This is what i don't understand at all about this idea that the Canucks should be doing a firesale and "blowing it up".
What does that even mean?
The Sedins? Good luck moving them.
Edler? Doesn't want to leave.
Tanev? Why for even? He's still young and not the type who will fetch a core piece in return.
Eriksson? Just signed, and realistically his contract makes him unmoveable now, like every other top UFA.
Sutter? Okay, maybe you could move him...but with his contract, not for much of anything that'll kickstart a rebuild.
Hansen? Probably net a quality prospect or pick, but hardly a franchise changing return. At best, you're talking about a roulette wheel on whether you ever even get a Hansen calibre player out of the swap.
Miller? Even with retained salary, how many teams are seriously looking to acquire an aged starting goaltender at the deadline? Miller already showed last time around that it works extremely poorly. Nobody is giving up anything important.
The rest is just aged vets with little or even negative value...irrelevant fringe players...or young players who make no sense to move in a "rebuild".
Of course, there's the Sedins...but good ****ing luck trading them. $14M of salary with NTCs. What contender has not only the room to add that, but the will to add them...at the cost of quality future assets which would actually significantly help the Canucks "rebuild"?
Agreed, what is there to blow up?? Sedins should have been traded 4 years ago, the team is a unorganized mess... no need to blow anything up, thy did a long slow disintegratetion......
