Confirmed with Link: [VAN/ARI] Garland,OEL(12% retained) for 9th OA,2nd in 22,7th in 23,Beagle,Roussel,Eriksson

[Mr. Canucklehead]

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[Bleach Clean]

What is this stupid GM thinking?

 

[Hansen]

Go Kraken

 

[canuckking1]

This team is f***ed for 5 more years. Benning not getting canned to end the season is the worse thing to happen.

 

[rypper]

OEL's contract is top 5 worst in the league. Excellent work Jim.

 

[CalderSchmalder]

If there is 50% salary retention on OEL it would be slightly better, still bad though.

 

[GetFocht]

Canucks effectively get better for the upcoming season.

OEL with a change of scenery will be great.

 

[timw33]

OEL's contract is top 5 worst in the league. Excellent work Jim.

 

[FireBenningNow]

This franchise is right up there with the sabres. Honestly what a joke.

 

[BoHorvat 53]

So we dump expiring contracts that all end within the next year or 2 or whatever it is and take back OEL for 6 years? And give up 9th overall pick too? Well, Benning just set the franchise back a couple of years. What a f***ing moron

 

[Angry Little Elf]

Pagnotta reports that holtby is going to Arizona too

 

[Mr. Canucklehead]

If there is 50% salary retention on OEL it would be slightly better, still bad though.

I won't even have words if there isn't major salary retention here. You just traded one year $12.5M cap for 6 years of $8.25m, plus whatever Garland makes.

 

[iceburg]

Just so this is memorialized: the cost of signing very bad contracts is a 9th overall draft pick.

 

[mriswith]

Absolute f***ing moron.

On day 1 this is a top 3 worst trades in franchise history with an excellent shot at being the worst trade in franchise history.

 

[Melvin]

So we dumped a bunch of contracts that expire after this year and the 9th overall pick to take on the 2nd worst contract in the entire league. Amazing.

 

[Mr. Canucklehead]

Pagnotta reports that holtby is going to Arizona too

Where do you see that?

 

[Vector]

This feels like an animal that backed itself into a corner and is desperately flinging every bit of feces it has.

 

[timw33]

Canucks effectively get better for the upcoming season.

OEL with a change of scenery will be great.

OEL has been on a massive nosedive since his surgery, there is absolutely nothing he could do that would make him worth 6MM, let alone 8.25MM for six ****ing years.

We traded away a handful of boat anchors that we could have just ate for another year and saddled one of the worst contracts in the year around the necks of our young core.

 

[SeawaterOnIce]

So we dump expiring contracts that all end within the next year or 2 or whatever it is and take back OEL for 6 years? And give up 9th overall pick too? Well, Benning just set the franchise back a couple of years. What a f***ing moron

f*** Benning. It's on Aquilini at this point.

It's like putting an alcoholic with a history of multiple crashes and DUI's in charge of driving a school bus.

 

[supercanuck]

Why are we the ones giving up the draft picks? Does he not understand how horrible that OEL contract is?

 

[MS]

I won't even have words if there isn't major salary retention here. You just traded one year $12.5M cap for 6 years of $8.25m, plus whatever Garland makes.

The fact that so many contracts are going the other way for next season to make things balance/work would indicate that the retained amount is small at best.

 

[Royal Canuck]

Pain.

 

[Aqualung]

All he had to do was hang on for one more season and have cap flexibility. Instead you’ve got amGM with a short term and lease trying to save his job by mortgaging the future.

 

[BoHorvat 53]

Just so this is memorialized: the cost of signing very bad contracts is a 9th overall draft pick.

But that’s not the final cost, we took on OEL’s albatross deal as well lol

 

[Billy Kvcmu]

WAIT…
It’s actually incredible to see us off load so many bad contracts at once
If not for the return of OEL