Trades Expansion moves and Free Agent Signings

Team: 2021-22 Vancouver Canucks

Initial Creation Date: Jul. 5, 2021

Published: Jul. 5, 2021

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Point of this team: Get your ducks in line for the 2022-23 season while getting better this upcoming season (keeping salaries down).

Trades:

Appleton for a pick and an exempt prospect (pre expansion draft): Lockwood is looking to be a future bottom six winger who brings speed and grit. He's also exempt from the expansion draft. Add in a 3rd and it could work (Don't think WPG wants to give up Appleton and then have to expose someone else with value).

Schmidt for DeBrusk (post expansion draft): This is a great opportunity for both players to get a fresh start. This is a one for one, but there might be a need to add on both sides to make it work cap wise. I'd think Schmidt wouldn't have BOS on his no trade list.

Foegele for a pick and prospect (post expansion draft): It seems like he's on his way out in Carolina as he's in a similar situation that Stecher had here in VAN (CAR wants to sign him to a deal lower than his qualifying offer). Lind is a player that doesn't seem to be a fit in VAN and a conditional 2nd packaged could do the trick. Let me know Canes fans.

Signings:

VAN needs to bring in as many low costs bets as they can. With the team in Abbotsford it's the perfect situation for the hockey ops to have an eye on them. As long as the money is under $1.1M it can get buried in the AHL so these are practically no risks. I have Dzingel, McCabe, Merrill, Pysyk, and Hinostroza all as examples of these kinds of players.

Buyouts:

Benning was pretty talkative on Buyouts, but the only one I see happening is Virtanen (for obvious reasons).

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