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Have The Canucks Spent Too Much On Too Few?
by Paul on 08/25/09 at 08:00 AM ET
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from J.J. Guerrero of Canucks Hockey Blog,
I believe the Sedins and Luongo is as good a group of three players to start building a team around. The Sedins are generally acknowledged as top-20 players in the NHL and both are signed to reasonable cap hits of $6.1 million each. If Gillis hadn’t re-signed them, his alternatives would have been to either start a full-blown youth movement and promote the likes of Kesler, Burrows, Hodgson, Grabner and Schroeder to more prominent roles, or take his chances that he could’ve signed two marquee unrestricted free agents to replace the Sedins. The former would kill the Canucks’ chances of signing Luongo to a contract extension; in hindsight, the latter wouldn’t have been likely considering what the marquee free agents signed for
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Fact of the matter is, for all the money they’ve tied into Luongo, he’s never really taken them to a new level and they’ve strapped themselves under the cap by keeping him.
They badly need some more room to sign another scorer and about 2 good d-men (good ones, not just NHL-level). And as long as they keep Luongo they’re not going to have that wriggle room to become a real contender for anything.
Posted by Primis on 08/25/09 at 12:12 PM ET