Carol Schram: Asking prices are high as the Vancouver Canucks look to land a UFA centre Looking to shore up their lineup by adding a centre in free agency, the Vancouver Canucks appear to have bowed out of the Tyler Bozak negotations. Players like Riley Nash, Tobias Rieder and Jay Beagle could still be in the mix.

teh bozek

he's not the 2C you need, but he is the one you will get.

For the love of god don't go after Bozak.
He is soooooooooooo sheltered, and his defense isnt great.
Everything from here on out with Bozak would be downhill.

You could get Derek Ryan for half the price and half the term who also happens to be younger.

Bozak will re-sign with Toronto and continue too be their #1 centre.

Bozak will re-sign with Toronto and continue too be their #1 centre.
- Reubenkincade

benning has too much money to spend. that hot potato is coming back your way.

teh bozek will re-sign with Toronto and continue too be their #1 centre.
- Reubenkincade

fixed

Thanks Carol! Relieved that the Canucks are bowing out on Bozak. It has been said many times that a team's biggest mistake are made on July 1. Hoping we add a couple of inexpensive pieces and save the cap space for when we need it for extensions.

TSN HOCKEY
Sounds like #Hawks renewed efforts to move Marian Hossa’s contract in last few days. Hossa, 39, has three years remaining at $5.25 million in one of those back-diving deals and league proved his medical condition worthy of LTIR exception this season.
12:27 PM - 28 Jun 2018

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LTIR and only owed $3 million dollars.

If there was ever a time....... this is it.

TSN HOCKEY
Sounds like #Hawks renewed efforts to move Marian Hossa’s contract in last few days. Hossa, 39, has three years remaining at $5.25 million in one of those back-diving deals and league proved his medical condition worthy of LTIR exception this season.
12:27 PM - 28 Jun 2018

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LTIR and only owed $3 million dollars.

If there was ever a time....... this is it.
- classic321

Doesn't leave Van with too much cap space after getting Lucic and Speeza as well.

Bozak will re-sign with Toronto and continue too be their #1 centre.
- Reubenkincade

The Leafs need him to shelter Matthews. Enjoy that cap hit

Does anyone know if the cap jumped based on the revenue of Vegas expansion fees, or if the league revenue actually rose aside from expansion.
Just curious, because we may need to be careful what we wish for on acquiring cap dumps if the cap were to be reduced, due to a false market increase.

Does anyone know if the cap jumped based on the revenue of Vegas expansion fees, or if the league revenue actually rose aside from expansion.
Just curious, because we may need to be careful what we wish for on acquiring cap dumps if the cap were to be reduced, due to a false market increase.
- Reubenkincade

The expansion fee was not included in Hockey-Related Revenue, so that's not a factor. But Vegas's success definitely was. I wrote about this for Forbes last month:

https://www.forbes.com/si...-in-2018-19/#459c722c3ac8

Does anyone know if the cap jumped based on the revenue of Vegas expansion fees, or if the league revenue actually rose aside from expansion.
Just curious, because we may need to be careful what we wish for on acquiring cap dumps if the cap were to be reduced, due to a false market increase.
- Reubenkincade

it should be actual, with a little bump for the CAD dollar being higher on average this season vs. last season.

vegas expansion fees were excluded from cap calculations.

Doesn't leave Van with too much cap space after getting Lucic and Speeza as well.
- manvanfan

Yeah, but you will be sending us Eriksson when we give you Lucic, so it's all good.

Bozak will re-sign with Toronto and continue too be their #1 centre.
- Reubenkincade

After Tavares is signed , Turdronto will be so broke they wont even have enough money to Pay Attention.


Please sign there JT please please

TSN HOCKEY
Sounds like #Hawks renewed efforts to move Marian Hossa’s contract in last few days. Hossa, 39, has three years remaining at $5.25 million in one of those back-diving deals and league proved his medical condition worthy of LTIR exception this season.
12:27 PM - 28 Jun 2018

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LTIR and only owed $3 million dollars.

If there was ever a time....... this is it.
- classic321

Anisimov

The expansion fee was not included in Hockey-Related Revenue, so that's not a factor. But Vegas's success definitely was. I wrote about this for Forbes last month:

https://www.forbes.com/si...-in-2018-19/#459c722c3ac8
- Carol Schram

thing about vegas is they also brought in about $70M of additional salary. So they would have needed about $140M of revenue just to have no impact on the cap.

maybe with their season they drove some growth, by not much. You need $62M of additional revenue (above $140) just to get a $1M increase in the cap.

i think it's fixed increases in national tv deals and a small bump from the canadian dollar that drove growth.

Thanks Carol, I really hope they hold to prudence, Gagner can be a center if we have noone else. Maybe he plays himselff into being a trade chip. High hopes

Anisimov
- VANTEL

Is pretty much Sutter. Not sure why you love this guy so much, doesn't produce unless he has a lot of skill around him. Bit of a net hound, but nothing to write home about.

benning has too much money to spend. that hot potato is coming back your way.
- Tumbleweed

Bad Tumbleweed, Bad! No! You go lay down.

thing about vegas is they also brought in about $70M of additional salary. So they would have needed about $140M of revenue just to have no impact on the cap.

maybe with their season they drove some growth, by not much. You need $62M of additional revenue (above $140) just to get a $1M increase in the cap.

i think it's fixed increases in national tv deals and a small bump from the canadian dollar that drove growth.
- Tumbleweed

The cap number is based on revenues, not costs, so Vegas' salaries don't factor in at all. But the ticket sales that they drove at their own arena - and elsewhere, as one of the biggest draws in the league - certainly do. So does merch.

National TV deal rates were the same last season as they've been for the last few years in both Canada and the US (Rogers/NBC). Regional deals go directly to the regional teams.

I think there are other drivers as well - sponsorship deals and other things behind the scenes that we don't see. I know it took awhile for them to finish the accounting from the World Cup from 2016, so that may even have factored in.

teh bozek

he's not the 2C you need, but he is the one you will get.
- Tumbleweed

Noooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We can't let Vancouver get the Bozek. Hey Toronto....the Kings will trade you Doughty for his negotiation rights....never mind that he'll be a free agent on Sunday and the open negotiation period has started already.

Is pretty much Sutter. Not sure why you love this guy so much, doesn't produce unless he has a lot of skill around him. Bit of a net hound, but nothing to write home about.
- neem55

True why would we want a 20 goal scorer three years in a row


You guys really do complain about EVERYTHING

The cap number is based on revenues, not costs, so Vegas' salaries don't factor in at all. But the ticket sales that they drove at their own arena - and elsewhere, as one of the biggest draws in the league - certainly do. So does merch.

National TV deal rates were the same last season as they've been for the last few years in both Canada and the US (Rogers/NBC). Regional deals go directly to the regional teams.

I think there are other drivers as well - sponsorship deals and other things behind the scenes that we don't see. I know it took awhile for them to finish the accounting from the World Cup from 2016, so that may even have factored in.
- Carol Schram

vegas does factor in when you divide revenues by 31 instead of 30.

yeah, no new national tv deals. by i'm pretty sure they are structured with fees increasing each year, not flat.