2 top 6 forward gambles and defensive depth

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Created by: bdb

Team: 2021-22 Vancouver Canucks

Initial Creation Date: Jul. 1, 2021

Published: Jul. 2, 2021

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Description

Gus is owed 6M in cash and 11 M over the next 2 years. Blue Jackets take a flyer on Joulevi, assuming Kekäläinen is higher than most on him, and clear some cash. Roussel can still play and is owed 1.9M in cash. Maybe the 3rd is a 2nd but don't think Nyquist has a ton of value coming off his injury.

Buffalo pays some decent picks to move the worst contract in hockey. They need to take on some short term cap hits and salary to make it work.

None of Edler, Nemeth, Hakanpää or Poolman are game changers but all can play limited minutes in the top 4 or hold down a bottom Pair.

Picks 9, 33, 41, 53 and 88 should produce a few legit prospects and more importantly for Benning this team is better positioned to make the playoffs.

Free Agent Signings

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Pettersson, Elias	3	$7,000,000
Hughes, Quinn	5	$5,800,000
Hawryluk, Jayce	2	$800,000

UFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Paquette, Cédric	3	$1,000,000
Dell, Aaron	2	$850,000
Edler, Alexander	1	$1,500,000
Hakanpää, Jani	3	$1,500,000
Nemeth, Patrik	4	$2,500,000
Poolman, Tucker	2	$950,000

Trades

VAN

Nyquist, Gustav

CBJ

Juolevi, Olli [RFA Rights]
Roussel, Antoine
2021 3rd round pick (VAN)

VAN

SEA

Gadjovich, Jonah

Additional Details:

Expansion pick

VAN

Skinner, Jeff
2021 2nd round pick (BUF)
2021 2nd round pick (BOS)
2021 3rd round pick (FLA)

BUF

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
2021
2022
2023

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

EMBED

TEXT-EMBED

ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$81,500,000	$77,525,659	$648,780	$1,900,000	$3,974,341

Roster

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Skinner, Jeff $9,000,000$9,000,000 LW, RW NMC UFA - 6	Pettersson, Elias $7,000,000$7,000,000 C, LW UFA - 3	Boeser, Brock $5,875,000$5,875,000 RW UFA - 1
Nyquist, Gustav $2,750,000$2,750,000 LW, RW UFA - 2	Horvat, Bo $4,125,000$4,125,000 C UFA - 2	Höglander, Nils $891,667$891,667 ($200,000$200K) LW, RW RFA - 2
Pearson, Tanner $3,250,000$3,250,000 LW NTC UFA - 3	Miller, J.T. $5,250,000$5,250,000 C, LW, RW UFA - 2	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	Paquette, Cédric $1,000,000$1,000,000 C, LW, RW UFA - 1	Hawryluk, Jayce $800,000$800,000 RW, LW UFA
Highmore, Matthew $725,000$725,000 LW, RW UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Hughes, Quinn $5,800,000$5,800,000 LD UFA - 6	Schmidt, Nate $5,950,000$5,950,000 LD/RD M-NTC UFA - 4	Demko, Thatcher $5,000,000$5,000,000 G UFA - 5
Nemeth, Patrik $2,500,000$2,500,000 LD UFA - 3	Myers, Tyler $6,000,000$6,000,000 RD NTC UFA - 3	Dell, Aaron $850,000$850,000 G UFA - 1
Rathbone, Jack $925,000$925,000 ($850,000$850K) LD UFA - 1	Hakanpää, Jani $1,500,000$1,500,000 RD UFA - 3
Edler, Alexander $1,500,000$1,500,000 LD UFA - 1	Poolman, Tucker $950,000$950,000 RD UFA - 4

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
		Ferland, Micheal $3,500,000$3,500,000 LW, RW M-NTC UFA - 2
		Beagle, Jay $3,000,000$3,000,000 C M-NTC UFA - 1

Special Teams

Power Play 1
Miller, J.		Horvat, B.		Pettersson, E.
	Hughes, Q.		Boeser, B.

Power Play 2
Skinner, J.		Nyquist, G.		Höglander, N.
	Rathbone, J.		Pearson, T.

Penalty Kill 1
	Motte, T.	Paquette, C.
	Nemeth, P.	Hakanpää, J.

Penalty Kill 2
	Miller, J.	Hawryluk, J.
	Schmidt, N.	Myers, T.

Jul. 2, 2021 at 3:52 a.m.

deys3232

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Why is Miller at 3C?

Jul. 2, 2021 at 6:08 a.m.

Canuckel_head

Joined: Apr. 2017

Posts: 311

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Quoting: deys3232

Why is Miller at 3C?

Because when he played centre this season he liked it and he was good at it. Having Miller at 3c is like having two 2nd lines if you can have the right wings...I love the experiment of Skinner, but the risk is high and Canucks are just ending the tire fires of Eriksson and Luongo's retirement debt. They need to learn from their mistakes.

Jul. 2, 2021 at 6:29 a.m.

BigTramFan

Joined: Aug. 2019

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Skinner? Hahahahahahahaha....no

Jul. 2, 2021 at 7:30 a.m.

Friendly_Cannon

Joined: Aug. 2019

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You don’t touch skinner. Unless your family is being physically threatened by adams.

Jul. 2, 2021 at 9:40 a.m.

andrewnfld

Joined: Jun. 2021

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I knew this was gonna be bad as soon as I seen Skinner.
IMO you need to get Petey or Hughes on a 8-year contract, and then the other on a 3-year like is done here.

You could hope/give a pick to Seattle to take Holtby for pretty much free, and just bite your teeth on the Loui Erikkson contract or wait one more season and buy him out.

Jul. 2, 2021 at 9:51 a.m.

Jim_Benning_Almost

Joined: Oct. 2020

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Quoting: deys3232

Why is Miller at 3C?

Ha! I didn't even see this. I was too fixated on us bringing on a 6 year contract, paying $9M a year for a 29 year old whose production is projecting to diminish to less than 10 goals per 82 games. Yikes!!

Jul. 2, 2021 at 10:26 a.m.

bdb

Thread Starter

Joined: May 2019

Posts: 352

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Quoting: deys3232

Why is Miller at 3C?

Canucks seem determined to use him as a C.

Jul. 2, 2021 at 10:44 a.m.

bdb

Thread Starter

Joined: May 2019

Posts: 352

Likes: 56

Quoting: Canuckel_head

Skinner is a massive risk and would likely never pay off in the long term. That said he's not too far removed from elite play, seems to be a victim of some poor bounces and was still a very strong possession player. I think he's due for a bounceback especially if he's away from Buffalo.

Jul. 2, 2021 at 5:11 p.m.

deys3232

Hockee

Joined: Mar. 2020

Posts: 2,775

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Quoting: bdb

Canucks seem determined to use him as a C.

He was a decent fill in when he was filling in for Pettersson, but I would expect him to back on the wing once Petey is healthy

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