Breaking News: Vancouver Canucks Buyout Oliver Ekman-Larsson
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25 Comments
Let me know your thoughts on this buyout and the trade that brought OEL to Vancouver…
nobody was going to take that contract without a sweetener and the Canucks are in no spot to give up any assets, this was their only choice
Absolute f*cking shit show
-Canucks fan
Back to Arizona?-Nah.
Another championship move from trade to buyout. I started out a Leaf fan back in the 70's and 80's. Since then I have lived in BC and have been a die hard Canuck fan. At this point I really can't tell the difference.
AND Giving JT Miller the store!!!
Garland and the 11th pick for LaFrenier,…?
If the canucks waited one year to get rid of those salaries I guarantee they would blow it immediately on a guy like Kardi
Can a player that's bought out sign with a new team and double dip?
Oh good luck, Vancouver with your cap!!
So long Aquilini runs the show..
Classic Vancouver mismanagement
Benning should never sniff NHL work again, he has set the team back 10 years. 🤷🤷
So happy I’m not a canucks fan
Jim benning is the goat 😂
100% correct – one of the worst trades in history. Ironically, the 8-year stench of this Benning trade will outlast the tenure of GM Allvin!
That trade will be Benning's legacy for many years to come. The time was right for this. Canucks have been struggling to find cap space, and he was basically untradeable. He'll probably land somewhere, he has value, just not 7M/yr. Cut that in half, and it would be about right. Canucks would be wise to focus on the blueline, when it comes to using the space. They're not done. Tyler Myers is probably ready to put his house up for sale. They might have to retain 1M of Garland's salary in order to trade him.
The main focus of this trade is to create cap space. Not just to spend it on some new players, but to remove the restriction of having to add sweeteners to any trades they might attempt in the short term. They now can actually operate like a normal NHL team. Until of course, they blow it all later on another Eriksson type player. Sigh.
Tampa bay lol
To be fair, if they were not traded these three garbage, they still not have enough cap space to resign Petterson and Hughes in 2021
Obviously, the trade was pretty awful for the Canucks. Ownership and management got too desperate to make the playoffs and after taking shortcuts took the ultimate shortcut to get OEL and Garland to Vancouver. Oliver was coming off a down year and seemed to have lost a step already, but Benning was desperate to save his job, so he made the move. After a good year, at least defensively, he followed it up with an awful season, where he clearly showed he wasn't a top 4 defenseman anymore. Looking at the options, as much as this really hurts the team long term, it was the lesser of 2 evils. My worry is that Allvin will get himself in cap trouble again by bringing in another bad contract when he has Pettersson, Hronek and others coming up after this coming season. If Podkolzin takes a step forward, that complicates things. Sure, the cap is supposed to go up, but we don't know by how much. Myers might be moveable after he's paid his bonus money, but even that is up in the air. They need some more dead weight to go on LTIR. But again, none of that cap space matters if they blow it on more overpaid players and the new regime's willingness to resign a 30 year old guy who can't or won't play defence and then claims his dip in production is due to being more defensively responsible is definitely worrying. The team's quest to get into the playoffs yesterday has been their downfall and I've seen no indication that philosophy has changed whatsoever.
the entire regime in vancouver, to me, just seems to reek of arrogance. how could any knowledgeable GM/management not anticipate the predicament of what they were considering doing with that absolute albatross of a contract.. and to top it off, offering up invaluable draft capital in the process. that was not a hockey mind at work here, more likely some privileged, pimply faced owner`s son playing fantasy hockey with real money.
I want to love Vancouver but oh god, do they ever make terrible decisions. Thank god Jim Bennings gone though!
OEL could make Allvin and the Chipmunks look bad in 2023-24.
A very healthy Myers regressed significantly last season and they couldn't dump his contract and then Bear had surgery putting OEL's contract next up on the block to clear their cap issues.
OEL played through injury last season in front of AHL goalies for the most part.
If he bounces back then Canucks mgmt. will have to make very good use of any leverage this move affords them.
3rd and 4th year @4.75M will kill our chances of any playoff success…….😢