That is all.

Uh… this one was out of left field. Don’t really see where he fits on this squad, unless it’s on the 4th line. How many is that under contract now? Gillis does realize we don’t have a B-team, right?

By my calculations, the following players are vying for “bottom six” minutes:

Jannik Hansen
Manny Malholtra
Rick Rypien
Darcy Hordichuk
Tanner Glass
Alexandre Bolduc
Guillaume Desbiens
Victor Oreskovich
Jeff Tambellini
Sergei Shirokov
Cody Hodgson
Jordan Schroeder
Joel Perrault

I hope this doesn’t end badly. I remember him being full of win in Edmonton though.

I loathe this guy. I thought we were already up to the hoooo ha in bottom 6ers? MEH MR GILLIS I SAY MEH.

I remember watching him over the years against us in Ed and Col and remember how annoying he was. Played hard and hit well. Isn’t this what we need. Plus he is bigger than hansen and glass…

just got back on my computer, went to twitter, saw talk about canucks making a move, and i was like “WHAT?!?!?!?!”

Interestingly, Torres had six game winners in 2008-09, same as Elias and Heatley. Damn…

low risk high reward says Puck Daddy.
Another “project” signing by Gillis. He could turn out to be Bernier 2 in a lesser sense. But like someone said, this is going to be one hell of a training camp.

And yeah, big time sloppy seconds to Asham. I really don’t think he wants to come out west.
Also, isn’t Torres a decent penalty killer?

him slaughtering us when he played for Edmonton, hopefully this pans out.

I’m with alix…I hate this move. Not because he played well against vancouver except in the abstract sense that he ONLY played well against vancouver. My mind is open for changing, but there are few oilers from a couple years ago that I think give us any improvement what so-ever, and raffi isn’t it. Goddamn kids song singers…

THIS is what we just got… ayuh!

A decent signing I guess. Contract isn’t that big and might crack the third line. Still not too keen on signing former Oilers though and like someone else said we already have a bunch of 1 way contracts. Guess we can put a bunch of them on waivers if they don’t work out.

“Baby Baloooooga…”

Hey, he’d come with his own theme song, and it’d fit with the team, too!

On a less children’s-entertainer-oriented theme, he got 20 goals in 74 games where he only got 13:30 of ice time last year. He plays an aggressive game, which got him into injury trouble two and three years ago, but he had a pretty good health record the two seasons before that. Plus, as much as he’s banger, he picks up few penalty minutes. A bit of a surprise, given he’s not a very fast guy.

So: kinda slow, loves corners, does well on the power play, often injured.

Think I’d rather keep Hansen.

having him in the central. him and mike commodore. road tripped to columbus for a game and he ruined my evening. i screamed at both of them for the majority of the 3 or 4 i saw live.

That’s an… interesting… name there, ILB. Welcome to Nucks Misconduct!

In any case, this signing shores up the left side, meaning he’s more likely to take Hordichuk or Glass out (I think we all know who’s preferred of those two) than Hansen, so I was wrong with that assumption. Torres was supposed to be one of the players to lead Edmonton back to regular playoff appearances, and while he never quite developed into as dangerous a player as hoped, he’s certainly worthy of third line ice time, which seems to be where he’s played his entire career.

The biggest down side (if he can stay healthy, that is) I can see with him is that he’s a very streaky scorer – 3 of his 4 assists in Buffalo came in one game – but over all I’m frankly okay with this pick-up. Yeah, he played for Edmonton, get over it.

a locker room poison Im going to lose my shit.

This is basically a slightly more expensive and slightly better version of Asham without the ridiculous playoff run Asham had.

Seems like a reasonable move to me. I think he

Interesting tidbit… Raffi Torres is a Bramption Batallion alum. That’s CoHo’s team. Discuss.

I gotta say though, this signing makes Torres the most logical option to fill in a top 6 spot while Burr is out. He did score 19 goals in 60 games in the Western Conference last year, playing 13 minutes per game, and playing in a division that includes Detroit, Chicago, and Nashville.

Hodgson/Schroeder need to impress at camp to a degree that would be very unlikely in order to earn such a spot on opening day. Malholtra makes way more sense as the anchor of line 3. Hansen hasn’t shown that he’s top 6, although yoata would argue that’s because GMMG and AV don’t give him a shot. And it would be hard to take Shirikov seriously right out of camp after what happened last year. So I think Torres is the most likely to be annointed, should there be no other additions. Dude scored 19 goals last year.

I actually like this signing a fair bit.

Mainly because it’s a cheap, short-term deal but also because it ups the team’s 3rd line grit factor and scoring. I’d be happy with 12-15 goals and 30 points.