DEAL!!

canucks dont make those deals

Trading away Hoglander would be dumb but trading him away for ethen bear is REALLY dumb

Dowling isn't making the team and trading Hoglander for Bear is dumb and it's even more dumb to pay him 4.5 million

Trading away Hoglander as well as a pick for Ethan Bear would be extremely dumb!

Definitely, Keep Hogs he's 21, he will be a future fan favourite. If Bruce thinks he needs more seasoning then send him to Abbotsford no exposure. It's so cool to have control of player developement right

“ I believe the canucks will do everything they can to resign JT. Miller hence this move.”
How are the Canucks going to do that? They’d need to shed some serious salary or let Horvat walk?

They would need to trade one player or buyout Poolman. It’s not hard

You’ve got 13 players signed for next year, with $22.6M in cap space to sign 7 players + resign Miller & Horvat. But sure, it’ll be a breeze. Tough to unload bloated contracts (of which you have a few) but even tougher when most teams up against the cap

Cap goes up 1 million next season, and cheap players like Rathbone, Joshua, and dries can fill lower parts of the lineup. Plus re-signing players like Burroughs/Dowling/schenn will be cheap as well. Hoglander can probably be signed to something similar to what Yamamoto signed for last offseason.

So right there is 7 players for probably 6.5-7 million total.

Leaves lots of room for signing bo, miller, and kuzmenko.

Myers will be owed 1 million in salary after his bonus is paid next July, so that will be a relatively easy contract to move. But even if you can’t move Myers, Poolman and Dickinson both have very cheap buyouts and you can easily create space there.

Very doable offseason next year.