Report: Roberto Luongo alerted Canucks about pending retirement in 2019, but team chose cap recapture instead
January 5, 2024
Report: Roberto Luongo alerted Canucks about pending retirement in 2019, but team chose cap recapture instead
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They would have just overpaid Roussell instead
I really want to believe that this story isn’t true as presented, or there’s some detail that isn’t being reported. IE: they didn’t tell us that Florida demanded five 1sts for the remainder of Lou’s contract.
“for whatever reason the Canucks never made the call”
Classic go to move for Benning.
Benning clearly just ran out of time
It’s over, let’s let it die now.
This is something I’ve wanted explained for about half a decade. If a player decides he is no longer capable of playing, he retires. If management, with medical information, feels a player cannot play they go on IR. Is that not more or less how it goes?
Whatever. The Canucks were going nowhere with the 3.5mil anyway. Never held it against Roberto that Bettman made the shitty rules
Benning would have offered a 2nd
It’s a report. Who do we trust? Stories are made up, it could be true. Lu might not say it’s fake news or the truth was skewed in the report.
But ultimately if it’s true, I wonder if Benning hid it from the owners or the owners knew and didn’t do anything about it either…. If Benning said no and the owners said yes, you would think it would have happened.
Maybe Benning did call and the offer was stupid but that isn’t reported or left out of the report or who ever Benning called isn’t being honest. Who knows.
I think the last thing we needed to do was attempt even more cap non-sense with that specific contract. The league would for sure have investigated the shit out of that
Like how did Benning have a job for so long. What did he actually have time for? He seemed to have run out of alot of time for being the GM for 8 years
What would have been a reasonable return for the contract? A 3rd or 4th? Its a move in good faith but florida would need just compensation
12 comments
They would have just overpaid Roussell instead
I really want to believe that this story isn’t true as presented, or there’s some detail that isn’t being reported. IE: they didn’t tell us that Florida demanded five 1sts for the remainder of Lou’s contract.
“for whatever reason the Canucks never made the call”
Classic go to move for Benning.
Benning clearly just ran out of time
It’s over, let’s let it die now.
This is something I’ve wanted explained for about half a decade. If a player decides he is no longer capable of playing, he retires. If management, with medical information, feels a player cannot play they go on IR. Is that not more or less how it goes?
Whatever. The Canucks were going nowhere with the 3.5mil anyway. Never held it against Roberto that Bettman made the shitty rules
Benning would have offered a 2nd
It’s a report. Who do we trust? Stories are made up, it could be true. Lu might not say it’s fake news or the truth was skewed in the report.
But ultimately if it’s true, I wonder if Benning hid it from the owners or the owners knew and didn’t do anything about it either…. If Benning said no and the owners said yes, you would think it would have happened.
Maybe Benning did call and the offer was stupid but that isn’t reported or left out of the report or who ever Benning called isn’t being honest. Who knows.
I think the last thing we needed to do was attempt even more cap non-sense with that specific contract. The league would for sure have investigated the shit out of that
Like how did Benning have a job for so long. What did he actually have time for? He seemed to have run out of alot of time for being the GM for 8 years
What would have been a reasonable return for the contract? A 3rd or 4th? Its a move in good faith but florida would need just compensation