[PGT] Holy Cow we did Things!! - Free Agency Thread - July 1st

[AlwaysACanuckFan]

Just now, Ghostsof1915 said:

 

Live feed outside our new practice facility 

[Ghostsof1915]

Just now, AlwaysACanuckFan said:

Live feed outside our new practice facility 

The question is. What's more unbelievable?

Loch Ness Monster/Ogopogo?

Start of the new Canucks training facility?

[Petey O]

3 minutes ago, Ghostsof1915 said:

What's wrong with that?

Nothing's wrong with it.

 

It's likely a Foote/Tocchet thing. I don't mind it at all. What opposing forwards are going to want go to up against towering physical behemoths in the playoffs?

[RupertKBD]

I'll give PA credit for one thing....

 

We lost Zadorov and somehow managed to get bigger on defense.....

[German Canuck]

Great job so far. This GM group is brillant and i love what they are doing.

Adresses our needs, sign Tocchet typ players but dont overpay.

 

Awesome job 

[Ghostsof1915]

Having some size on the back end might make Hughes life a little easier as well.

[Jaimito]

PA speaking soon. Guess they are done for the day. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited Monday at 08:47 PM by Jaimito

[The Duke]

I’m not sure about Sherwood, but DeBrusk and Heinen are good two way guys.
 

Will need to be to help some of our lumbering D get the puck out.  
 

Could work. Definitely still a tough team to play against.

[Pears]

If we send PDG, Åman and Patera down that'll give us $4.3 million in cap space left. Should be able to add another forward with that money if we want to. 

[AlwaysACanuckFan]

1 minute ago, The Duke said:

I’m not sure about Sherwood, but DeBrusk and Heinen are good two way guys.
 

Will need to be to help some of our lumbering D get the puck out.  
 

Could work. Definitely still a tough team to play against.

Sherwood was a thorn in our ass during the playoffs, now he can be thorn in their ass next time we play them

[Petey O]

Honestly, I'm starting to see the vision here.

 

Physical, yuge defense and fast, hard-hitting forechecking two-way wingers that are annoying to play against.

 

Tocchet hockey. All of these are playoff moves.

[steviewonder20]

Desharmais, 2 years, 2 million each. They want big PKers and that’s a good thing. One more top 6 winger would be great but I think the money ran out. On a day of ‘frenzy’ and stupid over-payments, our GM bought wisely considering the insanity with both aav and terms given. Not like the JB years.

[iinatcc]

9 minutes ago, The Duke said:

Why?  What would you have preferred he did?

 

I can't imagine this was plan A or even plan C for Allvin. This has to be like Plan G.

[hockeyfan-observer]

I think overall PA tried acquiring depth today along with supplementary forwards - and avoided the big splash players which may have cost 9M+ etc. When you have only 14M cap space, someone taking 2/3 of that will hinder your plans a bit.  Had they signed Lindy and Z at their contracts, would have left only about 2M remaining to fill the other positions.

 

Their D I think is as big as last year but losing out on Big Z mobility is a concern.  Hopefully Foote and Gonchar can get the best out of the acquisitions and improve their positioning even further.  Maybe they have players in ABBY that can address the mobility besides Hughes and Hronek.  They may also look at splitting that pair up at that times to spread out the D lines a bit.  Forward wise, I think the acquisitions are fine - all seem to be RT type players coming from defensive first organizations (Boston Nashville)

 

We will see if there are further trades in the near future.

 

 

Edited Monday at 08:41 PM by hockeyfan-observer

[Devron]

5 minutes ago, The Duke said:

I’m not sure about Sherwood, but DeBrusk and Heinen are good two way guys.
 

Will need to be to help some of our lumbering D get the puck out.  
 

Could work. Definitely still a tough team to play against.

Sherwood pissed me off playing against him, good enough for me 

[The Duke]

58 minutes ago, iinatcc said:

 

I can't imagine this was plan A or even plan C for Allvin. This has to be like Plan G.

That’s probably true - but he made some big nasty lemonade from those lemons.  
 

At bare minimum I’m sure Tocchet and Foote are happy.  Now it’s in their court to elevate these less than exciting pieces into a team. 

Edited Monday at 09:38 PM by The Duke

[Pears]

3 minutes ago, Devron said:

Sherwood pissed me off playing against him, good enough for me 

Fast and hits literally anything that moves. I like it. 

[Warhippy]

With nothing but depth additions and no credible top 4 on the blue line or top 6/star winger for Petey.

 

There HAS to be a plan to play Podkolzin or Lekkerimaki with him.  They absolutely can not fucking pay Petey $11 million a year to be a 2nd line pivot with players of the calibre of Mikheyev without hoping one of the kids will blossom in to the Burrows to his Henrik

Edited Monday at 08:45 PM by Warhippy

[Nucker67]

4 minutes ago, iinatcc said:

Well one thing's for sure Allvin is going nowhere near being a GM of the year finalist this coming season

 

On the contrary, I think. The Canucks didn't overspend on one guy and instead filled spots with certain players (with size) who could excel under Tocchet. They lost Zadorov, which was too bad, but they got even bigger on the backend. DeBrusk might really play well under Tocchet and with Petey. Show Podkolzin how it's done. 

[The Duke]

3 minutes ago, Devron said:

Sherwood pissed me off playing against him, good enough for me 

Yes - I’m happy with the pickup I just don’t know if he’s known as a two-way impact player or just a forechecker / agitator.  

[RupertKBD]

4 minutes ago, Devron said:

Sherwood pissed me off playing against him, good enough for me 

I was a big fan of his sticks back in my playing days....

[DownUndaCanuck]

Would rather some better skaters on the blueline after watching the most recent playoffs but we're clearly going for size. I think we'll split Hughes and Hronek because our other D are a lot worse than last year. Bunch of bottom pairing guys and two top elite defencemen.

 

Hughes - Desharnais

Forbot - Hronek

Soucy - Myers

[The Duke]

Going with Sherwood and Heinen opens up the opportunity to move Garland and/or Joshua up the lineup as well.  
 

DeBrusk-Miller-Boeser

Joshua-Petey-Garland

Hoglander-Suter-Heinen

Sherwood-Bleuger-Podkolzin

 

or

 

Garland-Miller-Boeser

Debrusk-Petey-Heinen

Hoglander-Suter-Joshua

Sherwood-Bleuger-Podkolzin

 

Or whatever combination you want, of course.  “The third line” worked with Suter, Bleuger and Lindholm last year.  Could always mix it up.

Edited Monday at 08:53 PM by The Duke

[HKSR]

1 minute ago, The Duke said:

Going with Sherwood and Heinen opens up the opportunity to move Garland and/or Joshua up the lineup as well.  
 

DeBrusk-Miller-Boeser

Joshua-Petey-Garland

Hoglander-Suter-Heinen

Sherwood-Bleuger-Podkolzin

 

Or whatever combination you want, of course.  “The third line” worked with Suter, Bleuger and Lindholm last year.  Could always mix it up.

So much solid forward depth.

So much size and nastiness in the D group.

So much calm and coolness in net.

[filthy animal]

Come on Alvin, pony up for Adam Boquist! Lets get some projects in here with upside