Team: 2020-21 Vancouver Canucks

Initial Creation Date: Jun. 4, 2020

Published: Jun. 5, 2020

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Even with a CBO for Eriksson, the Canucks will need to keep as much cap space available as possible for the extensions of Petey and Hughes in 2021. That means trading guys like Sutter, Baertschi and Benn in order to lock up a bunch of other guys on multi-year deals won't work.

In this ACGM I've chosen to sign Markstrom as the one multi-year extension, as he was probably the team MVP for two years in a row.

Tanev has been interviewed as saying he'd like to stay in VAN, but would he take a one year deal with a small raise to do it? If not I'd move on, as his possession numbers aren't as good as they used to be and he's on the wrong side of 30 with too many injuries for a multi-year deal. In other ACGM's I've often replaced him with DeMelo with a 4m AAV.

This is essentially the same roster as 2019/20 before the deadline trade for Toffoli, but has a ton of cap flexibility heading into 2021 with about 27 mill off the books. With no CBO, Eriksson stays and the team patches together some very low cost signings for the blueline and hopes Juolevi and Rafferty can make the jump during the year.