Canucks barely above minimum

Mooger35 · Post by **Mooger35** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 11:08 am

* Guess-timate of 800,000 for Baumer

Sedin - Sedin - Pyatt
Raymond - Wellwood - Grabner
Burrows - Kesler - Hansen
Pettinger - Johnson - Hordichuk

Ohlund - Salo
Mitchell - Bieksa
Krajicek - Edler

Luongo
Sanford

Pressbox
Cowan
Jaffray
Baumgartner

Total salary: $42.368

mattola · Post by **mattola** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 11:09 am

order the rings.

holy frak. if this is what we start the season with I will BELIEVE that my buddies conspiracy theory is true that they just want to make money. and the sundin thing was a farce knowing he was going to retire.

nuckknowitall1944 · Post by **nuckknowitall1944** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 11:34 am

wow what other options do we have if sundin retires?? even if we do go out an sign demitra, get nazzy back and make a trade or two does this give us a chance to compete with the likes of detroit??? maybe rebuilding could be a possibility!!!
Tavares or hedman anyone???

levelheaded · Post by **levelheaded** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 11:47 am

What an awful, awful team. Seriously, if we go into the season with that lineup (or even one similar) I'll have a tough time watching this year. $42M payroll on one of the teams that's supposed to be a high roller? For shame.

edit: and I'd take Hedman.

nuckknowitall1944 · Post by **nuckknowitall1944** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 12:22 pm

At 6"6 hedman is tempting an said to be the swedish chris pronger!!! but you just can't deny tavares's 72 goals as a 15-16 year old!!! gimme tavares..

Canuck-One · Post by **Canuck-One** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 12:38 pm

There are still options.

Sedin, Sedin, Nolan

Naslund, Demitra, Bertuzzi

Burrows, Kesler, Pyatt

Hordichuk, Johnson, Brown

Pettinger.

Far from Ideal but hey it's better than Mooger's line up. Sorry Mooger but I don't feel Raymond, Wellwood and Grabner belong on the same line at the NHL level just yet and no way Pyatt deserves first line minutes.

Mooger35 · Post by **Mooger35** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 12:48 pm

HappyCanuck wrote:Sorry Mooger but I don't feel Raymond, Wellwood and Grabner belong on the same line at the NHL level just yet and no way Pyatt deserves first line minutes.

I agree that can't be our second line but with what we have NOW, what else is there?

And Pyatt has been put with the Sedins more than anyone else. And again, right now, what else do we have?

Re-arrange my line up any which way and we're still JUST above the minimum.

Madcombinepilot · Post by **Madcombinepilot** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 3:29 pm

meh... adding Shannon to the mix (wherever) and that team is about the same as last years team ;p

except we have 15 million room to sign people with more skill than we have

Farhan Lalji · Post by **Farhan Lalji** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 3:37 pm

levelheaded wrote:What an awful, awful team. Seriously, if we go into the season with that lineup (or even one similar) I'll have a tough time watching this year. $42M payroll on one of the teams that's supposed to be a high roller? For shame.

edit: and I'd take Hedman.

We still have two months to do make some moves, etc., but I agree....this team flat out sucks right now. I really REALLY hope Gillis has a "plan B" aside from the Sundin thing.

Personally - I think you guys know where I stand on Bertuzzi....so I won't comment on that.

Aside from re-uniting the WCE though, I wouldn't mind Gillis just focusing on increasing depth. Get some better quality 5/6 d-men that can legitimately play top 4 if certain guys get hurt. Add a few more quality 4th line players that can easily play 3rd line. Add 1 or 2 more PK specialists (i.e. someone like Josh Green from a few years back), and a PP specialist (maybe someone similar to Nolan Baumgartner, but a little better).

If the Canucks can't get the superstars (Sundin, etc.), or the "very good" players (i.e. Demitra, etc.), then slightly overpaying for a few 3rd/4th line guys and/or 5th/6th d-man could help us become just a little deeper......and less susceptible to the injury bug like we were last year.