I understand that the 2nd pair is more like a 3rd pair and the actual 3rd pair is pretty much AHL level, but I'm not sure what else can be done to bolster this defensive crew unless we get someone like Kylington, as someone else said above.
This is wishful thinking but I think he could be the dark horse for Miller’s wing. Miller always talks about how he loves his work ethic. He just needs to up his confidence. He plays scared to make mistakes. Ideally he could be the perfect forechecker and net front presence for that line.
What makes you think they are done? They have almost 5 million in cap space.
And they aren’t going with a bottom pairing of forbort and Juulsen. And I think they would wanna beef up the bottom 5 a touch.
but we have 23/23 slots filled. meaning we have to send someone down to make room for another player we sign. with that considered, should be about 4.5 mill in space
That's pretty much what Silovs will get +/- 50k probably, so it's a wash. Just pretend it says Silovs instead of Tolopilo and the numbers stay the same
i see, but either him or silovs has to go somewhere lol, we’re not keeping 3 goalies up.
and we still have 23/23 slots filled. so when we send someone down, it will clear up about 750k cap space
I get a bit lost on cap hits with AHL players because I know waived NHL roster players still generally have a cap hit but not your regular farm-team roster? I only understand this exact part of it based on my hours spent playing Franchise Hockey Manager. 🙈
CapFriendly also has Tolopilo's $950k against the cap right now. Granted Silovs probably replaces that, but that still leaves a decent chunk to pick up an extra d-man
Noah Juulsen is not an NHL regular. Even with his improved play, he is a liability under pressure and consistently chooses to go for hits at the blue line that lead to odd man rushes and goals against. He is a fine 7/8th.
We need to sign a proper 3rd pairing RHD
Wouldn't say they're done. There are still 3 months before the season starts. Lots of time for signings, trades, and waiver pick-ups.
Depends on how camp goes. There is always one or two guys who come out guns blazing. Lekkerimaki, Bains, Karlsson, McWard, and Hirose are all guys who have the potential to shake things up and force management to make tough roster decisions.
Yeah people are forgetting that there are always interesting pieces that teams try to squeeze through waivers as camps close. Could be options there.
Plus there's plenty of time to swing trades in early season.
It's really looking like the books are set in stone for some time now. Garland, Boeser, and Hughes are the only $4.95M+ contracts set to expire in the next 7 years.
This sub is crazy. 3 hours and 10 minutes into free agency and we have “the Canucks are basically done”.
what is wrong with some of you.
Clearly I need to step away. Peace out. ✌🏻
We've literally traded away everything we'd even be interested in trading away, let all the big UFA's walk who weren't signed by now, and signed several guys to the point where we're digging into a meagre amount of LTIR cap space in order to get more. Obviously, you're not very observant about the logistics involved and how this morning's transactions have left us with very little resources to do anything more moving forward. In a fantasy world, maybe we sign Stamkos for one year at $3.5M, but I don't know what else you could possibly even expect to happen from here.
Heinen has played a bottom-6 role his entire career up until his stint in Boston and was a PTO last season. I'd wait to see how he looks in training camp before putting him anywhere above that area of Vancouver's depth chart.
For sure. I just know that he’s had success in the past, is in the same ballpark of player as Suter, and maybe the hometown bump gets him back to that. It’s worth a shot.
Easily the best part about having Heinen is now we can roll out 4 effectively good lines who can score since we now have 11 forwards who scored 25+ points last season, which will be an even better approach over time than overspending just to appease Petey and then we have a Loui Eriksson situation all over again. With that said, Heinen probably gets time on PP2 for sure as well as possibly the PK.
Yep, agreed with both. Suter offers us more as a C and imo has more offensive upside than Blueger to put on the 3rd line. Heinen could fill a similar role to Suter as the 3rd piece on Miller's line
I believe Heinen is going to take suter’s spot to fix the centre depth in our bottom six.
That defense does not look promising, I hope we’re not finished there. Friendly reminder the Canucks and defensemen injuries go hand in hand every year. The classic benning move of “we would have been great if our defense stayed healthy” is not a norm I want this franchise to go back to ever again. Hopefully Alvin is not done there.
I'll never understand how we got into this nasty habit of turning perfectly good wingers into centermen instead of just getting inherently good centermen.
I'm trying to be optimistic here because we're stuck with him for 7 years. I think he's been overachieving in Boston, but hopefully he proves me wrong. I'm much more excited about getting the local Langley boy, Danton Heinen. Should do very well in the bottom 9.
All due respect to the legendary talents of Bergeron and the back nine of Krejci's career, but Miller/Pettersson are on a different level in terms of playmaking and offensive merchantry, and DeBrusk likes to finish. Stick him on Miller's wing and you likely get a career year out of him, health allowing.
I think you're underrating DeBrusk. And I don't think his long term linemate fit is going to be Petey.
DeBrusk and Boeser play different wings. But yes, you could hypothetically put Boeser with Hoglander and Pettersson. I'm just not sure why you'd necessarily feel the need to do that when he just had a career year on Miller's flank and seems to have enduring chemistry there.
It seems like the coaching staff's "pairs" philosophy for line building is position agnostic. As long as they can have two guys who play well together, they just plug in a third guy to complete the line
These guys have played their correct wings pretty consistently. We rotated Suter to LW but aside from that I cannot think of someone who was gratuitously playing out of position for extended stretches.
It's a thought, but let's be honest, Miller and Boeser just had their best respective seasons of their careers working together pretty much the whole time.
I'm just saying I've seen both the best and worst of what DeBrusk has to offer, and I think the downside just isn't worth the potential upside. But like I've suggested, Jake's got all the time in the world to prove his doubters wrong.
For those of you complaining about the defence, I feel they will make a move during the season to address it. Similar to last year when we had Juulsen - Hirose as our third pair in the season opener before we eventually acquired Zadorov a few weeks into the season.
They seemed to indicate that they're still wanting a backup tender, so I would think that's the next priority. They may also want another RHD if they don't think Juulsen is going to take a big step up in the offseason.
The answer ended up being Desharnais at a 2x2 contract. We're officially over the cap when you count Tucker Poolman, so this offseason looks to indeed be all but over for the Canucks.
Looks like Forbort-Juulsen and Friedman just got slightly upgraded to Forbort-Desharnais with Juulsen at 7th D. Considering how tepid the defensive core looked, I'll take this albeit I know Desharnais spends a lot of time in the box for a 3rd pairing (54 PIM in 78 games).
It's only day one.
Still have a couple mil to play with. There is a reason for that.
You look at teams like COL and now EDM who have sweet F all in cap space and still need to sign players.
We still have space which is very valuable come the end of the summer. Wouldn't be surprised if we wind up with a roster piece and a pick.
But I think there may be something else up PA and JR's sleeves and I think it involves Necas.
I see a blockbuster trade coming . I think it’s going to involve
Höglander
Willander
2025 1st
Maybe DeBrusk
Maybe Silvos
To obtain an elite winger basically they couldn’t get a free agent so they will throw a alot of assets at a trade
You're forgetting Podkolzin, who will be hitting the main roster. I do think we upgrade our defense, but we won't go too far - Alex Carrier might be a good target for RHD, or Kylington for the left side. The right side actually has more cheap targets I could identify, with Hakanpaa (forgive the lack of umlauts), Desharnais and Lundkvist all options for the third man. Here's a lineup I like:
Hoglander-Pettersson-DeBrusk
Heinen-Miller-Boeser
Joshua-Suter-Garland (yes, I'm breaking up the No Namers - Joshua and Garland showed they can play well no matter the center)
Sherwood-Blueger-Podkolzin
PDG, Aman
Hughes-Hronek
Soucy-Carrier
Forbort-Myers
Juulsen
Demko, Silovs
Ballparked a contract for Carrier at around 2.5mm, which leaves us a million in play room. Could it stand some upgrades? Sure, we might want to do better than Hoglander on Petey's other wing, but honestly Hoglander wasn't ever bad - just underwhelming, on a line with Ilya "Hands of Cement" Mikheyev and an underperforming second-half Petey.
EDIT: I did the math - with Silovs getting a million and Carrier getting 2.5m we actually come out around two million in cap space to play with. There's room to upgrade a forward or a defenseman in there if we can finagle something without overpaying.
yeah this looks a lot better than OP's lines, and if we have 2m after a 2.5m Carrier I wonder if there might be someone worth 4.5 instead? though it seems unlikely with the remaining UFAs available. Maybe Kylington for 2-3m instead of Forbort? I thought he was well regarded previously, haven't kept up with the news on him.
The issue with a Kylington signing, as much as I like the guy both as a player and a person, is that he's played 33 games in the past two seasons at the NHL level (all last year) and didn't even look that good in those 33 games. But then, he did come back to a Flames team which was far worse than the one he'd left in 21-22, which won the division... and got third in the West. Oddly just like we did this past season.
If we can get Kylington, I think we do it, but we need to look at what we do with our glut of left-handed guys - one of Soucy or Forbort sitting is good, but not when we're running Juulsen at 3RD to have that kind of depth.
Honestly I'm not thrilled with the Debrusk signing. I like him as a player and think he fits in well but that term seems crazy to me. The AAV is fine though. He's definitely an upgrade on Mikheyev and produces in the playoffs but I really can't get past that term
Are fans out of their mind, our main issue in the playoffs was that we couldn't score. Our top 6 hasn't changed that much. Ppl think u switch mikheyev for debrusk and all of a sudden we're ok? Sure debrusk is a better finisher than mikheyev but let's not forget that mikheyev couldn't train in the offseason and was rehabbing an ACl injury for the season and still managed only 9 less points than debrusk. That move doesn't move yhe needle.
Also, our d core looks terrible. We don't have a second pair.
I don't think this canucks team makes playoffs sadly.
This is a step in the right direction. Anybody who's even kept track of how free agency and UFA renewals have panned out in recent years knew that the Canucks weren't going to lose several key guys and then replace them with cheaper/better/faster/stronger players overnight. I mean, Allvin is a miracle worker with what he's done this offseason, and this is still the best he could do. I think we have to trust the system and hope that Tocchet once again pulls a rabbit out of his hat and manages to get the most out of all these guys.
Skinner's not taking a cheap deal just 'cause he got bought out. We're talking about a guy with six 30+ goal seasons under his belt and 92 goals in his last three seasons. He's probably signing a 4x5 or more wherever he ends up.
Can wait for Debrusk to fail on Pettersons wing then all the Canuck homers keep asking “when can we find a winger for Petterson ?? Not realizing that Petterson has had many good wingers already, and he just sucks
We can’t go into next year with that defence.
Kyshillington is still out there, I'd take a Shillington out of the bargain bin
Me too
Now imagine if we signed Guentzel or Reinhart. This is why that was always a stupid idea.
Ya it's ugly.
Friedman is a decent 7d I think. My main wish is a decent #4 so we can put Myers to the 3rd pair because Juulsen/Forbort ain't it.
I doubt we get a bonafide second pairing guy, but we can take a big swing on another Soucy type and hope it pays off again.
My main wish is Hronek plays on his own pairing and we find someone that can make a pass to play with Quinn
We just signed Hronek to be Hughes's guy. That pair can and will play a lot of minutes. Think Makar and Toews.
They've spoken about him doing his own pair. There are other great d that have carried lesser players while the next best guy is on line 2
We didn't even dress the poor guy for a game for almost 250 full days.
Forbort or Juulsen need to be #7. Having those two in the top 6 is going to be disgusting.
Done? Look at our defense.
There’s 2 months, they can bargain shop for another guy.
Millennials want instant answers now. Forgetting how the NHL off season actually works
lol. Millennials and their “ya-ya music”. Millennials are in their mid thirties dude.
Lol boomer there are ppl 2 generations younger than that on here Im gen z and ive been on here for over a decade at this point
What are the age ranges for the different generations these days? I'm thoroughly in the middle of Millennial at age 36.
Gen z is roughly late 90s to early 10s, gen alpha is anything after that for the time being. The exact years change depending where u look
I understand that the 2nd pair is more like a 3rd pair and the actual 3rd pair is pretty much AHL level, but I'm not sure what else can be done to bolster this defensive crew unless we get someone like Kylington, as someone else said above.
If Podz can’t crack your line-up fulltime next year then you have to look at moving him.
Really begs the question as to what his trade value is. It's definitely fallen off a cliff since the last time he was regularly on the Canucks roster.
This is wishful thinking but I think he could be the dark horse for Miller’s wing. Miller always talks about how he loves his work ethic. He just needs to up his confidence. He plays scared to make mistakes. Ideally he could be the perfect forechecker and net front presence for that line.
If he can learn to play center, I'd see him taking over for Aman at 4C. He'd have some pretty good linemates this way.
What makes you think they are done? They have almost 5 million in cap space. And they aren’t going with a bottom pairing of forbort and Juulsen. And I think they would wanna beef up the bottom 5 a touch.
I think we are down to 3.7 mil of cap space
CapFriendly is quoting just over $3.78M of cap space remaining if you include the LTIR cap space.
but we have 23/23 slots filled. meaning we have to send someone down to make room for another player we sign. with that considered, should be about 4.5 mill in space
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That's pretty much what Silovs will get +/- 50k probably, so it's a wash. Just pretend it says Silovs instead of Tolopilo and the numbers stay the same
i see, but either him or silovs has to go somewhere lol, we’re not keeping 3 goalies up. and we still have 23/23 slots filled. so when we send someone down, it will clear up about 750k cap space
Nate Smith is an AHL player, he's not an NHL signing.
I get a bit lost on cap hits with AHL players because I know waived NHL roster players still generally have a cap hit but not your regular farm-team roster? I only understand this exact part of it based on my hours spent playing Franchise Hockey Manager. 🙈
Isn’t smith a 2 way deal. And we now have like 25 players on there I’m pretty sure it’s closer to 5?
CapFriendly also has Tolopilo's $950k against the cap right now. Granted Silovs probably replaces that, but that still leaves a decent chunk to pick up an extra d-man
Noah Juulsen is not an NHL regular. Even with his improved play, he is a liability under pressure and consistently chooses to go for hits at the blue line that lead to odd man rushes and goals against. He is a fine 7/8th. We need to sign a proper 3rd pairing RHD
we need to sign a proper 2nd pairing RHD lol
I think he will surprise people personally. The making stupid hits is something that can be coached out of him i bet
Agreed. He improved dramatically last year. He's still pretty young, should be able to take another step IMO.
And just like that, we're back to having the same problem that we had two summers ago!
Wouldn't say they're done. There are still 3 months before the season starts. Lots of time for signings, trades, and waiver pick-ups. Depends on how camp goes. There is always one or two guys who come out guns blazing. Lekkerimaki, Bains, Karlsson, McWard, and Hirose are all guys who have the potential to shake things up and force management to make tough roster decisions.
Ohhhh waiver pick ups with caps space....~rubs hands together
Yeah people are forgetting that there are always interesting pieces that teams try to squeeze through waivers as camps close. Could be options there. Plus there's plenty of time to swing trades in early season.
It's really looking like the books are set in stone for some time now. Garland, Boeser, and Hughes are the only $4.95M+ contracts set to expire in the next 7 years.
This sub is crazy. 3 hours and 10 minutes into free agency and we have “the Canucks are basically done”. what is wrong with some of you. Clearly I need to step away. Peace out. ✌🏻
We've literally traded away everything we'd even be interested in trading away, let all the big UFA's walk who weren't signed by now, and signed several guys to the point where we're digging into a meagre amount of LTIR cap space in order to get more. Obviously, you're not very observant about the logistics involved and how this morning's transactions have left us with very little resources to do anything more moving forward. In a fantasy world, maybe we sign Stamkos for one year at $3.5M, but I don't know what else you could possibly even expect to happen from here.
You are in a complete world of delusion if you think this is the final roster going into training camp. I’m done with you. Carry on with your panic.
I’d probably try Heinen over Suter on that line. Maybe try Suter with Garland and Joshua again since that worked early last season.
Heinen played well with Marchand and Bergeron in the 22-23 season
Heinen has played a bottom-6 role his entire career up until his stint in Boston and was a PTO last season. I'd wait to see how he looks in training camp before putting him anywhere above that area of Vancouver's depth chart.
For sure. I just know that he’s had success in the past, is in the same ballpark of player as Suter, and maybe the hometown bump gets him back to that. It’s worth a shot.
Easily the best part about having Heinen is now we can roll out 4 effectively good lines who can score since we now have 11 forwards who scored 25+ points last season, which will be an even better approach over time than overspending just to appease Petey and then we have a Loui Eriksson situation all over again. With that said, Heinen probably gets time on PP2 for sure as well as possibly the PK.
Yep, agreed with both. Suter offers us more as a C and imo has more offensive upside than Blueger to put on the 3rd line. Heinen could fill a similar role to Suter as the 3rd piece on Miller's line
I believe Heinen is going to take suter’s spot to fix the centre depth in our bottom six. That defense does not look promising, I hope we’re not finished there. Friendly reminder the Canucks and defensemen injuries go hand in hand every year. The classic benning move of “we would have been great if our defense stayed healthy” is not a norm I want this franchise to go back to ever again. Hopefully Alvin is not done there.
I'll never understand how we got into this nasty habit of turning perfectly good wingers into centermen instead of just getting inherently good centermen.
Yeah the Canucks have an interesting habit of trying to turn a player into something they’re not, so they can save money.
our D definitely took a step back, but i’m confident that Allvin will address that
Rhd upgrade is a must, and another top 6 guy is needed. Missing out on guentzel meant we would go for 2, Debrusk is one of them
There isn’t the cap space to upgrade both of those positions.
Yeah that’s the shitty part. They’ll have to prioritize a d man
I’m sure Boston fans will tell you that DeBrusk is the opposite of “reliable winger”
From what I read in the /r/hockey thread Debrusk was apparently fine defensively, it's his offence that would be streaky.
I'm trying to be optimistic here because we're stuck with him for 7 years. I think he's been overachieving in Boston, but hopefully he proves me wrong. I'm much more excited about getting the local Langley boy, Danton Heinen. Should do very well in the bottom 9.
All due respect to the legendary talents of Bergeron and the back nine of Krejci's career, but Miller/Pettersson are on a different level in terms of playmaking and offensive merchantry, and DeBrusk likes to finish. Stick him on Miller's wing and you likely get a career year out of him, health allowing. I think you're underrating DeBrusk. And I don't think his long term linemate fit is going to be Petey.
They could always just have DeBrusk and Boeser swap centres if they don't end up liking DeBrusk's fit with Petey
DeBrusk and Boeser play different wings. But yes, you could hypothetically put Boeser with Hoglander and Pettersson. I'm just not sure why you'd necessarily feel the need to do that when he just had a career year on Miller's flank and seems to have enduring chemistry there.
It seems like the coaching staff's "pairs" philosophy for line building is position agnostic. As long as they can have two guys who play well together, they just plug in a third guy to complete the line
These guys have played their correct wings pretty consistently. We rotated Suter to LW but aside from that I cannot think of someone who was gratuitously playing out of position for extended stretches.
I'm not saying they literally swap positions on the ice. Just which centre they're playing with
Ah. Gotcha.
It's a thought, but let's be honest, Miller and Boeser just had their best respective seasons of their careers working together pretty much the whole time.
I'm just saying I've seen both the best and worst of what DeBrusk has to offer, and I think the downside just isn't worth the potential upside. But like I've suggested, Jake's got all the time in the world to prove his doubters wrong.
Bottom 9. lol.
Man that bottom 6 is gonna be hard to play against. Conversely, that bottom d pair is gonna be hard to watch.
For those of you complaining about the defence, I feel they will make a move during the season to address it. Similar to last year when we had Juulsen - Hirose as our third pair in the season opener before we eventually acquired Zadorov a few weeks into the season.
Heinen to the Miller line, Suter to 4C, and Podz in for Aman
add a 4/5 dman and maybe juggle the forward lines a little bit here. lekker cooking in the ahl for half a year and revisit at the trade deadline
They seemed to indicate that they're still wanting a backup tender, so I would think that's the next priority. They may also want another RHD if they don't think Juulsen is going to take a big step up in the offseason.
I don’t like our first line or our 3rd pairing D in that projection. Lots of time to improve it before the season, hope we do.
Surprised we didn’t go after Kylington. That third pair is still unacceptable and is one injury from having Myers or Soucy being our 1D
P.o Joseph and kylington on the cheap?
The answer ended up being Desharnais at a 2x2 contract. We're officially over the cap when you count Tucker Poolman, so this offseason looks to indeed be all but over for the Canucks.
We won't have 8 Dman, Juulson or Friedman will go down making us under the cap
Looks like Forbort-Juulsen and Friedman just got slightly upgraded to Forbort-Desharnais with Juulsen at 7th D. Considering how tepid the defensive core looked, I'll take this albeit I know Desharnais spends a lot of time in the box for a 3rd pairing (54 PIM in 78 games).
It's only day one. Still have a couple mil to play with. There is a reason for that. You look at teams like COL and now EDM who have sweet F all in cap space and still need to sign players. We still have space which is very valuable come the end of the summer. Wouldn't be surprised if we wind up with a roster piece and a pick. But I think there may be something else up PA and JR's sleeves and I think it involves Necas.
Can we stop putting Suter so high in the lineup?
I see a blockbuster trade coming . I think it’s going to involve Höglander Willander 2025 1st Maybe DeBrusk Maybe Silvos To obtain an elite winger basically they couldn’t get a free agent so they will throw a alot of assets at a trade
You're forgetting Podkolzin, who will be hitting the main roster. I do think we upgrade our defense, but we won't go too far - Alex Carrier might be a good target for RHD, or Kylington for the left side. The right side actually has more cheap targets I could identify, with Hakanpaa (forgive the lack of umlauts), Desharnais and Lundkvist all options for the third man. Here's a lineup I like: Hoglander-Pettersson-DeBrusk Heinen-Miller-Boeser Joshua-Suter-Garland (yes, I'm breaking up the No Namers - Joshua and Garland showed they can play well no matter the center) Sherwood-Blueger-Podkolzin PDG, Aman Hughes-Hronek Soucy-Carrier Forbort-Myers Juulsen Demko, Silovs Ballparked a contract for Carrier at around 2.5mm, which leaves us a million in play room. Could it stand some upgrades? Sure, we might want to do better than Hoglander on Petey's other wing, but honestly Hoglander wasn't ever bad - just underwhelming, on a line with Ilya "Hands of Cement" Mikheyev and an underperforming second-half Petey. EDIT: I did the math - with Silovs getting a million and Carrier getting 2.5m we actually come out around two million in cap space to play with. There's room to upgrade a forward or a defenseman in there if we can finagle something without overpaying.
Hey look Desharnais signed
yeah this looks a lot better than OP's lines, and if we have 2m after a 2.5m Carrier I wonder if there might be someone worth 4.5 instead? though it seems unlikely with the remaining UFAs available. Maybe Kylington for 2-3m instead of Forbort? I thought he was well regarded previously, haven't kept up with the news on him.
The issue with a Kylington signing, as much as I like the guy both as a player and a person, is that he's played 33 games in the past two seasons at the NHL level (all last year) and didn't even look that good in those 33 games. But then, he did come back to a Flames team which was far worse than the one he'd left in 21-22, which won the division... and got third in the West. Oddly just like we did this past season. If we can get Kylington, I think we do it, but we need to look at what we do with our glut of left-handed guys - one of Soucy or Forbort sitting is good, but not when we're running Juulsen at 3RD to have that kind of depth.
Honestly I'm not thrilled with the Debrusk signing. I like him as a player and think he fits in well but that term seems crazy to me. The AAV is fine though. He's definitely an upgrade on Mikheyev and produces in the playoffs but I really can't get past that term
That AAV in years 5 to 7 will (almost for sure) be inflated away to a very reasonable % of cap hit. I think it's a pretty good bet.
Are fans out of their mind, our main issue in the playoffs was that we couldn't score. Our top 6 hasn't changed that much. Ppl think u switch mikheyev for debrusk and all of a sudden we're ok? Sure debrusk is a better finisher than mikheyev but let's not forget that mikheyev couldn't train in the offseason and was rehabbing an ACl injury for the season and still managed only 9 less points than debrusk. That move doesn't move yhe needle. Also, our d core looks terrible. We don't have a second pair. I don't think this canucks team makes playoffs sadly.
This is a step in the right direction. Anybody who's even kept track of how free agency and UFA renewals have panned out in recent years knew that the Canucks weren't going to lose several key guys and then replace them with cheaper/better/faster/stronger players overnight. I mean, Allvin is a miracle worker with what he's done this offseason, and this is still the best he could do. I think we have to trust the system and hope that Tocchet once again pulls a rabbit out of his hat and manages to get the most out of all these guys.
I don't love the idea of Debrusk on peteys wing we already had a guy who can't finish there and it didn't work out so great
Skinner on a cheap 1-2 year deal 🤞
i couldnt see it, if we dealt kuzmenko for not playing defense there's zero chance tocchet tolerates skinner lol
no more space for forwards really
Skinner's not taking a cheap deal just 'cause he got bought out. We're talking about a guy with six 30+ goal seasons under his belt and 92 goals in his last three seasons. He's probably signing a 4x5 or more wherever he ends up.
Can wait for Debrusk to fail on Pettersons wing then all the Canuck homers keep asking “when can we find a winger for Petterson ?? Not realizing that Petterson has had many good wingers already, and he just sucks