ChickenDinner Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 https://twitter.com/andystrickland/status/609403697123033088 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flickyoursedin Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 OMG is this for real :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c00kies Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 Now who are these "some people" that think this? I wouldn't mind a Bieksa trade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Me_ Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 Really too bad. The dude gives it his all. Even though he cannot perform anymore at the level he has, he would be a perfect #5-#6 D-man for the next 2-3 years for the Canucks. I was hoping the Canucks would run this upcoming year out and re-sign him at a good 5-6D price. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crunchy the Tiger Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 Why would this be hard to believe ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RWMc1 Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 Just last night Benning stated that he has not talked to any player about waiving a NTC. I think there is some wishful thinking going on here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spotted Zebra Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 He talks the talk, just can't walk the walk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TOMapleLaughs Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 Meaning no 2nd rounder incoming and we'll dump Bieksa for some castoff prospect who's 'further along' later on. Don't worry though. We will be told that prospect will be hella good. Sigh... This process will continue for awhile longer I suppose. I'm surprised that Bieksa wouldn't just elect for free agency instead, but then again if he's going to where I think he's going, then he must really like it there for some reason and wants to stay awhile. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyBoy44 Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 I didn't know Strickland was relevant anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theminister Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 I'm gonna guess, if he goes anywhere, it will be Columbus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TOMapleLaughs Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 I didn't know Strickland was relevant anymore.This. He's been off about his St. Louis stuff even lately. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benchsplinters Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 It is unbelieveable that a 10 word sentence, uttered by some sports media type that nobody really likes, can get some people in a fluster. It is rumour at best. I call guys like Strickland and the rest of his ilk, Twitter Twits. They hyper-drive their crap to keep themselves in a job. Ninety-nine % of what you read on twitter is a glorified rumour at best and to make it worse, people compete and rush to be the first one to make a thread of it on CDC. i can't figure that out. To make something out of unsubstattiated BS and be the first one to do it?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Vintage Canuck- Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 Capped-out Vancouver Canucks likely to salary dump Kevin Bieksa. Should Edmonton Oilers be interested?: The aging Canucks grouch isn’t optimal for Oilers, but better bet than Nikitin This in from Kevin Jamieson of the Vancouver Province: “The Canucks are in a world of cap trouble…A cap for next season of, let’s say, $70 million, leaves the Canucks with about $3 million to sign three defencemen and three forwards to get to the usual 23-player roster size. “So who goes to give the Canucks some cap breathing room? The obvious choice is veteran defenceman Kevin Bieksa, who turns 34 this month and has one more season with a cap hit of $4.6 million on his contract. Bieksa, who would have to be OK with waiving his no-trade clause, oozes leadership, so he’d be attractive to a young team that feels it needs to add a mentor.” My take Bieksa is a player I’ve always loved to hate and one I wished was an Edmonton Oiler. He’s been a nasty d-man with a good deal of puck sense for years now. His downside is he’s 34, an age when NHL d-men often see a major drop in their play. He’s three years off his peak, with 2011-12 being the last time he was a 1D (top d-man on top pairing) for the Canucks. Bieksa got 4D minutes last year, 20:50 per game, down from the 22 to 24 minutes per game he averaged in his prime. In his career, he’s averaged 0.4 points per game. Last year he was at just 0.23 per game, just 14 points in 60 games. His even strength point scoring has been at the same moderate level for the past few seasons. Bieksa is no longer a valued power player on the Canucks, so that explains some of the drop in his overall point totals. The Canucks were pretty much even in high danger scoring chances for and against when Bieksa was on the ice, reports War-on-Ice. He was part of an average NHL unit on an OK team. According to HockeyAnalysis.com, his most common linemates were, in order, Luca Sbisa, Ryan Stanton, then a group of nine forwards, including Nick Bonino, Henrik and Daniel Sedin, with all nine playing with him 200 to 260 minutes. Bieksa shoots right, and the Oilers have a spot on their roster for a right-shooting d-man. If Edmonton has faith that Darnell Nurse, Oscar Klefbom and Justin Schultz will develop into the team’s 1D, 2D and 3D sooner rather than later, then Bieksa is the kind of player who could help guide them along for a few years. Perhaps if the Oilers buy-out Nikita Nikitin, Bieksa could slot in for him. If Edmonton is determined to hit a home run and bring in a 1D right now, such as by making a determined and costly bid for a player like Dougie Hamilton, then Bieksa is the wrong fit. But if Edmonton instead decides to buy out Nikitin, then Bieksa could be part of a somewhat unorthodox defensive unit which would lack a true top-pairing, but might see Nurse with Bieksa, Klefbom with Schultz, and Andrew Ference with Mark Fayne, and Brandon Davidson, starting out as the seventh d-man. The Oilers would use Ference and Fayne for tough defensive zone starts against tough competition until Nurse was ready for that kind of heavier lifting, perhaps in 2015-16, perhaps not until 2016-17. How would this defensive group perform? Much would depend on whether or not Ference and Fayne could survive in such a situation. If they can’t, Nurse and Bieksa might be thrown into that bon fire. When you add it all up, Bieksa doesn’t seem like an optimal target for the Oilers, who have no shortage of candidates for the 2D to 7D slots, but are in great need of a real 1D. That said, Bieksa would likely be an upgrade over Nikitin, and Bieksa’s cost-in-trade should be entirely reasonable, as this would be a cap move for the Canucks. Whether Bieksa would agree to come here and whether the Canucks would agree to move him to a divisional rival is another question. http://blogs.edmontonjournal.com/2015/06/12/capped-out-vancouver-canucks-likely-to-unload-kevin-bieksa-should-edmonton-oilers-be-interested/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TOMapleLaughs Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 Bieksa in Edmonton and Kesler in Anaheim would be some entertaining stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elvis15 Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 Random tweet surrounded by no other information using the very general 'some' as the source? Yeah, no. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Templeton Peck Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 2. Please provide a clearly identifiable topic title for your thread so that user's can search for and find the appropriate thread easily. The title should include any and all teams involved, as well as player names or other personnel involved as appropriate. This is to help avoid duplicate threads and to make searching easier. For any and all comments, please use the Topic Description box instead of the title.Affixed to the front of your title should be a label that identifies the type of transaction that is taking place. For all trades use [TRADE]. For all signings use [sIGNING]. For all waiver-wire transactions use [WAIVERS]. For all rumours use [RUMOUR]. 3. All trades, signings, rumours and other news MUST include a linkable source. Simply posting the name of the source is not enough. Effort should also be made to copy and paste the full article, or at the very least the relevant portion of text from the source to the first post of the thread. Pretty vague terrible speculation as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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