Re: Canucks 06/07
How could Anson Carter not have been a high priority signing for the Canucks - forget the money and look at his 33 goals and his record and reputation as a pretty good team guy in what we now know was a Bertuzzi polluted environment!!???
To me, Carter should have been a priority for not just that but he seems to be the first player in some time to get on the end of some good Sedin passes and make that line look like a team's first line!!
What will make this non-signing even more outrageous is if the Canucks match Kesler's 10 goals with $1.9 million in dollars versus giving Carter with 33 a nice sum at $2.5 million.
Vancouver signing Anson Carter would have been just under $76,000 per goal and siging Kesler at $1.9 m would be $190,000 per goal. What's the better deal?
Like last year when Matt Cooke held out and everyone was saying how stupid he was and how he was not thinking team, etc and how close they were in money, so just sign. I kept thinking the opposite. Cut back a few hundred thousand off those big signings to have some room left for solid every night performers.
Whatever Anson Carter does or doesn't do in Columbus is immaterial to what he did do here and could have done for the Canucks this season especially when Carter is rumoured to be a good team guy and not part of the old core group who needed a butt kicking. There just may be too many changes in Vancouver to give this new coach a decent shot at success. So far, I like the new coach's openness and willingness to start all off on a clean slate including Trevor Linden who can and will do more this year than last. But why not give him one line left intact and that line was the success line!!! It makes no sense... blah blah the CBA and salary cap... yah yah. That won't get the Canucks scoring but it does make fun for the fans to talk their stuff on the radio shows. It is now like a fantasy game with fans not having to know much than what a guy is being paid.
Welcome to the new NHL.
How could Anson Carter not have been a high priority signing for the Canucks - forget the money and look at his 33 goals and his record and reputation as a pretty good team guy in what we now know was a Bertuzzi polluted environment!!???
To me, Carter should have been a priority for not just that but he seems to be the first player in some time to get on the end of some good Sedin passes and make that line look like a team's first line!!
What will make this non-signing even more outrageous is if the Canucks match Kesler's 10 goals with $1.9 million in dollars versus giving Carter with 33 a nice sum at $2.5 million.
Vancouver signing Anson Carter would have been just under $76,000 per goal and siging Kesler at $1.9 m would be $190,000 per goal. What's the better deal?
Like last year when Matt Cooke held out and everyone was saying how stupid he was and how he was not thinking team, etc and how close they were in money, so just sign. I kept thinking the opposite. Cut back a few hundred thousand off those big signings to have some room left for solid every night performers.
Whatever Anson Carter does or doesn't do in Columbus is immaterial to what he did do here and could have done for the Canucks this season especially when Carter is rumoured to be a good team guy and not part of the old core group who needed a butt kicking. There just may be too many changes in Vancouver to give this new coach a decent shot at success. So far, I like the new coach's openness and willingness to start all off on a clean slate including Trevor Linden who can and will do more this year than last. But why not give him one line left intact and that line was the success line!!! It makes no sense... blah blah the CBA and salary cap... yah yah. That won't get the Canucks scoring but it does make fun for the fans to talk their stuff on the radio shows. It is now like a fantasy game with fans not having to know much than what a guy is being paid.
Welcome to the new NHL.
