Posted about this and everything else coming to light last week. P1 will be a real issue for BC. The vaccine roll out will be tough to combat this monster. Forget about fans in the stands even into 2022. So guess no pressure for Canuck success. - NuckUp
You posted about 4000 deaths on April 7th last week?
When the Bauer reps were here for demo days on the ice and we had the radar gun on the ice it was my buddy that had the 93mph wrister...insane - LordHumungous
3x3 would be max for me. Anything more and its too much for him. - manvanfan
Signing him for anything is a mistake I think, unless they're sure of their cap situation for next year (ie. Petey and Hughes' numbers).
There are comparable players you could get for less. Sure, he's a known known, but with cap space as tight as it will be, why sign a more-than-likely declining asset to a deal that's going to hamper you?
If he signed a 1 year deal, maybe, but even then I wouldn't.
I wonder if this song was inspired by anything, Great but very sad song. - henny1953
Wiki:
The song is told from the "voice of an anguished hockey parent from an unidentified northern town", whose son had earned a scholarship with a U.S. team before being killed when a truck travelling in the wrong lane crashed into his car.[1]
While the song is fictional, Cochrane has said it was inspired by a custodian who approached him before a show at a rink and requested Cochrane play his son's favourite song, "Boy Inside the Man" from the band's 1986 self-titled album. He noticed the man was using the past tense, and as the conversation continued, Cochrane understood that the father's son had died.[2]
The story resonated with Cochrane, who said he began to write a song that crafted a stronger hockey narrative and thematic elements of mortality around the basis of his encounter with the father. The singer spent less than half an hour forming the basic structure, which he wrote with only a tape recorder, a guitar and a notepad in a rented bungalow in Mississauga, Ontario.[2][1]
Signing him for anything is a mistake I think, unless they're sure of their cap situation for next year (ie. Petey and Hughes' numbers).
There are comparable players you could get for less. Sure, he's a known known, but with cap space as tight as it will be, why sign a more-than-likely declining asset to a deal that's going to hamper you?
If he signed a 1 year deal, maybe, but even then I wouldn't. - NewYorkNuck
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Apr 7 @ 9:29 PM ET
Just when we were all hoping for some good news down the road. Fuk.
"B.C. health officials believe the province is about one month behind Ontario's variant trend and that province just declared its third state of emergency."
Signing him for anything is a mistake I think, unless they're sure of their cap situation for next year (ie. Petey and Hughes' numbers).
There are comparable players you could get for less. Sure, he's a known known, but with cap space as tight as it will be, why sign a more-than-likely declining asset to a deal that's going to hamper you?
If he signed a 1 year deal, maybe, but even then I wouldn't. - NewYorkNuck
According to Friedman. He had one guy saying 15m for petey and hughes. Another told him 18m including demko.
That leaves about 8m for 9 players to be signed. As it stands right now with multiply things possible.
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Apr 7 @ 9:36 PM ET
Just when we were all hoping for some good news down the road. Fuk.
"B.C. health officials believe the province is about one month behind Ontario's variant trend and that province just declared its third state of emergency." - VanHockeyGuy
According to Friedman. He had one guy saying 15m for petey and hughes. Another told him 18m including demko.
That leaves about 8m for 9 players to be signed. As it stands right now with multiply things possible. - manvanfan
Hmm.. that seems not good... minus the 3 for Pearson... ah, 5 mil for 8 players. Smart.
With a grain of salt, this is from Dayal... does a good job of breaking down the large pieces of it (my underline):
With Demko’s new deal factored in, the Canucks will enter the offseason with 14 players signed at $58.4 million, per CapFriendly, leaving just north of $23 million in space.
That may sound like a decent chunk, but the flexibility disappears very rapidly. For starters, $1.7 million could get chopped off the top from performance bonuses for Elias Pettersson and Quinn Hughes’ entry-level contracts. After that, the Canucks will need to re-sign those two franchise players.
Let’s walk through a hypothetical exercise to illustrate what the situation could look like. The goal here isn’t to be precise about exact numbers since we’re making projections about RFAs that haven’t signed yet — so don’t get caught up over how Player X or Y should be cheaper or more expensive than illustrated here — the idea is simply to get a general snapshot.
Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman posited that the Canucks have budgeted roughly $15 million total for Pettersson and Hughes on bridge deals. If we presume that in conjunction with modest show-me deals for Adam Gaudette and Olli Juolevi, plus Vasili Podkolzin coming over on his ELC, the club runs into a very tight jam. Vancouver would have roughly $3.52 million in space with 19 players signed after these RFA projections and the potential performance bonus overage. That still doesn’t sound too bad; the problem is the number of holes that would remain on this roster:
(CapFriendly)
In this scenario, the Canucks would still need to add a top-four defender to replace Alex Edler. That alone would take up the majority of the club’s remaining cap space. Given how tight it gets, you have to wonder if the Canucks are really just better off letting Tanner Pearson, who’s not currently factored into this projection, walk to free agency, especially since this roster doesn’t look contention-ready.
Now there are obviously ways for the Canucks to clear additional space. If the Canucks can’t shed Jake Virtanen’s salary on the trade market, for instance, a buyout would wipe out $2.5 million of his $2.55 million cap hit. There’s also the possibility of demoting Loui Eriksson to the AHL for the maximum buriable relief (projected to be $1.125 million) and the fact that the club will lose someone to Seattle in the expansion draft.
Again, this is why we’re only presenting this as a general snapshot rather than a precise calculation of their exact situation. There are moving parts, the situation is fluid.
That said, the general snapshot is clear: It’s unlikely the Canucks will have the flexibility this offseason to make substantial upgrades after re-signing their RFAs.
Lots of ways to free more cap (trade, Seattle, buy outs, etc) but it's not the prettiest picture right now.
Notice the middle bullet about vaccinated and re-infection. Brought that up last week too. But some too naive to comprehend. I did warn about mutation and variants this time last year. It was not understood at the time either.
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Apr 7 @ 9:51 PM ET
Notice the middle bullet about vaccinated and re-infection. Brought that up last week too. But some too naive to comprehend. I did warn about mutation and variants this time last year. It was not understood at the time either. - NuckUp
I'm not going to get into the debate in here anymore. Not worth it, it's bad enough with the slurpers.
Yup, it will just take awhile for it to become real for some. - VanHockeyGuy
It's a flaw that if you didn't experience danger first hand that you don't respect its presence. Living in fear is not the requirement either. Just awareness of actions and effect.
