How does trading Carlo for a undersized forward improve the Bruins ? Not a knock on Gaudette as a player but the Bruins need some physical players in their line up...........Please stop the home town crap it means nothing. Maybe in the future he would look good in a bruins uniform , but right now he does not fill their needs...........
Rumor: Canucks extremely active
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Hierso
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The Marleau trade was a very different scenario. Eriksson would be your standard capdump deal but due to the flatcap the value makes it a little more expensive in my book (due to many people looking to getting some capspace). Marleau on the other hand was very open about not accepting a trade from the leafs unless he was bought out by his 'new' team and there was only one team in the NHL that were willing to do that so it obviously came at a huge price. The Marleau deal is irrelevant for any team trying to offload a player.
I agree that a 3rd won't get it done because Ottawa should weaponize the flatcap to milk it for all they can get.
Coach Parker
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I think that is extremely low offer to get rid of Eriksson. Sorry, but Bruins moved Backes and it cost a 1st and he had one less year on his contract.
Just A Bit Outside
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Benning ain’t going to get shit done.
You can call everyone under the sun but with a flat cap, he’s made his own bed and has to live with it.
You can call everyone under the sun but with a flat cap, he’s made his own bed and has to live with it.
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Hughes4Calder
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Hughes4Calder
Always love the keyboard warriors who act like they know something.
You don't know CHIT, about CHIT my boy. Benning has done just fine rebuilding this franchise, he will figure out a way to get it done this offseason as well.
I guess the undersized comment comes from him being listed at 170 lb. I think Gaudette could bulk up a bit but he does have a nice tenacity to his game. Definitely love having him on the CanucksGaudette is 6’1 since when is that undersized?
Gurglesons
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Virtanen to Boston finally realizing his potential is such a predictable narrative.
Just fine eh, cap strapped team who is just turning the corner and can't sign his current players or upgrade the team due to his plethora of horrible contracts handed out by him hindering the team...
JB has done ok, whiffed on some high draft picks, gotten a couple studs that basically saved his job imo and now he is tasked with improving the team while not giving out NMC or term contracts to existing Canucks looking for a new deal or trying to acquiring the right pieces to improve our team while walking away from the same Canucks who are just getting older
Youre right in that its different.
Carolina received a 1st for buying out a 7mil cap hit. Pre Pandemic
Eriksson is a high cap hit with lower dollars owed. This is a cash saving move mid pandemic
when teams are suffering dollar wise.
If there was no pandemic it would easily cost over a 1st.
But when a team is only paying 5million on a 12million cap hit during a pandemic the cost of what it would of been drastically changes. Thats 7mil in savings for a team looking to be near cap floor to 70 mil(allows them to dump more mid season or tdl). Thats good for Arz, Buf, Fla, Ott, and any team that decides to rebuild this year (LA/SJ etc)
KirkAlbuquerque
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It's a wolf v2.0
I'll believe it when I see it but using Toronto as an example a more likely scenario for the Canucks situation with Eriksson is the Clarkson for Horton trade - a mutually beneficial swap of different types of bad contracts.
Pretty sure that's outdated (as it was the same listed weight from 5 years ago). Northeastern had him listed at 184lbs, and that was 2+ years ago. If Adam Gaudette was really that light, both Quinn Hughes & Elias Pettersson would have more body density. Haha
He looks pretty average in size tbh, wouldn't be surprised if he's still around 184lbs-ish.
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Hughes4Calder
He’s 185 now but that’s okay. He’s also tenacious as hell
my guess as well. draft day is where teams will really really crank up the action.Draft day watch and see
Bettman Returnz
Why so serious?
I think it’s time to take eriksson out of the equation. Only way I see him being traded is for a similarly bad contract (maybe one that only saves Canucks a little cap).
Maybe it’s time to put more focus on trading Sutter (1yr @ $4.375M). Still a “useful” bottom 6 centre or wing that can bring leadership or kill penalties.
Maybe a basis of Sutter & Virtanen?
Maybe it’s time to put more focus on trading Sutter (1yr @ $4.375M). Still a “useful” bottom 6 centre or wing that can bring leadership or kill penalties.
Maybe a basis of Sutter & Virtanen?
yawn....where is all the "extreme activity..."
MakoSlade
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I think real dollars come into the equation more than we look at around here. I believe Marleau was owed $6 Million real word cash. Whoever acquired him was on the books for that money, and that means a hell of a lot to teams. Marleau was also never ever going to play for the team. That was a case of buying a draft pick.
Louie is owed $2.5 million with a cap hit of $6, correct? That could be an asset for a cash strapped team looking to hit the cap floor. At the least a team with no Cap issues could decide if Louie is a $2.5 million player who would have a spot in the lineup.
Is Louie worth $2.5 million? A few teams can handle the cap hit for two years (even with a flat cap), so I can see the cost associated with moving him being less than many others.
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I sure hope the Canucks don't do something drastic that they end up regretting. I don't understand why some of these up-and-coming teams who are gelling into very nice clubs decide to do something overly-fancy, and risk it backfiring--like the Leafs with Tavares. Continue building, surgically add missing elements, and go from there. After watching the Canucks take the next step, the last thing they need to do is be "extremely active." Sometimes teams just can't help themselves.
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Hughes4Calder
While that wasn’t a good offer your comparison is not even close. Horvat>>>Carlo
