So I looked up specifically the *2010-11 year, and they were 6% over the cap, which then was about 4 million*, which in today's cap would be 5.01 million over the cap.
It's actually 2011-12, when they cranked up the cap circumvention.
The Vancouver Canucks 2011-12 salary cap table, including salary cap table, including team cap space, player cap hits, incentives, & bonus info.
www.spotrac.com
Canucks had 80,296,666 in total cap allocations, while the cap was just 64.3 million. Which accounts for 16 million over the cap.
Gillis and Gilman were wizards. Why we let them go for f***ing Jim Benning and Weisbrod who the f*** knows.