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Bure Nominate, cough, Ryan Kesler
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https://www.eliteprospects.com/player/71958/marc-michaelis
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I agree with this. It does conflict with spending futures on Toffoli, doesn't it? If not Toffoli, Tanev or Markstrom. I do agree also with Tre Mac here. Barring some expunging of cap elsewhere. I dont believe we can sign all three. And that even to start we have to trade RFA Pearson to get two. Or Pearson & Stecher. And I suspect Benning understood that. We are well positioned long term. Short term we were never going to keep all the guys we would prefer to keep. He could not resist Toffolli. Hoping we could make a run.
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Isnt that x 1000? Canada wide 38 million people / 708 cases = 1 per every 53,000 people aprox. BC Wide 5.1 million people / 231 cases = 1 per 22,000 people aprox. Most likely due to Chinese populations being higher, more trips?
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Rafferty is my best guess as to last member...
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This effectively means Seattle gets to pick from Tanev, Markstrom, who I project we re-sign, Ferland, Motte, Stecher, MacEwen, and I believe on age Rafferty is available to be picked. We pay $6.8 x 5 to Markstrom in liu of any NMC. Tanev, injury prone, takes 4 x $5.65, also a good salary without any NMC. I had a hard time picking between Tanev & Tryamkin to protect. I suggest Seattle picks Markstrom. edit; $5.65 & $6.8 healthy salaries for 30 + aged athletes Tanev & Markstrom. A good balance of salary & that encourages them to sign with Vancouver this summer.
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Be great if someone could post some spoilers with the full list of all teams on this list???
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Miller Horvat Virtanen $5.25 + $5.5 + $3.9 Hoglander Pettersson Boeser $0.925 + $3.775 + $5.85 Ferland Gaudette Podkolzin $3.0 + $1.75 + $1.55 Motte Beagle MacEwen $1.4 + $3.0 + $0.975 Lind $0.892 = $37.767 Hughes Tanev $1.6 + $5.65 Edler Myer $6.0 + $6.0 Juolevi Rafferty $0.86 + $0.7 Tryamkin Stecher $3.2 + $2.5 = $26.51 Markstrom $6.8 Demko $1.05 = $7.85 _________ == $72.127 Eriksson $5.0 Buried cap hit Spooner $1.05 Remaining Buyout Luongo $3.03 Cap Recapture === $81.207 *Roussel IR (Picked him, there is ALWAYS someone on IR, who should not matter)? ** Louie E interchangeable with a rookie, say Hoglander, who starts in Utica, makes no diff to cap hit. Gone Toffolli UFA Islanders Gone Benn Trade 5th Dallas Gone Fantenburg UFA Calgary Gone Sutter & Baer combined for a 4th. Bit of a bath, but we get cap relief Columbus. Gone Pearson Trade for a 2knd Florida.
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My angel of the morning?
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FTR, I tend to agree some AHL time would probably help. But its not due to size, motor or physicality. He is 5'9'' & 190lbs according to elite prospects. That is similar to 225lbs at 6'3.'' Hoglander is absolutely capable of NHL match ups right now. He might be the best athlete on our team as soon as he arrives? The seasoning would be to bring out the 11 points in 7 WJC games upside for Hoglander. Not the 16 points in 41 SHL games on the 3rd line at 18/19. At the same age Pettersson destroyed that league. To play Nils on an AHL top line. Instead of with Beagle and Sutter even though he would be good at such a role... And the same could be said of Podkolzin? 8 points in 30 AHL games???
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If I had ''critique'' of the prospect pool? Having traded Madden. There seemed precious little in the pivot department. So it is very interesting that Podz also plays center? I saw him take draws at the WJC. But I do not remember this as his key deployment? I love the Podkolzin pick though. NHL strength & speed at 17? To me he looks like a Jake Virtanen who busts chops in puck battles & going to the net. A step slower, but twice the feist! And better puck skills at a comparable age. To me, this is the guy who has potential to be exactly what JT Miller is now. Maybe even meaner! As for the pivot? Well... Madden, at 160 lbs, was, maybe, not destined to be a center. Not a diatribe on his skills, but physique. Whether Podkolzin has a volume of experience at center? This is a player with exactly the young Ryan Kesler physique stereotypical of a NHL match up center. Or not unlike Miller, a winger who takes draws, then heads to the wall! This post has me intrigued. I have a parallel, but different view. It draws the same conclusion. And I can't wait to see him & Podkolzin pressuring the puck! Hoglander does have upside to be elite IMO. We can be swept off our feet by a few lacrosse style & other highlight goals! He does have wicked hand eye, dexterity with the puck. I might be under rating ''hockey skills or IQ?'' I don't see Pettersson, Sedin, or Giroux dangles, puck control, sauce passes. Jake, Elias or Brock Boeser level bar down sniping? Hopefully i am under rating our boy. It is certainly hard for a 17 or 18 year old to pull that off in the SHL, against 22 and 25 year old hardened pro athletes? Where he played. So maybe it was just hard, or not his place to pull that off. He stepped up his scoring back in his age bracket at the WJC. It could just be under the surface. What I see is a guy who might be the best athlete on the team, as soon as he arrives. Yes at 5'9.'' This is Jake Virtanen with wicked agility, compete level. Jake, BTW, does not have the same lateral movement, hands, endurance. Just raw speed. It's Quinn Hughes power beyond skating, including upper body. Core strength & balance in open ice & when being banged in corners. Ridiculous! He keeps his hands free, eyes on the puck, has dexterity to win battles. Explodes away like very few others. So what I am saying is Nils is still raw. With huge upside and a relatively low floor. But my theory includes that athletes of this level learn skills better than lesser athletes. A guy who can steal a puck off almost any defense man, Cannot catch up to him once he has the puck? Is a already a match up problem for every team.
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[Request] Charmin Bears with loads of TP
Canuck Surfer replied to Drive-By Body Pierce's topic in Creative and Media Forum
When I was a high school kid? In the 80's. Out of Winnipeg. Our school had a mountain trip expidition, Waterton national park at the Alberta / BC / US border. Last week school in June. Mountain climbing? As it does, they had a wild schnook. Massive snowstorm. Blew over our tents, left us stranded. Made the news. 8 people to a tent, it was a little adventure for a shy 16 year old? But to the point. Instead of 4 days, we were stuck for a week and a half. Supplies were dropped in for some food basics as we awaited either rescue. Or enough abatement to hike out. A black market ensued on anything else important. Various kinds of cigarettes became a premium. Toilet paper reached 50 cents a sheet! -
Describe the Current Vancouver Canucks in 1 word (Discussion)
Canuck Surfer replied to J.I.A.H.N's topic in Canucks Talk
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EKL Fantasy Keeper League 2019-20 season
Canuck Surfer replied to Primal Optimist's topic in Fantasy Hockey
Never made it to Pick Up Hockey PO? -
EKL Fantasy Keeper League 2019-20 season
Canuck Surfer replied to Primal Optimist's topic in Fantasy Hockey
Florida chokes RECALLS F David Backes Florida ASSIGNS F Tyler Benson (no waivers) @Primal Optimist with thanks (same deal, the buried salary makes it work) -
Will Kess ever play again?
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Kesler signed an offer sheet with Philly early on. He was a guy who used every negotiating tactic to his benefit. Once he left for Anaheim? Look at the crippling, ridiculous contract they are saddled with now. He did what Lou did before 2010/11. The team was getting to a point where they would be good. Then held the team over the bareel for an absolute over the top long term contract, So he would stay for that potential SCF year. I dont share the opinion he received the NTC because he was underpaid. Then that he demanded a trade, but used it only to be traded where he wanted? Repeating the theory. He's just good, very dogged at negotiating what he wants.