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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Yes. Like Conor Bedard. Conor Bedard, exactly. They're not even talking to contracts. You know what? You should listen to Frank's hit. Now, Frank didn't say... He said, we don't know exactly what's going on. Be careful.
Josh is losing it behind the glass.
This is so bad. We can't do this. I know.
We really want to. He did this to himself. Yeah, he mentioned it. He knew what city he was on in. It was like the last question to kind of throw away as I'm going to use that against them. I mean, we'll see what happens with Bedard. I'm curious to find out, though, will he sign a long term deal or is it going to be a shorter term deal?
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Chapter 2: Could Brendan Gallagher join the Vancouver Canucks next season?
So those guys, they have their utility to play top-pairing minutes, top-six roles, and push this team forward as well to be... consistently competitive for 82 games a season. There's that role of it too. But I'm talking about the depth players here. How much do you actually want to allocate money to it?
If you're bringing on Gallagher and if you're signing Bluger, let's just say, worst case scenario, Bluger gets like $3 million. I know it's a lot of money. I can't see it, but nonetheless. Say two and a half. Okay, two and a half just to round it to $9 million. I wouldn't want to go more than... $13, $14 million of like the veteran leader type guys.
And so long as you're getting out of the money after the year two.
Yeah, I mean, I don't want to have the money on the books for a long time. I'm not as concerned about the total money for those players this year. I'm more concerned about the roster spots. That if you're bringing Bluger in back and if you're bringing Brendan Gallagher in, you got to move another vet or two out. So you still have room for the young players to have their opportunities, right?
And if you look at the Canucks right now, like they have some space because if you go, you have DeBrusque, you have Pedersen, Besser, Ogren, Rossi, Carlson, Drew O'Connor, Hedl, Hoaglander. That means Ratu and Sassone And then there's two other spots left on the right wing. Did you say Carlson as well? I said, yeah, Linus Carlson.
So that leaves two other right wing spots, Lekromackie and who could be in the mix. And then obviously you're talking about adding a Brendan Gallagher. If you're looking at adding a Teddy Bluger, plus you have guys like Braden Coots in the fold that would be fighting for roster spots and whomever else you might be looking to add to the mix. That...
I'm not adding multiple veterans unless I'm moving at least one or two guys out. I would feel better about swapping out DeBrusque, get something back in return, ideally get something back, get Gallagher on, and I still want to add a tough player on the roster. I still wanted the team to go and get a Brandon Duhame, Michael McCarron type. John Curtis Douglas. Beyond Curtis Douglas.
Douglas to me is like a 13 forward, right? And maybe even doesn't make the team. I think you want to have somebody you feel better about playing and protecting the team or protecting the young guys. And if that's the case, I still want to move guys out. So I'm all for the Brendan Gallagher types. I'm all for them using...
their cap space to get some veteran players and perhaps get something out of it for doing so. At the same time, you also have to be cognizant about having enough spots available for the young guys to get opportunities. So, you know, circled around Jake DeBrusque. And even Filipito. That's not happening this summer. No, I don't, I mean, it's his final year of his contract.
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Chapter 3: What would it cost to acquire Brendan Gallagher?
It's like, hey, I hope we've gotten the health out of it and maybe someone takes a flyer at this stage if you're retaining. But that to me is like, Like that's a March conversation than it is a summer conversation. The only other guy that maybe has some cachet, Nils Hoaglander?
Does he? Okay. So we talk about the changing salary cap landscape and how even contracts that were not as good before, they might be easier to move. There might be more of an appetite for it. But is anybody touching Hoaglander at $3 million per year? Has he done enough for somebody to be interested? Because he has two years left on that contract. It's not like it's just one year.
If it was one year, I'd be like, you know, maybe somebody takes a flyer. But it's still $6 million of cash. Even the Gallagher thing.
It's $6 million cap, but I think the total money is actually like $5 and something.
Okay, so slightly less because it's the first year of the contract. Yeah, it's $5.2, you're correct. Okay, $5.2. But still, I mean, the money is probably low enough. Would somebody be interested in it? I'm not sure you're getting anything of consequence outside of a late round draft pick.
No, but we're talking about moving it out. The roster spots. Can you open up the roster spots?
I mean, are you at the point where you'd like to see if Hoagie still has something left in the tank or are you done with the experiment?
I think I'm done with the experiment. It's just because, like, okay, who's going to play top six? You're probably going to give the top six role to Drew O'Connor over Nils Hoaglander. I know this is not perfect wing spots, but it's worth more to you to get Drew O'Connor going to cash in on him towards the deadline than it is Nils Hoaglander.
Well, I mean, honestly, I think Drew O'Connor, if somebody would be willing to give you... even a second in the offseason, which I'm not sure anybody would. I'd do it now. If someone's giving you a future second today, between now and September, I'm doing it. You say yes. Because, I mean, he's going to have to play as well as he did last year And he may not.
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