Be interesting to see if Canucks burn a contract on him. I think we are at 47/50 contracts at the moment.

^ if juolevi goes to Europe, his contract doesn't count apparently

They must be musing it otherwise they would have sent him down already.

Seeing some rumors that there are difficulties with OJ because he can't play in the A, but they don't want to send him back the the OHL. Something about trying to get the Knights to give up the rights so they can send OJ to play in Finland for Salo. Probably what's blocking the signing of Archi as well as they need to be at 23 by tmr night.

Jagr signs one year deal with the Flames

Pedan clears

Malcolm Subban claimed by Vegas

Pedan and 4th to Pens for Derek Pouliot

Remember when Van was trying to get him a few years back? Looks like Pittsburgh is giving up on him

https://www.nhl.com/canucks/news/van...de/c-291535258

Pedan & 4th for Pouliot

wow that's a great move by Benning

The discussion was that Pittsburgh didn't want to lose him to waivers for nothing, so that's why the "cost" was Pedan and a 4th.

IMac reporting that he's on the opening night roster, and that Weircoch is going to be sent down (not Biega?????????????????)

makes sense, Biega is serviceable and can also play forward if someone is hurt/sick last minute and there isn't enough time to bring someone up from Utica.

I thought he was in their top 6? why would they lose him to waivers?

Would much rather have Pouliot. As a young d-man, his ceiling is still high.

Travis Green was his coach in Portland when he was CHL defenceman of the year. Look at guys like Justin Shultz... some guys just need the right coach and system to thrive. If anyone can turn this guy into a top-4, it is Travis Green.

Low risk, high reward type trade. Love it.

I just realize Pouliot and Sutter were the package in trading for Jordan Staal. lol

Foundational centre with foundational defenceman! lol

Who Pouliot? Clearly if they were afraid of losing him on waivers they had no intent on putting him in their top 6.

Hah good catch!

I believe Sutter and Pouliot were what the Canucks wanted in return for Kesler prior to his NTC kicking in. Couple years later and both Sutter and Pouliot's trajectory seems to have followed the Canucks'.

He's 6 months younger than Pedan and turns 24 in January. He's young, but he's not that young.

Also, Travis Green wasn't his coach when he was CHL defenseman of the year (13-14; Green was coaching the Comets). Green coached him in '12-'13.

I mean, hopefully he turns his career around because we just acquired him and that would be amazing, but this strikes me as yet another Jensen-Etem, etc. trade that Benning has made multiple times and, in the end, we ended up losing a draft pick for someone who got us no further ahead than the previous guy.

23/24 is still pretty young for a d-man. Most don't hit their stride until 25. I'm not saying it is going to work out, but I'd say it is worth a shot for a player of his potential pedigree.

https://www.nhl.com/news/sabres-eich...on/c-291553136

"Eichel agrees to 8-year, $80M contract extension with Sabres"
Wow. Eichel got paid.

Gets his coach fired, hasn't even earned 60 pts and gets $10 mil per? Could you imagine if they did end up drafting McDavid.

wtf.... he's only an RFA next year, what's the rush in giving him a contract like that?? with his stats, what's the worst arbitration would award him? this is just stupid.

the only argument you could even remotely make is that you think he'll do SO good in the next few years, you'd end up having to pay him 8yrs x 13mil later on. but at least let the kid prove himself first.

I saw that Rodin got sent down, from what you guys have seen in pre-season is he going to be one of the first call-ups if (when) injuries start happening or pretty much locked in the AHL?

canucks are trying to rebuild from previous high draft picks as if we picked top 10 in the past 5 yrs lol

https://i.redd.it/ftlocw7ijqpz.png

I know Ron MacLean isn't universally liked in this hockey market but he had a number of great stories on the Steve Dangle Podcast recently including how he ended up shirtless in this pic:

Eichel is a point per game player. But he hasn't proven that he can put a team on his back and make them better like a McDavid or Toews. At this point, $10 mill is way too much for a player in his position. They are paying him for what he can be.