Via Cap Geek: Canucks Sign Alexandre Bolduc Plus Hamhuis Contract Breakdown
by Sean Zandberg on Jul 2, 2010 11:04 PM PDT
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CapGeek.com is basically breaking 2 stories tonight (with the glorious help of Twitter). According to the site Alexandre Bolduc has been signed to a 1 year 2-way contract worth $500,000. That is a $40,000 pay cut from last season. The 25-year-old Bolduc is one of those guys that you hope can step up into a role on the Canucks' 4th line. He had no points in 15 games with the Canucks last season and 2 goals and 3 points in 13 games with the Moose. Now, you look at that and wonder why he missed so much time...well..blame Minnesota Wild beast John Scott, sort of. Bolduc had shoulder problems already in October 2009, but then in January he fought Scott and..he got his ass handed to him. But full marks for the smaller Bolduc taking on the much bigger Scott. Unfortunately, Bolduc wrecked his shoulder in that fight and had to undergo surgery.
I like him. He brings tenacity. He HAS to or he doesn't make the team. I didn't know this guy was 25 already. Geez. He had better impress soon or he may become a career AHL'er.
OK, now on to Dan Hamhuis. According to Cap Geek, Dan is going to earn $9 million in signing bonuses with the Canucks ($2 million in each of the first 3 years). Whoa. The cap hit remains $4.5 million for each of his 6 years here. It also says here that Dan will make $5 million for the first 2 seasons and then $4.25 for the remaining 4 years.
BTW, Manny Malhotra has a "limited" no trade clause on his contract. What is "limited"? Well if it is anything like baseball, it means that there are only certain teams that the player can NOT be traded to. Correct me if I'm wrong.
More from CapGeek: the Canucks may be penalized $90,000 on this year's cap for performance bonuses earned. Which player are they referring to?
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why does a 3rd liner get those rights. What has Malhotra done to deserve that?
by Sean Zandberg on Jul 2, 2010 11:45 PM PDT up reply actions
well in that case I’m sure there were better options.
by Sean Zandberg on Jul 3, 2010 12:04 AM PDT up reply actions
Family man, based on Vancouver Island, guaranteed stability.
I know you asked why he deserved it, but hey, if it settles him quicker and helps him play better, why not?
Yes, I am British.
Because
it limits your options with a relatively large salary for a 3rd liner at best, that’s why not.
Everybody knows
That the world is full of stupid people
Well I got the pistols so I'll keep the Pesos
Yeah that seems fair
3rd liner at best
By all accounts from last year, this simply isn’t an accurate statement.
I wasn’t thrilled with the money either, but he is exactly the type of player most of us were saying was necessary. C, with ability to play W. Big. Skates well. Defensively responsible. Wins faceoffs. Can play on the top 2 lines as necessary.
I’ll take that.
Gotta play 'em, might as well win 'em.
he CAN play on line 2 if necessary but how well will he do there? In 10 years in the NHL I don’t think he has ever filled that role successfully
by Sean Zandberg on Jul 3, 2010 9:30 PM PDT up reply actions
According to
TOI/g Malhotra was in fact a 3rd liner last year, playing 3 mins less at even strength than the #6 forward on the team, and 7th in PPTOI/g.
And clearly there is no one he will supplant in our top 6, therefore, it is in fact an accurate statement that, at best he is and was a 3rd liner, and a rather expensive one at that.
Everybody knows
That the world is full of stupid people
Well I got the pistols so I'll keep the Pesos
Yeah that seems fair
I'm actually okay with the cost
It’s free agency, and strength on the third line is something Vancouver needed in big way. If he rounds out the team and makes it not only more dangerous at even strength but improves our penalty kill and puck control, well, then that’s what it costs.
Depth is going to do more or Vancouver than adding a single top-flight player.
But how does
replacing Wellwood with Malhotra make the 3rd line more dangerous?
And is he really that much of an improvement over RJ on the PK?
Regardless of whether you are ok with it, the fact is that spending that much on a 3rd liner at best means there is less to spend on significantly improving the team.
Everybody knows
That the world is full of stupid people
Well I got the pistols so I'll keep the Pesos
Yeah that seems fair
I think Malhotra’s physicality combined with his tenacity will be an improvement over Woody.
by Sean Zandberg on Jul 4, 2010 9:31 PM PDT up reply actions
Oh
I think he’s a better all aroound player but I don’t see him making the 3rd line more of a scoring threat, and I also wonder about what role this means for Hodgson, as if he is to be given a chance to centre the 3rd line, what kind of talent does this give him to succeed in a scoring role?
Everybody knows
That the world is full of stupid people
Well I got the pistols so I'll keep the Pesos
Yeah that seems fair
the one thing i can say right now about this is wait and see what AV does for line-juggling.
Nucks Misconduct contributor (and occasional peacekeeper), also on Twitter.
Have patience, my darlings. It's only the beginning of July, Mike Gillis has all summer.....
Which game?
Everybody knows
That the world is full of stupid people
Well I got the pistols so I'll keep the Pesos
Yeah that seems fair
um, hockey…..
Nucks Misconduct contributor (and occasional peacekeeper), also on Twitter.
Have patience, my darlings. It's only the beginning of July, Mike Gillis has all summer.....
lol
"But yeah…like CC…I harbour no ill will." - VancityDan
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by Chuckles Canuckles on Jul 5, 2010 2:48 PM PDT up reply actions
yeah AV used to be crazy with his line-juggling. The lines were a little more set last year when everyone was healthy. Using D-men up front is always funny, but it worked for Chicago.
Yeah I remember
his insane line juggling.
"But yeah…like CC…I harbour no ill will." - VancityDan
"One time I was invited to come to a social gathering. I was paid a handsome amount of money, and I brought a shotgun and a bottle of Tanqueray and showed those people the best f***ing time they’ve ever seen." - Kenny Powers of Eastbound and Down
C Henrik Sedin #33: Vancouver Canucks Alternate Captain, 2010 Art Ross Trophy Winner and 2010 Hart Memorial Trophy Winner
by Chuckles Canuckles on Jul 5, 2010 5:20 PM PDT up reply actions
BOOO!
Everybody knows
That the world is full of stupid people
Well I got the pistols so I'll keep the Pesos
Yeah that seems fair
Boo?
or Boo-urns?
"But yeah…like CC…I harbour no ill will." - VancityDan
"One time I was invited to come to a social gathering. I was paid a handsome amount of money, and I brought a shotgun and a bottle of Tanqueray and showed those people the best f***ing time they’ve ever seen." - Kenny Powers of Eastbound and Down
C Henrik Sedin #33: Vancouver Canucks Alternate Captain, 2010 Art Ross Trophy Winner and 2010 Hart Memorial Trophy Winner
by Chuckles Canuckles on Jul 5, 2010 6:09 PM PDT up reply actions
pretty sure it was an actual boo, since i wasn’t catching on to what he meant before.
Nucks Misconduct contributor (and occasional peacekeeper), also on Twitter.
Have patience, my darlings. It's only the beginning of July, Mike Gillis has all summer.....
Joke
Albeit a lame and over-used one.
"But yeah…like CC…I harbour no ill will." - VancityDan
"One time I was invited to come to a social gathering. I was paid a handsome amount of money, and I brought a shotgun and a bottle of Tanqueray and showed those people the best f***ing time they’ve ever seen." - Kenny Powers of Eastbound and Down
C Henrik Sedin #33: Vancouver Canucks Alternate Captain, 2010 Art Ross Trophy Winner and 2010 Hart Memorial Trophy Winner
by Chuckles Canuckles on Jul 5, 2010 8:25 PM PDT up reply actions
good to see line-juggling is common practice. Both Philly and Chi-Town did it
by Sean Zandberg on Jul 5, 2010 9:31 PM PDT up reply actions
i think limiting a ntc generally means the player submits a list of teams that he would get traded to, like marc savard did for boston at the draft, although what danny heatley pulled with the oilers bid last summer wouldn’t fall under that category – that was a veto. so there’s probably more than one way to skin that cat…
yeah, that’s pretty much it.
Nucks Misconduct contributor (and occasional peacekeeper), can be found on Twitter.
Have patience, my darlings. It's only the beginning of July.....
I remember that game.
We got blown out by the Wild, Bolduc got his fucking ass kicked.
"But yeah…like CC…I harbour no ill will." - VancityDan
"One time I was invited to come to a social gathering. I was paid a handsome amount of money, and I brought a shotgun and a bottle of Tanqueray and showed those people the best f***ing time they’ve ever seen." - Kenny Powers of Eastbound and Down
C Henrik Sedin #33: Vancouver Canucks Alternate Captain, 2010 Art Ross Trophy Winner and 2010 Hart Memorial Trophy Winner
by Chuckles Canuckles on Jul 3, 2010 12:20 AM PDT reply actions
What..no compliments for my photoshop with Dan in a Canucks jersey?
Wzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzt….sploosh!
/fishing for compliments
Yes
Its quite good.
"But yeah…like CC…I harbour no ill will." - VancityDan
"One time I was invited to come to a social gathering. I was paid a handsome amount of money, and I brought a shotgun and a bottle of Tanqueray and showed those people the best f***ing time they’ve ever seen." - Kenny Powers of Eastbound and Down
C Henrik Sedin #33: Vancouver Canucks Alternate Captain, 2010 Art Ross Trophy Winner and 2010 Hart Memorial Trophy Winner
by Chuckles Canuckles on Jul 3, 2010 1:55 AM PDT up reply actions
well, i was wondering who it was, because it sure wasn’t bolduc, and it was someone else wearing ohlie’s #2
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Have patience, my darlings. It's only the beginning of July.....
I would be more impresses if you hadn’t been preparing this Photoshop for months because you knew all along that he was coming, but meanwhile were screwing with us to make us think he was going to Cali and in particular were trying (and succeeding) in goading me into making negative comments about hammer. Also, this is my new theory.
by Beantown Canuck on Jul 3, 2010 10:52 AM PDT via mobile up reply actions
Points off for the face shield.
Too easy to hide edges. Plus, it’s a small size. Otherwise:
Good Sean! Good boy! (pat pat)
We done here, now? 8)
Performance Bonus
Mathieu Schneider had performance bonuses in his contract, may have been him.
What a waste that signing was.
But did he earn any of them? I thought that one of the reasons he didn’t want to play here is that he wasn’t getting enough ice time to earn those bonuses.
http://www.capgeek.com/archive/team.php?Team=29
Did a little bit of searching and Players from last year that was eligible for Bonuses: M.Schneider, MayRay, Grabner, Shirokov, C.Schneider, Oberg.
Now I’m no expert nor do I claim to be, but if I had to guess I would say MayRay, Grabner and M.Schneider got some sort of bonus because if I’m reading it correctly, we gave out 440k in bonuses.
Ohh, obviously didn’t know that but it does make sense. Thanks for the knowledge :)
by eleccy on Jul 3, 2010 2:32 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
Re: Cap
We are certainly going to go over unless a d-man trade happens before a Raymond signing. Currently have 1.3 and change in cap room available, and Raymond will obviously eat up more than that.
Should be an interesting cap though. Right now have 12 F, 8 D and 2 G signed. Of course, half of those forwards are Hordichuk, Oreskovich, Rypien, Perrault, Tambellini and Bolduc.
I will say I’m pretty happy with Gillis so far. I said going into the offseason we needed a d-man upgrade and some extra C/W options for the 3rd line. C looks deeper now. And we still have Hansen/Glass out there as well.
I would suspect that Hordichuk, Bolduc and Perrault are not with the starting 13 F by the time the season starts, pending injuries.
Gotta play 'em, might as well win 'em.
Perrault’s one way, I wonder if that will keep him in that 13th slot, or if he’ll remain buried until needed in the A.
I agree though, with schroeder and hodgson competing for centre behind Hank, Kes and Malholtra, our centre depth is sick. Really hope we can resign May Ray though.
I’m still thinking Malhotra will line up with Hodgson this season, taking the big draws while Hodgson has everything between the blue lines – at lest until he proves himself.
Raymond is coming back, hopefully before arbitration; but even if not, he’s guaranteed to be under contract for the next year or two.
For sure we’ll be keeping Raymond. Gillis has banked on the amount of goals Raymond provides. Look for a long term contract… More years for less money, this can’t happen through arbitration. This will help our cap and the trade off is in years which isn’t risky with a young player like Raymond. Having guys like Burrows, Kes, Luongo and Sedins take less money makes the negotiations easier. It should look like a 2.5 -3M cap hit, I figure.
And Bolduc and Perrault as needed for this year (even Rypien in an absolute emergency).
Good point re: Perrault. I suppose that could mean that Glass or Hansen might not be in the cards (although I hope that’s not the case).
Gotta play 'em, might as well win 'em.
Glass is gone… We’ve already replaced him. The offer is just to keep his rights so he can be traded like CHI did to Ladd.
he could be part of a package deal…I’d like to see him stay and play on line 4
by Sean Zandberg on Jul 3, 2010 9:31 PM PDT up reply actions
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