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SammyB

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Forum: Armchair-GMNov. 30, 2023 at 7:29 p.m.
Thread: When Healthy
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>dgibb10</b></div><div>I'm honestly confused as to why, if bear is injured, the canucks didn't just resign him and stick him on LTIR to start the year since they're already using LTIR space? Then they could pay him a full 1.6 without a cap hit being higher. Maybe the league would have looked at that as cap circumvention too tho idk. Or Ig maybe the 10% rule to start the year?</div></div>

The Canucks plan was to re-sign him at a higher rate, 2.2m-3m range, before he was injured. Because he was injured with a December/January return time, that meant the Canucks turned their focus towards two defenders in FA, rather than just one. Cole and Soucy were signed, and the idea was that Vancouver would clear cap space out before Bear returned, either through other LTIR or trades. I think Canucks management is worried that Bear may not be playing at 100% for this season, and intend to sign him closer to league minimum as a 'show me' and then determine out of Bear/Zadorov/Cole which ones stay next year.
Forum: Armchair-GMJul. 5, 2023 at 10:12 a.m.
Forum: Armchair-GMJun. 30, 2023 at 1:27 p.m.
Thread: One Last Miller Proposal
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>SammyB</b></div><div>Ok, so you don't want Miller, and you're not trading Lysell, that's completely fair. How does trading from a position of strength (RD) for the better player at a position of need (C) "set you back a couple years"? That's a genuine question.</div></div>



Because Carlo is 25 and on a cheap team friendly deal, his contract of 4.1 mill will age very nicely in the next few season when the cap goes up close to 10 mill.

Miller on the other hand is what 30-31 and not on the greatest contract due to the term.

Bruins most likely are about to be retooling real quick here and paying vets on the wrong side of 30 big money long term won’t help us, I don’t want to be Calgary and be stuck in mediocrity with a bunch of bad contracts
Forum: Armchair-GMSep. 2, 2022 at 9:55 a.m.
Thread: Leafs Blockbuster
This trade looks much much better from the Canucks side of things lol, but they are a team with an abundance of wingers who will need to get paid, so giving up a known entity in Garland who is locked probably isn't the move even if they wanted Nylander, and Garland probably isn't what the Leafs need anyways if they are looking to resign Miller+Bunting.

Giving up Niemela+Sandin would would be a mistake for the Leafs future on defense, but let's just remove Garland and Niemela from the trade. Add Hoglander as the cost controlled option, and then balance the trade from their, Vancouver retaining on Miller makes no sense as it doesn't help Toronto in this trade.

Miller+Hoglander+Rathbone/Poolman for Nylander+Sandin+a pick is probably a deal that makes more sense. Then can add Kerfoot and Dickinson to make the cap work. Maybe Rathbone can be traded by Van for Lundkvist, all I know is you can't just LTIR Poolman.

Edit: Looking at the cap, there's going to be like 3.35-4.35m going to Vancouver if it's just Miller+Hoglander+Poolman for Nylander+Kerfoot+Sandin, so there isn't really a deal to be made here unless Myers is moved in a separate deal for picks.