At the end of the 2015-16 season, the Vancouver Canucks signed European skaters Nikita Tryamkin and Anton Rodin. So far in the off-season, they have added NCAA goalies Thatcher Demko, Martin Garteig, NCAA D-man Troy Stecher, QMJHL forward Yan-Pavel Laplante and European blueliner Tom Nilsson. While most of those players will start the season with the AHL Utica Comets, GM Jim Benning will have to rethink some RFA decisions.
Our staff has been talking about that for a while, so why not make it an official roundtable?
To kick things off, I asked our staff at The Canuck Way about winger Sven Baertschi: Baertschi performed well on his “show me” deal, but was it enough to earn a long-term contract?