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[Signing] Canucks sign Akito Hirose
canucklehead44 replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Trades, Rumours, Signings
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[Signing] Canucks sign Akito Hirose
canucklehead44 replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Trades, Rumours, Signings
I keep forgetting the bonus is paid September 15 and not July 1 -
[Signing] Canucks sign Akito Hirose
canucklehead44 replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Trades, Rumours, Signings
One trade that could work is Myers for Nemeth. Nemeth is owed 3.5 in salary at a 2.5 cap hit, so trading Myers for him would save us 3.5M in cap plus being able to send him down (4.6M total) whereas it saves Arizona 2.5 million in salary. I don’t see Aqua wanting to spend that cash though -
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We just got to hope Benning gets hired haha. But yea it would suck to lose him for sure. You might be right - Gudbranson makes $4M per year despite being one of the worst players in the NHL because he is a big, tough, RHD. We better lock up Juulpod !
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I don’t see a team claiming him tbh. He hasn’t played an NHL game yet. If he was a first round pick maybe a team takes a flyer but right now he isn’t worth a waiver claim there will be better guys available
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[Signing] Canucks sign Cole McWard
canucklehead44 replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Trades, Rumours, Signings
Boone Jenner and Saad were the two guys I wanted - Musil was massively hyped at the time as a local kid and Vancouver Giant. Bourdon (rip), Jensen, Virtanen and Juolevi are the four picks I remember being the most irritated about. That said watching Jensen in the minors changed my opinion of him. He looked so good - speed, size, skill - it feels like we kind of gave up on him or didn’t have the right coaching/development/mentorship in place -
[Signing] Canucks sign Cole McWard
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I guess the difference is I’ve heard multiple times GMs have almost nothing to do with drafting outside of a top 10 pick - how can they? You can’t be a scout at GM. Brackett was our best scout (hired by Gillis and promoted by Benning) whereas guys like Delorme and Gradin have been around a long time. I am far more concerned with our drafting after Brackett left than Benning leaving - I honestly think that move is significantly more impactful. Not every move a GM will make will me successful. In fact, the Ballard trade at the time was far more popular than the Miller trade - some trades don’t work out and some do a lot of it is intention and timing. The Dermott trade is one I considered a good trade despite a bad result. Allvin in one season has completely restocked our farm with solid young talent. I would love to see Abbotsford be a competitive team made up mostly of Canucks property 25 and under and I think we are heading in that direction. The Manitoba Moose were a great source of talent for us - I hope we can get back to that -
I don’t think he will but who cares? He is three years younger than Brisebois who just played 2/3 of his NHL games this year. If Woo gets even 1 game next year I’ll happy - I’d give him three more seasons before writing him off completely although by the end of 3 seasons I would hope he has about 40 NHL games at least under his belt
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[Signing] Canucks sign Cole McWard
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Demko was the top ranked goaltender in the draft. The other two aren’t core but like I said - Rathbone and Hoglander would have likely been drafts regardless of which GM we had since Brackett and Gradin were already with the team. I honestly cannot understand how you love Benning so much. The team was awful, spent to the cap, we had one of the worst prospects groups in the league at the end of his tenure (he traded so many picks) and he handcuffed this management group with awful contracts. The OEL trade is likely going to be the worst trade in Canucks history - the Neely trade was bad because of how good it was for Boston but it isn’t like we got stuck with Pederson being our highest paid player for almost a decade in a cap era Hughes fell to us and Pettersson wasn’t his guy. Like I said he gets full credit for Miller but other than that mostly filled the team with bad contracts and failed to properly develop any young talent in Utica -
[Signing] Canucks sign Cole McWard
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You can’t say that. When you look at the position and the quality of picks there isn’t much difference. Drafting Kyle Beach or Henrik Samuelson or Tim Erixon wouldn’t have changed anything - they were bad drafts. Rackell would have been nice but we were all bummed that we didn’t draft David Musil. in 2014 we would have drafted Dylan Larkin instead of Jake Virtanen. I will give credit to Benning for conceding on EP but with the same scouting team we would have drafted EP if Gillis or Nonis or Allvin were the GMs - it probably doesn’t matter. At the end of the day Benning iced terrible teams, signed horrible players, got us in a bad cap situation and left the prospect pool completely empty. He gets credit for something he shouldn’t (heck our drafting wouldn’t have been any worse if @Alflives was the GM) and was one of the worst GMs in Canucks history. Every hockey publication consistently ranked him near the bottom of the rankings. I guess he should get some credit for not trading away Demko as well. Other than that he didn’t really sign or trade for or acquire picks that made an impact. Allvin has already done a lot more positive things in a short amount of time and the pieces he has added I think will bring us back to the playoffs next year -
[Signing] Canucks sign Cole McWard
canucklehead44 replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Trades, Rumours, Signings
Benning really only deserves credit for JT Miller, OEL, Myers, Garland, Pearson, and Poolman . We can thank Detroit for Hughes, Linden/Delorme/Gradin for EP (a lot of controversy with Benning wanting Glass), and Brackett for Demko (also the top ranked goalie available in the 2nd round you take him). Allvin has already made more positive moves in a year than Benning did over his tenure. Other than Miller I actually think the Kesler trade was his second best despite people saying it was terrible. -
[Report/Rumour] Ethan Bear Contract Talks
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Man our fan base is really undervaluing what Bear brought to the team this year. Hughes had by far the most success with Bear. And our third best pairing? OEL-Bear (OEL dreadful with every other partner). He has been very good this season and is a guy that fits well with our two highest paid dmen. I think we have to bring him back, he is not as easily replaceable as people are making it seem -
[Signing] Canucks sign Akito Hirose
canucklehead44 replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Trades, Rumours, Signings
Unpopular opinion but an OEL buyout is very expensive, and we are much better off having him play at least as well as he did last season. Digging into the analytics the best D pairs this year were Hughs-Bear, Hughes-Myers, OEL-Bear The worst if I remember correctly was OEL-Schenn, with OEL-Myers also being very bad. One hypothesis is there is a significant importance in speed and puck-moving ability above all else. I believe that OEL-Hronek will have a revitalization next season. That leaves Myers. Hirose fits the same bill, could he also be effective with Myers? Wolanin and Juulsen have proven to be solid depth pieces plus Johansson, McWard, Brisebois, Rathbone are other guys who can step in. Now if we can move Myers we should do it but not worth giving up additional value to do so. I’d run with Hughes-Bear, OEL-Hronek, Hirose-Myers and we will be shocked with how much better our D looks bringing in Hronek and Hirose -
Bang on. People were really hung up on the early results this year on Bo Vs JT despite how they played the previous 3 years - especially the year before when JT put up 99 points to Horvat’s 52. Bo is a fine player, solid guy, but he doesn’t make his line mates better, struggles defensively, and isn’t particularly physical. He is a solid 60 point 1B centre but he was shooting 24% and there was no way that was sustainable. At 27 he is already mid-prime so I saw it as a hot streak. Bo at 6.5M is fine but not not an 8.5M player. This is one of the best trades in Canucks history. I was iffy on the Hronek deal at first but the more I learned the more I realized just how good Hronek is and the impact he should have in our blue line (especially when you look at the impact of Hughes/Bear have in their partners). So Hronek could have a much larger impact than Bo - plus Beau filling in on the top line and Raty being a very good prospect this is highway robbery
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I didn’t start it but you are right. So how about that Josh Bloom kid? Point per game in the playoffs so far
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It is truly astonishing. Benning gets way too much credit for draft picks - when in fact he overrode Larkin for Virtanen, selected Juolevi, was pushing for Cody Glass and then had Hughes fall into his lap. I was heartbroken when we got the 7th pick because I wanted Hughes and did not expect him to be available. Our development system was horrendous during Benning’s reign. It was bad during Gillis too which is why he lead the charge to buy an AHL team (issues after we lost the Moose and got stuck with the Wolves). Gillis gets so much flack for the Ballard trade when in fact at the time it was actually an excellent move - it just didn’t work out. Benning’s moves were often horrible at the time and aged even worse. Gillis was planning for a rebuild - and that is a big reason why he got fired. I wasn’t a fan of the Hronek deal when it happened, but this is essentially the third time we moved a 1st and 2nd for a defenseman. OEL and Gudbranson were both statistical nightmares (and defendants crapped on the analytics folks) whereas Hronek is actually very good and a pretty rare player - someone actually worth giving up a lot for. I feel optimistic about this upcoming season and don’t dread July 1st like I used to.
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Raty is 3 years younger and a more natural, two way centre. Karlsson seems to be a bit more offensively minded - I could see him moving to wing as well.
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So you give Gillis no credit for his success but then give Benning credit for making the playoffs with Gillis' team? The only year one of Benning's teams made the playoffs (the covid bubble season we were on track to miss). Benning didn't put his stamp on his team really till 2016 - trading a pick and McCann (we had DeBrincat ranked 13 - that pick was 36 and DeBrincat went 38) so essentially two 40 goal scorers for Gudbranson, then paying him 4 million per year to be statistically one of the worst players in the NHL. He made at the time a reasonable save moving him for Pearson but now Pearson is basically a buyout candidate as well. The facts speak for themselves. No point in arguing with a troll. Benning was consistently ranked as one of the bottom three GMs in the NHL. He was seen as a complete joke to other fanbases yet somehow despite trading away more picks than he acquired, icing a horrible team, spending to the cap, getting us stuck in bad contracts. We are going to continue to pay for Benning's stupidty for many more years because he thought acquiring one of the worst contracts in the NHL was a good idea, then paid a top 10 pick and a 2nd during a rebuild to dump his terrible free agent signings who had one year left on their contract. That said I am glad Benning is gone and am VERY happy with Allvin so far.
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I remember at some point Allvin saying he expects Johannson to make the team next year
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[Signing] Canucks sign Akito Hirose
canucklehead44 replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Trades, Rumours, Signings
He already looks a lot more poised than Gudbranson did haha -
[Signing] Canucks sign Nikita Tolopilo
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Nilsson looks like Markstrom's evolution -
[Report] Canucks recall Jack Rathbone
canucklehead44 replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Canucks Talk
I actually think we did well in that deal. Bonino became one of the top checking line PK centres in the league and McCann is scoring at a 40 goal pace this year. Taking Sbisa over Theodore was a whiff but given how Kesler’s career went this still would have been highway robbery if we just kept Bonino and McCann -
Filip Hronek shut down for the year
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Things might have been different if we didn’t sign Hamhuis but either way Ballard was a heckuva lot better than Gudbranson -
[Signing] Canucks sign Nikita Tolopilo
canucklehead44 replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Trades, Rumours, Signings
To be honest I would rather have the three goalies battle for the backup spot. At least we know Silovs has shown well. I like the idea of swapping in and out Martin and Silovs so Silovs can still get 40-50 games in. Collin Delia is also 9-4-2 so he isn't really a problem. Halak went 4-7-2, Holtby 7-11-3, and Nilsson 10-22-5. Those goalies cost us an average of 3 million per season and weren't any better. Heck even after that insane meltdown Martin is still 14-15-4 as a Canuck. Keep in mind Demko is 11-13-4 on the year with an .894 save percentage as well as our starter. Demko was 33-22 the year Halak went 4-7. If we do go after a more capable backup id be ok with a guy making 1.3 or less in case we do have to bury him in the minors.