Proposal: Send a thank you note to the Calgary Flames?

[ddawg1950]

Yep the Canucks fans should immediately put the Flames and Devils on their Xmas card list.....Lucic to Calgary and Subban to New Jersey. Two more potential disasters eliminated from Jimbo's radar screen. Hallelujah!

Possibly. But what will he give up to get rid of Louie?

 

[Oleksiak]

Possibly. But what will he give up to get rid of Louie?

Louie is headed to Utica to watch hockey for 3 years.

 

[F A N]

Teams can talk to players for the week prior to free agency.

Also I think you're coming to the conclusions you are because that's what you want to believe rather then what the evidence shows. Jim was pursuing lucic in free agency and was connected to him well before Eriksson's name was mentioned.

It's far more likely lucic was the first choice, from what quotes and interviews reveal, and Eriksson the consolation prize once lucic went to Edmonton.

Or Linden and Benning were trying to land both.

 

[Teflon Jim]

Possibly. But what will he give up to get rid of Louie?

There's still 2 unhappy hockey players lucic wants to go home and erickson want to go to a contender with a coach who may play him right.
Maybe .... nah never

 

[Iron Mike Sharpe]

Eriksson will retire as a Canuck, he's not going anywhere.

 

[VanJack]

Eriksson will retire as a Canuck, he's not going anywhere.

He probably won't 'retire' as a Canuck, since a buy-out becomes more feasible in the last year of his contract. But about the only way the Canucks are going to trigger anything before then, if they take another albatross contract back--which is really the essence of the Neal-Lucic swap.

And looking at it possibly, at least Eriksson brings a little more to the table than those guys. He can kill penalties; play on a shutdown line and at least can keep up in the skating department. In fact if his contract came in at $2-$3m instead of $6m, he might be considered a useful veteran player.