GDT: Free Agent Frenzy / Fantasy GM - Part 5

[Deeds26]

Adding Granlund would be solid, we need another playmaker in our top 6

Markus Granlund would be a solid addition to the team. Can play PK as well.

 

[dbaz]

Why do people think that burying players I. The minors helps the cap? They save $1m and have to fill the roster spot with another player making a $1m give or take...

depends on whos replacing. if replacing for example roussel with hoglander. that 200k savings and probably an upgrade

 

[Slapshot_11]

Any teams beneath the cap floor?

 

[Nazzlind]

If we buy out Sutter or LTIR Ferland, we should be good.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but if we go the LTIR route (assuming Ferland is eligible), we can still re-sign Virtanen, Gaudette, some other near league min healthy scratch types and we should be good. Just need to waive Eriksson, Baertschi, and paper down Pettersson, Hughes, and Juolevi to be under the cap on opening day so we can LTIR Ferland.

 

[iceburg]

depends on whos replacing. if replacing for example roussel with hoglander. that 200k savings and probably an upgrade

Sure. But the 200k on an 81.5m cap is a rounding error.

 

[Melvin]

I think I'm the only Benning is a Moron person who thinks working out a deal for OEL wouldn't be the worst thing.

I still think it - especially now that we have even more leverage.

Well let's bookmark it and revisit it in 2 years.

Maybe you can quote me saying I wouldn't trade Eriksson straight up for OEL and laugh at my stupidity.

 

[Mr. Canucklehead]

Any teams beneath the cap floor?

Ottawa is the only remaining team that needs to get to the cap floor.

 

[Peter Griffin]

The 3rd traded to Vegas is for the 22' draft, so one of the next two drafts.

D’oh! For some reason I completely glossed over the fact we already had the ‘20
draft. Well still, moving a pick in this draft should be an option to move salary.

 

[Grub]

Mike Hoffman (b.1989) Hockey Stats and Profile at hockeydb.com

Mike Hoffman anyone? If we can somehow get this guy for cheap... and for short term.. he had 59 points and 70 points the last 2 seasons.

 

[rypper]

D’oh! For some reason I completely glossed over the fact we already had the ‘20
draft. Well still, moving a pick in this draft should be an option to move salary.

It's been a weird year, draft/FA in October etc.

All options should be explored for sure.

 

[Diamonddog01]

Ottawa is the only remaining team that needs to get to the cap floor.

They are about 6.5M under the floor but need to sign Tierney and Brown...they could maybe take a contract like Sutter or Baertschi.

 

[Pastor Of Muppetz]

I'm really curious to know what the final offer Benning made actually was. I gotta imagine it probably included at least the Canucks' '21 1st.

I'm not sure about that...If there was..there would have to be a bad contact going back.

 

[Peen]

Eriksson and a 4th.

Seeing that we got an actual good value better player for a 3rd, I think Arizona needs to accept that they couldn't swindle Benning into a bad trade and if they want to cut salary, they need to do it in a way where they just take the loss short term for the benefit of getting out of it long term.

They'd need to retain at minimum 15% and then take on our bad contracts with virtually no assets attached for it to be a good idea for us.

I think people on this board would still disagree but I'd 100% do it if they took some combination of

Eriksson/Myers + Roussel/Beagle + Baertschi/Benn/Sutter + maybe some B grade assets for OEL at 15% retention.

Gets us out of over $11-14 million of cap this season and $9m the following season.

cc @Melvin that's probably what it would take for me to do it lmao

 

[Bettman Returnz]

Granlund will be too expensive imo. I'd like to see Haula signed for a cheap 1 year deal and Gaudette packaged with junk to clear cap space.

I had same thought of haula... could be a good middle six option with speed.

 

[THE Green Man]

They are about 6.5M under the floor but need to sign Tierney and Brown...they could maybe take a contract like Sutter or Baertschi.

Baertschi could work based on him making like 900K less than the cap hit- but I doubt they'd do that in all honesty- not enough of a crazy differential to bail us out

 

[BoHorvat 53]

If we found a way to sign Hoffman,

Miller - Pettersson - Hoffman
Pearson - Horvat - Boeser

Would definitely be an above average top-6. That’s on top of

Edler - Schmidt
Hughes - Myers

As our top-4. It’s a damn shame that we got so much cap space locked into some of these albatross contracts as we could’ve actually gone for it next year (and have been favourites seeing how valued cap space is and how much we would have)

 

[kanuck87]

If Nate Schmidt only gets a 3rd, OEL must have massive negative value. Make them eat Eriksson and Sutter, then maybe we can start talking.

 

[Peter Griffin]

I'm not sure about that...If there was..there would have to be a bad contact going back.

Runour was at least Sutter was going back and that Arizona wanted at least one of Demko, Podkolzin and Hoglander as part of the deal.

 

[Frankie Blueberries]

Granlund will be too expensive imo. I'd like to see Haula signed for a cheap 1 year deal and Gaudette packaged with junk to clear cap space.

He's coming off a bad season (30 points in 63 games) and it's a weird, flat cap offseason. I could see him signing a relatively cheap ($3-4 mill), 1 year "prove-it" contract to cash-in next season. Canucks definitely need a top 6 RW to bump Virtanen down to the bottom 6.

 

[StreetHawk]

Ottawa is the only remaining team that needs to get to the cap floor.

They won’t have any issues getting there

 

[BB06]

Mike Hoffman (b.1989) Hockey Stats and Profile at hockeydb.com

Mike Hoffman anyone? If we can somehow get this guy for cheap... and for short term.. he had 59 points and 70 points the last 2 seasons.

Hoffman is a PP merchant. We need a guy that's good at EV.

 

[Nucker101]

Hoffman is a PP merchant. We need a guy that's good at EV.

This, Canucks desperately need more ES scoring, too much reliance on the top guns and PP.

 

[GetFocht]

Benning outdid Sakic today, not an easy thing to do.

 

[Grub]

This, Canucks desperately need more ES scoring, too much reliance on the top guns and PP.

Agreed. Instead of ES professionals we have EN professionals (Pearson, Eriksson, etc.)

 

[Peen]

Hoffman is a PP merchant. We need a guy that's good at EV.

who are the best ES forwards left?

Smith, Fast, Toffoli, and Wennberg were on my own list.

If we had some cap space, we could have completely rebuilt our middle six.

Smith - Horvat - Toffoli
Pearson - Wennberg - Fast
Motte - Grant - Whoever