Hog-Lander sounds way better.

pettersson $9m
hughes $8m
boeser $5.875m
eriksson/sutter/pearson/roussel/beagle/myers/edler $32.13m
horvat $5.5m
someone who is good at hockey management please help me budget this. my cup window is dying

Benning shot down the Boeser rumour pretty fast, as he should.

"Rathbone is in a unique situation, particularly considering the uncertainty he’s facing with Harvard’s season in doubt.

By all accounts, Rathbone is a smart kid — you have to be to go to Harvard — and he’s facing a crucial life decision with an unprecedented set of circumstances in front of him. It’s reasonable for him to want and take his time.

The Canucks aren’t exactly pressing, at the moment. They know how to do this, and sometimes a person needs space to make a big life decision. Anyway, the Canucks have made their pitch, sold Rathbone as best they could and have made a strong offer. They’re really playing the waiting game now."

On Day 1, from a media perspective, anyway, it was maybe a bit cumbersome and a bit unnerving. And yet, watching Elias Pettersson stay out late to absolutely tune pucks, pinging wrist shots loudly and dangerously off the posts, or watching Quinn Hughes flummox Tyler Myers while shimmying down the half-wall before hitting Chris Tanev with a perfect tape-to-tape cross-seam pass, or watching Brock Boeser destroy teammates in three-on-three puck battle drills down low, it was hard not to feel a bit grateful for the return of hockey.

I guess the one good thing about Virtanen not being the star he was projected to be is that he's a more cost-controlled asset, and only 23. He's worth keeping around as a good complementary forward on any given scoring line. But if some other team overrates his size/speed/skill, I'd flip him.

Of course, this is Jim Benning we're talking about--he's quite adept at taking any situation advantageous to him and squandering it.

BTW, I read that cap recapture is now a thing of the past, but does that mean the Canucks are still stuck with Luongo's cap hit? Because that's kinda bullshit.

Yes cap recapture was done away with, except for Luongo's contract so the Canucks are stuck with the cap hit. But I think the Weber deal was cleared for Nashville. Hard to see the logic there.

I would flip Tuna at this point. He needs a fresh start and could be too low on the Canucks depth chart to get meaningful minutes. Like you say, he's a cost controlled asset and is a trade chip for a team that that still buys into his untapped potential. It's the same refrain every training camp with him. Of course Benning & Co. will screw it up.

Jake reminds me a lot of Andrew Ladd, a big guy with big expectations who didn't meet them, but still carved out a very respectable NHL career. Ladd was taken 4th overall in 2004, 2 spots higher than Buckshot Virt 10 years later. Never was a star in his own right but still put up really good numbers.