TmanVan

Fantili was born in 2004. Wood is 2005. https://thehockeywriters.com/matthew-wood-2023-nhl-draft-prospect-profile/

Hypothetical doing a thing: Canucks and Capitals re-visit a JT Miller trade after it was already heavily rumoured at the last draft. To Van: 8th overall Hendrix Lapierre or Connor McMichael Vincent Iorio To Wash: 11th overall Jt Miller Jack Rathbone Also random prediction: Matthew Wood will be this years Matt Boldy and we will be kicking ourselfs for not drafting him. He's 6'4", can play center, from Nanaimo. He also put up a PPG as the youngest player in all of college hockey. He's also the first 17/18 year old to put up a point per game in college hockey since Jonathan Toews. Honestly feel like were going to miss out.

Lockwood is going to be turning 25 this summer. He's also 170 pounds and has proven his body can't handle the bottom 6 style he's trying to play. Maybe you're right and he figures it out and turns into the next Tyler Motte..... But who cares!? I know people here love Tyler Motte, but the guys a glorified 4th liner and very replaceable. Even if Kravstov doesn't work out it's well worth the risk. Will Lockwood's are a dime a dozen.

Seems like he will fit right in with Pod and Kuz as far as being goofy and likeable.

As someone else mentioned, not a "true" hockey trade.

Im not saying this is a good idea for the Canucks, Im just bored right now... but I wonder which teams would hypothetically have the one for one RHD man we would want, and be in a playoff position for JT Miller? Maybe Ryan Pulock, Sean Durzi, Matt Dumba, Colton Parayko, Neal Pionk, Rasmus Ristolainen, Brandon Carlo, Nakita Zaitsev? You could make lots of arguments here, like whether any of these players are good enough to do a one for one for JT, or if the other teams even want JT.

I think any team that has multiple massive contracts on the books reaches a point where they become huge anchors. Think Chicago paying Kane and Toews, Tampa Bay paying like 5 different guys, Toronto with their forwards, Florida with Bob, Barkov, and Tkachuck, or Colorado in the future. That not to say that it isn't worth it. I'm not saying that Tampa Bay's players are anchors, or that MacKinnon will be an anchor, and these teams won the cup so it is what it is. Just saying at SOME point these teams will definitely run into trouble.

Theres 3 outcomes: 1. He leaves money and term on the table and takes the safe bet with whatt the Canucks are offering. 6-7 years, 7.5 -8.5 per. 2. He sees what Huberdeau got and says I want THAT and walks into free agency as one of the biggest fish available and actually gets it. 3. His bet on himself doesn't work out, his play comes back down to earth in the 60-70 point range, and now as a free agent teams are offering him less money and term than the canucks originally did. It will be interesting to see how it all plays out over the course of next year for sure.

To me that sounds like you can offer a 7 year contract but the AAV for offer sheets is determined by the LESSER of the number of years offered or 5 years. For example: if you offer a 4 year contract, they use 4 years to divide the total contract to find the AAV. If you offered a 6 or 7 year contract, the AAV for compensation would be based on 5 years. Meaning you could offer Dobson a 7 year contract at 8.4 million per, but the draft pick compensation would be based on (8.4x7) / 5 = 11.76 million. So I would say its smarter that any offer sheet made should be for 5 years basically.

I think one problem with the previous regime is they often targeted players that were way too similar. The thought process being: This guy kind of plays hard, and can kind of forecheck, and is kind of fast but not really, can maybe score some goals but not really, is kind of undersized. Sounds like our whole 4th line last year plus Dickinson, and Poolman on the back end in a way. Also reminds me of Granlund, Baerstchi and Juolevi. They paid some of these guys for the "maybes" and "kind ofs" and hoping they would develop their "overall ok at lots of stuff" game. The new regime has seemingly a different approach that targets more stand out attributes. Mikheyev = crazy speed. Dakota Joshua = Size and grit.

haha. A small but very important detail!

Something Something.... &^@# MESSIER, Raymond Ballard and a third, Omgzz we love Tyler Motte!!! 1 million pages JT Miller trade thread. Its all the same friend. I guess we're all pretty pathetic in a way

"Foundational piece"

Benning would have given him 2 mill per over 3 years

Canucks fans: They'll give us their best defenceman for our 30 year old rental, now hear me out with these 28 reasons I came up with why this is plausible and will happen!..... Reality: The Islanders just dump Bailey or Palmieri to the Coyotes and sign Kadri.