Canucks Preseason Camp: 15F 9D 3G remain in camp

[BigTramFan]

2 hours ago, J-23 said:

 

My only concern is if someone on the left side defence gets injured who is stepping in?

 

Friedman and Juulsen both play on the right side.

 

Akito Hirose? Is Kirill Kudryavtsev the answer? I thought he was very good during the preseason and training camp. Rick also had nothing but good things to say. 

Friedman is comfortable playing both sides, so he would be first choice. Wolanin probably next up after that.

[BigTramFan]

19 minutes ago, Honkin Hronek said:

It doesn’t sound like much, but that $362k last year probably would’ve been the difference in us getting Mantha, Toffoli or Tanev on deadline day. What does that extra defence or depth scoring do for us in the Edmonton series? We lost by one goal. 
 

Plus, once Joshua’s back then one of Bains/Raty is going down. That’s another ~$900k which turns into ~3.5 million on deadline day if it’s in the first couple weeks. Once Demko’s back, Silovs is probably going down or Lankinen’s being dealt. Suddenly that $362k could as high as $5-6 million total. Now of course, guys get called up after injuries so we’re probably looking at, at most, $2-3 pragmatically speaking. But, it jumps up fast and even that “small” amount makes getting guys like Vatrano, Ferraro, or even Rasmus Andersson possible. Give yourself the chance for flexibility now, even if it looks like pennies. It will pay off in the long run 

 

To have the $90k of cap space, we cannot have Raty or Bains, nor one of Friedman or Juulsen on the roster. We would need to cut it back to 12F, 7D and 2G (assuming Demko, Joshua, Poolman all on IR). Extremely likely that whichever of Friedman or Juulsen we waive will be picked up by another team. There goes our D depth. With only 21 players if there is more than one injury then we will have to bring another player onto the roster, and there goes the cap space.

 

And once Joshua is back we aren't sending Raty or Bains down, they are already not on the roster so that we could have the $90k of cap space. So it stays at $362k.

 

Demko comes back and we might send Silovs down, or perhaps keep 3 goalies to manage Demko's workload. Pretty sure we will have an injury by then that will require us to utilise most of the $850k of space that Silovs creates if we sent him down.

 

 

Regarding last TDL...I seem to remember Alvin saying that not trading for additional pieces at last TDL was due to the cost of acquiring, not due to us being unable to clear $362k.

 

Mantha was on $5.7m. WSH retained 50%, so he'd still cost $2.85m. The main reason for not acquiring him was the asking price of 2nd + 4th round picks.

 

Similarly for Toffoli who cost a 2nd + 3rd round pick. And Tanev who cost a 2nd + 3rd +4th + a prospect selected in the second round in 2021.