Gillis is "perfectly content" with Canucks squad
by Sean Zandberg on Mar 4, 2009 2:45 PM PST
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And he showed that today by making no changes. In my selfishness, I wouldn't have minded a Recchi or a Pahlsson, and if there is injury down the road my feelings may intensify.
Regardless, here are some of Gillis' quotes from the post deadline press conference.
"We talked to a number of teams about a number of possibilities, but giving up second-round picks for players who weren’t long-term players was something I had decided not to do as long as eight months ago," Gillis said. "We thought perhaps if we could get some more depth at centre we’d be happy, but the things we tried came with a second-round pick as a price."
On the speculation all day in Canuckland about the possibility of acquiring Jay Bouwmeester for perhaps Bieksa and /or Mason Raymond: "
I spoke to Jacques Martin at 5:45 a.m. this morning and that was the last time I spoke to him," Gillis said. "I asked him what he needed in return and it was undoable. It was a brief discussion and it didn’t go any further. Kevin’s name was never mentioned by me."
Even if Gillis did get Bouwmeester, he would have had to pay way too much for him in several ways: a current roster player or two, disrupting chemistry, and then he'd have to sign Bouwmeester to an enormous contract in the summer to keep him around. That would probably be to the tune of about $7 million per season. I find it difficult to justify paying a d-man that much. Maybe Gillis would pony up that dough. I don't know.
More on Gillis here.
FULL PRESS CONFERENCE HERE
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Come the summer time...
Expect Gillis to be in the Bouwmeester sweepstakes. Ohlund will be gone, and Salo and Mitchell are long in the tooth. Plus, I’d guess that Bouwmeester might be ready to play in a hot hockey market for a chance.
Somebody was mentioning that this rumour was all an elaborate show to give Bouwmeester the impression that he was wanted in Vancouver, so that come this summer, Gillis can pull one of his Sundin-esque wooing jobs and get him to sign. Interesting idea, I doubt there’s much to it, but there’s not much else to talk about Canuckwise today, so thought I’d throw it out there!
I’ll second this as an interesting notion. Don’t know where that would go with the cap though.
by rsm on Mar 4, 2009 6:09 PM PST up reply actions
I love that picture.
Also it suggests AV is Vadar; hence your next photoshop. By the summer we’ll get the entire Canuck/Star wars scene in one shot.
'Nucks Misconduct - Housing Swedish Millionaires Since 2000.
I’ll keep a star wars them going for sure, as long as it applies.
This Emperor one had to do with his “absolute” speech yesterday, for all those who didn’t know.
“A Sith deals in absolutes”
For some reason he looks like Bill Murray in that shot… fits right into Spaceballs more than Star Wars.
by rsm on Mar 4, 2009 6:07 PM PST up reply actions
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