I have enough faith in Allvin that I believe he can work around .75 mil "mistake" with an 88 million dollar cap.

U okay bud?

@@MajorCanada he is a nothing burger just like you major canada, lol.

Show me on the doll where the bad man touched you.

Drance is great 👍

He said no ligaments in his ankle.

my dog knows more about hockey than jpat

Probably like half of Vancouver

Me, for one.

I doubt his bosses save any cap space though, I've always assumed they just pay Drance in donuts and beer.

Tell that to last years 5’9” Conn Smyth winner

What lol😂

Worst take ever

he'll play at least a year in abbotsford

agree would rather over invest in d then wingers

Lindholm and Cole, generally speaking I agree that they can be replaced. Lindholm will be tougher than Cole, as he was very good once healthy, but an equal "value" prop is doable - arguably Blueger gives you equal value, because of how good he was relative to cost. Zadorov is not so easy, as there simply aren't that many big men like that who also move like he does. A Joshua replacement is not so easy to get, at the price point we can probably achieve. He proved to have good hockey IQ, he has hands and vision, he plays physical and has decent size to back it up.

I agree but we gotta move on from that. New regime new plan.

@@Yoshyoshbgosh - well enough, but it was explicitly mentioned in the podcast / interview. I would not have otherwise brought it up. And it was a response to IMac indicating that there was a legitimate for not each of them happening the way they did.

Tanev was busted up,we gave him as much support as we could.

@@shaunduquette5992 - Tanev played 69 games his last season in Vancouver, which is just fine for a high minute, PK playing, high shot blocking, D man. So NOT too busted up and certainly not so busted up that he needed to be gone. He also had an excellent rapport with Quinn, on and off the ice. I am not trying to beat a dead horse, but he was playing quality hockey BEFORE he left and he is the type of D man we have been missing since.

Hronek was never a rental in the truest form

Lindholm was a rental

@@user-by3nd4rm6c sort of, kind of when you trade for an injured player at the end of a season and then have to deal with him as a RFA. It's why I couldn't really say I fully liked or disliked the trade until this signing happened. I'm glad it got done, but if it didn't get done I'd definitely call it a rental given the price they paid to trade for him.

Exactly. Finally someone mentions it. Brock should stay the same. Hughes will go up. And yeah, buyout penalties continue to haunt us. Can you believe there are people saying “buy out so and so”. Guys, we don’t have that luxury.

There is absolutely room to sign Guentzel, just not much else if that goes through

@@LegendaryGoetz There is definitely no more room for dead money if they want to realize their contending aspirations, but. I say Brock probably tops out in the low 7's if he replicates the season he just had which is a big if because of the medical uncertainty around him. Hughes should probably go up to about 11M and change over max term. Don't forget Demko is up the year between Brock and Huggy, but it's probably not unreasonable to bank on Silovs being his successor, a cheaper one of course

Hughes isn’t due until 2028 which is the year OEL penalty goes down, but yeah Boeser next year is a big one to plan for

With Ilya coming off the books and hopefully a couple entry level contracts on the books with Willander/Lekki, they’ll be fine.

Harman Dayal has a pretty passionate rundown of why they shouldn't pay even close to market price for Lindholm. May be the same with Zadorov

@@user-by3nd4rm6c Whatever they decide to do I'll go with Rutherford and Allvin over Harman or anyone else in the media. They have a good track record.

They were not terrible defensively

@@user-by3nd4rm6c they both got knocked off pucks easily and were pylons in front of the net, they couldn’t move anyone out of the way

@@kevinVersus They weren't

wrong. You cannot keep Boeser next year or Hughes in 2 years if your adding another 9 million dollar salary

@@user-bs8hq6bc6e I think you can if you part with other salaries and the cap goes up. If Garland and Mikheyev are moved, for example, that will help. I'm not convinced Boeser is going to get or even ask for a huge increase especially if they wait and he produces at a 30 goal clip this year instead of 40.

I still put Pat Quinn ahead of this group, but Quinn had his missteps at the end, some massive. It's hard to judge this group after such a short time. It's the results on the ice that matter, and they haven't been to a Cup yet.

​@@user-bs8hq6bc6eyes you can😂mihkeyev 4 Mil will be expired or they can trade him. Garland 5 Mil contract expiring soon. Lots of other contracts expiring

@@christhornycroft3686 ???

Younger RHD are hard to get, so if they let him walk he would be replaced with an older slower player.