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With the Vancouver Canucks moving Tanner Pearson to the LTIR, it opens up an intriguing opportunity for the team, especially with regards to other players like Thatcher Demko and OEL: weaponizing the cap space.
This video is taking place after the 2022 NHL Entry Draft, and after the 2022 Stanley Cup Playoffs.
The 2022 NHL Draft 1st Round went as follows:
1st) Montreal Canadiens, Juraj Slafkovsky
2nd) New Jersey Devils, Simon Nemec
3rd) Arizona Coyotes, Logan Cooley
4th) Seattle Kraken, Shane Wright
5th) Philadelphia Flyers, Cutter Gauthier
6th) Columbus Blue Jackets (from Chicago Blackhawks), David Jiricek
7th) Chicago Blackhawks (from Ottawa Senators), Kevin Korchinski
8th) Detroit Red Wings, Marco Kasper
9th) Buffalo Sabres, Matthew Savoie
10th) Anaheim Ducks, Pavel Mintyukov
11th) Arizona Coyotes (from San Jose Sharks), Conor Geekie
12th) Columbus Blue Jackets, Denton Mateychuk
13th) Chicago Blackhawks (from New York Islanders), Frank Nazar
14th) Winnipeg Jets, Rutger McGroarty
15th) Vancouver Canucks, Jonathan Lekkerimaki
16th) Buffalo Sabres (Vegas Golden Knights), Noah Ostlund
17th) Nashville Predators, Joakim Kemell
18th) Dallas Stars, Lian Bichsel
19th) Minnesota Wild (from LA Kings), Liam Ohgren
20th) Washington Capitals, Ivan Miroshnichenko
21st) Pittsburgh Penguins, Owen Pickering
22nd) Anaheim Ducks (from Boston Bruins), Nathan Gaucher
23rd) St. Louis Blues, Jimmy Snuggerud
24th) Minnesota Wild, Danila Yurov
25th) Chicago Blackhawks (from Toronto Maple Leafs), Sam Rinzel
26th) Montreal Canadiens (from Calgary Flames), Filip Mesar
27th) San Jose Sharks (from Carolina Hurricanes via Arizona Coyotes and Montreal Canadiens), Filip Bystedt
28th) Buffalo Sabres (from Florida Panthers), Jiri Kulich
29th) Arizona Coyotes (from Edmonton Oilers), Maveric Lamoureux
30th) Winnipeg Jets (from New York Rangers), Brad Lambert
31st) Tampa Bay Lightning, Isaac Howard
32nd) Edmonton Oilers (from Colorado Avalanche via Arizona Coyotes), Reid Schaefer
This video is also taking place after 2022 NHL Season, and after the 2022 Stanley Cup Playoffs, where the Colorado Avalanche defeated the Tampa Bay Lightning in the Finals.
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24 Comments
This all seems very convenient. Maybe Demko suffered a legitimate setback. Or maybe the Canucks are just loading up their LTIR so they can make trades that will benefit them long term while taking on salary short term. If they have to take on salary for the rest of the year to be rid of some of their dead multi year cap, that could be one way to get through this. They clearly can’t just dump salary because very few teams have cap space. If they have to take on a comparable cap hit for this season to be rid of Boeser or OEL or Garland’s contract completely, that may be their only way of doing it.
Oel Myers poolman Pearson Demko Gone next season take oel or Myers they suck anyways
Jets did the same thing with their cap. Didn’t use LTIR on a few guys over the span of a few months. Now I believe they’ll have an extra 6 million in cap space for the deadline
OeL needs to go parachuting without a chute.
if demko leaves the teams even worse because silvos aint near ready for the nhl
That’s why the Canucks need to find a better team doctor. From the Pearson debacle making Mikheyev play on a busted ACL for the first 2/3rd of the season. Now Demko is being mishandled. This has been going on for too long. Players need to come first not an owners bottom line. Brock Boeser was mishandled, Tanev for years, Brenden Sutter as well. Going as far back as Cody Hodgson’s misdiagnosis that ruined his career. The Canucks doctors and medical staff need a change.
Personally, I think the Canucks would love to park Demko for the rest of the season and fully commit to a tank. The last thing Allvin needs is for Demko to stand on his head and we lose this rare opportunity to get a rare talent.
Great news! Now we can afford to sign Bo Horvat! 😂
Lego, stop it, you're filling my head with too much hope about pulling off some kind of insane cap space deal for a big player. XD
PARK DEMKO! Let him get 110% healthy and ready for next year
VAN – Gives up Luke Schenn and Offloads OEL ($7.15m x 4); SJS – takes on OEL and gets Evan Bouchard RHD as sweetner; EDM – gets Karlsson at the lower $7m and sends dump contracts to VAN. Essentially, Karlsson for Evan Bouchard. I like it.
I'm all for shutting Demko down for the rest of the season. Make sure he is 100% ready for next season. As for weaponizing their cap space, thats not what Benning said it was. It's overpriced underperforming 4th line players with a best before date of 2 to 3 years prior. LOL. Seriously, I'd love to see them take advantage of their cap space in a way that really helps improves the team for the future.
What kind of tire fire is this
Some optimism and a ray of light. This could get me out of my doom and gloom for the team.
Do SOMETHING FOR THE LOVE OF GOD!!!!!!!!!
You should pre record two episodes for when you are gone and see how close you are to the real thing as a laugh
You need to look at guys like Killorn and lucic who are on expiring contracts
Take on bad expiring contracts for picks or prospects.
Oh don't people realize it is all being done for the tank. Player stay out and the tank continues.
Wtf is Michael ferland really going to play again? I thought he retired quietly
All hail King Louie Erickson he is the greatest Canuck of all time. Dominated every shift. We have never been the same without him. Sonce the trade we were cursed by KLE himself. He single handedly made the sedins look good. All hail the 👑 . Let's bring him home!! Trade OEL and garland back for our rightful king.
Rob Talks Hockey dropped a video on how bad Vancouver has been at managing their assets since their cup appearance in 2011. They should have been able to sign their Captain.
More teams should start using LTIR to their advantage when rebuilding. I know Arizona has been taking bad contracts but not many others do from what I see.
In addition to the Canucks, the Blue Jackets could add $17M in cap space by adding players to LTIR. Players out for the season not in LTIR (Voracek – $8.25M, Nyquist – $5.5M, Bean – $2.33M, Danforth – $975k). That’s in addition to the $7.5M they have currently for Wirenski being out and on LTIR. That means they could have $24M in cap space as another team who may retain.
But whether it’s the Canucks, Blue Jackets or another team. Personally I wouldn’t recommend retaining on a Karlsson or anybody else with 2-3 years remaining. That could spell trouble when your players get healthy next year, put the team in cap trouble and all for retaining and getting at max a 3rd but probably 4th or 5th round pick.
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