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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
In retrospect, is 2020 the worst Canucks off-season in their history? It has to be close.
Since the start of that offseason, they lost:
- Toffoli
- Tanev
- Markstrom
- Holtby
- Virtanen
- Schmidt
- Gaudette
And all that they gained from that entire selection of players was:
- Matthew Highmore
- 3rd round pick
- Dead cap (hope this dude plays defence for them)
How funny.
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Well sort of, I mean it always looks worse if you just list all the players that leave a team via UFA.
The only two players on the list that I think the Canucks will miss are Toffoli and Tanev. The rest of the players are either replaceable.
Markstrom - Demko
Gaudette - Dickinson
Holtby - Halak
Virtanen - Meh
Schmidt - OEL
The cost of Toffoli with his very reasonable cap hit in order to resign Virtanen was a huge blunder, but every step with Virtanen has been a misstep so far from drafting to development to contract. Just sunk cost after sunk cost and not wanting to burn a high first round pick IMO.