Confirmed with Link: Canucks sign F Dakota Joshua to 2-Year Deal (1-Way, $750K AAV)

[MS]

Yup. And a guy that seems to be sought after in the market, so high dollar and high term with no potential upside even if he plays to the contract.

Nice bonus with this contract getting him for the additional year.

Yup.

Smart teams find a young Deslauriers on the fringes like this in their mid-20s and get him for peanuts.

Dumb teams pay a 31 y/o Deslauriers a UFA premium on the downside of his career.

 

[Nucker101]

Good deal, worst case he's an effective AHL powerforward, best case he's a cheap 4th liner in the NHL

 

[Mr. Canucklehead]

CapFriendly updated to state this a 1-way deal as well - thread title updated.

 

[Vector]

Bit of conflicting info - CapFriendly has this as a two-way deal, Dhaliwal saying it's 1-way. Guess we'll see.

Honestly fine with either. If it's a one-way then he's the 13th guy or is being compensated at the AHL level with an NHL salary.

 

[Reverend Mayhem]

Yup.

Smart teams find a young Deslauriers on the fringes like this in their mid-20s and get him for peanuts.

Dumb teams pay a 31 y/o Deslauriers a UFA premium on the downside of his career.

This is exactly what I meant when I've been saying "let's dig in the bargain bin". Buy low, sell high. I think he will be a fan favourite.

 

[Bitz and Bites]

We can definitely use a guy with this kind of skill set who’s still young enough to grow his game
Good signing

 

[MS]

This is exactly what I meant when I've been saying "let's dig in the bargain bin". Buy low, sell high. I think he will be a fan favourite.

It's not often you see someone flatten Ryan Reaves with a bodycheck.

 

[m9]

I hate this comparison for obvious reasons, but on limited viewings here he kind of reminds me of Darren Archibald who I thought got a raw deal here.

 

[MS]

I hate this comparison for obvious reasons, but on limited viewings here he kind of reminds me of Darren Archibald who I thought got a raw deal here.

Very similar player and I avoided making that comparison for the same reasons.

 

[Reverend Mayhem]

I hate this comparison for obvious reasons, but on limited viewings here he kind of reminds me of Darren Archibald who I thought got a raw deal here.

I *liked* Archibald. Wish we used him more often.

 

[Bobby Orrtuzzo]

Young high energy physical 4th liner, most of us are surprised he wasn’t brought back. You guys should enjoy him.

 

[MS]

I *liked* Archibald. Wish we used him more often.

One of my biggest minor aggravations from the Benning regime.

Markus Granlund was a sack of ass. In 16-17 Granlund gets hurt with 30 games left in the season and Archibald steps into his roster spot. Archibald is literally better at absolutely everything - scores more, is better defensively, is the most physical player on the team. It's a huge upgrade. And is a homegrown product who worked his ass off to get that chance, capitalized on it and should have had an NHL career.

Instead he gets 1 preseason game the next year with AHLers and is immediately sent to Utica so they can hand the lazy shitstain Granlund his roster spot back.

 

[orcatown]

Saw him a lot when we shared a farm club with St. Louis. Looked like an excellent prospect. At that level had some offense on top of his toughness. At the time kept saying wish we had in our prospect pool.

Up and down last year so still not established in the NHL but like the pick up.

 

[Reverend Mayhem]

One of my biggest minor aggravations from the Benning regime.

Markus Granlund was a sack of ass. In 16-17 Granlund gets hurt with 30 games left in the season and Archibald steps into his roster spot. Archibald is literally better at absolutely everything - scores more, is better defensively, is the most physical player on the team. It's a huge upgrade. And is a homegrown product who worked his ass off to get that chance, capitalized on it and should have had an NHL career.

Instead he gets 1 preseason game the next year with AHLers and is immediately sent to Utica so they can hand the lazy shitstain Granlund his roster spot back.

Markus Granlund was one of the biggest fails in the pro scouting side of things. He got stapled to the Sedins for 2 whole months and everyone thought he would come in and score 20 goals the next season. We were told his "playmaking ability" was underrated and high-level. I can honestly say he was up there with Loui Eriksson in inspirational viewing. In that he inspired me to put my fist through the TV.

 

[m9]

One of my biggest minor aggravations from the Benning regime.

Markus Granlund was a sack of ass. In 16-17 Granlund gets hurt with 30 games left in the season and Archibald steps into his roster spot. Archibald is literally better at absolutely everything - scores more, is better defensively, is the most physical player on the team. It's a huge upgrade. And is a homegrown product who worked his ass off to get that chance, capitalized on it and should have had an NHL career.

Instead he gets 1 preseason game the next year with AHLers and is immediately sent to Utica so they can hand the lazy shitstain Granlund his roster spot back.

It's actually worse than that. Archibald showed he was a capable 4th line LW down the stretch and they went out and signed the Schaller contract to directly replace him.

Anyways..

 

[MS]

Markus Granlund was one of the biggest fails in the pro scouting side of things. He got stapled to the Sedins for 2 whole months and everyone thought he would come in and score 20 goals the next season. We were told his "playmaking ability" was underrated and high-level. I can honestly say he was up there with Loui Eriksson in inspirational viewing. In that he inspired me to put my fist through the TV.

He was the slowest, laziest Canuck in recent memory but inexplicably nobody ever called him out for being slow and lazy and somehow the party line was that he was a solid two way player.

He was an AHL scorer who was crap at everything else who spent 4 years undeservedly in the NHL and was immediately out of the league once another team got an up-close look at him.

It's actually worse than that. Archibald showed he was a capable 4th line LW down the stretch and they went out and signed the Schaller contract to directly replace him.

Anyways..

I've always considered Schaller to have replaced Gaunce and Granlund to have taken his spot back from Archibald. But either way.

That was the only time in the entire Benning regime that we had an effective 3rd line and they immediately dumped 2/3 of that line back to the AHL to replace them with garbage.

 

[Reverend Mayhem]

somehow the party line was that he was a solid two way player.

I didn't post here during the Granlund years, but I remember this statement. Makes me wanna laugh. Ridiculous.

 

[BenningHurtsMySoul]

This is a great signing. Gives us a ton of size on the 4th line and someone to keep other teams accountable if they take runs at smaller guys.

 

[God]

i saw darren archibald play in germany and he was still good

granted, the german league isn't great.

 

[PuckMunchkin]

Love this signing.

Was questioning walking away from Highmore but makes all the sense now.

 

[ratbid]

Like this signing. After the AHL postseason he just had, this is also one of those guys you give a look on an offensive line or power play in pre-season to see if there's some hidden potential there in a bigger role. 99.9% chance he's a 12th/13th physical forward, like he's always been but he's signed as exactly that so it's a no lose situation.

 

[Petey O]

Wow, just saw this signing. This is awesome value for the game he brings. Glad they're making this team tougher and faster with these signings.

 

[Donuts]

Dakota johnson

Me likey

 

[VanillaCoke]

He's a decent 4th liner, and a way better target than delaurier.

 

[Bertuzzzi44]

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