Themes for this roster:

(1) Make use of the Canucks spare expansion protection spot on defense.

(2) Take advantage of other cap-strapped teams.

(3) Eat you cap-hit medicine in 2021-2022—avoid any buy-outs.

(4) Maximize cap-space for 2022-23 and 2023-24 to re-sign your core players.

(5) RH center depth prioritized—Bozak ticks all the boxes (RH faceoffs, PK, can slide around middle-six)

Imma pass on this one chief

I thought you'd like a break from trading Zegras and Drysdale for Marner.

*Eichel
And yea I would. But Fleury was a hidden gem for us and I wouldn’t wanna risk losing him.

Gadzooks this is easily one of the most awesome AGMs ever posted here (the song, the elaborations, etc.) there should be an AGM HOF for these things

Anyway thanks 👍

Brightened up my miserable day

A fun part of this AGM is you can feel the shade on Benning from those sensible conservative UFA deals it puts his past malarkey in perspective perfectly

Drop the 3 seen way too many offers of a 2 on here for Killorn. MacEwen doesn't move the needle and Ferlands LTIR really only saves Vancouver the real dollars being the uninsured portion of the contract. Killorn costs Vancouver at least a 3 to TB

I actually really like this, it checks off all the boxes that need to be sorted out, trades seem fair and doesnt hinder the canucks for next year.

you killed it

I see your points:

RE:MacEwan—I think MacEwan is a take it or leave asset and doesn’t really need to be included if there is not a clear role for him in the Tampa org. I will reiterate that I think there is something there and that a team with more depth that has already shown an aptitude for successfully developing AHL-NHL tweeners like him into useful middle-six forwards could find a diamond in the rough with him. Worst case his salary is small enough that he could be buried in the AHL without an NHL cap hit.

RE: 3rd Round Pick—I think all of us are foolish to predict how the flat cap and expansion will affect the trade market this off-season. I observe that Tampa seems to be in a tough spot if they were to move forward without placing a big ticket on LTIR again this off-season. If Tampa is really in tight and they want to protect certain players and are forced to move particular pieces they may not have much leverage. It could very easily go the other way though and teams are clamoring to get cost controlled wingers for short term deals–if the market goes that way than yes I could see it being the Canucks sending the draft pick. Even in that scenario I don’t see it being more than a mid round pick.

Nice!

Comments like this are way too rare on this site

Everyone seems so prickly and miserable all the time

Unfortunately you're correct, I try to see whats good in most of these.