Tampa Bay continues to get its salary cap issues resolved and Chicago accelerates the rebuild. What are the Canucks doing? Avs and Landeskog are meant for each other. Yandle keeps chugging along
I think Jim Benning is in a win-now mode. Their offseason in 2020 seemed to revolve around players they lost (Jacob Markstrom, Chris Tanev being the big ones), and also being dependent on the core of Petterssonn, Hughes (whose contract needs to be extended), J.T. Miller, and maybe Thatcher Demko. But at the end of the day, people will look back at them as the team that signed Holtby and Virtanen instead of Tyler Toffoli. Great piece as always.
Short term plan, Jim has swung for the fences. Its next two seasons for the Canucks or pretty much bust. Long term plan, there isn't one (next GM's problem). Not a fan of it but it's pretty ballsy
I think Jim Benning is in a win-now mode. Their offseason in 2020 seemed to revolve around players they lost (Jacob Markstrom, Chris Tanev being the big ones), and also being dependent on the core of Petterssonn, Hughes (whose contract needs to be extended), J.T. Miller, and maybe Thatcher Demko. But at the end of the day, people will look back at them as the team that signed Holtby and Virtanen instead of Tyler Toffoli. Great piece as always.
Short term plan, Jim has swung for the fences. Its next two seasons for the Canucks or pretty much bust. Long term plan, there isn't one (next GM's problem). Not a fan of it but it's pretty ballsy