When your team makes as much noise as the Vancouver Canucks did this season, the vultures will start to circle. Teams around the league are aware that the Canucks are tight to the cap, and are eyeing their free agents. Dakota Joshua is one such free agent. He has a tantalizing mix of speed, skill, and physicality. He is the type of player that can be an X factor in a playoff run, and there will be no shortage of suitors for his services on July 1st. If the Canucks cannot sign him, there are players on the market that they can consider as replacements, and some in-house options. In this video, I go over those options!
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This always happens with deep teams after a good playoff run, or when your budget players play beyond their pay grade. We're lucky we didnt win the cup or we'd lose half the team.
They will negotiate he’s a force Canucks need along with big “Z”
If Joshua doesn’t sign I’d sell high on Garland! I wanna see a major shake up!
You can't lose Joshua! Him & Garland will be like McDavid & Draisaitl one day but better.
Power forwards are scarce in free agency this year and Joshua is showing the potential to fill top-6 roles and become a force on special teams with his speed, size and creativity. This is simply an overpay that you have to make if you want to keep your team strategically diverse and tough to play against, especially with the chance that Brock is out long-term.
Give Joshua what he wants. He the one of players that brought the Canucks to the playoffs 2024
He had great season, Garland can make anyone better.
Pay the man.
Sigh. I feel like we are going to be regressing this off season.
Such a useful player!
Too 6 easy
Are the Nux about to lose half its players? Oh well, time to rebuild. 😅
Do not let Joshua go! For the love of god Vancouver do not F this up.
I can’t see Dakota leaving tbh. I get the sense he enjoys Vancouver and wants to stay. I trust the management more than i ever have and I think they know they need him. I’d say he’s priority 1 or 2 on the resign list.
I vote POD!
nucks need to get bigger and grittier, let the talent shine. Blueline is pretty bad after Hughes.
Consider to trade Petterson and use the money to sign Joshua, big Z, and 1 or 2 top 6 forward !!!
Low twos??? Come on I think the way the team struggled with him out is evidence that he is at least worth 3.5. Come on Vancouver step up.
go canucks go …..golfing …..fore !
No way we are looking at anyone other then Josh
This is absurd! Cal Clutterbuck was signed to 5 years and $3.5 million a season. Cals career best was a high of 8 goals and 23 points in those 5 years. Of course, Cal led the league in hits. Joshua will lead the league in hits if he stays healthy. Joshuas career highs in goals and points are 18 goals and 32 points in just 63 games! NEWSFLASH! Joshua should be paid above $3.5 million a season.
If the canucks wont pay market value, many other teams will!
We need to keep Joshua and get another big winger
He will be overpaid somewhere and never repeat what he did this season.
Way more productive than Petterson