Wishful thinking

Created by: ahdede

Team: 2020-21 Vancouver Canucks

Initial Creation Date: May 9, 2020

Published: Jun. 30, 2020

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Legend

Left Handed

Original Team

Waivers Exempt

Right Handed

Position

Trade Clause

Max Perf. Bonus

Expiry Status

Term Remaining

McDavid, Connor

$12,500,000 ( Performance Bonus

$250,000)

NMC

UFA - 5

Description

RESTRICTIONS
Minimum $1.7m cap space to cover Pettersson and Hughes bonuses
Resign 2 of Markstrom, Tanev, Toffoli
No CBOs / Mutual terminations

Trade for Caleb Jones - While Virtanen has improved over the past 2 years, we should trade him now while his value is increasing for a young dman. Tough to trade him to a division rival, but Jones projects to become a top 4 dman and is dirt cheap for 2 seasons. Provides EDM an opportunity to turn a potential dman exposed in Expansion Draft into a fwd.

Trade for Erik Cernak - Similar structure to the JT Miller trade. TB is in a cap crunch so they most likely do not want players back. Steep but fair price. Opportunity to play with Hughes, potential to be long term D partners.

Trade for Ryan Kesler - Eriksson is owed $5m in cash over 2 years after $3m signing bonus is paid. Kesler is owed $13.35m cash over 2 years. With Kesler injured indefinitely, insurance will cover 80% owed, leaving the team to cover 20%, or $2.67m. VAN retains 50% of Eriksson's contract, leaving each team to pay $2.5m in cash over 2 years. By trading Kesler, ANA saves $170k in cash and gains a player who can suit up and contribute. 4th rd pick added as sweetener for taking on $3m in cap. VAN pays $2.67m to Kesler + $2.5m to Eriksson = $5.17m cash and saves $3m in cap space for 2 years.

$25.8m in cap space for the following season. Pettersson and Hughes will probably be signed to bridge deals because of flat cap.

Free Agent Signings

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Bailey, Justin	1	$800,000
Brisebois, Guillaume	1	$750,000
Chatfield, Jalen	1	$800,000
Virtanen, Jake	2	$2,500,000
MacEwen, Zack	1	$875,000
Gaudette, Adam	2	$1,600,000
Motte, Tyler	1	$1,000,000
Cernak, Erik	2	$2,200,000
Stecher, Troy	1	$2,200,000

UFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Graovac, Tyler	1	$800,000
Leivo, Josh	1	$1,600,000
Markström, Jacob	4	$5,600,000
Toffoli, Tyler	4	$5,250,000
Domingue, Louis	1	$1,000,000

Trades

VAN

Conditional pick compensation for resigning Toffoli

LAK

2022 4th round pick (VAN)

VAN

Jones, Caleb
2022 2nd round pick (EDM)

EDM

Virtanen, Jake

VAN

Kesler, Ryan

ANA

Eriksson, Loui ($3,000,000 retained)
2020 4th round pick (VAN)

VAN

Cernak, Erik [RFA Rights]

TBL

2021 3rd round pick (VAN)
2022 1st round pick (VAN)

Additional Details:

Lottery protected

Buyouts

Ryan Spooner: $1,033,333
Brandon Sutter: $2,041,667
Sven Baertschi: $1,766,666

Retained Salary Transactions

Loui Eriksson: $3,000,000 (50%)

Recapture Fees

Roberto Luongo: $3,035,212

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2020
2021
2022

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

EMBED

TEXT-EMBED

ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$81,500,000	$79,843,545	$1,700,000	$3,700,000	$1,656,455

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Miller, J.T. $5,250,000$5,250,000 C, LW, RW UFA - 3	Pettersson, Elias $925,000$925,000 ($2,850,000$3M) C, LW UFA - 1	Toffoli, Tyler $5,250,000$5,250,000 RW, LW UFA - 4
Pearson, Tanner $3,750,000$3,750,000 LW UFA - 1	Horvat, Bo $4,125,000$4,125,000 C UFA - 3	Boeser, Brock $5,875,000$5,875,000 RW UFA - 2
Roussel, Antoine $3,000,000$3,000,000 LW M-NTC UFA - 2	Gaudette, Adam $1,600,000$1,600,000 C, RW UFA - 1	Leivo, Josh $1,600,000$1,600,000 RW, LW UFA - 1
Motte, Tyler $1,000,000$1,000,000 LW, RW UFA - 2	Beagle, Jay $3,000,000$3,000,000 C M-NTC UFA - 2	MacEwen, Zack $875,000$875,000 RW, C UFA - 2
Ferland, Micheal $3,500,000$3,500,000 LW, RW NMC UFA - 3

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Hughes, Quinn $916,667$916,667 ($850,000$850K) LD UFA - 1	Cernak, Erik $2,200,000$2,200,000 RD UFA - 3	Markström, Jacob $5,600,000$5,600,000 G UFA - 6
Edler, Alexander $6,000,000$6,000,000 LD NMC UFA - 1	Myers, Tyler $6,000,000$6,000,000 RD NTC UFA - 4	Demko, Thatcher $1,050,000$1,050,000 G UFA - 1
Jones, Caleb $850,000$850,000 LD/RD UFA - 2	Stecher, Troy $2,200,000$2,200,000 RD UFA - 2
Benn, Jordie $2,000,000$2,000,000 LD/RD M-NTC UFA - 1	Rafferty, Brogan $700,000$700,000 RD UFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
		Kesler, Ryan $6,875,000$6,875,000 C, RW NMC UFA - 2

Top Comments

Jun. 30, 2020 at 9:49 p.m.

justaBoss

Thank you Pavelski

Joined: Oct. 2017

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I just don't see the wisdom of trading an useless player to one who's on LTIR. Where's the incentive for Ducks to even consider it...

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Jun. 30, 2020 at 9:50 p.m.

brocklesnar

Best In The World

Joined: May 2018

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VAN is not moving Virtanen, they have spent to much time developing him and now he is finally a useful player. Not a chance they move him to a division rival.

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Jun. 30, 2020 at 9:57 p.m.

Arlotti47

Joined: Sep. 2019

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Haha no

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Jun. 30, 2020 at 10:31 p.m.

Timmah007

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Oilers pass

Jun. 30, 2020 at 11:26 p.m.

OldNYIfan

Once a Kings Fan Too

Joined: Jun. 2018

Posts: 41,542

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Here's the flaw in your thinking: that by acquiring Eriksson, Anaheim "gains a player who can suit up and contribute." (A) No, he can't, and (B) any contribution would come at the expense of another player's time on ice. We'd much rather have Nic Des Lauriers or one of our left-handed youngsters getting on the fourth line.

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