Confirmed with Link: Canucks re-sign F Justin Bailey to 1-Year, 2-Way Deal
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Good depth signing. I still feel like we should've had him in at least one game in the playoffs to use his speed and physicality to push back against Vegas and even St Louis.
There's basically unfinished business here. Hopefully Bailey continues to improve his game and gets a look. He's basically on his last legs as far as getting an NHL look.
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AHL guy for sure. Does signing these AHL guys over the last while indicate there will be an AHL season?
I'm likely feeding a troll here but I'm pretty sure 98+ % of the regular posters here know who Justin Bailey is. You apparently don't.
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They are going to find some place and some format for AHL players to play competitive, structured games where the outcome matters. There's no alternative. The NHL needs potential callups to be ready for game action and there's no other way to ensure that but to have them playing competitive hockey.
Remote possibility that he's a late bloomer, after a career year with the Comets. Definitely has NHL wheels, but up until now the hockey sense was apparently lacking, which is the reason he bounced from Buffalo to Philly, and then to free agency.
But it's hard to ignore 28 goals and 47 points in just 53 games in the AHL, which isn't an easy league to put up points. And as I remember, he was on the first unit PK for the Comets, so that's a potential role for him down the road.
A nice depth signing for both the Canucks and the Comets.
But it's hard to ignore 28 goals and 47 points in just 53 games in the AHL, which isn't an easy league to put up points. And as I remember, he was on the first unit PK for the Comets, so that's a potential role for him down the road.
A nice depth signing for both the Canucks and the Comets.
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Looked tremendous in Utica last year. At times, his speed just overwhelmed defenders and a lot of his goals were solely from his own effort featuring some great end to end rushes. (doubt a player like Virtenen would have looked any more dominant)
Big question is whether he can fit into some sort of team concept , especially defensively, or use teammates adequately.
Big question is whether he can fit into some sort of team concept , especially defensively, or use teammates adequately.
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There will be an AHL season. While the details remain to be finalized, Canucks will likely have a team in Utica, plus a taxi squad in Canada.
Bailey: “I just want to focus on what I can actually control. Do I think that one day I can find a way to stick in the NHL? One hundred percent. I think you look at guys’ careers and everyone has a different path to get where they want to be. Obviously, I’m grateful for everything that’s happened in my career. I’ve played a good amount of NHL games… I definitely know what it takes to get to the NHL. I’m just trying to figure out how to stay there full time.”
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MacEwen, Graovac, Bailey, Hawryluk, and Gadjovich are some pretty big/scrappy players. We ought to be punishing the other Canadian teams with these type of bodies in the system. They definitely need to be developed but how much worse than Beagle can they be?
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Only way Green will ever give a guy like him a chance is if he thinks he can PK. It’s the same reason why I expect ZMac to be healthy scratched at times this season. Green will take a PK’er over a superior 5v5 player that he doesn’t completely trust on the PK all day long.
If Markus Granlund was still on the team, these guys might still be behind him on the depth chart.
If Markus Granlund was still on the team, these guys might still be behind him on the depth chart.
I know it'll never happen, but I'd really like to see the Canucks try out 'a Utica line' with Bailey and MacEwan flanking somebody like Michaelis or Hawryluk. A couple of big wingers, with good wheels crashing and banging down low. And Michaelis seems like a decent two-way center with some offensive chops to his game. And if you wanted a more physical guy in the middle, then maybe Hawryluk is your center.
But sadly, Beagle is a fixture for Green on the fourth line....which effectively means you have one full line that isn't really capable of generating any offense.
But sadly, Beagle is a fixture for Green on the fourth line....which effectively means you have one full line that isn't really capable of generating any offense.
