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  1. Pretty sure I heard this was an Aqualini pick lol Who knows whats true and whats not these days...
  2. Totally agree Buying out Erikkson and Roussel at this point does nothing to help us thisyear (maybe a miniscule amount) but then we carry their cap hits next year. We've made our bed and slept in it the past 2 years. Might as well finish and do it for 1 more year rather than to deviate now and do something that sets us back next year.
  3. Lol we're suggesting to go after this guy for 5m+ when we didn't sign Toffoli for 4.25? That's after seeing him put up 10 pts in 10 games after the trade deadline and seeing he clearly is an impact player??? Compare Nugent Hopkins and Toffoli this year and I can only shake my head. If Benning wanted to go cost conservative, then continue that path. Don't all of a sudden spend more on a lesser player
  4. I like that Benning is so transparent. I'm hoping that players like working for a boss who is straight forward instead of playing mind games. I'm hoping that his honesty looks attractive to potential UFAs.
  5. Let's go Habs! A Maple Leaf loss in the first round coupled with an Oilers sweep would be the next best playoffs to Canucks making it lol It's probably all that a Canucks fan can ask for
  6. If we see Eriksson Or Roussel bought out, the ownership will be showing their true colors. They would rather save cash than field the best team possible. What is the dollar difference between paying out full salary VS buyout? ($savings to ownership) What is the cap benefit this year VS the additional cap hit next year? If we have to take another year of caphits the following year while our cap situation doesn't actually improve this year, ownership is buying / saving cash by selling next year's cap space.
  7. LOL easy bud. Clearly I didn't hear the interview or I wouldn't have asked @tasif Benning actually said that. If there was no context (which I didn't have) and your boss says there's plenty of other good employees in the workforce when talking about your contract renewal, that would be a ridiculous thing to say unless I was trying to drive him away. That being said, @tasprovided full context after so yeah what Benning said wasn't ridiculous.
  8. Thanks for the context. Yes it sounds like laying the ground work for potential disappointment. I feel like we need to invest in the best staff to give us an edge. As bad as Gillis was at drafting, he was innovative in other ways. He brought in Gilman the capologist before other teams did similar things. He did the sleep study with the wrist bands. He looked at the Canucks travel schedule in a more Scientific way. I love Benning's drafting but he's a meat and potatoes old school guy. I was floored when I looked at published coaches salary. From the salaries I saw, Green was 2nd lowest paid with some coaches earning almost 5x... I feel like Canucks need to waste less money on guys like Erikson, Roussel and spend more on front office and coaching staff. Maybe a 800k executive hire to do contract negotiations would actually result in less dollars spent on salary and give us more cap space while fielding a better team. Is Ian Clarke worth the money when Demko steals 5 games a season? How much is one win worth? I think its a no brainer to open the purse strings on such a pivitol position that could directly result in wins
  9. Did Benning actually say that? That is ridiculous if true...
  10. Good memory. Yes so that kind of shenanigans along with Luongo's ridiculous contract was Gillis giving the league the big eff you with a smug smile. The league (not being so bright) didn't know how to respond so they sat there and watched the Canucks run to the finals. I do wonder if there was some bias in the finals to stick it to the Canucks like the Rome 4 game suspension and some of the ridiculous calls we saw. After they finished ensuring the Canucks weren't going to win the cup they looked and retroactively changed the rules and penalized the Canucks. It's really unfortunate we didn't win in 2011 and capitalize while the league was befuddled and stewing....
  11. Even if the NHLPA signs it, it adversly affects the Canucks which is a different entity. Wouldn't the canucks have the right to fight it?
  12. So in Jake's case, would the Canucks have to wait until July 22 to waive him and buy him out by July 27th?
  13. LOL that's one way of looking at it. I dunno, can you be angry enough to forfeit millions of dollars? Also, would Luongo know there would be a cap recapture penalty if he retired? Was this put in place before or after Luongo announced his retirement? Edit I found out rule was put in place prior to Luongo announcing retirement So then the question is, why didn't the Canucks fight this in court? Is it because if Luongo was put on the stand under oath, he would tell the truth that they knowingly circumvented the cap? Would the spirit of why a Salary cap then be broken and the courts rule in NHL favor? Maybe it wasn't such a slam dunk case... Either way, Canucks tried to expose a loophole, NHL felt like the Canucks screwed them. Tehnically our 2011 Roster was way over the cap limit. (I think Salo missed more than half the season on LTIR and miracously recovered for the playoffs) NHL doesn't like being treated like idiots and Mike Gillis was too smart for his own good so they stuck it to him and the org
  14. LOL thats why I mentioned the Luongo cap hit. I still can't believe we didnt fight it and just laid there and took it. Any lawyer worth half his salt would have shredded that in court. The only explanation can be...maybe the league actually has evidence of cap circumvention like an email or conversation or a witness and thats why both sides are being pretty quiet about it. Maybe Luongo admitted to it and thats why he retired instead of going on LTIR. He left more than enough money on the board when he could have blamed any of his nagging injuries and went LTIR / Retired and gotten paid the full amount. The story doesnt just add up
  15. How does the buried contracts work? I understand buyout is either 1/3 or 2/3 of contract (depending on over/under 25) x double the length of remaining contract . Is there a formula for burying in the AHL?
  16. Hindsight is 20/20 but yes, we would most likely be in the playoffs if that was the case
  17. If we protect Gads, are they taking Lind, Motte or McEwan?
  18. Wow Thanks for the infomration. Canucks should just hire you lol I wonder if the Caucks should just expose JV to the expansion draft and see where the chips fall If he doesnt get picked, we see what he has for 21-22 season and if it sucks, we let him go. He might be mired in legal trouble anyway and not even be able to play
  19. Does Virtanen need to be waived before expansion draft because he is younger than 25? It's too bad we can't wait to see if Seattle picks him or Holtby before buying him out. What a turn of events. Last year I was thinking we'd have to protect Jake for the draft.
  20. Oh good. Ok so we'll see if he's taken by Seattle first and then if not taken, decide whether to buy him out or not?
  21. I think the divide was between people who thought Sedins still had gas left in the tank and those that saw the writing on the wall after the 2011 finals and then the subsequent 2012 and 2013 first round exit. I was pretty upset about the Erikkson signing. 2013 playoffs was a clear indication that a rebuild needed to happen. 2012, we weren't quite sure as we lost to the eventual Stanley Cup champs. 2013 we got swept by the SHarks. At this point, a rebuild needed to hapen. Best we could hope for was the Sedins staying relevant enough to be in support roles while we developed the new core. Best case scenario at that point was the Sedins still being able to win the cup but as 2nd or even 3rd liners. It's been reported that Torts was an ownership hire (not Gillis). THis was another attempt by ownership to avoid a rebuild and try to get into the playoffs again. That turned out to be a disaster. we missed the playoffs in 2014. Torts vocally said what most of us already knew. The group was "stale" THe following year, JB came on. I'm sure one of the interview questions was, how do you fix this quickly? JB had a plan. As a result, Canucks made the playoffs again in 2015. The key word thrown around at the time was "retool". It even had long time fans like me convinced that JB might be able to pull it off and that the retool might be a success. Despite a first round exit, there was some optimism that with a good "retool", Canucks may be able to stay competitive, challenge for playoffs and still get younger. 2016, Canucks missed the playoffs again. So this put ownership in a precarious situation. Theyve resisted rebuild, fired old GM, gone through 2 coaches (one of them (Torts) being an ownership hire and only lasting 1 year). WD was their 3rd coach in as many season and got them into playoffs in his first season along with JB. Was missing playoffs in 2016 an anomoly? I do wonder if JB was pressured to sign Erikkson and avoid a rebuild. Signing Loui to that contract however meant that Sedins would still be our top players and we're going for it again... I thought with the Sedins posession game, they would be decent 2nd or even 3rd liners but the game also shifted to a very fast game. Despite their tremendous conditioning, the game got too fast. I think of them more as marathon runners but the league became a sprint and the Sedins arent built to play that way. Throwing Erikkson into a sinking situation compounded the problems My thoughts on why JB is still here is that, both the Erikkson signing, taking another shot with the Sedins ,along with drafting JV , hiring of Torts were all owenrship calls. They have no one to blame but themselves. It does show how badly how much owenrship wants to win because all the moves that they have made meant spending to the cap all these seasons in utter futility.
  22. Compliance buy outs reminds me of the recession from 2008-2009. All these bad contracts are like those bad mortgages lol We need one of you smart guys to find out how to take these tranches of bad contracts, bundle them up nicely, put a bow on it, and sell it as a bond.
  23. So you can waive him for compliance buyout and still expose him while he is on waivers for expansion? If I was Seattle, why on earth would I pick him then? I would just wait until hes bought out and then sign him to a 2m offer while Canucks are paying him his buyout fees I could then take one of Motte, McEwan, Lind, Gadj or even Myers of any of those guys are unprotected
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