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8 minutes ago, EddieVedder said:

Guaranteed if he goes to a good contending team, hes going to have a damn good year. 

He’ll get around 3m a season 

and he will outperform his salary 

 

guy was absolutely wrecked by Myers and bad luck last season 

 

still wish management had just waited 1 season, I really don’t see what the rush was to do this. 

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It doesn't matter what OEL does next season. He had two seasons here and wasn't worth that contract. We did the right and necessary thing 

 

People have been talking about his "return to form" for three seasons now. I highly doubt based on our own experience with him that he'd be able to return to form with the Canucks. It wasn't going that way here.

 

If he somehow does next year, maybe the buyout is more motivation for him and the motivation he needs. 

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12 minutes ago, ilduce39 said:

Yeah, and Canucks fans we should brace for the inevitability of him having a pretty good season next year.

For real though. One could argue that he contributed to last season's team being poor defensively, one could also argue that most D are going to look bad on a team that's porous defensively. No bones about it, we were pretty awful defensively for most of last season. Put him on a team with better systems, and on a team that's largely committed to defense as a whole and he'll likely look better. Prime Kesler couldn't have saved our season last season, not with goaltending like we had. 

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5 minutes ago, eeeeergh said:

He’ll get around 3m a season 

and he will outperform his salary 

 

guy was absolutely wrecked by Myers and bad luck last season 

 

still wish management had just waited 1 season, I really don’t see what the rush was to do this. 

I don’t think they did rush to be honest.

 

I think they’ve explored moving him for a year.

 

Pretty sure the buyout made more sense this offseason then next offseason.

 

The good news is the cap will likely be going up and contracts will be coming off the books when the bad years of the buyout hit.

 

If this team can’t contend without spending an extra 5 mil in those years they likely never were going to anyways.

 

 

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1 hour ago, Gurn said:

They maybe 'trying'; but, imo, they are doing it the wrong way.

If you fix the team, there is no need to hire misinformation specialists.

I mean parasitic leeches like Drance, Kuzma etc aren't really any better 

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7 minutes ago, Dr. Crossbar said:

It doesn't matter what OEL does next season. He had two seasons here and wasn't worth that contract. We did the right and necessary thing 

 

People have been talking about his "return to form" for three seasons now. I highly doubt based on our own experience with him that he'd be able to return to form with the Canucks. It wasn't going that way here.

 

If he somehow does next year, maybe the buyout is more motivation for him and the motivation he needs. 

I would have prefered on more year with him and buy out next year so there would be two less years of dead cap at least, but what's done is done. We're not contending with or without him this coming season anyway. 

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6 minutes ago, eeeeergh said:

He’ll get around 3m a season 

and he will outperform his salary 

 

guy was absolutely wrecked by Myers and bad luck last season 

 

still wish management had just waited 1 season, I really don’t see what the rush was to do this. 

I could be wrong (going off of memory here) but I recall when I was playing with the buy out calculator, doing it now is the only year where oel is more or less off the books completely. 

 

And I think it might have had to do with real cash savings. OEL was due around 10 million this year and next. Doing the buyout now saves around 9 million in real cash, and spread out over 8 years.  

 

I was thinking he might bounce back as well, but the more I think of it the more I like the move.  As long as the roster improves significantly and they plan ahead to have some ELCs slot in during the bigger cap hit years, we could see an overall much better team.

 

I really was rooting for oel, but with Hughes on the team, I think his skillset was redundant.  

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1 hour ago, Sell.the.team said:

methinks the mole was exterminated... even if the Mikheyev ACL leak rumor was impossible/untrue...can't help but notice that there have been a lot less leaks since RD was let go....and that seems to fit why she went from hero to zero as quickly as she did.

She’s still trashing the Canucks as of this moment. Can’t let it go. She was definitely the mole that needed to be exterminated…

 

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3 minutes ago, canuck73_3 said:

I would have prefered on more year with him and buy out next year so there would be two less years of dead cap at least, but what's done is done. We're not contending with or without him this coming season anyway. 

My point is what's done is done. But like I said yesterday, we're seeing the OEL return to form narrative in real time ... still today. Lol

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47 minutes ago, Coconuts said:

Teams want to buy low on what could potentially be a top 4D on a team whose defense isn't trash, and on a team that didn't set some ugly records last season? I for one am shocked. He'd be a helluva third pairing D to have at a cost effective rate, you know he's probably gonna have a chip on his shoulder next season. 

 

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And another fracture in his ankle. 

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47 minutes ago, Elias Pettersson said:

She’s still trashing the Canucks as of this moment. Can’t let it go. She was definitely the mole that needed to be exterminated…

 

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38 minutes ago, canuck73_3 said:

She is so toxic it's not even funny

I know it's hindsight, but she was a ridiculous hire....but (also in hindsight), she was also an excellent "fire".

 

I'm glad this management team is proactive enough to take out the trash when it is warranted, and not let things fester and create unnecessary turmoil. They will remove toxicity, whether it be an elephant in the room, or from elsewhere (ie Doerrie, from the front office) 

 

 

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2 hours ago, ilduce39 said:

I was just thinking about that.  Under Benning we’d probably already know what he was about to do.  This group keeps things nice and tight to their chest.

As they should do...

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50 minutes ago, Elias Pettersson said:

She’s still trashing the Canucks as of this moment. Can’t let it go. She was definitely the mole that needed to be exterminated…

 

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Just a bitter bitch.... sorry about the language... bitter ex employee 

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1 hour ago, DeNiro said:

I don’t think they did rush to be honest.

 

I think they’ve explored moving him for a year.

 

Pretty sure the buyout made more sense this offseason then next offseason.

 

The good news is the cap will likely be going up and contracts will be coming off the books when the bad years of the buyout hit.

 

If this team can’t contend without spending an extra 5 mil in those years they likely never were going to anyways.

 

 

You can be sure they have tried every avenue available to them.

Trades with salary retained etc., but other teams probably tried to get some other goodies to help them out, and in the end it made the most sense to just pay him out.

Glad they took the bull by the horns, and did what they felt, they had to in order to improve the team...

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