Waived: Booth Compliance Buyout (per Bob Mckenzie)

[Proto]

Booth being bought out:

Bob McKenzie ‏@TSNBobMcKenzie ·2m
VAN puts David Booth on unconditional waivers for purpose of buyout.

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[Canuck Luck]

David booth compliance buyout

https://twitter.com/tsnbobmckenzie/status/478930934469648384

 

[Just A Bit Outside]

As long as they use the $$ wisely I'm ok with it.

If not, complete waste.

 

[PhilMick]

I mean it's not surprising, but it kind of came out of left field.

 

[Orca Smash]

What do you consider wisely? Im guessing it may end up just being cap flexibility and a roster spot maybe for someone like jensen instead or depending what comes back with a kesler trade.

I could take or leave booth honestly for one final year.

 

[Reverend Mayhem]

The dominos are falling!

An extra $4.25M to use in FA, I expect Benning's first roster move will be a popular one.

Well, David, you were a good guy and a hard-worker. Hope you can find a job elsewhere.

 

[Just A Bit Outside]

What do you consider wisely? Im guessing it may end up just being cap flexibility and a roster spot.

I could take or leave booth honestly for one last year.

Wisely in that they plan to make some moves to use that money.

My only worry is that they plan to sign some FAs and none come here.

That to me is wasting the space for a guy with one year left.

 

[Bro Horvat]

Strangely enough, I always liked Booth. Good personality, seemed like a very positive dude.

Will be interesting to see what they do with the extra cap room.

 

[Proto]

I don't mind it. I wouldn't have minded keeping him, either, but I'm also somewhat hoping the team either intentionally or unintentionally is not ultra competitive next season -- this may work to achieve that goal if it means more youth in the line-up.

 

[Craz1bo1]

Hopefully he has a nice honeymoon

Kelcey Brade ‏@ctv_kelcey 1m

As per @tsnbobmckenzie, #Canucks place David Booth on unconditional waivers for purpose of buyout. Booth wedding was on Sat. @CTVVancouver

 

[Finkle is Einhorn]

Wisely in that they plan to make some moves to use that money.

My only worry is that they plan to sign some FAs and none come here.

That to me is wasting the space for a guy with one year left.

Rather have the space and not use it than need the space and not have it.

 

[Angry Little Elf]

Someone send a support group to David Booth Fan's house

 

[polarbearcub]

Hopefully he has a nice honeymoon

I'm sure he will.........

 

[BigBadBread]

Maybe opens up some space to take on salary from another team as well.

 

[Orca Smash]

Wisely in that they plan to make some moves to use that money.

My only worry is that they plan to sign some FAs and none come here.

That to me is wasting the space for a guy with one year left.

See I dont really consider it wasteful exactly if your looking at FA's.

What if they resign santorelli, want to keep jensen on, alot of talk horvat will be a regular, we get two young pieces back for kesler who are ready to play in the nhl (etem and dsp), if we can make use of his roster spot for younger players I also wouldn't consider that wasteful. And we could even delve into discussing taking cap space back if a great trade presents itself with prospects/players you want. What if we try to package for the 1st overall and the panthers say only if you take jovanoski back for one year because our owner does not want to buy him out and we want to shed his salary. Jovo basically has a booth contract (1 yr left at 4m).

 

[PhilMick]

Strangely enough, I always liked Booth. Good personality, seemed like a very positive dude.

Will be interesting to see what they do with the extra cap room.

Not really that strange, he's a good guy and never actually did anything wrong, just got hurt a lot and made a lot of money so people irrationally hated him.

 

[kanucks25]

Not a fan of this move but not a big deal, either.

Oh well, bye Booth

 

[Just A Bit Outside]

See I dont really consider it wasteful exactly if your looking at FA's.

What if they resign santorelli, want to keep jensen on, alot of talk horvat will be a regular, we get two young pieces back for kesler who are ready to play in the nhl (etem and dsp), if we can make use of his roster spot for younger players I also wouldn't consider that wasteful. And we could even delve into discussing taking cap space back if a great trade presents itself with prospects/players you want.

To me it just depends on what they do with it.

I'm not for or against it.

Just reserve my judgement till later.

I'm just glad JB has come in and is not screwing around.

 

[SaucyNavel]

Sorry Booth, too little too late.

 

[TruGr1t]

Meh.

Sort of a no-brainer I guess, though the guy only has one year left. Guess it's just a new regime gutting the past GM's mistakes, etc. I'm guessing the supporting cast will look a lot different next year.

 

[D0ctorCool]

I guess Vancouver wants to be active in the FA and trade market because we weren't going to run into cap issues.

 

[BC Ben]

Hopefully he has a nice honeymoon

My wedding pictures are so much better and my wife is better looking... plus I wasn't wearing a stupid bowtie.

 

[CCF]

Best of luck to Booth. Hopefully he can land on his feet elsewhere.

 

[Timmer44]

I'm sure he will.........

I was gonna say... It's hard to feel sorry for the guy.

 

[Vankiller Whale]

Oh yeah!