[MacIntyre] “Amid Canuck coaching news the last couple of weeks, there has been significant traction in contract talks w UFAs Nikita Zadorov and Elias Lindholm. Maybe neither re-signs, but it’s possible the Canucks could keep both players.”
by Spookedchicken
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At this time, I really don’t want to keep Zadorov unless it’s a big discount from the numbers being thrown around. Anything over 5m would be disastrous, and I don’t even think he’s worth anything over 4m.
So we don’t know either way, wow, breaking news
This is such a 180 from reports this morning and yesterday. PA/JR keeping a tight ship, nobody knows what’s true
Maybe, but maybe not.
Lindholm shifts this team from a strong team, to a legitimate contender.
He was our best player these playoffs, hands down. (Before I get critiqued here, HMs to Garland, Boeser, Silovs, Myers and Zadorov)
I find it hilarious that an hour ago an “update” gets posted that Zadorov and the Canucks haven’t had contract talks since the playoffs, and now there has been “significant traction” vancouver media baby
I honestly would be so happy if we can keep both
Snip snap snip snap
https://x.com/hockeyagent1/status/1798786830118302085?s=46&t=HZUpmsK_nwuw2-oo5S3_Yw
Milstein just quote tweeted this saying it was fake news
I wish we could keep both and dumpster our cap problems to another team so we can still sign a top six forward.
They just showed Milstein’s tweet saying its fake news about Zaddy. IMac probably just towing the company line like usual…
If we can keep Lindholm, I want him to play in 2nd line as 2C with Petey in his LW. Both Elias healthy would make this an extremely dangerous line as they can both play centre/wing and they are both 200 ft players that can play on both ends of the ice. We never got to witness healthy Petey+Lindholm this past season together.
For 3C, we can either re-sign Blueger or bump Suter down to play that role with Garland.
Having Lindholm would also give us a lot of options and we can move him to 3C like we did in the playoffs depending on the opponent.
I hope we can make it work for both sides.
Even if Lindholm leaves I’ll never forget that nasty OT goal vs Nashville and where I was when he scored that goal.
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It’s aight if we lose Zad, JR and Allvin will cook something up in the summer.
I resigned Lindholm for 7 years at $5 mill AAV in EA Franchise Mode and traded a 2030 2nd round pick and Cole McWard for Logan Stankoven so probably Allvin can do something like that.
Please keep Z! I just got his customized jersey in the mail!
“basically they may or may not re-sign at this point” – IMac
I wonder if Lindholm is going to come in much lower than projections.
On the open market he’s probably looking at something similar to the Miller contract 8milx7yrs = 56mil total.
If he stays do we maybe get him at 6.5milx8yrs = 52mil total.
Milstein just said fake news
Milstein just responded to this tweet saying “Fake News” so it really goes to show how much some media members actually know, including guys like iMac. We’ll know for sure coke July 1
Milstein reporting this as fake news..
I think the 2C vs 3C Lindholm contract value thing is a bit overblown. He could get 2C minutes based on special teams deployment like in the playoffs. And keep in mind that one of him, Petey, or Miller could play wing in various situations and/or in future years.
If he’s 3C but, say, also our 2nd-4th highest minutes forward there may be a fit at $7+m. That’s different than the version where he’s out 7-9th highest minute forward.
$ might still be too high, and I agree we need to find more scoring from somewhere else (and save some money to do so), but I’m not ready to rule it out just yet.
SNIP SNAP SNIP SNAP
Dan Milstein tweeted out that it was fake news
Really don’t get giving a 3rd line C big $ long term with limited cap and giant holes to fill on the backend and on the wings. As good as Lindholm was in the playoffs, we are set for many years at 1C and 2C..
It’s definitely time to just let things happen
Ah yes, the summmer, where one insider will say one thing – and then another will come along a few hours later and say the exact opposite!
So, pretty much the same as spring, fall and winter…
I certainly hope they do.
I would simultaneously be really happy to keep them both and really nervous about the contracts
I dont know why people even care about this news. Its all BS from the team or agent. Remember when Miller was ‘far apart’ then boom his daughter was born and signed 2 days later. We’ll only know when the contract is basically done
I wish I got paid to write stuff like “hearing good things about X and Y player re-signing in Z. Maybe neither re-signs, but it’s possible”
Like no shit. You’re explaining that they have two options, both of which are in play. How is this news? This whole offseason is going to be exhausting, isn’t it?
Big Z, priority one.