walgrove
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- Oct 21, 2010
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Let's face it. We (Canucks) wanted two scorers to help us out and we have only one so far. We know the other one will have to come via the trade route or from an RFA signing that the current team wishes to walk away from.
In the current NHL, a 25 goal scorer is really hard to come by. Benning has stated he wants a gritty scorer but lets face it, power forwards don't grow on trees and Okposo who was riding on Tavares coat tails just got a 7 year mega deal as a result with the Sabres.
The Canucks have about $4M in cap (adding a cushion for injury) and next year they will likely lose Burrows and miller ($10.5M) which they will use to resign some younger RFA's like Horvat, Hutton, Gudbranson.
Jeff Skinner, despite concussion worries in the past, has consistently shown he is an elite scorer. He has been shopped for years while Carolina gets younger and sheds salary in a small market city with ownership issues. http://www.thehockeynews.com/blog/r...nner-but-will-have-hard-time-finding-a-taker/. With Eric Stall gone ,Carolina is looking for a complete rebuild
To Vancouver : Skinner ($1M retained or straight up) http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdisplay.php?pid=116085
To carolina : Sbisa, Cole Cassels + (Gaunce/Hansen if needed)
Have you seen their defence? (http://stats.nhlnumbers.com/teams/CAR?year=2017). Yes we give up on Cassels but we have enough Centers for years to come and the next cap expense is fairly benign...
We may have Boeser stay in 2017 and also perhaps Demko and Juolevi (although still young so likely 2 yrs in AHL me thinks). So we have enough ample talent coming in to fill the pipeline cheaply and with some further cap comfort for next few years
3 solid scoring lines...
Sedin-Sedin-Erickson
Skinner-Sutter-Hansen
Baertschi-Horvat-Virtanen
Etem-Gaunce-Burrows
Dorsett-Granlund
In the current NHL, a 25 goal scorer is really hard to come by. Benning has stated he wants a gritty scorer but lets face it, power forwards don't grow on trees and Okposo who was riding on Tavares coat tails just got a 7 year mega deal as a result with the Sabres.
The Canucks have about $4M in cap (adding a cushion for injury) and next year they will likely lose Burrows and miller ($10.5M) which they will use to resign some younger RFA's like Horvat, Hutton, Gudbranson.
Jeff Skinner, despite concussion worries in the past, has consistently shown he is an elite scorer. He has been shopped for years while Carolina gets younger and sheds salary in a small market city with ownership issues. http://www.thehockeynews.com/blog/r...nner-but-will-have-hard-time-finding-a-taker/. With Eric Stall gone ,Carolina is looking for a complete rebuild
To Vancouver : Skinner ($1M retained or straight up) http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdisplay.php?pid=116085
To carolina : Sbisa, Cole Cassels + (Gaunce/Hansen if needed)
Have you seen their defence? (http://stats.nhlnumbers.com/teams/CAR?year=2017). Yes we give up on Cassels but we have enough Centers for years to come and the next cap expense is fairly benign...
We may have Boeser stay in 2017 and also perhaps Demko and Juolevi (although still young so likely 2 yrs in AHL me thinks). So we have enough ample talent coming in to fill the pipeline cheaply and with some further cap comfort for next few years
3 solid scoring lines...
Sedin-Sedin-Erickson
Skinner-Sutter-Hansen
Baertschi-Horvat-Virtanen
Etem-Gaunce-Burrows
Dorsett-Granlund
