cdubuya Posted June 29, 2014 Share Posted June 29, 2014 He'll go to Detroit if they have room Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roland Posted June 29, 2014 Share Posted June 29, 2014 Sign him!! Now that Gillis is gone, maybe he'll reconsider. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrChill Posted June 29, 2014 Share Posted June 29, 2014 He wants to win, not sure he sign with us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shazzam Posted June 29, 2014 Share Posted June 29, 2014 2 year deal. Trade him at the deadline in the 2nd year for some assets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canuck Surfer Posted June 29, 2014 Share Posted June 29, 2014 Be better if we added a RHD! In fact, we probably would still need a RHD if we added Erhhof... Curious case this buyout? They've already paid all the big money. Should have just reaped a lower salary for a few years? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Vintage Canuck- Posted June 29, 2014 Share Posted June 29, 2014 Adrian Dater @adater I'm hearing the Wings-Ehrhoff have mutual interest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plum Posted June 29, 2014 Share Posted June 29, 2014 Adrian Dater @adater I'm hearing the Wings-Ehrhoff have mutual interest Makes alot of sense. They need a PMD and a PP QB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canuck Surfer Posted June 29, 2014 Share Posted June 29, 2014 Let's be real here. The contracts offered were not comparable at all. There is taking less to stay somewhere and then there is getting bent over by a GM who did not want to risk offending Kevin Bieksa by paying Ehrhoff a shorter deal at more money which time has sown he was absolutely worth to the Canucks. And the opportunity to be a top pairing go to guy in Buffalo as opposed to being considered one of the top 4 here is not a better scenario individually for a player. Who says he is blaming himself for anything or is upset with his decision anyway? You don't know that. And he would have tied Garrison for the team lead last season at 33 points, so how exactly has he fallen off a cliff while guys like Bieksa, etc. have accomplished so much since he left? We need to all get over the Mike Gillis fallacy that all players should all accept less than what they are worth to be Canucks out of only a sense of loyalty. That is not reality. Players have the right to do what they feel is best for them as UFA's and that is what Ehrhoff did. And to be fair, what exactly have the Canucks accomplished since Ehrhoff left that makes us believe it is in any better situation than Buffalo is? They have not been Stanley Cup competitive at all. So why are we so arrogant to think that everyone should want to play here based on an epic collapse in the Stanley Cup finals and the subsequent slide to worse than mediocrity? Yes Vancouver is a great city, but no one knows the intimate details of why Ehrhoff actually left. Maybe it was only for money. Maybe there were other factors involved though. Maybe he did not like his contract negotiations as UFA being limited by what Kevin Bieksa was getting offered because as we have seen Ehrhoff likely contributed much more to the Sedins and Edler being better players in his time here. He certainly contributed far more to what has now become a woeful PP. So his right to be a UFA should be ignored because we think it is a bad decision for him to move on? That is a ridiculous argument and typical CDC thought process. The Canucks players have declined significantly since he left and have not had any more success than Ehrhoff has both individually and as a team. So in hindsight it sort of looks like going to Buffalo may have not been the best place to find hockey success for Ehrhoff but Vancouver likely wouldn't have been either. Unless he was a bigger part of the previous success than people think he was. Then him leaving hurt the Canucks more than it hurt him. The bottom line was simple; $40 million dollars! And $10 mill in the first year alone. Thats $22 or $24 million more than was on offer here. You can get hung up on a "low" cap hit. It was $40 fracking MILLION dollars. All up, even buying out 7 years, he's going to collect roughly $33 mill to have played there just 3 seasons. It had nothing to do with Bieksa, ego's, locker room dysfunction as has popped up in various places in this thread. And good for Gillis for not paying it. By that time, he already knew the just as stupid Luongo deal, was going to hang up the team for years. Not doing another for Ehrhoff was one of his good decisions. The buy out now is pudding for the proof... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aliboy Posted June 29, 2014 Share Posted June 29, 2014 The bottom line was simple; $40 million dollars! And $10 mill in the first year alone. Thats $22 or $24 million more than was on offer here. You can get hung up on a "low" cap hit. It was $40 fracking MILLION dollars. All up, even buying out 7 years, he's going to collect roughly $33 mill to have played there just 3 seasons. It had nothing to do with Bieksa, ego's, locker room dysfunction as has popped up in various places in this thread. And good for Gillis for not paying it. By that time, he already knew the just as stupid Luongo deal, was going to hang up the team for years. Not doing another for Ehrhoff was one of his good decisions. The buy out now is pudding for the proof... There was no mention of a $40M contract at the time he was negotiating with Gillis, that came after. If Gillis had put the right offer on the table he wouldn't have left and the big contract would never have happened. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jougo Posted June 30, 2014 Share Posted June 30, 2014 Please please please!! Maybe my favourite Canuck of 2011!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blömqvist Posted June 30, 2014 Share Posted June 30, 2014 Sign him!!! 3yrs x 4.5M Hamhuis - Tanev Sbisa - Bieksa Edler - Ehrhoff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Boudreau Posted June 30, 2014 Share Posted June 30, 2014 3 year deal at 4.75. Would be Canucks pp qb and top offensive dman Can play with Edler on his off side and push him with healthy competition again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chalky Posted June 30, 2014 Share Posted June 30, 2014 Forget Ehroff bring back Sami for one last year ...yeah maybe coax Bobby Orr for another year while you're at it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chalky Posted June 30, 2014 Share Posted June 30, 2014 Erhoff's contract was worse than Luongo's. He's not as good as some people here believe. He's a good player, don't get me wrong, he's just not going to be worth what he signs for. Stay away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BI3KSA- Posted June 30, 2014 Share Posted June 30, 2014 i would love to have him back but we all know he wants to go to a contender Yeah cause thats where he went last time right? It's raining cups in Buffalo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conscience Posted June 30, 2014 Share Posted June 30, 2014 All he cares about is cash and term. That was evident when he left us after the 2011 run. Refused NYI and ultimately said he wants to win a cup in Buffalo. Bet he didn't get that out with a straight face.All of that makes me question his character and commitment. I would not move one of our top 4 D for this guy unless the contract was ridiculously favourable.He was our PP quarterback and made Edler a better player. But now he's 3 years older and probably picked up some terrible habits in BuffaloWell that's good as we have cash and lots of it and we cant exactly sell him on coming here to win now can we? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robongo Posted June 30, 2014 Share Posted June 30, 2014 3 year deal at 4.75. Would be Canucks pp qb and top offensive dman Can play with Edler on his off side and push him with healthy competition again. Try more like 5 years 30 million . He becomes the best free agent defenceman available and there will be a bidding war. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robongo Posted June 30, 2014 Share Posted June 30, 2014 Erhoff's contract was worse than Luongo's. He's not as good as some people here believe. He's a good player, don't get me wrong, he's just not going to be worth what he signs for. Stay away. He had great possession numbers on the worst team in the league and still managed to put up 33 points despite buffaloes inability to score. I read that Tyler Myers had a corsi of 52.5% with Ehrhoff and 43.7% without him.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R3aL Posted June 30, 2014 Share Posted June 30, 2014 And why havent we signed him yet!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smashian Kassian Posted June 30, 2014 Share Posted June 30, 2014 I doubt he wants to come back here, but I wouldn't mind bringing him back. I'd offer 5 million per, nothing more than a 3 year deal though. I'm guessing he goes to DET, or maybe ANA, they could use a Dman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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