It's a great contract but it buys only 2 UFA years and he could've gotten a haul at the deadline. Idk what Vancouver is doing at this point lmao, but I love Kuzy and hope he enjoys Vancouver. I just don't see the point of signing Kuzmenko for 2 years and with a M-NTC when apparently they're cleaning shop everywhere else. If they we're gonna sign someone it should've been Horvat.....

Good contract, doesn't really make sense tho.

They could still trade him.

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The only thing that comes to mind is: Nikita Gusev

hes 26...
not 32

no

Think it good for the Canucks, as they keep a productive player. If Kuzmenko continues to play well he will still have good trade value, even at TDL in 2025, if a trade is needed by the Canucks.

The advantage of the Canucks trading this year, is they would get a future young asset and 5.5m to spend for the next two years. I think the Canucks made the right decision.

a real half-ass of a contract. The AAV is fine if you think he's gonna be a solid 30 goal scorer, but he's only 26 - why not give him more term than 2 years? I think that's the part that sticks out more to me - it's noncommittal. too scared to try and cash him in as a rental this year but too wishy washy to commit to him long term - why not lock him in for 5-6 years at that AAV seeing that you're going to be paying JT Miller & OEL big money for those years??

No guarantee that the Canucks stay mediocre forever, it's just a lazy assumption

Could be, but I think what this really means is that the management team isn't interested in putting up the white flag and trading their newly acquired players just because they haven't been able to move some of the iffy contracts they inherited. I'm sure this is just the beginning, and management probably won't be able to do absolutely everything the want to in one off-season, but I'm sure they won't come away empty handed

Very short-sighted of you

Vancouver isn't interested in moving their newly acquired players just because management inherited some contracts they haven't been able to move yet. They're not going say uncle like that, and they're not doing this to cut off their nose to spite their face. They're not going to trade players whom could still be part of the solution

Struggle with asset management? Have you not heard that they made wholesale regime changes just over a year ago?

Are you kidding me? Seriously, are you kidding me? They weren't getting anything close to what your definition of a "haul" likely is. Kuzy doesn't have the track record to warrant that kind of trade value, no playoff performance precedent etc.

Why? This team needs to move the players that have been around for some years, not their newly acquired players. Kuzmenko's trade value wasn't even that high

They'll get out of it. None of what they've done is any worse than your Bruins signing Mitchell Miller, and it's not our fault you don't recognize that the trade offers for Miller weren't that enticing

Kuzmenko isn't part of the problem, that makes no sense

This isn't a cut off your nose to spite your face type of move

You're not wrong

Chiarot is a defenseman, very diffferent market for D-men than wingers in case you didn't know

Canucks haven't sucked for the whole 50 years. Not winning a stanley cup doesn't equate to sucking always, but definitely sucking for too long

Probably. If Bo is re-signed and none of Boeser, Garland, or Myers get moved at the deadline, then we can start to panic

Kuzmenko is a lot cheaper than Horvat obviously

If he keeps up this level of production or close to he should. Not sure why so few people can figure that out for themselves