ItsMillerTime Posted May 5, 2016 Share Posted May 5, 2016 I've seen some crazy offseason deals but I'm gonna try and make this a little realistic like trading RFAs and other guys.... Trades Linden Vey to Carolina Hurricanes for the 74th/73rd overall draft pick. Linden Vey struggled this season and Canucks got up and coming guys already. Hurricanes do this deal because they got some guys who are AHL players playing for their team. Linden Vey is perfect a C/RW Radim Vrbata to New York Islanders for a 6th/7th round draft pick. Reason why is Canucks doesn't need Vrbata. Also Islanders probably won't re-sign Okposo and could use a cheaper goal scorer. I say they can sign him for 2.5 million or 3 million since he still has goal scoring talent. Signings Re-sign Sven Baertchi to a 2 year 3 million dollar deal. Reason why 2 years is because Sven Baertchi has had one good season and is still not a noted goal scorer but does have the potential. Re-sign Emerson Etem to a 1 year 1 million deal. Etem hasn't had the best season this year but did have a hot streak at the end. Maybe he has a breakout season and we can give him a 3 year deal after. Re-sign Andrey Pedan to a 2 year 925,000 2 way deal. Andrey Pedan is more of a 7th defensemen but can prove he can still play a hard gritty game in the NHL and was a key piece to Utica. Re-Sign Dan Hamhuis to a 2 year deal 3.5million. Home discount and he is 33 years old and will be 35 years old after contract ends. Also my second cousin :D Re-sign Matt Bartkowski to a 2 year 1.5million deal. Matt Bartkowsi has proven he can stabilize the point and can rush up the puck very well. Another 7th defensemen who is underrated for his offensive skill set. Re-sign Michael Zalewski to a 3 year 925,000 2 way contract. He his still considered a prospect and has potential to be in the lineup. Guys who we release Yannik Weber has yet to prove stability in the lineup and we don't need more 7th defensemen Ronalds Kennins had a great run in 2014-2015 season but then dipped down. They might sign him for Utica but could get more cheaper options. Brandon Prust was not a favourite with is 1st season but maybe a change of scenery could help him. Free Agents... Realistically Canucks will not sign Okposo,Stamkos etc. Trevor Lewis could be a mentor and a good penalty killer for this young canucks team. Also he is still pretty young. I say 2 year 2.5 million deal. You gotta pay a little extra for players to come to Vancouver. Chris Kelly is a great penalty killers and mentor. He is a little older but you always need to even out old guys and young guys. 1 year 1 million dollar deal. Drew Miller could be a mentor and has relationships with a special someone on the team. He led the league with blocked shots for 2 years in a row. 1 year 700,000 dollar deal. Buyouts Sad to say but I say Alex Burrows. Maybe if he signs a 1 year deal with another team and waits till free agency we could pick him up Higgins could stay because Canucks have the salary. Yes this is more of a realistic off season then signing Stamkos. Thanks for reading this and leave feedback. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhillipBlunt Posted May 5, 2016 Share Posted May 5, 2016 No. You can't trade Radim Vrbata the Human Vbrata because he a free agent, ya silly. Resigning Matt Bartkowski? Are you high? Because I am. Chris Kelly is 38, is he not? This isn't Shady Acres, pal. Drew Miller is Ryan Miller's older brother, and Miller is 35 years old. Trevor Lewis is a solid pick up. I'll give you that. And everyone else signed makes sense. You shall pass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ItsMillerTime Posted May 5, 2016 Author Share Posted May 5, 2016 10 minutes ago, PhillipBlunt said: No. You can't trade Radim Vrbata the Human Vbrata because he a free agent, ya silly. Resigning Matt Bartkowski? Are you high? Because I am. Chris Kelly is 38, is he not? This isn't Shady Acres, pal. Drew Miller is Ryan Miller's older brother, and Miller is 35 years old. Trevor Lewis is a solid pick up. I'll give you that. And everyone else signed makes sense. You shall pass. Actually you can trade Radim Vrbata's rights! Re-signing matt Bartkowski because he is a solid dmen. Kelly is a veteran and can help with the young guys. Miller is a depth guy for utica/Canucks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nuxfanabroad Posted May 5, 2016 Share Posted May 5, 2016 Radim's rights are sure to set off a massive bidding-war. Humongous potential. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaintPatrick33 Posted May 5, 2016 Share Posted May 5, 2016 Ummmmmmmmmm yea Who would want Vey and the rights to sign Vrbata, and then bringing in some old bums to take the spots of our younger guys As we saw at the trade deadline, most of those guys are waiver wire pickups. Higgins needs to go, or stay in the AHL. Burrows TBH can stay since I doubt we will sign a super high priced FA, he can still kill PK and be a good 4th line depth guy, and still goes to the net on the PP. Thank you come again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ItsMillerTime Posted May 5, 2016 Author Share Posted May 5, 2016 35 minutes ago, SaintPatrick33 said: Ummmmmmmmmm yea Who would want Vey and the rights to sign Vrbata, and then bringing in some old bums to take the spots of our younger guys As we saw at the trade deadline, most of those guys are waiver wire pickups. Higgins needs to go, or stay in the AHL. Burrows TBH can stay since I doubt we will sign a super high priced FA, he can still kill PK and be a good 4th line depth guy, and still goes to the net on the PP. Thank you come again. Those are just some option obviously they will not all happen. If they don't sign Lewis they can get some depth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhillipBlunt Posted May 5, 2016 Share Posted May 5, 2016 8 hours ago, ItsMillerTime said: Actually you can trade Radim Vrbata's rights! Re-signing matt Bartkowski because he is a solid dmen. Kelly is a veteran and can help with the young guys. Miller is a depth guy for utica/Canucks. Vrbata is a lazy, self-entitled wanker. Bartkowski is far from a solid d-man, unless you mean that he's neither liquid nor gas. This team has more than enough veterans without adding generic role players like Kelly and Miller the Elder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigturk8 Posted May 5, 2016 Share Posted May 5, 2016 If we re-sign Hammer we have a defensive depth chart of: Edler Tanev Hamhuis Hutton Sbisa Tryamkin Pedan Biega Larsen Stecher Subban I would say the top 9 out of those 11 are usable at least as depth defensman. I'm unsure about Stecher, I think we're going to need to see what he can do in the A first and I think Subban could get a call this season for a trial game or 2 when injuries strike. We'll have to see where he goes from there. With that in mind, I see no reason to resign Bartkowski. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fanuck Posted May 5, 2016 Share Posted May 5, 2016 29 minutes ago, Bigturk8 said: Edler Tanev Hamhuis Hutton Sbisa Tryamkin I would say the top 9 out of those 11 are usable at least as depth defensman. I'm unsure about Stecher, I think we're going to need to see what he can do in the A first and I think Subban could get a call this season for a trial game or 2 when injuries strike. We'll have to see where he goes from there. With that in mind, I see no reason to resign Bartkowski. I'm not saying it has to be Bart, but JB had better address the depth, or lack thereof, on D since you can count on at least 2-3 long-term injuries to our D at any given point in the season if the recent past is any indication. Take two D out of that top six for any extended period of time and you get....well, you get 5th overall unfortunately. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigturk8 Posted May 5, 2016 Share Posted May 5, 2016 4 minutes ago, Fanuck said: I'm not saying it has to be Bart, but JB had better address the depth, or lack thereof, on D since you can count on at least 2-3 long-term injuries to our D at any given point in the season if the recent past is any indication. Take two D out of that top six for any extended period of time and you get....well, you get 5th overall unfortunately. I agree that it's not the best depth, but if you get 2-3 long term injuries in the top 4 on any team, you're looking at 3rd pairing moving into the top 4 and a depth pairing moving into the 5/6 slot. My point is, that kind of bad luck would be devastating to any team in the league. Unless you're gearing up for a long cup run, I don't think it's necessary to have more depth. We certainly need another high end defensman (or 2) but that's going to take some time. At least for the moment, this will give Pedan, Larsen and even Subban chances to emerge in the NHL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elvis15 Posted May 5, 2016 Share Posted May 5, 2016 9 hours ago, ItsMillerTime said: Actually you can trade Radim Vrbata's rights! Re-signing matt Bartkowski because he is a solid dmen. Kelly is a veteran and can help with the young guys. Miller is a depth guy for utica/Canucks. While technically you can, as we still hold his contract until July 1st, no one wanted him at the deadline so what makes you think someone will trade anything for him to get a couple weeks jump start of signing him after the season he had? And we have no room for Bartkowski (waiver eligible D: Edler, Tanev, Sbisa, Hamhuis, Pedan, Biega, Larson so that's 7 already and then there's Hutton and Tryamkin for 9), so why would we re-sign him? Considering a number of your suggestions, I'd argue signing Stamkos is actually more plausible. You have some reasonable suggestions in there too, but far too many whiskey tango foxtrots for it to make sense overall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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