Welcome Mikael Samuelsson
by Yankee Canuck on Jul 3, 2009 6:47 PM PDT
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PrintFirst, my apologies for not being around this afternoon. Naturally after covering the FA period for two straight days, I took a day off to go to a Yankees game and the Mikael Samuelsson deal comes down. I tried to update the site via the iPhone but that was a giant fail so, yeah, a bit of a delay. Kudos to the crowd who covered it in the comments.
If it makes the situation any better, I cheered on the Blue Jays. They lost. Lyle Overbay tried though.
So, yeah, back to the point...we got a right winger! Holy slewfoot Batman. You realize Bernier, Demitra and Burrows are all switch right wingers? The only pure right winger on the rostrer is Raymond?
Adding Samuelsson means he either joins the Sedins on yet another pure Swede attack or he shifts Kesler to the center and joins Demitra on the wing for the second line? Not too shabby at all. And a pure Gillis move as well; not overpaying but finding value and a Cup-experienced winger to boot.
I'll have more as soon as I can, but for now, Gillis strikes again and it's all good.
(thanks to Baroque for helping out in the comments! much obliged)
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Just the $100 buck seats. Still had a waitress though which was odd. And sushi does NOT belong in a ballpark. Period.
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by Yankee Canuck on Jul 4, 2009 6:03 AM PDT up reply actions
Swede line
I’m not sure anyone’s mentioned this, but didn’t Sammy play on the Sedins’ line at the Olympics? Probably makes trying him there a no brainer, bumping Burrows down to second line duty with Demitra and Kesler? Or maybe put Grabner/Hodgson on the second line, and let Burrows play on the third line? Hmm…
Here are the lines I like:
Sammy-Sedin-Sedin
Demitra-Kesler-Grabner/Hodgson
Burrows-Wellwood-Bernier
Rypien-Johnson-Raymond/Hordichuck
I’d kind of like to see Hodgson playing center as it’s his natural position. We’ve already invested a year in his development and I’d like him to have as many opportunities as possible to succeed. It sort of puts Wellwood in an awkward situation though, as I don’t think he’s ever played on the wing in his life. I’ve actually been wondering about this conundrum all offseason.
Bring me Stanley. Alive if possible, dead... just as good.
by King Luongshanks on Jul 4, 2009 9:24 AM PDT up reply actions
But Woody was so good at faceoffs, I can’t see them taking him off center. Wait, Woody isn’t even signed yet is he?
by Sean Zandberg on Jul 4, 2009 10:43 AM PDT up reply actions
He will be
He wants to play here; has said he wants to build on his newly-discovered scoring prowess; and lost teeth in the playoffs. He’s made a lot of noise about knowing that he’ll have to show this past season wasn’t a fluke.
Sorry all, but Samuelsson doesn’t exactly make me jump up and down. I like his 2-way game and his Cup experience, but like Barocque said in the previous posts’ comments: he’s streaky. I’m wiling to cling to a hope that he produces in the top 6 and stays there but that is a question mark in my opinion.
Who was talking about trading Demitra? I highly doubt Gillis does that. I’d love it if he did.
I don’t think Burrows is leaving the Sedin line either, unless he fails to produce in the first couple of weeks.
It looks like the Canucks are at about 49.5 million in cap spending. Yeah, time to patch up the D and re-sign Woody.
If he's good enough for Detroit,
he’s good enough for me!
Here’s hoping he makes it with Kes and Mitre. That could be gold right there.
Right, he’s not a jump up and down sort of person. But he beats the project route that Vancouver does all the time. I’d say he’s an upgrade to the Bernier and Pyatt’s of the past.
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by Yankee Canuck on Jul 4, 2009 6:04 AM PDT up reply actions
As I said in the other thread, we had a glut of 2.5 line players before and we just added one more. Between Sammuelson, Raymond, Welly, Bernier, Hodgson, Grabner, Hansen, we got 3 spots on the third line and I guess one spot on the second line since we’ve added nothing else. The talk is Hansen is on the trade block, but I’m guessing one more of those guys should be as well. We need 2 defencemen, one of whom needs to be very good and the other needs to be NHL-capable. Let’s make it work.
What do you think about Paul Mara? How about we take a stab at Beauchemin? What is happening with Beauchemin? He must want a butt load of money.
by Sean Zandberg on Jul 3, 2009 8:55 PM PDT up reply actions
Chris Nichols From Sportsnet Fantasy Hockey On Samuelsson
What happened: Mikael Samuelsson signs with Vancouver for three years at $7.5M total.
Fantasy impact: Good salary boost for the winger, who couldn’t have gotten that amount with Detroit given the cap situation. Samuelsson will be a good two-way forward for the Canucks who has middle-of-the-road fantasy league value. He likes to shoot the puck a lot, which is why he gets snapped up over players with similar point totals, but he just doesn’t collect enough points to generally make it worthwhile to have him unless your league is really deep. That said, he will likely line up as an L2 winger in Vancouver alongside Ryan Kesler and that’ll give Samuelsson a bit of a boost in point potential. In Detroit he was most often used on L3, which was still a pretty decent spot given the richness of talent, but he could be in line for slightly more minutes (15:22 in ‘08-9) on the coast. He’s also a good PP guy with his big shot and will likely see at least second unit duty in Vancouver. With both Samuelsson and Hossa gone from Detroit, the path has officially been cleared for Ville Leino’s potential breakout rookie campaign. He had nine points in 13 GP in limited duty this past season. Without Samuelsson on the point of PP2 in Detroit that should also mean a slot is opening up for young blueliner Jonathan Ericsson, who’ll play alongside Niklas Kronwall.
15:22 of ice time and he still put up middle numbers. Hmm, that’s impressive.
by Sean Zandberg on Jul 4, 2009 10:46 AM PDT up reply actions
Canucks Still Need A D-Man
Allan Muir from Sports Illustrated says it’s Seidenberg from Carolina.
Seidenberg works for me.
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by Yankee Canuck on Jul 4, 2009 6:06 AM PDT up reply actions
I'm thinking
Sam’s on every line at some point in this season. Though I’ve gotta ask: 250 shots? My word.
I’d still love to see Demitra moved for something a bit younger back on D, but that’s going to be a tough salary to move. But if he starts next season, I’m okay with that, too: I’ll just be keeping the voodoo dolls handy to ward off injury juju.
It’s going to take a holy church miracle to stop Demo from getting injured!
by Sean Zandberg on Jul 4, 2009 10:46 AM PDT up reply actions
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