They had a guy who went on to be a Norris caliber D in Fox who didn't want to be anywhere but New York, they won the lottery twice (even if Laffy and Kakko haven't shown a ton yet), and they were able to reel in probably the highest end UFA forward in recent memory in Panarin
They'd also been able to rob Ottawa in a Zibanejed trade, get Trouba out of Winnipeg or Pionk and a 1st, and got hits on players they'd drafted in Miller, Chytil, and Shesterkin
New York sells itself, it'll always attract players, Vancouver is beautiful and all but I'm not going to pretend it's got the same pull
But yeah, I'd be down for management and ownership telling the fanbase we're going to rebuild
If Karlsson's moved it'll be at 50% imo, I have a hard time seeing teams who'd be interested being able to take on that full cap hit
San Jose are inevitably poised for a rebuild anyway, getting assets and freeing up even 50% of Karlsson's contract would be a win for them considering he'd be wasted as part of an aging core that isn't going anywhere