Canucks Free Agent Frenzy 2014!

[Pip]

That's what a 1B is. Miller wouldn't play 70 games on the Canucks - he'd get 50 or so with the remainder going to Lack.

Why would he sign with a team that only is planning to play him 50 games?

 

[Addison Rae]

Bob McKenzie ‏@TSNBobMcKenzie 2m
NSH not qualifying Michael Del Zotto. Throw another log on the UFA fire.

 

[Pip]

Bob McKenzie ‏@TSNBobMcKenzie 2m
NSH not qualifying Michael Del Zotto. Throw another log on the UFA fire.

That is very surprising

 

[bo2shink*]

Why would he sign with a team that only is planning to play him 50 games?

Because he's 34 on July 17 and may realize the travel will affect him a bit? 50-57 seems pretty sensible.

 

[Addison Rae]

That is very surprising

Eh, I don't know. From the sounds of things MDZ was terrible in Nashville, and his QO was 2.9 M.

 

[Addison Rae]

Because he's 33 and may realize the travel will affect him a bit? 50-57 seems pretty sensible.

Hello

 

[7thGuest]

You guys think Spezza would be a good fit for the Canucks? I know he's not an UFA, but he is available.

Only one year @ 7M/yr left. It gives our prospects more time to mature before taking over. Could be a good bridging solution for us. Plus we can flip him at the trade deadline.

 

[bo2shink*]

Hello

Fixed. So sorry for terrible confusion, my deepest apology.

 

[y2kcanucks]

This is an exaggeration. He had two terrible games, one of which was clearly nerves on the day after Luongo was traded.

The entire team was falling apart at this point, and it wouldn't be surprising if he tired a bit as he'd missed most of the 12-13 season with injury.

But we'd seen enough before that to know that this is a good NHL goalie.

Signing Miller ticks me off as goaltending was the one easy position to integrate a younger talent who was NHL ready without sacrificing the 'now' component. Instead we're burying our young, promising goalie to go with one of the oldest starters in the NHL ... who isn't even all that good. And blowing the cap space we could have spent upgrading elsewhere. Blech.

Not an exaggeration at all. Lack was terrible after Luongo was dealt. He only had 7 of his final 16 games where his SVP was above .900 in a game.

 

[bo2shink*]

You guys think Spezza would be a good fit for the Canucks? I know he's not an UFA, but he is available.

Only one year @ 7M/yr left. It gives our prospects more time to mature before taking over. Could be a good bridging solution for us. Plus we can flip him at the trade deadline.

Ott asked for the #10 from Anaheim, so not sure where the bidding starts. But for us, an overpayment without doubt.

 

[Addison Rae]

Ottawa wants a 1st round pick in a Spezza trade, we will not be trading our 1st on 2015 for a 30 year old a year away from UFA.

 

[Addison Rae]

Fixed. So sorry for terrible confusion, my deepest apology.

Lol, no I said "hello" because my username is 33.

 

[deckercky]

No. Spezza would be too expensive to add at a reasonable level (at least a 1st round pick). To be honest, I'd rather offer Richards or Ribeiro a one year deal than trade anything for Spezza.

I have a feeling Ribeiro will be a real steal this season, since he was essentially fired for bad attitude. He'll have to sign a prove it contract, then back it up with hard work.

 

[bo2shink*]

Not an exaggeration at all. Lack was terrible after Luongo was dealt. He only had 7 of his final 16 games where his SVP was above .900 in a game.

Pretty much everyone in a Canucks jersey was bad, but not sure what Lack people were watching if they thought he was ok. Lu was under .900 in 6 of his last 12 as well. Twas a whole team effort.

I think he gets a bit of a pass for being likable.

 

[bo2shink*]

Lol, no I said "hello" because my username is 33.

Again, my deepest apologies for misunderstanding the misunderstanding. He will be 35 on July 17, 2015.

 

[deckercky]

Pretty much everyone in a Canucks jersey was bad, but not sure what Lack people were watching if they thought he was ok. Lu was under .900 in 6 of his last 12 as well. Twas a whole team effort.

I think he gets a bit of a pass for being likable.

That's a nice way to aggressively tank for a high pick, and potentially throw off Lack's development.

 

[bo2shink*]

That's a nice way to aggressively tank for a high pick, and potentially throw off Lack's development.

Or just realize he wasn't that good to begin with. But we all know that if he doesn't work out people will blame Gillis and management now for something that may just simply never have been.

 

[LiquidSnake]

Stock has really fallen on MDZ

 

[LickTheEnvelope]

There are no teams looking for goalies, aside from maybe Edmonton and Winnipeg, where his actress wife probably wouldn't want to go.

Miller has no leverage, and if he gets $15 million from us, I question our negotiating.

I completely agree, but I think $4 - $4.5 mil is fair value.

Put me in for:

1. Trade Burrows (for picks)
2. Trade Hansen (for pick)
3. Trade Markstrom (for pick or depth prospect)
4. Dump Sestito

Sign:

1. Miller @ 3 years/ $4.25 mil per
2. Thornton @ 2 years/ $1.3 mil per
3. Iginla @ 2 years/ $6.75 mil per
4. Setoguchi @ 2 years/ $2.5 mil per

-------------------------------------

FORWARDS
Daniel Sedin ($7.000m) / Henrik Sedin ($7.000m) / Zack Kassian ($2.500m)
Devin Setoguchi ($2.500m) / Nick Bonino ($1.900m) / Jarome Iginla ($6.750m)
Chris Higgins ($2.500m) / Bo Horvat ($0.894m) / Linden Vey ($0.800m)
Shawn Matthias ($1.750m) / Brad Richardson ($1.150m) / Derek Dorsett ($1.633m)
Nicklas Jensen ($0.863m) / Shawn Thornton ($1.300m) /

DEFENSEMEN
Alexander Edler ($5.000m) / Chris Tanev ($3.500m)
Dan Hamhuis ($4.500m) / Kevin Bieksa ($4.600m)
Luca Sbisa ($2.175m) / Frank Corrado ($0.591m)
Ryan Stanton ($0.550m) /

GOALTENDERS
Ryan Miller ($4.000m)
Eddie Lack ($1.150m)


RETAINED SALARIES (1.16% of upper limit)
Roberto Luongo ($0.800m—15.00%)
BONUS OVERAGE
$0
------

(estimations for 2014-15)
SALARY CAP: $69,000,000; CAP PAYROLL: $65,406,944; BONUSES: $858,333
CAP SPACE (23-man roster): $3,593,056

 

[Addison Rae]

Chris Tanev will not be signing for anywhere close to 1.5M.

 

[LickTheEnvelope]

Chris Tanev will not be signing for anywhere close to 1.5M.

Whoops! TY fixed that.

 

[Takumi3000]

Because of where Vancouver's stage is at (rebuild/retool), we might just luck out and have no expensive free agents want to come here. Any chance at acquiring McDavid/Eichel is better than none.

Unfortunately we have too much cap space and somebody will settle to come here for the $$$

 

[Addison Rae]

Retweeted by Elliotte Friedman
Uptown Sports ‏@uptownhockey 2m
Uptown client Cory Conacher is now an unrestricted free agent that can sign with any #NHL club starting tomorrow at noon. @BuffaloSabres

 

[Addison Rae]

Whoops!

Yeah, should be fine though with the amount of cap space we still have left in your roster.

 

[GetFocht]

Tanev will probably get 4 million.