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Forum: Armchair-GMJun. 12, 2023 at 5:20 p.m.
Thread: Canucks
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Lenny7</b></div><div>My friend, I’m absolutely aware of how Myers contract/bonus works, because Canucks fans have been posting about 20 times a day where they somehow magically solve their cap issues for a mean nothing pick. You don’t “pay $5 mil of his cap”, you pay $5 mil of his salary. You’ve still got a (bad) player with a $6 million cap hit. You want someone to save you from that cap hit. For some reason, you think “hey, they (a team that we share a division with) should do us this huge favour that allows us to improve elsewhere, since we’re ABSOLUTELY HANDCUFFED RIGHT NOW, and they should do it because the dollar value is low.

So, now that we know that I’m completely aware of what Myers contract structure is, tell me, why would someone rescue you from that, for a 4th round pick? Teams that do this are teams that need to hit the cap floor, which Anaheim won’t have any issue doing after the Zegras/Terry extensions. They’re also paid quite well to do it (See: Arizona).</div></div>

I mean, Voracek was recently traded with a 6th as the sweetener. I understand insurance plays a big part in that, but the understanding here is the new team could easily retain on Myers and flip him for more assets all while saving considerable real dollars.
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Forum: Armchair-GMNov. 9, 2022 at 10:39 a.m.
Thread: Blockbuster amp Clean Up
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>mokumboi</b></div><div>Heh. So what is your value breakdown on the STL trade?</div></div>

It was mostly just a fun idea/shakeup for two sputtering teams. Thought behind it was St.Louis looks to be on the edge of passing the torch to the younger guys, especially with pending UFAs. The trade gives them some cost assurance and some more offense which they seemingly desperately need (23GF through 11GP). Cap wise it was essentially a wash ($50,000 difference). Myers is the sticky point, however going into the last year of his contract he could likely be flipped in the offseason to clear space for other moves if desired (sign Mayfield in UFA?).

Canucks finally add some defense to their defense, and Barbashev would be a helluva 3C here.