They Actually Have an Excellent Top 9

Created by: Alfie11

Team: 2021-22 Vancouver Canucks

Initial Creation Date: Jul. 26, 2021

Published: Jul. 26, 2021

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McDavid, Connor

$12,500,000 ( Performance Bonus

$250,000)

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UFA - 5

Description

Vancouver’s top 9 is legitimately enviable now. The top line was always great and Horvat is a good 2C, but picking up a 3C in Dickinson, adding Podkolzin to the mix, and picking up Garland (very underrated, very good at doing the whole goal scoring thing) in the Arizona trade for the 2nd line will do wonders. Hoglander and Garland give Horvat two talented wingers, and because the 3rd line is actually NHL quality now (Pearson getting bumped down to play at 3LW is a good sign of the increased depth), they can start taking some more difficult matchups, leaving the Horvat line open to provide more secondary scoring. Very good mix of youth, smill, and 2-way guys, with a couple stabilizing veterans thrown in there.

One of Holtby or Schmidt needs to be moved for money reasons. I think it’ll be Schmidt, but I couldn’t be bothered to try and find another 2RD (lots of people just go Savard, but I think he’s going to Montreal, maybe Ottawa). They probably bring in another vet for the 3rd pair that actually shoots right, rather than running two young lefties in Rathbone and Juolevi. Ceci seems like a very Benning guy lol, although they could save a little money if they like Bowey at 3RD.

Free Agent Signings

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Dickinson, Jason	2	$2,000,000
Garland, Conor	5	$5,000,000
Hughes, Quinn	3	$7,500,000
Pettersson, Elias	3	$7,500,000
Juolevi, Olli	1	$1,000,000
Michaelis, Marc	1	$750,000

UFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
Reimer, James		1	$1,750,000
Ceci, Cody		1	$1,750,000

Trades

VAN

CHI

Holtby, Braden

Additional Details:

Gone anywhere

Buyouts

Jake Virtanen: $50,000

Recapture Fees

Roberto Luongo: $3,035,212

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2022
2023
2024

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LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$81,500,000	$79,993,992	$648,780	$1,900,000	$1,506,008

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Miller, J.T. $5,250,000$5,250,000 C, LW, RW UFA - 2	Pettersson, Elias $7,500,000$7,500,000 C, LW UFA - 3	Boeser, Brock $5,875,000$5,875,000 RW UFA - 1
Höglander, Nils $891,667$891,667 ($200,000$200K) LW, RW RFA - 2	Horvat, Bo $4,125,000$4,125,000 C UFA - 2	Garland, Conor $5,000,000$5,000,000 RW, LW UFA - 5
Pearson, Tanner $3,250,000$3,250,000 LW NTC UFA - 3	Dickinson, Jason $2,000,000$2,000,000 C, LW UFA - 3	Podkolzin, Vasily $925,000$925,000 ($850,000$850K) RW, LW RFA - 3
Motte, Tyler $1,225,000$1,225,000 LW, RW UFA - 1	MacEwen, Zack $825,000$825,000 RW, C UFA - 1	Highmore, Matthew $725,000$725,000 LW, RW UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Hughes, Quinn $7,500,000$7,500,000 LD UFA - 6	Myers, Tyler $6,000,000$6,000,000 RD NTC UFA - 3	Demko, Thatcher $5,000,000$5,000,000 G UFA - 5
Ekman-Larsson, Oliver $7,260,000$7,260,000 LD NMC UFA - 6	Schmidt, Nate $5,950,000$5,950,000 LD/RD M-NTC UFA - 4	Reimer, James $1,750,000$1,750,000 G UFA - 2
Juolevi, Olli $1,000,000$1,000,000 LD UFA - 1	Ceci, Cody $1,750,000$1,750,000 RD UFA - 4

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Michaelis, Marc $750,000$750,000 LW, C UFA		Ferland, Micheal $3,500,000$3,500,000 LW, RW M-NTC UFA - 2
Rathbone, Jack $925,000$925,000 ($850,000$850K) LD UFA - 1
Gadjovich, Jonah $783,333$783,333 LW, RW UFA - 1

Top Comments

Jul. 26, 2021 at 12:41 p.m.

villenash

Joined: May 2019

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Upgrade the RD and this team has a lot of potential.

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Jul. 26, 2021 at 12:42 p.m.

Boomer125

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It's a nice top 9, but wait Seattle OS Pettersson at 8.25 and now your out of cap space

Jul. 26, 2021 at 12:44 p.m.

canucks_Fan_53

Joined: Jan. 2019

Posts: 966

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the top 9 does look pretty good, i think re-signing Sutter at league min (if possible) would really help the 4th line and the PK
the defense is still suspect though, i feel like we really need like an Ekblad or Parayko or high caliber defensive guy to play with Hughes as the go to top 2, and to backstop the PK.

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Jul. 26, 2021 at 12:48 p.m.

Alfie11

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Quoting: villenash

Upgrade the RD and this team has a lot of potential.

Yeah the RD is garbage. I don’t hate OEL on the 2nd pair (at least for a couple more years) but Myers is just not good. Schmidt is okay, but it sounds like he’s unhappy there. If the right side of the top 4 was a couple of shutdown guys (Larsson, Cernak, Savard, Parayko, etc. type of guys) I’d consider them a fringe contender with the caveat that Demko has to be above average.

Quoting: Boomer125

It's a nice top 9, but wait Seattle OS Pettersson at 8.25 and now your out of cap space

I kinda doubt Francis is gonna come into the league with a brand new team and immediately start throwing out offer sheets. It would definitely be a juicy story though. If he spends to the cap in free agency he could make Seattle good now, if they add like Schwartz, Petey via OS, and Danault or something they could be a threat right out of the gate. They have an excellent D corps and solid goalies, just gotta solidify the LW and up the middle.

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Jul. 26, 2021 at 12:49 p.m.

villenash

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Quoting: Alfie11

Quoting: canucks_Fan_53

Parayko would be perfect -- and I've heard rumors over the past couple of years, but who knows if those hold any water... Cernak is interesting too.

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