Why chasing Jake Guentzel is a good play for the Vancouver Canucks

Jeff Paterson from the Rink Wide Podcast and Canucks Army joined Daily Faceoff Live to discuss why Jake Guentzel is a good play for the Vancouver Canucks.

Tyler Yaremchuk: I would like to get your thoughts on the Jake Guentzel reporting that Frank had yesterday. Frank saying that the Canucks could go after another player with an AAV in the double digits, is that the right play here in Vancouver? Or would they be better off splitting that money and finding quality support pieces for guys like J.T. Miller and Elias Pettersson?

Jeff Paterson: I think in the end, you saw they were trying to pass a top-six that included Ilya Mikheyev who had one goal in his last 61 games of the season. He can’t be anywhere close to the top-six ever again if the Canucks are true about building a championship team. Even a guy like Pius Suter who was a nice piece and an added value contract during free agency ended up playing alongside Miller and Boeser in your top-six. So they need help in their top-six and they saw firsthand against the Oilers and came up short in the end that they were lacking firepower.

Jeff Paterson: You look at how the roster is constructed, they got Hughes at $7.85 million for the next three years, one of the great value contracts in the NHL. Thatcher Demko, if healthy, two more years at $5 million. They think their window is here and now, Rutherford wants another Stanley Cup, he’s not a patient guy, and they got the connections with Pittsburgh with Guentzel, who shares the same agent as Boeser. Look, I don’t think this was an accident that Frank reported yesterday they are ready to make this full-court press, they want the hockey world to know that on July 1, they plan on making a big swing.

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