Building a Contender

Created by: bogdown

Team: 2023-24 Vancouver Canucks

Initial Creation Date: Feb. 17, 2023

Published: Feb. 17, 2023

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

“The Canucks are one of the teams that have shown interest in Jake Livingstone and the Canucks are one of the teams that — I don’t want to call it a shortlist because I think there’s a lot of teams… From what I’ve heard, almost every single team is in on Jake Livingstone." The opportunity to play for your hometown team is definitely and intriguing one, and Livingstone is a guy that can step in right away. - Faber

"Last year, the Canucks signed European free agent defenceman Filip Johansson, and according to Jeff Marek on the 32 Thoughts Podcast, the Canucks have shown interest in 21-year-old Valtteri Pulli." - Faber

The plan for the deadline and the off-season is to acquire cap space and good young players. The two paths of improving the team from there are through free agency and the draft. I want to see the Canucks take more runs at guys like Johansson and Aman. I think the two defensemen listed above would be great targets. In the draft I want to see the Canucks take a North American guy committed to college. Getting a guy like Will Smith would be an outstanding pickup as would Reinbacher. Through free agency I want to see the Canucks lock up Ethan Bear as their guy on the backend. Cal Foote would be an easy offer sheet and Ryan Graves would be the big free agent signing. A guy who defends with his feet and body extremely well. Nothing much needs to change up on forward except improving the fourth line and adding penalty killers. Any combination of Motte, Hathaway, Acciari, Fast, Foligno, Jankowski, or Nosek would be ideal.

Free Agent Signings

RESERVE LIST		YEARS	CAP HIT
McDonough, Aidan		3	$950,000
Jurmo, Joni		3	$900,000

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Bear, Ethan	8	$4,125,000
Juulsen, Noah	1	$800,000
Höglander, Nils	1	$1,000,000
Woo, Jett	1	$900,000
Kalynuk, Wyatt	1	$800,000
Brisebois, Guillaume	1	$775,000
Foote, Cal	2	$1,850,000
Fabbro, Dante	3	$2,750,000

UFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Di Giuseppe, Phillip	1	$800,000
Wolanin, Christian	2	$850,000
Graves, Ryan	7	$5,500,000
Brossoit, Laurent	1	$1,000,000
Hathaway, Garnet	2	$2,000,000
Motte, Tyler	2	$1,850,000

CREATED	YEARS	CAP HIT
Livingstone, Jake	3	$900,000
Pulli, Valterri	1	$900,000
Smith, Will	3	$900,000
Reinbacher, David	3	$900,000

Offer Sheets

Offer sheet annual average (AAV) is calculated by dividing the contract value by the lower of: 1. The contract length, or 2. Five years

PLAYER	AAV	COMPENSATION
Foote, Cal	$1,850,000	2024 3rd round pick

Trades

VAN

Fabbro, Dante [RFA Rights]
Kulonummi, Kasper [Reserve List]

Additional Details:

Nashville currently sits 5 pts out of the second wild card spot with games in hand on both Minnesota and Calgary. Adding Boeser would give them an offensive boost to a team that hasn't scored that much this season.

NSH

Boeser, Brock ($1,000,000 retained)

Additional Details:

Fabbro is a guy that I could see the Canucks targeting, whether it's for Boeser or a guy like Hoglander. Kulonummi is a mobile, offensive minded right shot defender that would be a good target for the Canucks with a very European pipeline.

VAN

Future Considerations

After Myers' bonus is paid, his base salary is only $1million. This is a must for the Canucks in reshaping their D-core, and dumping Myers with a decent prospect like Lockwood would be a good move. Lockwood brings grit and toughness to a pretty soft Ducks team and Myers can't be any worse than Klingberg or Shattenkirk.

ANA

Lockwood, William [RFA Rights]
Myers, Tyler

Additional Details:

Cap space for the Canucks, addition by subtraction.

VAN

Beecher, John
2023 3rd round pick (BOS)

Additional Details:

Schenn would be a great depth add for the B's or the Flames at the deadline. A cheap, physical, top six defender that leads the league in hits. He fits into the identity of the Bruins quite well. I could see the Canucks targeting a young prospect like Beecher who could help out in Abby and maybe crack the lineup one day. Lets be honest, he's nothing special.

BOS

Schenn, Luke

Buyouts

Oliver Ekman-Larsson: $146,667

Retained Salary Transactions

Brock Boeser: $1,000,000 (15.04%)

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2023
2024
2025

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
24	$83,500,000	$80,392,084	$850,000	$932,500	$3,107,916

Roster

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Kuzmenko, Andrei $5,500,000$5,500,000 LW, RW M-NTC UFA - 2	Pettersson, Elias $7,350,000$7,350,000 C, LW UFA - 1	Mikheyev, Ilya $4,750,000$4,750,000 LW, RW M-NTC UFA - 3
Beauvillier, Anthony $4,150,000$4,150,000 RW, LW UFA - 1	Miller, J.T. $8,000,000$8,000,000 C, LW, RW NMC UFA - 7	Garland, Conor $4,950,000$4,950,000 RW, LW UFA - 3
	Räty, Aatu $836,667$836,667 ($82,500$82K) C RFA - 2	Höglander, Nils $1,000,000$1,000,000 LW, RW RFA - 2
Podkolzin, Vasily $925,000$925,000 ($850,000$850K) RW, LW RFA - 1	Lazar, Curtis $1,000,000$1,000,000 RW, C UFA - 2	Hathaway, Garnet $2,000,000$2,000,000 RW, LW UFA - 2
Motte, Tyler $1,850,000$1,850,000 LW, RW UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Graves, Ryan $5,500,000$5,500,000 LD UFA - 6	Fabbro, Dante $2,750,000$2,750,000 RD UFA - 1	Demko, Thatcher $5,000,000$5,000,000 G UFA - 3
Hughes, Quinn $7,850,000$7,850,000 LD UFA - 4	Livingstone, Jake $900,000$900,000	Brossoit, Laurent $1,000,000$1,000,000 G UFA - 1
Bear, Ethan $4,125,000$4,125,000 RD UFA - 2	Foote, Cal $1,850,000$1,850,000 RD RFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Åman, Nils $883,750$883,750 C RFA - 1	Pearson, Tanner $3,250,000$3,250,000 LW UFA - 1	Poolman, Tucker $2,500,000$2,500,000 RD UFA - 2
Di Giuseppe, Phillip $800,000$800,000 LW UFA - 2
Stillman, Riley $1,350,000$1,350,000 LD RFA - 1
Joshua, Dakota $825,000$825,000 LW UFA - 1

Special Teams

Power Play 1
Kuzmenko, A.		Beauvillier, A.		Pettersson, E.
	Miller, J.		Hughes, Q.

Power Play 2
Mikheyev, I.		Räty, A.		Podkolzin, V.
	Höglander, N.		Fabbro, D.

Penalty Kill 1
	Lazar, C.	Hathaway, G.
	Graves, R.	Livingstone, J.

Penalty Kill 2
	Motte, T.	Mikheyev, I.
	Bear, E.	Foote, C.

Top Comments

Feb. 17, 2023 at 12:55 p.m.

gmgb

Joined: Jun. 2017

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No thanks on Boeser.

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Feb. 17, 2023 at 1:01 p.m.

palhal

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Joined: Jul. 2015

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The buyout on OEL works next season but then his cap hit goes up considerable every year after that Especially when he had two years at 4.76m

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Feb. 17, 2023 at 1:06 p.m.

DefenseFirst

Joined: Aug. 2022

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I guess i just don’t see how this team contends for anything. Blue line is a smidge better, but still bad. Basically the same forward group, minus horvat and adding raty. This team still looks bad.

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Feb. 17, 2023 at 1:36 p.m.

bogdown

Bog

Joined: Oct. 2022

Posts: 939

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Quoting: DefenseFirst

I guess i just don’t see how this team contends for anything. Blue line is a smidge better, but still bad. Basically the same forward group, minus horvat and adding raty. This team still looks bad.

The Canucks biggest issue is their special teams and defense. I want to know how many 1+ goal games the Canucks have lost when giving up 2-3 goals on the PK and on special teams. It has to be at least 10. Just look at the beginning of the year when they were up in every game but lost by a single goal or two. More than anything, this team is back on the right track, younger, and much deeper with prospects.

Feb. 17, 2023 at 1:43 p.m.

kingkanuck

AN "ORIGINAL SIX"

Joined: Oct. 2016

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Quoting: palhal

The buyout on OEL works next season but then his cap hit goes up considerable every year after that Especially when he had two years at 4.76m

The Canucks can't afford to buy out OEL

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