TheCammer Posted July 6, 2013 Share Posted July 6, 2013 Wait who did Blum sign with? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuck nit Posted July 6, 2013 Share Posted July 6, 2013 Quality D men like Garrison and Hamhuis for 4 million, 4-5 year contracts? And who says MG doesn't make smart moves in free agency? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khay Posted July 6, 2013 Share Posted July 6, 2013 I agree too. Good job on Gillis for not going crazy... Just apalled by how much Filpulla and Clarkson got.. People need to realize that this will probably help the Nucks in the long run as a bad contract can haunt you for a long time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuck luck Posted July 6, 2013 Share Posted July 6, 2013 i stated i'm glad he didn't get involved i however don't think the reason he didn't get involved was due to strategic thinking, as he's shown over and over to lack that ability. it was a pair of handcuffs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuck nit Posted July 6, 2013 Share Posted July 6, 2013 But, lets give the GM who turned the Canucks into a destination team and playoff contender over multiple years the benefit of the doubt... Our future's already better with the prospects and running the Comets....lots of other GM's for the Canucks had the opportunity to do this, but it happened during MG's reign. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuck luck Posted July 6, 2013 Share Posted July 6, 2013 Both are local guys that took a discount to come home and play in B.C..Both of these d men threw themselves at the Canucks. In fact,most of our high end talent took 'discounts' to play here. Which means that all these players expect Gillis and Gilman to provide them with complimentary players to help them win the cup. Now that there is zero money to go into players that will help the aging core Gillis/Gilman have limited options and better make the limited moves count. This team is treading water,at best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuck nit Posted July 6, 2013 Share Posted July 6, 2013 Come on,Vancouver and British Columbia are the reasons these guys are coming home,not Gillis. B.C. is the best place on earth and even Gillis or a Gillis pumper can't take credit for that. I would say Hank and Dan giving a huge discount to Gillis (when he had no idea of their worth),followed by Alex Burrows really taking a hosing by Gillis for his desire to win, created the strength of cap room with an NHL dominant first line for peanuts. Alex is now paid fairly and Gillis/Gilman have not kept the PP together by not recognising the d men that created it. Yannick Weber is not going to replace Salo and Ehrhoff has never been replaced. Gilllis inherited a great team that wanted to win together.That window closed two years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VanIsleNuckFan Posted July 6, 2013 Share Posted July 6, 2013 Gillis can't go out and get big contract guys because of how tight our team is cap-wise already, but he has to be able to replace the players he's letting go. So far, our team's offseason has gone as such: OUT: Raymond Lapierre Alberts Ballard Schneider IN: Horvat Richardson Webber It's all well and good to say that young players will play in more important roles next season, but quite frankly Ballard was a better defenceman than Webber, Raymond was much better than Richardson and Lapierre was better than Horvat, not to mention our mess of a goalie situation right now with Luongo still undecided, no true proven NHL-worthy backup and no set starter. Gillis still has a lot to do before the season starts. We have to fill some offence in our bottom 6 still, sign Tanev and fix up the goalie problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TOMapleLaughs Posted July 6, 2013 Share Posted July 6, 2013 Oh God, i hope Brad Richardson doesn't come here thinking that he needs to somehow light it up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VanIsleNuckFan Posted July 6, 2013 Share Posted July 6, 2013 Come on,Vancouver and British Columbia are the reasons these guys are coming home,not Gillis. B.C. is the best place on earth and even Gillis or a Gillis pumper can't take credit for that. I would say Hank and Dan giving a huge discount to Gillis (when he had no idea of their worth),followed by Alex Burrows really taking a hosing by Gillis for his desire to win, created the strength of cap room with an NHL dominant first line for peanuts. Alex is now paid fairly and Gillis/Gilman have not kept the PP together by not recognising the d men that created it. Yannick Weber is not going to replace Salo and Ehrhoff has never been replaced. Gilllis inherited a great team that wanted to win together.That window closed two years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TOMapleLaughs Posted July 6, 2013 Share Posted July 6, 2013 Gilllis inherited a great team that wanted to win together.That window closed two years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuck luck Posted July 6, 2013 Share Posted July 6, 2013 Tortorella and 'preferred destination' do not go together.Throw in the Coho saga and now the goalie fiasco that went on for 14 months and has still not been resolved. Gillis has not done that well with prospects.In fact,in his first four years he tended to give them away.Nine draft picks were parlayed off,including a first for Ballard and two first rounders in Grabner and CoHo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRussianRocket. Posted July 6, 2013 Author Share Posted July 6, 2013 Canucks sign Santorelli too...that just solidified our bottom 6. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuck luck Posted July 6, 2013 Share Posted July 6, 2013 Come on,Vancouver and British Columbia are the reasons these guys are coming home,not Gillis. B.C. is the best place on earth and even Gillis or a Gillis pumper can't take credit for that. I would say Hank and Dan giving a huge discount to Gillis (when he had no idea of their worth),followed by Alex Burrows really taking a hosing by Gillis for his desire to win, created the strength of cap room with an NHL dominant first line for peanuts. Alex is now paid fairly and Gillis/Gilman have not kept the PP together by not recognising the d men that created it. Yannick Weber is not going to replace Salo and Ehrhoff has never been replaced. Gilllis inherited a great team that wanted to win together.That window closed two years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canuck_Follower Posted July 6, 2013 Share Posted July 6, 2013 I liked how the province said that Gillis is showing financial restraint at the moment lol. How is not spending money that you don't have to spend showing financial restraint? In real life terms that's a true statement, but in terms of salary cap spending it's hardly the case. I think the craziest contract sof ar has to be Boyd Gordon at 3yr/9 mil. I hoped Gillis could nab him for the 4th line a 3yr/5.5 or something like that. Crazy stuff... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRussianRocket. Posted July 6, 2013 Author Share Posted July 6, 2013 I liked how the province said that Gillis is showing financial restraint at the moment lol. How is not spending money that you don't have to spend showing financial restraint? In real life terms that's a true statement, but in terms of salary cap spending it's hardly the case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canuck_Follower Posted July 6, 2013 Share Posted July 6, 2013 Canucks actually have $6 mill in cap space so that really isn't the case. Gillis could have easily signed one of those FA to big money but never. Good on him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuck luck Posted July 6, 2013 Share Posted July 6, 2013 It wasn't all that great. Some tools were there, but they certainly weren't playing well. Meanwhile, even if 'the window closed', what are we supposed to do? Stop cheering for the team? Assume they're doomed forever? Cry? What? Life goes on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asmodeus Posted July 6, 2013 Share Posted July 6, 2013 After the Luongo debacle...I doubt we'll ever see a "bold" move by GMMG again.....could be good, could be boring, but I think the Canucks will be more of a prospect development team in the long term. Moving forward, as the core group ages, we will probably see more attempts to trade for picks.....although the ridiculous number of NTC/NMC's are gonna be a problem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CanuckClown Posted July 6, 2013 Share Posted July 6, 2013 I don't really see it as 6 mil in cap space. We still have to sign Tanev, Mike will probably give Schroeder a raise and we still have a 4th line and 3rd line opening in the roster. So that 6 mil in cap space is pretty much 1 million or so... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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