Canucks sign Baertschi to two-year extension - Vancouver Canucks - News

I think this is decent value for him, lets just hope he works his ass off over summer and last year was just a start of his potential

not a bad deal
Jimbo learning how to sign good contracts

It's worth it as long as Baertschi is consistent on his play. When he's on his game, him and horvat were dynamite.

thought he'd get 2mil a year. so it's good there's a little bit of savings

also goligoskis rights traded from Dallas to Arizona for a 2016 5th

I approve of this signing. He did good with Bo Horvat, let's keep the line together and see what happens.

I think it's an excellent deal. Gives the kid a solid 2 years to continue to improve, and if he regresses or sucks then you're not hampered with a horrible cap hit

Bo better get an extension on July 1st.

lol inb4
Bo + 5th pick to TB for JD

probably never gonna happen but i can just imagine the shit show that will be the draft party haha

Hansen + 5th for Barrie + 10th
:drunk:

yeah you're drunk

Dan murphy tweeted that Benning doesn't seem himself trading the 5th unless he gets an offer he cannot refuse. We're most likely going to get Dubois or Tkachuk with it.

Was kind of hoping for a prospect and to drop in the top 10 and go for Logan brown. We have 2-3 years to let him mature and size up in utica.

TB wouldve trade JD for for Bo str8 up couple months ago according to hfboards but canucks said no

Burrows Dubois JD - west coast french connection

Burrows won't be with the team next year, I think they are going to buy him out.

I don't know about this.

This one just doesn't make sense.

Why trade a team leader that actually wants to play in Vancouver. His work ethic and heart is unquestionable and can mentor those yougins coming up the pipe.

Unless we go all out on UFA's, I don't think we would be bumping up against the salary cap. In which case, there may not be a need to buy out #14

oh hi bieksa lol

i think to this management everything makes sense, if it means getting younger and faster

We need someone here to mentor Jan-Pavel Laplante if he makes it to the big league hahaha

The problem is that the buyout window closes before free agent frenzy begins.

i rmbr an article a while back saying the cap hit saving of buying out Burrows is only something like $1 mil and that it made more sense to buy out Chris Higgins instead

I wouldn't mind another year of Burr if that's the case tbh

Between Higgins and Burr, Higgins is barely useful in the AHL

I hate to say it, but financially, it doesn't make that much of a difference to buy out either players.
IIRC, Higgies has 1 year left on his contract and Burrs has 2 years.
If the Nucks bought out Burr's contract, they only save $1M and would have a smaller cap hit stretched out over 4 years.
So unless they plan on going nuts on July 1, it's hard to say there is value to buying out either contracts.

604_boi, the thing you are talking about was posted by Ian MacIntyre on twitter back in April.

Do we get any compensatory picks from Calgary for signing Gululu as Flame's head coach?

No, they got rid of that after the Torts signing

We should be giving them picks for taking Gululu Kappa

I don't know why they didn't get rid of Gulutzan with Torts. I thought it was normal for the whole coaching corps to be fired along with the head coach.

Correct me if I am wrong, but Gulu was in charge of running special teams right? And our special teams has been... well, uninspiring. While he didn't look out of place when Torts was sidelined for the few games, he didn't seem to have made much of a difference either.

Now I look forward to who they bring in as a new assistant coach. And hopefully a better special teams system to go with it.