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The Rebuild Might Not Take As Long As I Thought READ DESCRIPTION

Created by: krakowitz

Team: 2017-18 Vancouver Canucks

Initial Creation Date: Jan. 15, 2017

Published: Jan. 16, 2017

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Description

BEFORE YOU GUYS FLIP BECAUSE THE VALUE ISN'T FAIR, THESE ARE IDEAS AS TO WHAT THE CANUCKS SHOULD LOOK FOR

The Canucks obviously need a tear it down rebuild, but they can make the rebuild go a lot faster than expected, if they really want to. They already have a good chunk of the pieces in place, but they still don't have the depth they'll need.

It appears they have their goalie of the future with Demko, Horvat could keep developing into a great second line center, Virtanen can be a top end power forward, Juolevi is going to quarterback the power play for a long time, and Boeser can be a top line right wing. It seems they have most of their future core in place, maybe get another winger and defenseman through the draft.

But the big reason why the rebuild won't take nearly as long is if they trade their players for prospects, not just draft picks. If they get more seasoned players, they'll be able to make an impact faster than they would by building through the draft. Especially with the last two draft classes looking like they're both stacked with talent, so acquiring prospects from those two drafts would be extremely beneficial to them. While they won't have an elite talent, they should still be able to find a very consistent group of guys that can provide almost the same scoring among the top 2 or 3 lines. But that doesn't mean that they shouldn't be acquiring draft picks, because in a salary cap era, it's so important to keep young guys coming into the lineup that can make an impact.

The Sedin's get traded at the 2018 deadline. The name recognition will most likely add to their value a little bit, plus it provides some great leadership to the group. Even if they decline, they'll still fetch a pretty significant return on the trade market. Edler and Sbisa both have difficult contracts to move, but they should be able to find a taker by retaining some salary. Both of them get traded at the draft.

Free Agent Signings

RFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
Horvat, Bo		3	$3,000,000

UFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
Larsen, Philip		2	$1,000,000
Boeser, Brock		3	$925,000

Trades

VAN

Juulsen, Noah
Plekanec, Tomas
Scherbak, Nikita
2018 2nd round pick (WSH)
2019 3rd round pick (MTL)

MTL

Sedin, Henrik ($3,500,000 retained)
Sedin, Daniel ($3,500,000 retained)

VAN

Jaskin, Dmitrij
2018 4th round pick (STL)

STL

Sbisa, Luca ($1,500,000 retained)

VAN

Honka, Julius

DAL

Edler, Alexander ($2,500,000 retained)
Hansen, Jannik ($1,000,000 retained)

Buyouts

Chris Higgins: $833,333

Retained Salary Transactions

Roberto Luongo: $800,000 (15%)
Henrik Sedin: $3,500,000 (50%)
Daniel Sedin: $3,500,000 (50%)
Luca Sbisa: $1,500,000 (41.67%)
Alexander Edler: $2,500,000 (50%)
Jannik Hansen: $1,000,000 (50%)

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2018
2019
2020

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
21	$74,000,000	$56,228,332	$0	$3,625,000	$17,771,668

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Scherbak, Nikita $863,333$863,333 ($425,000$425K) LW, RW UFA - 2	Horvat, Bo $3,000,000$3,000,000 C UFA - 6	Boeser, Brock $925,000$925,000
Eriksson, Loui $6,000,000$6,000,000 LW, RW NMC UFA - 5	Sutter, Brandon $4,375,000$4,375,000 RW, C NTC UFA - 4	Virtanen, Jake $894,167$894,167 ($850,000$850K) RW, LW UFA - 1
	Jaskin, Dmitrij $1,000,000$1,000,000 RW, LW UFA - 1	Dorsett, Derek $2,650,000$2,650,000 RW UFA - 2
Baertschi, Sven $1,850,000$1,850,000 LW UFA - 1	Granlund, Markus $900,000$900,000 RW, LW, C UFA - 1
	Plekanec, Tomas $3,000,000$3,000,000 C UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Hutton, Ben $2,800,000$2,800,000 LD UFA - 2	Tanev, Christopher $4,450,000$4,450,000 RD M-NTC UFA - 3	Markström, Jacob $3,666,667$3,666,667 G UFA - 3
Larsen, Philip $1,000,000$1,000,000 D UFA	Stecher, Troy $925,000$925,000 RD UFA - 1	Demko, Thatcher $925,000$925,000 ($1,850,000$2M) G UFA - 2
Juulsen, Noah $863,333$863,333 RD UFA - 3	Biega, Alex $750,000$750,000 RD UFA - 1
Honka, Julius $863,333$863,333 ($500,000$500K) RD UFA - 2	Juolevi, Olli $894,166$894,166 LD UFA - 4

Jan. 16, 2017 at 12:30 a.m.

Idris

idrisk2000

Joined: Jul. 2016

Posts: 168

Likes: 10

you can only retain 3 salaries at a time

Jan. 16, 2017 at 12:31 a.m.

BStone67

Joined: Nov. 2016

Posts: 291

Likes: 12

You can only retain 15 percent of the cap in salaries and you're 2 million dollars over that limit

Jan. 16, 2017 at 2:56 a.m.

dayner

Missing 90's Canucks

Joined: Nov. 2016

Posts: 71

Likes: 3

The logic is there but the math isn't. I'm down for these deals in essence

Jan. 16, 2017 at 4:01 p.m.

OlsonShawn

Joined: Apr. 2016

Posts: 136

Likes: 2

Any trades involving Hansen or Edler will not require salary retention, Hansen's deal is one of the most cap friendly deals in league. Horvat will also not sign for 3 years at 3 million, more around 7 years at 4.5-5.5 I'm guessing 4.75, would love to see the Sedins move on for some nice pieces though.

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