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  1. Boeser + 3rd (2023 TO) to LA for Peterson + Turcotte + 2nd (2023) + 7th (2024) Saves us around $1.6M-$2M in cap year one - second year we buy out Peterson and he costs us $1M in cap year one and $2M year two. Turcotte is a young player with a tonne of upside. Peterson at least gives us another option/depth in net for one year. We get to draft in the 2nd round and a nice little scratch & win for later. LA gets to save face here. Acquiring a prime 60ish point player for two major blemishes.
  2. How did Arizona convince Benning to give them a top 10 pick plus a high 2nd rounder for a guy that would likely cost us 3 or 4 first round picks to trade only two years later? Benning was such an awful GM. We knew this would happen at the time too.
  3. Without retention Myers will cost us an asset to drop (swap the picks). one good grade would be Myers for Nemeth. Nemeth id owed 3.5 million in salary at a 2.5 milllion cap hit. we can sent him down to the minors, which would cost us $1.2M in cap space, taking a total of $4.8M off the books
  4. The incentive to sign here is huge. We can guarantee him NHL games ($$$) plus it shortens his free agency period by one year. Making a team out of training camp is hard. He is a former 7th round pick with a good college career but it’s not like he is a hobey baker winner. Probably less than a 15% chance or making a new team out of camp. Signing in Vancouver is a no brainer
  5. Winger? Check Russian? Check Under 25? Check Rutherford must be salivating. Joking aside he had 96 points in 63 OHL games his last year of junior and in the ECHL 69 points in 48 games. First stint in the AHL 12 points in 13 games but overall only 21 in 47. Might have a bit of upside... obviously way too good for the ECHL. Would be a good pickup on an AHL contract.
  6. To be honest he would be a nice add for the bottom pairing. Tryamkin and Myers would be hilarious.
  7. 7 games remaining and SOO out of a playoff spot - will get a good chunk of pro games in with Abby
  8. I don’t think OEL needs to be carried but he can’t carry his partner like he did his first year here. If OEL can play a solid #3 role, 30-40 points and defensively sound we won’t get full value out of him but I’d be happy with 4-5 million in value at this stage
  9. I don’t see Arizona getting close to the cap. Nemeth is a $2.5M cap hit and $3.5M salary. Myers is only a $1M salary so we save $3.5M in cap and Arizona saves $2.5M in cash. Myers also returns a mid-late round draft pick at the deadline @50% retained most likely whereas Nemeth is a waiver guy. Other players who we could maybe move Myers for: Driedger - $3.5M cap hit Zack Kassian $3.2M cap hit Mike Reilly - $3M cap hit Nikita Zaitsev - $4.5M cap hit Marco Scandella - $3.275M cap hit Cal Peterson - $5M cap hit Alec Martinez - $5.25M cap hit Radek Faska - $3.25M cap hit
  10. He is a solid #4. Not a guy we should go crazy signing long term but worth bringing back. OEL is the wild card. Hughes I am comfortable with #1, Hronek #2 and Bear #4. Can OEL be a solid #3? Only sold on Schenn as a #7 tops and Dermott’s injuries have soured me on him - I thought he was the ideal bottom pairing guy before. Still might be worth bringing back since he can play both sides. Severson would be a better option than Bear if we can move Myers. Wolanin is great - he might beat out Dermott if we re-sign him. I also was thinking a Myers for Nemeth swap might make sense for both teams - he plays both sides as well but doesn’t beat out Wolanin IMO. Rathbone should also be in the mix. Hughes Severson OEL Hronek Wolanin/Dermott/Rathbone Bear Schenn AHL Johansson Brisebois Juulsen Burroughs
  11. I don’t necessarily agree. I think a two way guy might actually be the best fit. Quinn is heavy offence - he needs a guy who can keep up, handle the puck, and be able to help him drive the play. That said, a pure offensive guy isn’t great either since it will expose them defensively and also take away opportunities. Statistically Bear had been very good Quinn and while a Tanev or Marino (DFD that is mobile) would be best, there aren’t too many of them. Severson might be good. Trade for Parayko? I think Bear does a good job without us having to take another contract that will suck
  12. 18 minutes per game. 14 points 43 games. Best partner for Hughes since Tanev. Do we re-sign him? Absolutely. Do his ice time and point performance scream massive raise? Not really. 1 year @2.8 or 3 years @ 2.5 million per Don’t forget this guy didn’t even make the Hurricane and they essentially gave him to us for free (the 5th rounder was for the cap retention). He will want to stay in Van
  13. And it’s not like we have been wrong all along or can’t see what success teams have done. The results speak for themselves CDC polls would have done a far better job than Jim Benning at managing this team and the new management is almost as bad
  14. Wild he got the same return as Motte and almost as much as Schenn. He was a fine signing for $1M, great to get return for a free asset
  15. 30 minutes before the trade I wrote about how happy I was with new management and then had to take it back it has reached the point where it is almost embarrassing being a Canucks fan after the Hronek deal
  16. When we moved out our bad contracts it was like making a deal with the Devil and the price was OEL and cap hell for the rest of this decade
  17. Lekkerimaki + 2nd for Stanley? Might as well since we love overpaying for defenseman.
  18. At the draft I have a hard time seeing him costing this much TBH. If we traded a 2nd I would have been happy. If it was a 1st + 3rd for Hronek and 2nd I would have been OK. This is waaaay too much to give in a deep draft for this player with only one year left on his contract. I would have given up this for Carlo given the years left on his contract and how he is a better fit in terms of player type. Hronek looks like a pure OFD prone to mistakes who can play well with a rock solid partner. Hughes - Bear OEL - Hronek Dermot - Myers/Schenn This is still not a good defense, not even close. We had the opportunity to be patient. Like how we got Bear for a 5th or Ehrhoff for a 4th. Making a knee jerk trade like this given where we are is terrible. If the Canucks were the hottest team in 2023, and 10-1 post Horvat trade and right at the cusp of the wild card it would have made some sense. But given that this season is a throwaway I cannot make sense at all of paying such a premium.
  19. People seem to forget that we didn't just trade Dickie for pointless cap space. Bear was available for a 5th round pick - this was essentially a 3-way deal. We needed to trade Dickinson to make the Bear trade so it looks more like this: To Carolina 5th round pick (VAN) To Vancouver Bear ($400K retained) Stillman Pederson To Chicago 2nd round pick (VAN) I think Bear would have been worth a 2nd at this deadline if we were looking to trade him.
  20. That is not at all what I am hearing out of Detroit. Turnover machine, played well early in the year but has been horrid as of late. They are celebrating and blown away by the return - few Wings dans seem disappointed. if we traded Hughes for a mid 1st and 2nd our fan base would not be happy at all Unless we are a contender next season or he is injured most of the year and we don’t pay a penny over his QO and he comes back strong there is little chance we come out ahead or even on this deal
  21. Please explain how it isn’t given where we are in the standings and Hronek having only 1 year on his contract left with a $5M QO?
  22. Ballard, Gudbranson, OEL. Sunk cost fallacy. No matter how bad he is we will pay him big money in the next offseason. Given he is in his prime now, we are a bottom feeding team, and there are a tonne of red flags with the player I can’t see this not ending terribly. Same feeling I had when we made those other three trades Not really seeing much if anything to refute that this isn’t an absolutely horrific trade
  23. Ballard, Gudbranson, OEL. Why can’t this team learn that you shouldn’t trade high picks/prospects for iffy 2nd pairing dmen who make a lot
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