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Re: Canucks Young Guns
Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2026 6:19 pm
by Tciso
5thhorseman wrote: ↑Sat Sep 05, 2026 5:58 pm
Tciso wrote: ↑Sat Sep 05, 2026 10:38 am
5thhorseman wrote: ↑Sat Sep 05, 2026 9:21 am
"If you asked 5 years ago if I would have considered this, no.
Seems one could say that about almost any deal at any time. Salaries are always going up and 5 years is a long time.
I interpreted him meaning 5 years ago, he would never give an 8 year contract to a kid with under a full season of games, and a year left in his ECL.
But, 3 offer sheets later (Holloway and Broberg and Carlson), GMs are trading offer sheet risk and breakout season risk against early signing of a kid which stagnates and underperforms risk.
Hughes 129 games vs Zeev's 80 games. Both a year left on their ELC. Not a lot of difference but I get your point, offer sheets have certainly raised the stakes and credit to RJ for recognising that. I'm hoping the low profile and expectations will lead to under-the-radar success.
Hughes skated out of mommy's womb worth 9.6% of the cap. Buium will likely be over paid for a year or 2 at 8.3%. And yeah. Offer sheets have pushed top 10 players from 12% to 18% or the cap. But, if the cap keeps rising, these deals drop to 12% when they expire. I agree on the low profile thing. We will need a few good bridge deals for later bloomers like Podkolzin where they over perform the show me contract.
Re: Canucks Young Guns
Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2026 4:39 am
by Topper
donlever wrote: ↑Sat Sep 05, 2026 4:46 pm
Choices are choices....
Other Management teams had choices and picked the wrong ones....like signing EP, Lankinen, Boeser, Louis Eriksson or drafting Juloevi or Virtanen as but a few samples.
These fucking guys had a draft plan and succeeded by all reports and made the right choice with Buium irrespective of our thoughts as to how "easy" that was....
Those are positive, albeit baby steps.....
Hey, I wanted Evan Gold to get hired and in no way, shape or form do I have huge faith in TNFG's by any means.
But the right steps are the right steps.
Hind sight is 20/20
Re: Canucks Young Guns
Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2026 9:39 am
by donlever
Sure, fair enough, but looking at it from a lever perspective "if I were GM" and those were my choices I would have acted proactively on exactly zero of them.
So no hindsight from me.
Just reality.
Re: Canucks Young Guns
Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2026 2:11 pm
by Topper
no point picking scabs on these old debates
Re: Canucks Young Guns
Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2026 8:18 pm
by Lancer
Tciso wrote: ↑Sat Sep 05, 2026 6:07 pm
Some dude on Canucks Army is asking if they should start pissing the bed just yet, as Medvedev had a rough start to the first game this camp in London. He's 18 ffs.
Some fans are retarded.
CHL Training camps have barely started. Their new equipment has barely been broken-in yet.
Medvedev had an up-and-down season last year, but nothing to get worked-up about. Silovs had a stinker season in Barrie post-draft as well, and he's at least a backup in Pittsburgh.
Some goalies are projects.
Re: Canucks Young Guns
Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2026 10:48 pm
by Todd Bersnoozi
Tciso wrote: ↑Sat Sep 05, 2026 6:07 pm
Some dude on Canucks Army is asking if they should start pissing the bed just yet, as Medvedev had a rough start to the first game this camp in London. He's 18 ffs.
Yah, if he doesn't work out, that's fine. We have lots of time to pick another guy in the upcoming drafts anyways. Just let Clarky make his pick on the next project we should take a chance on.
We got another Russian dood (D.Ivchenko) in the 3rd round this past draft as well, so maybe he'll surpass Medvedev in the depth chart.