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  1. That would surprise me. An undersized guy who can't skate very well. Having said that, we have no bodies left to field a team at the moment and he can play all 3 forward positions for less than a million dollars.... so who knows.
  2. Hughes can’t get an offer sheet due to his status. If they want to give us four 1st rounders for Petterson, go ahead. Those will be high 1st rounders to keep a cheap pipeline of talent coming, and we can also use that freed up cap money for one of the top UFAs available.
  3. Absolutely you can, I mentioned that. The other point was that if we think we really have those cap dollars available (no idea where they would come from)... then you can spend them a lot more wisely than giving term and good money to yet another veteran middle 6 winger.
  4. That would be genuinely stupid on Benning’s part if true. Not only will there be value pick ups in the offseason with a tight cap again... but there are opportunities to make trades where eating those same dollars for a similar player would actually get us extra assets. Like could we trade Jake for Palat and a 2nd to give Tampa almost $3 million in cap relief? Jake at $2.55 plus Pearson at $3.0 = $5.55 Palat = $5.3 We use one of our already existing spare wingers who is in the press box, or Lind for the other roster spot. There are probably dozens of similar deals where we can take money back in a trade and get a player equivalent or better than Pearson.
  5. Ya, there are always decent veteran wingers left without a job in August and signing cheap 1 year, $1 million deals. Pearson doesn’t really move the needle that much to warrant re-signing for anything other than low dollars. If we weren’t in such a bad position with our cap it might be worth spending a little on the stability... but he is a 3rd liner on a good team and we have enough guys in the organization to fill out those spots on the roster. I wish I could believe this is all a master plan to spend al our money so that Petterson and (especially) Hughes have to settle for whatever is left.... but nothing in our recent history would suggest that. It is more likely we are just getting ourselves into offer sheet panic territory giving their agents a ton of leverage in negotiations.
  6. He was symptomatic before anyone else but they didn’t test him as they assumed it was just the Roxy Flu like normal. .... see, we don’t have to stop joking about Virtanen.
  7. There are rumours Palmieri could fetch Bellows and a 1st. So why are we trying to hold onto Pearson and signing him to take up an expansion spot? Trade him and say you will circle back when he is a UFA.... and if you miss out, then just sign someone else who is squeezed out of a job by the cap.
  8. He didn't. That picture was from Halloween and posted 22 weeks ago. The recent video of Gunnar didn't have Horvat in it, and it had his wife's voice laughing... so wasn't taken by Bo.
  9. Another guy confirmed to be symptomatic. I think that is Gaudette, Sutter, and Horvat now... the rest unknown from what I have seen. https://www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/article/bo-horvats-experience-reminder-human-side-canucks-covid-19-crisis/
  10. Ya, not sure if there is something we don't know... but assuming $13-15 million to sign both Petterson and Hughes, and needing to sign another top 4 D still (Edler at a reduced rate maybe).... not sure where the money is coming from. We have about $18 million to sign 10-11 players at the moment, almost all of which will go to Petterson and Hughes. Some extra if Ferland stays on LTIR.
  11. Ya, it isn't coming out like close contacts and self isolating. They know right away who is a close contact so would be adding clusters each day if that was the case. The reporting from several sources has been saying positive cases and not just in the protocol... so I don't think anyone can definitively say that it is just a couple guys positive and the rest are just being "rested" as a way to cheat. That is just a silly suggestion considering we just came off a week of rest before all this and this will actually cause us to have a much more compressed and less well rested schedule. Incubation times are different and it takes around 10 days for most folks to get really sick to the point of being hospitalized (if they end up being that severe)... so really we have no idea for several more days now how things will pan out and when players will start coming off the protocol list.
  12. It doesn’t say that at all. It just says family members of two players confirmed publicly that they were symptomatic. The rest are unknown... so 2 of 2 we have confirmation on are symptomatic. We haven’t had any come out and say they are asymptomatic as far as I have heard.
  13. No... we weren’t going to make the playoffs “if not for Covid”. No need to start that alternative imagined reality. We had lost 3 games in a row pre-Covid and Montreal is 5-3-2 in their last 10. They aren’t losing games in hand, they have gotten points in 6 of their last 7 games... and are just on a 1 game losing streak. We weren’t catching them before all this happened, and we still aren’t catching them.
  14. Let’s hope it doesn’t get worse.... 10 days in is about when people get hospitalized. We are only in the very early days for most of them.
  15. Maybe he knows what he is doing more than a random person on the internet who has no context for the photo?
  16. People who frequent The Roxie and people who live in the slums of Calcutta share their same super immunity due to their constant exposure to deadly pathogens.
  17. They won’t be starting again until at least a week after the last case. The Thursday date was if it hadn’t spread. We are easily still 7-10 days away from another game, and that will be with AHL players, taxi squad, and the first few guys to recover. Guys will trickle back over the course of weeks.
  18. There is no evidence what you are saying is true. It isn’t some bullet proof tight organization. Every player, agent, spouse, trainer, etc will know the scoop on something like this. It always leaks out.
  19. It seems like everyone except Kuzma is saying different.... and even he isn’t clear. Guys not being able to get out of bed and being treated for dehydration kind of sounds severe to me. Unless he means hospitalized and in the ICU as “severe”. Most of the time even in the worst cases it takes a week or two to get that bad. It might be under 20 who have actually tested positive so far, and some just in the protocol.
  20. Now saying over 20 people Canucks' positive COVID cases increases to over 20 https://www.tsn.ca/1.1618012.1617560160
  21. Not sure that is his message at all. He seems to be saying that even in the best circumstances like the Canucks have, the P1 variant is “badass”. The NHL has strict protocols and the guys get tested every day by a self paid, private lab... and STILL they got hit. That is the point.... nothing about the Canucks doing anything wrong.
  22. It is definitely a worry. When you are talking to about athletes that are pushing the edges of human performance, even a slight lingering effect could be debilitating for their careers. A 5% reduction in lung capacity would mean nothing to most of us... to an elite athlete that is an entirely different story. I am not going to presuppose that it will happen to any of our guys... but is absolutely the potential.
  23. It is a little confusing with the reporting. The reports seem to suggest that many players tested positive... not just that they are in the NHL protocol. That is aside from the point about the season being over. I don’t see how they could do that for us without affecting the competitive fairness for the other teams competing. You are right that we are likely to play with a half AHL/taxi squad roster to begin with as guys get better and clear the protocols... which will probably be spread out over a couple weeks after we start playing again.
  24. He may be the left man left standing in Vancouver pretty soon. Hopefully he hadn’t actually contacted with the team before the outbreak.
  25. The blame lies with Luongo to me. He could have gone on LTIR with no issue... any doctor would sign off on it as his body was just worn out from a long career and breaking down from lots of injuries. He decided not to, just to save a few cap bucks for the Panthers even though it would cost us millions.
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