Confirmed with Link: (June 26th, 2018) Canucks re-sign D Derrick Pouliot to 1-year Deal ($1.1M AAV)

[Mr. Canucklehead]

For better or for worse, he's back. Discuss.

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[Diamonddog01]

 

[Tryforthekingdom]

So they didn't qualify him...to give him a bigger raise.

 

[Mr. Canucklehead]

I hope for his sake (and ours) that he's able to round out some of the warts in his game and become an effective two-way blueliner for the Canucks.

 

[Pip]

Pouliot sucks and I hope that this is the last year I have to watch him as a Canuck.

 

[Mr. Canucklehead]

So they didn't qualify him...to give him a bigger raise.

Ryan Biech did an excellent breakdown of the fact that Pouliot had arbitration rights and could easily have commanded a sum larger than this in arbitration. Not qualifying him and signing him for less was a better move than qualifying him - but bringing him back in any sense is the part that's going to be questioned.

 

[Fire Benning]

Welp. Here I was thinking they'd actually be willing to let go of a player they acquired. I should've known better.

 

[StreetHawk]

So they didn't qualify him...to give him a bigger raise.

That’s based on your assumption that he would simply sign his QO.

Tendering a QO just slows you to maintain his rights. For guys with big cap numbers like lehner/mrazek, who would sign their QO it’s a matter of not wanting to pay the guy that much.

Canucks didn’t want to go to arbitration with pouliot from what I am gathering.

 

[VanJack]

Basically a 'show me' contract...he's still an RFA at the end of the season....Canucks can either re-sign him or expose him to Seattle because he'll have the requisite number of NHL games to be eligible. No lose situation really.

 

[Fire Benning]

Positive aspect, this is probably the last season we'll have to watch Pouliot and Granlund.

 

[Superlative Soup]

This season is going to be painful. Year of the stopgaps.

 

[Billy Kvcmu]

His qualifying offer was 800k but they didnt qualify him....
I guess they want to give him a new fancy sports car?

 

[Peen]

Basically a 'show me' contract...he's still an RFA at the end of the season....Canucks can either re-sign him or expose him to Seattle because he'll have the requisite number of NHL games to be eligible. No lose situation really.

Forgot about expansion. I guess that's a positive. The only positive.

 

[Peen]

His qualifying offer was 800k but they didnt qualify him....
I guess they want to give him a new fancy sports car?

He wouldn't have taken that and likely it would have gone to arbitration where he could have argued for a lot more and possibly have gotten it. He sucks, but if they were bringing him back then $ wise it's likely the best they could have done.

 

[Addison Rae]

yuck, tweener skilled defender that needs insane sheltering to be effective. would much rather give a player with an actual chance of doing something those minutes.

 

[Billy Kvcmu]

He wouldn't have taken that and likely it would have gone to arbitration where he could have argued for a lot more and possibly have gotten it. He sucks, but if they were bringing him back then $ wise it's likely the best they could have done.

Makes sense, and as others mentioned, there is another expansion draft coming up
And my stand on him has always been that as long as it's a one year deal, i dont really care

 

[Verbalyst]

Small price to pay for Young Drew Doughty

 

[Billy Kvcmu]

Basically a 'show me' contract...he's still an RFA at the end of the season....Canucks can either re-sign him or expose him to Seattle because he'll have the requisite number of NHL games to be eligible. No lose situation really.

smart move if the expansion is the actually factor why they resigned him

 

[Canucks LB]

He wanted 1.5m

 

[m9]

I'm just so tired of this management group's moves that I don't even have the energy to comment specifically on this player.

You can paste this post into the past Granlund thread and the future Nic Dowd thread.

 

[m9]

Are people really bringing up the expansion draft as the reason for signing him?

They already signed Biega and Bachman - they are covered at those two positions for the draft. They have tons of bad forwards, they are covered there too. Don't use "expansion" as an excuse for bad decisions.

 

[NoShowWilly]

Fine with this. If Hughes or Juolevi want to come take over, no big deal to see him sit.

 

[Billy Kvcmu]

Are people really bringing up the expansion draft as the reason for signing him?

They already signed Biega and Bachman - they are covered at those two positions for the draft. They have tons of bad forwards, they are covered there too. Don't use "expansion" as an excuse for bad decisions.

It's never a bad thing to have one extra player you can potentially exposed in the expansion draft that you wont miss at all

 

[M2Beezy]

Huh too bad

 

[Fire Benning]

I'm just so tired of this management group's moves that I don't even have the energy to comment specifically on this player.

You can paste this post into the past Granlund thread and the future Nic Dowd thread.

This management group's attachment to trash fringe players is astonishing. Just because you acquired this player, doesn't mean you have to prioritize keeping them around. Simply being willing to cut them loose can go a long away.