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Originally Posted by getbak
The Sedins are the only big money contracts ending for the Canucks this year and they didn't have much cap space to spare this season (they ended the season over the cap into LTIR space).
Baertschi, Granlund, Virtanen, Stecher, and Pouliot are all RFAs who'll be looking for raises.
With the way everything has gone for Kane in San Jose, I'll be very surprised if he doesn't re-sign there, but if he were to go to Vancouver, he'll almost-certainly take up the cap space left by one of the Sedins, and possibly a little more.
Even if the cap goes up by $5 million, the raises for their five RFAs are going to eat up most of that increase. If Kane signs for $7 million, that eats up the cap space gained by Daniel's retirement. That would leave them a little over $7 million to sign Tavares, which isn't likely to get it done.
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From that list of RFA's you could walk away from more than a couple. Also, trading Tanev is a possibility among many other options I'm sure they have at hand.
Again, realistically I don't think the Canucks are players here, all I'm saying is they shouldn't be Ignored. They have the cards to play. It's a desirable place to live and they aren't far away from turning it around.