The offseason, generally, is where you look to improve your team in order to have a competitive edge going into the next season.
However, the cap constraints of a flat salary cap are forcing organizations to get creative about how they’re going to improve their team.
In the case of the Vancouver Canucks, not only are they constrained by the salary cap, but they’re also constrained by the fact that they have a bunch of spare parts taking up more than a quarter of their cap space.
Loui Eriksson, Brandon Sutter, Micheal Ferland, Sven Baertschi, Antoine Roussel and Jay Beagle eat up a combined $23.