Friedman: Canucks in the high end UFA market?

[clunk]

That apprentice that you are dissing drafted the guy you named your account after.

Thomas Gradin?

 

[TorontoTrades]

Watch Panarin go to Vancouver

They do have an ocean..

I think they chase Stone if he gets to market.

 

[dellzor]

Stone or Karlsson would be great.

 

[Cogburn]

Karlsson, Stone, Panarin or Duchene are as "small" as I hope we pursue, or possibly either Varlamov or Bobrovski short term.

Anyone else best be on a sweet deal, we have over paid for our depth players already.

 

[Son of Petter]

Freidman’s specialty has become just pure speculation

 

[Horse McHindu]

I don’t mind if the Canucks go after a high ticket guys as long as said player doesn’t command 9 million AAV or above.

 

[kanucks25]

Freidman’s specialty has become just pure speculation

He's just thinking out loud / giving his opinion.

We post it here, or at least interpret it, as if it's a legit rumor.

It's not his fault, unless you want him to only type on his keyboard when he's ready to actually report on a legit rumor.

 

[tfu92]

Watch Panarin go to Vancouver

seeing how tryamkin left us for the KHL, and goldobin in the perpetual green doghouse, i would bet good money panarin doesnt even glance our way

some might disagree, but I would be very interested in a few of the top UFA d-men coming up, and almost no interest in the UFA forwards. we have too many up and coming strong forwards for us to put a 6 year deal or so into an overrated forward. gaudette, madden, dahlen in my opinion all make it into the big leagues, somewhere in the top 9. thats 3 spots in the next few years along with boeser horvat EP40.

however, our D is absolutely atrocious. we have 2 legit prospects in hughes and woo, who i predict to be a #2 D and a #4 D respectively. juolevi has really stalled in his development due to injury, and its a big mystery if he still projects as a top 4 D or not. therefore i dont mind acquring more actual NHL level D since our current roster is so garbage when markstrom is not hiding their deficiencies behind elite level goaltending. i dont mind if we literally ship out everyone save stecher and edler. gudbranson, pouliot and MDZ are a MUST remove, while biega, hutton (imo overrated just because he plays 25min now) are still tweeners at best.

my priorities (assuming we resign edler):
1. EK65 by a mile. give him whatever he wants, even if he wants above mcdavids level.
2. Stralman at a 3 year deal (doubt this happens)
3. kronwall if he wants to leave DET

 

[ManwithNoIdentity]

Every team with money to burn, Will chase high end free agents. Sounds like Detroit will. But will those high end free agents sign with said teams. Stay tuned.

Christ I hope not

If any, which would you not spending on? You're usually one of the more rational ones here

 

[member 290103]

Stone or Karlsson would be great.

Why not both!? LOL

Dim will have his sights set on Ferland. Look for a 5 year deal at $6M per. I mean, they only have 3 years left on that Sweet Louie contract, they need something to replace it when it's up.

 

[Steely Van]

If they sign Karlsson, long term I think he will probaby burn out or be injured during the last half of his contract as most over 30 players do. Leaving Vancouver stuck with another bad contract. They need to stay away from anyone over 27 who will only sign for 5+ years and overpaid.

 

[Cquant]

Edler - Karlsson
Hughes - Tanev
Hutton - Stecher

That is a blueline I like. Only need to get rid of Guddy. Send Juolevi back down to the A, let him marinate until we get an injury. Keep Biega.
The forward group on the other hand could really use so retooling. Need to get rid of some of the dead weight, bring in some prospects. So like, replace Granlund with MacEwan, replace Sutter with Gaudette. The only thing missing would be a decent top 6 guy to replace Goldy. But I don't think we could get 2 high profile UFA's.

 

[olli]

The issue is the other 98% that never work out.

I agree most ufa signings don’t workout. Although Friedman said “high end “ ufa, and you said this years ufa crop was bad.

 

[DownGoesMcDavid]

Rushing the rebuild. Stupid.

Rushing?

This is like year 3-4 of the rebuild.

I mean i guess it can be considered rushing if they are following the Oilere/Leaf 10 yr rebuild plan.

 

[3074326]

He's just thinking out loud / giving his opinion.

We post it here, or at least interpret it, as if it's a legit rumor.

It's not his fault, unless you want him to only type on his keyboard when he's ready to actually report on a legit rumor.

People just like to trash hockey writers for doing their jobs on HFBoards for whatever reason. This was clearly not an actual rumor and he even said that directly. He gets paid to talk hockey, and speculation is part of that.. I don't get the hostility. Seems petty and unnecessary. Let's get the pitchforks out, a hockey writer is speculating about hockey!

 

[AustonsNostrils]

Friedman is such a genius. Of course the Canucks will go after a big name UFA. Pettersson sped up their rebuild in a big way. Maybe Hughes comes in and has an impact quick too. Stone is the guy they should go after hard or Duchene. Nucks have the cap space and they don't have much in the way of prospects.

They should be trying to get Tryamkin back.

 

[Love]

I don’t think we’ll have the cap space because Benning already had his fun in free agency and used about $17.4mil in cap space on Sutter, Gudbranson, Eriksson, and Beagle.

This is where those deals come back to haunt him.

 

[Number1RedWingsFan52]

Christ I hope not

If any, which would you not spending on? You're usually one of the more rational ones here

I mean i can see Holland pursuing one of Karlsson, Stone, Panarin possibly Duchene. But like i said it doesn't meant that any of those guys would chose Detroit.

 

[Number1RedWingsFan52]

seeing how tryamkin left us for the KHL, and goldobin in the perpetual green doghouse, i would bet good money panarin doesnt even glance our way

some might disagree, but I would be very interested in a few of the top UFA d-men coming up, and almost no interest in the UFA forwards. we have too many up and coming strong forwards for us to put a 6 year deal or so into an overrated forward. gaudette, madden, dahlen in my opinion all make it into the big leagues, somewhere in the top 9. thats 3 spots in the next few years along with boeser horvat EP40.

however, our D is absolutely atrocious. we have 2 legit prospects in hughes and woo, who i predict to be a #2 D and a #4 D respectively. juolevi has really stalled in his development due to injury, and its a big mystery if he still projects as a top 4 D or not. therefore i dont mind acquring more actual NHL level D since our current roster is so garbage when markstrom is not hiding their deficiencies behind elite level goaltending. i dont mind if we literally ship out everyone save stecher and edler. gudbranson, pouliot and MDZ are a MUST remove, while biega, hutton (imo overrated just because he plays 25min now) are still tweeners at best.

my priorities (assuming we resign edler):
1. EK65 by a mile. give him whatever he wants, even if he wants above mcdavids level.
2. Stralman at a 3 year deal (doubt this happens)
3. kronwall if he wants to leave DET

Yeah like Kronwall would ever leave Detroit for Vancouver, Yeah that's so not happening.

 

[ManwithNoIdentity]

I mean i can see Holland pursuing one of Karlsson, Stone, Panarin possibly Duchene. But like i said it doesn't meant that any of those guys would chose Detroit.

I would love to see KH try to go after EK or Panarin but neither would see Detroit as a desireable

 

[Bettman Returnz]

Rushing?

This is like year 3-4 of the rebuild.

I mean i guess it can be considered rushing if they are following the Oilere/Leaf 10 yr rebuild plan.

I would like to think we are a couple years away for taking a big step. As mentioned in other threads you got to have the perfect timing. Meaning your top end is just about to enter their prime and supported with the best pieces. This years UFA crop is pretty darn good but you need to tread lightly. If you find the right player than so be it.

 

[PavelBure10]

I think almost every team will be looking to sign that big name free agent including Vancouver. With the Canucks glaring need of a top defenseman, and another impact forward, it is quite easy to speculate that Vancouver will be adding a big name FA.

My guess Karlsson is their top choice. With Stone, and Panarin not far behind.

 

[Hierso]

Rushing?

This is like year 3-4 of the rebuild.

I mean i guess it can be considered rushing if they are following the Oilere/Leaf 10 yr rebuild plan.

The nucks got lucky with Pettersson which will cut the rebuild time by a season at least. If you have a future #1 center in your team it's easy to build around him. The only UFA that they should be looking at this season is better depth for the D. Karlsson would be great but he would also come at a huge cost, with several bad moves on the UFA-front i'm not sure if they dare to go after such a player. They still need to pay Boeser 5-6m depending on the lenght and down the line they will have Pettersson and Huges. And both of them will take atleast 20% of the cap space.

 

[UK Canuck]

Unless its Panarin, Stone or Karlsson please dont do it Jim, I beg of you, I dont want the Canucks to be giving Michael Ferland or Wayne Simmonds 6m a year for the next half decade, if we're gonna overpay for a UFA at least make it someone worthwhile

 

[DudeWhereIsMakar]

Erik Karlsson is their best bet out of the free agents in terms of money, but what they should do is take cap dump along with extra assets such as prospects and high-end draft picks before their contracts expire. That way they can get ready to give Pettersson, Boeser, etc. the big bucks when it's their time. Honestly, they should work on Boeser now.