Smashian Kassian Posted March 1, 2019 Share Posted March 1, 2019 3 hours ago, Jimmy McGill said: not that much tbh. OTT has ~44 mil in salaries for next year, and right now the floor is 58 mil and that probably goes up. Loui is 3 mil in the bank for Melnyk with a cap hit of 6 mil. Maybe a 3rd round pick, or a b-prospect. Thats all it should take, anyway. If that's all it takes I would jump on that so fast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRick Posted March 1, 2019 Share Posted March 1, 2019 Hopefully Loui will do the right thing and just retire. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Mackcanuck Posted March 2, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted March 2, 2019 3 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alflives Posted March 2, 2019 Share Posted March 2, 2019 5 minutes ago, Mackcanuck said: &*#@*$& brutal. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beni Posted March 6, 2019 Share Posted March 6, 2019 At least he will be exposed in the expansion draft.. we can only pray that Seattle would be willing to pick him up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elias Pettersson Posted March 6, 2019 Share Posted March 6, 2019 On 3/2/2019 at 1:46 PM, Mackcanuck said: Probably the worst UFA class in history, and we were a part of it. At least we didn't go 7 years with Eriksson... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canuck73_3 Posted March 6, 2019 Share Posted March 6, 2019 On 3/2/2019 at 1:46 PM, Mackcanuck said: Backes is the best signing of the bunch, wow. Brutal. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rough Neck Posted March 6, 2019 Share Posted March 6, 2019 8 hours ago, Elias Pettersson said: Probably the worst UFA class in history, and we were a part of it. At least we didn't go 7 years with Eriksson... At least we didn't go 7 with Lucic. (still agree with you) i think we could retain Salary with him still, we avoid paying extra (for a buyout) and we have the cap space to hold onto a bit of his salary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SingleThorn Posted March 6, 2019 Share Posted March 6, 2019 45 minutes ago, Rough Neck said: At least we didn't go 7 with Lucic. (still agree with you) i think we could retain Salary with him still, we avoid paying extra (for a buyout) and we have the cap space to hold onto a bit of his salary There is next to no benefit retaining salary with LE's contract. $500,000 if my math is correct. It would be a 3rd and final salary retention. How would CDC armchair GMs finalise all their fantastic trades without being able to retain salary ? ( yes, I know, we lose MDZ next year ). Poor LE, now that Gudbranson is gone and Sutter is injured, he's kind of alone at the whipping post. All the haters and tough guys are going to tear the poor guy to shreds ! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rough Neck Posted March 6, 2019 Share Posted March 6, 2019 8 minutes ago, SingleThorn said: There is next to no benefit retaining salary with LE's contract. $500,000 if my math is correct. It would be a 3rd and final salary retention. How would CDC armchair GMs finalise all their fantastic trades without being able to retain salary ? ( yes, I know, we lose MDZ next year ). Poor LE, now that Gudbranson is gone and Sutter is injured, he's kind of alone at the whipping post. All the haters and tough guys are going to tear the poor guy to shreds ! 2 Sorry, what do you mean by 500,000? As in, if we buy him out we only pay 500k in the last few years? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
therodigy Posted March 6, 2019 Share Posted March 6, 2019 I may have found a bright side with respect to Eriksson's bonus heavy contract. Obviously a buyout is pretty much out of the question considering the cap savings will be less than a million dollars for double the remaining period of time. However, a big wild card at play is the pending state of the Columbus Blue Jackets. Was listening to yesterday's episode of Canucks Central at noon and they talked about the possibility of Columbus not being able to resign any of Panarin, Bobrovski, and Duchene, as well as a possible off-season plan to regroup for 2019-2020. Even with an extension due to Werenski, they will have issue with staying above the cap-floor unless they're able to sign top level FAs to ludicrous contracts. If Eriksson falls out of favour in Vancouver (with many other forwards chopping at the bit), I would not be surprised if he is traded to Columbus, with $1 million retained, for a low pick, a B prospect, or even futures. That way, Columbus would get a $5 million cap hit, but only pay $2 million for it. Not too bad of a deal if they end up in this situation, however unlikely. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jester13 Posted March 6, 2019 Share Posted March 6, 2019 I get Benning's long-term plan with stop-gaps, aging vets, yada yada yada, and I agree with it all, but man-o-man will I be escatic when we hit the next stage of our plan and guys like LE are gone. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mo Grit Posted March 6, 2019 Share Posted March 6, 2019 12 minutes ago, SingleThorn said: Poor LE, now that Gudbranson is gone and Sutter is injured, he's kind of alone at the whipping post. All the haters and tough guys are going to tear the poor guy to shreds ! Given Eriksson's extortionate pay-per-shift contract, he's hardly poor except in character. The only thing he's earned here is as a whipping post. Given his signing reputation for being 'good around the net', being stuck in the crease for entire power plays would seem his thing. No skating or effort involved, and even when dodging pain he may inadvertently screen goalies. I'm guessing coaching asked but he was allowed to refuse. He is excellent at avoiding injury otherwise, a role model for prospects to pace themselves through a tough schedule. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Where'd Luongo? Posted March 6, 2019 Share Posted March 6, 2019 On 8/24/2018 at 6:24 PM, hammertime said: This is Loui's year to show some return on investment. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JM_ Posted March 6, 2019 Share Posted March 6, 2019 On 3/2/2019 at 1:46 PM, Mackcanuck said: statistically, we got the #2 player on that list. So thats something, rite? 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewbieCanuckFan Posted March 6, 2019 Share Posted March 6, 2019 12 hours ago, Elias Pettersson said: Probably the worst UFA class in history, and we were a part of it. At least we didn't go 7 years with Eriksson... Fortunately we got lucky in that Lucic turned us down. At least Loui can be ‘ok’ bottom six defensive winger. Lucic is well past his due date. Plus can you imagine Ryan Miller and Lucic in the same locker room? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alflives Posted March 6, 2019 Share Posted March 6, 2019 15 minutes ago, NewbieCanuckFan said: Fortunately we got lucky in that Lucic turned us down. At least Loui can be ‘ok’ bottom six defensive winger. Lucic is well past his due date. Plus can you imagine Ryan Miller and Lucic in the same locker room? Loui, playing in the bottom six, and on the PK, is kind of holding up a potential prospect though, isn't it? Maybe that role could be played by Gaunce or Big Mac? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kanucks25 Posted March 6, 2019 Share Posted March 6, 2019 On 2/28/2019 at 2:09 PM, Smashian Kassian said: What do u guys think it would take a team like Ottawa, with lots of cap space that needs to hit the floor for next season, to take Eriksson off our hands? Its hard cause we are in a rebuild too, but is there anything we could give up that might suffice, or are we just stuck with Loui? Funny because during Benning's almost 5 years here, he should have been the one taking other teams' bad contracts with pick or prospect sweeteners. Unfortunately he never did it once and now is looking to offload his bad signings lol. Pretty much sums things up. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SingleThorn Posted March 6, 2019 Share Posted March 6, 2019 3 hours ago, Rough Neck said: Sorry, what do you mean by 500,000? As in, if we buy him out we only pay 500k in the last few years? His contract is mainly signing bonuses. Actual salary is $1mil for two years. Retained salary maximum is 50% of salary, so $500k. As with most things, I'm fairly sure this is how it works, but not 100% sure Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyndall2 Posted March 6, 2019 Share Posted March 6, 2019 I would like to see him sitting in the pressbox for a few games. Let ANYONE else play 12 minutes a game. Can't be any worse. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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