tantalum wrote:MarkMM wrote:tantalum wrote:MarkMM wrote:What's the difference between being released and re-assigned? It says he was released, does that mean the Canucks don't have him on an NHL contract? If so, I'd like to get the guy to a two-way, so that we own his rights and can call him up in times of injury.
Correct. He's moose property and was invited to canucks camp basically because they like to invite Moose property to camp. If he played well in camp he could earn an NHL deal.
Not getting past the first cut basically implies he has no chance of getting an NHL deal this year.
Hmm, from all I've heard from camp, he's been surprisingly good, one of the best at camp, I'd rather we signed him to a two-way deal both for depth and so we have rights to him for the future.
I think it may have been Sutter who said something this summer that I never knew. A team can only have 50 players under professional contract. No idea where the canucks stand but there is a finite number of players a team can put under contract so they can't just sign every player that walks through the door.
Indeed many people thought he looked good but in many of those reports from training camp you'd swear the organization was made up of 45 all-stars.
AV may not of been my first choice as coach but I'm confident the coaching staff wouldn't cut a guy at the first round of main camp cuts if he actually showed something that could be molded into some sort of value over the next 12-24 months.
Didn't know that, but it makes sense, thanks. Yeah, our guys may be looking good at camp, but I guess it's all relative, do other camps look even better? What bothered me about many of these reports was that as much as a guy like Maxime Fortunus, Lee Goren or Brandon Reid would get glowing praise, there was consistent disappointment with Taylor Pyatt, a guy we're counting on...that said, it might be simply our roster guys not wanting to go too far and injure themselves while our prospects are desperate to make a point.
Fortunus got near-universal praise, and really strong praise at that, maybe we're negotiating, but like you, I trust Vigneault and Nonis to make the right call. With all our one-way contracts, I really think there's a trade in the works, maybe if we're up against a 50-cap number, then when we unload some one-ways, they'll have room to sign Fortunus to a two-way?