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leafman101 said:
Your strategy can't just be "oh well that guy only has to play 12 minutes when we are fully healthy so who cares who it is. They'll never hurt us." (See: Komi, Lebda, Finger, Exelby, Fraser, O'Byrne, etc.)
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I like fraser just fine whenn he's not overplayed. finger would have made a good #6 too.

the likes of komi and o'byrne really bug me. just useless players who have nhl jobs only because they are huge while being technically sound skaters. no legit toughness, no grit, no heart, obviously no offense but defensive liabilitiesas well. blech.

lebda and exelby were just bad jokes.

if we're getting a bo or hamhuis or staal then i'm interested, but otherwise i wouldn't uave much problem lettingfraser and holzer scrap it out for the last spot.

of course the clutch move would be to convince ranger to play.he'd be cheap enough that him only being a bottom pair quality guy would be fine, but with the potential to end up as our bestdefensive defensean to boot. he's also an RD qhich is perfect.
 
What's Dallas Eakins current contract status? Do you people think he's ready for the NHL? (eg., likely soon to be vacant Canucks head coach position).
 
oscarheyman said:
What's Dallas Eakins current contract status? Do you people think he's ready for the NHL? (eg., likely soon to be vacant Canucks head coach position).
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He's still under contract next year I believe but he's free to take an NHL job in the summer, IIRC. He was locked in during the year. Hope he doesn't leave, especially to Vancouver after the way Gillis has conducted himself.

And yes, I think he's ready.
 
hockeylover said:
He's still under contract next year I believe but he's free to take an NHL job in the summer, IIRC. He was locked in during the year. Hope he doesn't leave, especially to Vancouver after the way Gillis has conducted himself.

And yes, I think he's ready.
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Well if any consolation, I'd imagine the clock is ticking on Gillis as well.
 
I bet Gillis is allowed another crack.

He shouldn't though

His trades have been awful ( Kassian and Booth)
His FA signings aside Hamhuis have been awful ( Garrison)
I can't think of a recent draft pick that impreses me

All this in addition to handling the goaltending like an arrogant jackass
 
oscarheyman said:
Gillis has made many mistakes but these two weren't one of them.
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In fairness, he said aside from Hamhuis. So he agrees with you on at least half of that.

To me it's just that he hasn't really done much period. He inherited most of the core and the moves he has made haven't been all that significant, IMO.
 
hockeylover said:
In fairness, he said aside from Hamhuis. So he agrees with you on at least half of that.
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Yeah I noticed that I incorrectly read his post and edited my response.

hockeylover said:
To me it's just that he hasn't really done much period. He inherited most of the core and the moves he has made haven't been all that significant, IMO.
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Pro scouting under Gillis has been medicore at best. Too many "swings and misses".

MyNameIsJonas said:
Did the Florida trade land him Ballard and Booth?
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Hence my comment about the bad pro scouting. Marco Sturm is another example.
 
If Booth and Ballard were indeed acquired in the same deal, I can't think of a worse deal for any team in a long time.

That's big long term money for 2 guys that are more or less un-rosterable.

And knowing Gillis he will attempt to trade them, but only for value.
 
MyNameIsJonas said:
If Booth and Ballard were indeed acquired in the same deal, I can't think of a worse deal for any team in a long time.
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Two separate deals.

Ballard for 1st round pick (conditional - Canucks had the option of choosing one year or another year) and Grabner
Booth for two salary dumps (however the salary dumps were on expiring contracts).

Booth might have some value but Ballard will definately be a compliance buyout. Ballard is a servicable 3rd pairing D but no way is worth anywhere near the salary he makes. He'll find a club to play for (at a *significantly reduced salary* after the buyout).
 
hockeylover said:
He's still under contract next year I believe but he's free to take an NHL job in the summer, IIRC. He was locked in during the year. Hope he doesn't leave, especially to Vancouver after the way Gillis has conducted himself.

And yes, I think he's ready.
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I think Nonis is going to do his best to hang on to him. He is being groomed to take over for Carlyle eventually.
 
MyNameIsJonas said:
Any chance they deal Kesler?
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Don't see it given that the team would need to replace him if dealt. Not that hard to get a 2nd line center; more difficult to get one that is also strong defensively & good at faceoffs. Suspect Schroeder will get the chance at the 3rd line center spot (reinforcing the need to keep Kesler around to continue handling the "heavy lifting" defensively).

Think one of Bieksa or Edler will be moved. More likely Edler given that Bieksa is a right side defenseman (and our two strong defensive D are left side defensemen).

Both were a 'gong show' in their own end (for some reason the coach continued to leave the pair together AND give them more icetime than Hamhuis-Garrison).
 
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Artnes said:
I think Nonis is going to do his best to hang on to him. He is being groomed to take over for Carlyle eventually.
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Will he wait, though? After the year Carlyle had, gotta expect he'll be around for the next 2+ years. Like Boucher, doubt Eakins will be willing to stick it around for another couple years waiting.
 
Killer93 said:
“@strombone1: So............ Shall we try this one more time??? #offseason”
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He's going to have to expand his list. If he wants to pick and choose where to play, he's not going anywhere again, especially considering his GM has (at least to this point) made unreasonable trade demands.
 
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