The Vancouver Canucks had countless ways to get creative this offseason, but general manager Jim Benning took an unexpected approach by signing three bottom-six forwards to multi-year deals.
Antoine Roussel and Jay Beagle earned matching four-year deals worth $12 million, while Tim Schaller earned a two-year deal worth $3.8 million. Vancouver still has over $12.847 million in space, per CapFriendly.com, but this wasn’t the way they should have used all the money.
Look at a series of some of the salary dumping moves, and what teams got for them.