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  1. There would not be anything (on Canada's end) that prevents him from going while he has not been charged. Though, he would still have to return to Vancouver to make his court appearances in the civil case. A lot of countries would not give him a work visa right now though, but that's probably not an issue in Russia.
  2. How the heck do you have us accomplishing all that and still being worse than Edmonton?
  3. McDavid signed the biggest contract in the NHL and Draisaitl had one 70+ point season when he took his deal, it was seen as a big risk at the time. Nobody took a discount, they continued to improve is all.
  4. Not housing. Where is their AHL team? Depending on the cost or rent, 70k could be a lot
  5. Barrie makes sense in Edmonton to me, they don't have another powerplay QB. He was redundant in Toronto with Reilly
  6. If the team is at 85 million and acquires a player on LTIR with a 6 million cap hit: their cap hit goes up to 91 million (85+6), and then the LTIR relief brings them back down to 85. Nothing gained. Tampa traded players who were on their roster and not on LTIR for players on LTIR. Out: Braydon Coburn (1.7 mil), Cedric Paquette (1.65 mil) and a 2nd round pick. In: Neillson (LTIR) and Gaborik (LTIR). The savings were in losing Pacquette and Coburn, not in gaining the LTIR players. Tampa paid a 2nd round pick to gain a little bit of cap flexibility (less than $1 mil with those contracts burried).
  7. Okay. Lets say the Canucks move on from Ferland and are at 81 in cap hit to start the season. For comparison in the alternate scenario the Canucks have a total cap his of 84.5 using 3 of Ferland's 3.5 million $ contact in LTIR relief. The only difference between the two teams is Ferland, the team on the ice is the same. In senario 1, Vancouver has $500k of cap space. Not enough to add a player obviously, but still a useful amount. Cap is calculated daily, teams with cap space can 'bank' cap room they have each day for later in the season. This is why you see the term 'accumulated daily cap hit.' If a team can bank enough throughout the season they can pay performance bonuses in the current year rather than deferring them (giving more cap space the following year). And they can make large trade-deadline acquisitions: because a player's cap hit is prorated for the number of games. If you're above the upper limit with LTIR, the team has 0 cap space. No daily accrual, all bonuses are deffered, way less trade deadline room. So for the Canucks team above, the one with no Ferland could pay some performance bonuses this year OR add a ~1.5 million dollar player at the deadline. The team in LTIR could not do either of those things.
  8. Nurse is a really good defenceman, I think we're underrating him here a bit. I wouldn't be surprised if he's on team Canada in 2022 (provided the NHL goes to the Olympics). That said, 9.25 is still too rich. It's a better deal than what Chicago gave Jones, but I'd rather have Makar at 9 or Heiskanen at 8.8 than Jones at 9.25. He's worth 8 imo, covering for Tyson Barrie isn't easy hahah.
  9. I know it was brought up previously in this thread, but I keep forgetting Poolman was teammates with Boeser at UND when they won the national championship.
  10. I see what your saying, but EP didn't play with high-end scorers (Miller and Boeser) in his rookie year (at 5 on 5). He played with Eriksson and Goldobin. I'd say Boeser had the better line mates as a rookie, and Boeser got to be the right shot triggerman for the Sedins on the PP.
  11. Seattle does, and they're a 1st line centre away from being really competitive in the Pacific Division. (Not that I think they'd actually do it)
  12. Oh, I see. I misunderstood what was said. By 'retire' I thought the poster meant the player voluntarily terminates their contract and leaves the club (like we see in non-injury retirements).
  13. In short: No. LTIR can be (and is) used for career ending injuries. Nathan Hornton, David Clarkson, Marian Hossa, Brent Seabrook, Derrek Dorsett, Chris Pronger -just to name a few. NHL contracts are garunteed, players don't get (financially) punished for being injured.
  14. For sure, live however you want to. These distictions are not meaningful at all on the individual level.
  15. Call yourself whatever you want. To demogrophers and sociologist, you're a millenial.
  16. We could probably go down to a 20 man roster and be at less than 81.5 for home games, call up day of (if needed) with the AHL team so close. Would need to dip into LTIR to go to 23 for the road games though.
  17. the birth year range for millennials is (~1981 to ~1996) is the same number of years as Gen X (~1965 to ~1980) Give or take a year, there is about a 3 year window for the start and end years for generations
  18. Olympic hockey is awesome when the NHL goes. It's the only time you ever get to see what a team with no salary cap would look like (and playing like they actually care, not like All Star game). Canada's roster had a cap hit of about 150 million in Sochi, it was great.
  19. Fair enough, and yeah I wouldn't change cities over a 7 or 8% raise. 20%? now we're talking. I believe (assume, hope, etc) that management and Pettersson's agent are making progress. From everything I've heard from Imac or Dhaliwal there isn't a big road block or anything concerning; they're chipping their way towards an agreement. But I think it's naïve to believe that if another GM offered him 10.27m x 5 years he wouldn't sign.
  20. Petey is going to take whatever the best offer he receives is, and we shouldn't expect him to do anything less. If another company sent you an offer for the same job with a big raise, wouldn't you take it?
  21. 4.5 x 3. I really liked Wennberg for us as an offensive 3C, but definitely out of our price range.
  22. My baseless speculation: 500k for 35 games played, 500k for a .916 save %, and 500k for 4 playoff games played.
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