Jump to content
The Official Site of the Vancouver Canucks
Canucks Community

smithers joe

Members
  • Posts

    9,728
  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    3

Everything posted by smithers joe

  1. did anyone catch the latest locked on blackhawk's podcast?

    talking a lot about boeser darland and even beauvillier as players who could fit their team. talked about switching the 11th pick and their 19th round pick. interesting.

    1. Odd.

      Odd.

      If there’s a suitor for Boeser, Chicago makes the most sense. He’d be their #1 RW and have a chance to play with Bedard. 

  2. yes to kronek trade. JB wasn't able to upgrade defense. he sign OEL, myers and poolman. JR and PA have brought in hronek, bear, hirose, dermott and wolanin. now add a couple of physical, stay at home d men . if they can upgrade forwards with some faster, physical talent, this team is ready.
  3. sorry, i didn't see that you traded beauvillia too. that makes more sense.
  4. does mean garland has been traded and his salary space will be enough to pay for hoglander, barbashev, motte and bear and the 1.5 mil that we are over the cap for next year?
  5. if they trade myers after his bonus is paid, they save 1 mil, which might be enough to sign bear.
  6. if i'm allvin and i've read the reaction of the fans, i'm stumped. i'ld have to let kuzmenko, bear and fa's walk and still trim 2 mil more off my cap. i read people don't want buyouts; retaining on trades; not sweetening with more than with 3rd or 4th picks and only want players they deem expendable to be traded. sounds like fantasy island. the plane!
  7. choices; 1. buyouts 2. trades for futures 3. attach sweetners to trades 4. retain part of contracts 5. others? what would suit you best?
  8. if allvin gets a 2nd rounder, he could use that pick to move another bad contract, or using it to trade for a team need.
  9. there are some who believe the canucks will end up with pittsburgh's pick 14th. having 2 1sts would satisfy a lot of folks.
  10. what if we trade miller or boeser and bought out OEL?

    1. Show previous comments  8 more
    2. goalie13

      goalie13

      @smithers joe - The $6M cap hit goes with him.  It might be attractive to a team looking to stay close to the cap floor.  For $1M in cash, they get $6M in cap hit.

    3. smithers joe

      smithers joe

      i heard that chicago fans and media are mentioning both boeser and garland as possible pick  ups. might have been locked on blackhawks. myers might fit there too.

    4. Coconuts

      Coconuts

      Chicago's got a fair bit of work to do if they want to ice something that doesn't resemble a bottom feeder next season, hopefully we can get them to take some cap. 

  11. i once said, give me a team with 18 stan smyls on it and i'll win you a stanley cup. stan wasn't big but he played much bigger. i think that line worked because it had the right mix on it. gradin as a great playmaker and scorer and one punch fraser to handle the corner work and toughness. smyl wasn't much of a fighter but he never back down from anyone.
  12. i'm afraid that the only way out of cap hell for canucks, is to attach sweetners with some contracts to move them. not ideal but possible the only way. draft picks or prospects.  we should forget about winning every trade.

    1. Show previous comments  2 more
    2. NewbieCanuckFan

      NewbieCanuckFan

      OEL will require so much of a sweetner, it'll give that team diabetes.:ph34r:

    3. smithers joe

      smithers joe

      another answer would be, to not re-signing any of our FA's

      kuzmenko, kravtsov, bear, burroughs or dermott. that would put us 3 mil under the cap.

    4. mordekai

      mordekai

      man you guys have to stop listening to Drance type media. 
      this guy did a mockup of status quo of the existing team with signing of our RFA and came under the cap.
      https://www.capfriendly.com/armchair-gm/team/4171887

      Surely this won't be the team as Allvin will be able to move some pieces 

  13. and how much over the cap does that put us? imo they have to clear 10mil to be cap compliant next season and maybe sign a 3c and a stay at home d man. how many trades will it take to clear 10 mil? can it be done without buyouts?
  14. somehow i got all of rocky marciano's boxing matches come up on youtube. watched marciano's match with jersey joe walcott to become the only undeafted heavy weight champ of all time.

    1. Show previous comments  1 more
    2. smithers joe

      smithers joe

      funny how it seemed different seeing it now than when i saw it years ago.

      does anyone remember the gillette cavalcade of sports from back in the dark ages.

      i used to have a little record of sports events. lost that little begger.

    3. Jack Gordon

      Jack Gordon

      Yes, I remember Gillette Cavalcade of Sports back in the sixties. Was a Saturday afternoon sports variety show that competed with ABC's Wide World of Sports.

    4. Jack Gordon

      Jack Gordon

      The picture of t

       

      I have never watched the fight itself though. I should check it out on youtube.

  15. did anyone on here, go to gladstone high school? is it still i operation? i remember, in 1956, or 1957 we were the only school to beat john oliver in baseball. we only did it once though.

    1. Show previous comments  3 more
    2. Gurn

      Gurn

      one of my parents, but I can't remember which one.

      Norman Hutton or Valerie Reite

    3. Iron Man

      Iron Man

      I graduated from there in 2008. Pretty sure it's still around.

    4. smithers joe

      smithers joe

      my nephew was murdered across the street from the school, years later an old man on his deathbed admitted he killed him.

  16. i'm beginning to think, we take stenberg with pick 11.
  17. i agree, i wouldn't trade him. i asked that question to those who think ASP is too small for canucks.
  18. so, the caucks should trade hughes for a bigger, tougher d man?
  19. how are the balls weighted in the drat lottery? or is it done by how many balls are in the drum?

    1. Show previous comments  3 more
    2. hammertime
    3. Heretic
    4. smithers joe

      smithers joe

      well that answers most of my questions except how the odds of the 4 balls is in happening? is there a % on each 4 ball selection? right now it seems that each team has the same odds. canucks could pick 1st, 2nd, 11th, 12th or 13th.

  20. i am the worst horse picker. maybe i'll do better in the kentucky derby. are you watching it deb?

    1. smithers joe

      smithers joe

      i picked the two favourites. one came in 2nd and i think the other one is till is still looking for the finish line.

    2. Ghostsof1915

      Ghostsof1915

      I've given up on the Triple Crown. I'll just stick to Hastings Park.

  21. a weird thought. what if the west finals were between vegas and seattle? the 2 newest teams in the league.

    1. Show previous comments  7 more
    2. Gnarcore

      Gnarcore

      The league is a complete joke. Has been for quite awhile. I stopped watching in early January...I may come back next season or I may not. We'll see. I found I didn't miss it as much as I thought I would and by late February I didn't care too much at all. 

       

      This was the first year in 30 years I didn't watch almost every game. 

    3. Jack Gordon

      Jack Gordon

      I was thinking about this myself the other day.

       

      I wouldn't mind seeing it one bit. Bring it on.

    4. NewbieCanuckFan

      NewbieCanuckFan

      Actually it's not like the NHL doesn't have a history of this.  Go back as far as the 1967-68 season when the first big expansion happened during the 'original six days'.  They (NHL) put all the expansion teams in one division and the "original six teams" in the other division.  The Cup finals would be represented by one team from each division.  This *GUARANTEED* one of the expansion teams to be in the Cup Finals!

       

      Oh, if one doesn't need to dislike the Leafs anymore, the Canucks were supposed to be among the leading contenders to receive an expansion team in that first group but largely as a result of the Laffs veto'ing Vancouver's bid; we had to wait until a few years later.

  22. only heard and saw pettersson once during game against canada. was he invisible?

    1. Show previous comments  2 more
    2. hammertime

      hammertime

      Are you referring to Hugo? 

    3. smithers joe
    4. hammertime

      hammertime

      Orebro is eliminated from the shl playoffs the worlds hasn't started yet. To my knowledge EP2.0 did not play today? Were you watching the U18? Hugo Pettersson and Sweden played Canada today. He's also a D.  

  23. i think tocchet playing joshua with pettersson and kuzmenko and burroughs with hughes, spoke volumes as to the type of players this team needs to be successful. MR. T wants more grit and speed. MR. A can't get any of those type of players without moving some contracts off the team. catch 22.
×
×
  • Create New...