D-Day - Canucks waive Baertschi, Biega, Goldobin

[Bettman Returnz]

Ferland Petey Boeser
Pearson Horvat Miller
Baer Sutter Leivo
Eriksson Beagle Virtanen
Motte

Schaller waive
Gaudette ahl
Goldobin waive or traded for a 6th round pick

More or less what I envision happening too..

 

[M2Beezy]

What a dire situation. Schaller, Eriksson, Sutter, Pearson, Beagle and Motte should all be waived, but there is somehow no youth to take their places. Ugh.

And about to give up our 1st Rd pick this draft or the next!

 

[DarrenX]

What a dire situation. Schaller, Eriksson, Sutter, Pearson, Beagle and Motte should all be waived, but there is somehow no youth to take their places. Ugh.

Pearson scored 9G in 19 games last year.

 

[DarrenX]

it is insane that this bad a team is up against the cap. So many stupid moves trying to make a bad team tolerable.

Hey now, stop being a hater. GM Benning is doing a real good job. /s

 

[VanillaCoke]

Should be Eriksson. Could be any of him, Motte, goldobin, schaller.
Don't think any of them would be claimed on waivers, but maybe have a shred of trade value once already in the minors.

 

[Fire Benning]

Yeah a handful of guys who likely would be cut if they were on other team.

In my ideal lineup Goldobin, Eriksson, and Schaller all get waived.

 

[tantalum]

Well Green has taken to calling Sutter "elite" on the penalty kill and love Beagle on the PK as well. He seems to see both those guys at center and he also seems to see Gaudette at center.

I suspect Gaudette gets sent down. And while he certainly outplayed a bunch of bubble guys a stretch in the AHL to see if he can get his defensive game up to snuff wouldn't be a disaster...but if he deserves to be on the team it has to be with a known timeline. Personally, I would start him out as 4th line center in sheltered minutes like last year and asking him to forget offense and concentrate on his defensive play. If that part clean up you open the offense by moving him up the lineup.

But essentially for me I don't really care about who gets waived or traded on a pretty big player list: Schaller, Eriksson, Sutter, Beagle, Virtanen, Fantenberg, Biega, Motte, Leivo, Goldobin, Baerstchi

 

[Peen]

My opinion..but I would prefer Sutter on a line with Baertschi/Gaudette..Even though Gaudette/Baertschi had a few cool moments in the pre-season..In the regular season I could see that duo conceding goals on a regular basis (and you're talking about risk)..It doesn't hurt to have a player experienced in playing a shutdown role on that line.

Sutter was bleeding goals 5 on 5 last year, and wasn't good the year before that. He also has not shown anything this preseason to suggest that those years were outliers.

 

[VanillaCoke]

Waive Eriksson motte and goldobin, claim Ho-sang

 

[iceburg]

This is, in part, a question of who makes the opening night roster. If Eriksson is the 13th forward, it makes complete sense to place him on waivers. There is no way any team will pick him up. He doesn't have to be assigned to my knowledge. He can sit in the press box as a non-roster player until injuries happen and they need him in the line-up.

Goldobin waive.

Schaller waive.

Baertschi 13th forward.

Ferland - Pettersson - Boeser
Pearson - Horvat - Miller
Leivo - Gaudette- Virtanen
Sutter - Beagle - Motte
Baertschi

 

[Mr. Canucklehead]

Given Murph’s sources and how he rarely goes out on a limb without a reason, I think it’s safe to say Gaudette makes the team.

Goldobin being gone is a given. Schaller staying makes sense given his camp, which brings us back to Eriksson or Baertschi, in my opinion.

 

[Mr. Canucklehead]

Dhaliwal with some follow up. Waiving Biega would be bloody stupid.

 

[VanillaCoke]

Looks like Mr. Canucklehead wasn't ice cold, well done!

 

[Fire Benning]

Schaller and Eriksson both stay, lol.

 

[canucks20]

And Benning somehow got an extension lol. Easily the worst GM in the league. Let's waive decent players in Baertschi and Biega and keep trash like Eriksson

 

[Josepho]

Benning is such a f***ing loser lmao

 

[Hockeyphysio]

Bizarre to say the least

 

[MS]

I hate that Eriksson makes the team because he's paid too much. He's done essentially nothing in preseason. You'd think a guy would have some pride after the dismal last couple of years and look to at least try but Eriksson just doesn't seem to care. He's a player I forget about too often as I don't notice him playing and he does no interviews etc that I see. I can't stand having him on the team.

Eriksson hasn't 'done nothing'.

He's been actively horrible and a complete liability.

If he was doing nothing, you could actually make an argument to keep him. But it's reached the point where he so embarrassingly behind the play it's basically impossible to keep playing him with a straight face. His performance in the last preseason game might have been the worst game I've ever seen played by a Canuck forward. Was probably into double digits in turnovers.

Waiving Biega or Baertschi to keep this useless lump on the roster would be almost impossible to comprehend.

 

[Hockeyphysio]

I would pissed if someone took 20 million of money ( a year!) and pissed it away like Benning does.

 

[YouNeedToBeInformed]

Baertschi gone? This team.

 

[DekeyPete]

has to be goldobin and erikson. would love sutter to be sent down too

 

[tantalum]

Dhaliwal with some follow up. Waiving Biega would be bloody stupid.

Now while I say I wouldn't really care if Biega was waived, trade etc (he was on my list)...he most certainly is at the bottom of my list not the top. Same can be said for Baertschi.

Now it's not shocking that the canucks will go with the opposite of what I think but I'm somehow a bit surprised they aren't trying to get someone to take a flyer on Schaller and hell even Eriksson (wouldn't happen).

edit: Goldobin was a no brainer. They never should have qualified him in the first place.

 

[ATypicalCanadian]

The team that has trouble scoring goes out and waives a guy who can score. The logic of this management is uncanny.

 

[Peen]

Dude what the f***

Virtanen and Eriksson over Baertschi and Biega is so cringe it hurts

Now Gaudette will be saddled with some useless f***ing plugs on his wing as well

 

[polarbearcub]

If Sven gets put on waivers , I’m going to lose my mind.

We can’t score and we are letting a 20 goal guy go? What a f***ing joke.

1 or two injuries and we are a team full of grinders