Who will Score the Goals for Vancouver Next Year?

The Canucks are in a conundrum this offseason. They failed to get anything from Boeser and Suter at the trade deadline and with limited options to replace those players when free agency opens on July 1st, the question of who will replace the loss of 50 goals is a slightly concerning one. 

Assuming that there are no trades in the offseason the Canucks will return 189 goals. Fortunately, a handful of Canucks had really bad years there is a chance that Vancouver can return without a major eye opening move. 

NAME
Jake DeBrusk LW      28                                      25
Brock Boeser RW 25                                              0*
Pius Suter C    25                                                      0*
Conor Garland RW    19                                               20
Kiefer Sherwood LW   19                                               15
Quinn Hughes D    16                                                    20
Elias Pettersson C   15                                                 30
J.T. Miller LW  9                                                                  0*
Teddy Blueger C    8                                                             8
Nils Hoglander LW    8                                                   20
Dakota Joshua C               7                                         10
Aatu Raty C                       7                                       15
Tyler Myers D    6                                                  6
Danton Heinen LW     6                                       0*
Filip Hronek D        5                                        5
Drew O'Connor LW *   4                       10
Carson Soucy D  3                                         0*
Erik Brannstrom D   3                                    0*
Max Sasson C      3                                          5
Jona      3                                                           10
Linus Karlsson C     3                                      3
Derek Forbort D    2                                          0*
Filip Chytil C *    2                                10
Marcus Pettersson D *    1                      3
Nils Aman C   1                                       2
Phillip Di Giuseppe LW   1                   0*
Elias N. Pettersson D     1                    2
Victor Mancini D *   1                     2
Daniel Sprong RW *  1                  0*
Arshdeep Bains LW     1                       2
Vincent Desharnais D   0                      0*
Mark Friedman D    0                             0*
Noah Juulsen D       0                                  0*
Kirill Kudryavtsev D  0                              1
Ty Mueller C     0                                        2
Guillaume Brisebois D    0                        0*
Total

 

* means that the player will likely not be back next year or not expected to score any 

goals for Vancouver. 

Adding up the totals gives us at 219. Keep in mind that out of all the teams to make

the playoffs Minnesota was the lowest scoring team at 224. For the Canucks to

make the playoffs I'm looking at adding four players. Let's assume they strike 

out with all the names that have been mentioned by fans the last couple of 

months and slide some names that are under the radar right now. 

Tyson Jost and Reily Smith would be low risk high reward moves. There is 

more risk with Smith at 34 but there is also be more upside. Having a below

average year there shouldn't be too much of a overpayment but his playoff 

experience would be valuable. 

Jost was once a high prospect out of the Penticton Vees and could use a return

to B.C. 

Defenseman Tony DeAngelo would be a great pickup if he can keep any off the ice 

issues away from the team. 

Josh Mahura can fill the Forbot role of just being a depth defenseman and not screwing  up.  With these four additions, I project 241 goals next year and a possibility of making the  playoffs if Demko can stay healthy.

  

Here is how I'm trying to lineup the lines next year:

	LW	C	RW
	Jake Debrusk	Elias Pettersson	Connor Garland
	Nils Hoglander	Philup Chytil	Reily Smith
	Dakota Joshua	Teddy Blueger	Kiefer Sherwood
	Drew O'Connor	Tyson Jost	Aatu Raty
	Defenseman
	Quinn Hughes	Filip Hronek
	Marcus Petterson	Tyler Myers
	Victor Mancini	Tony DeAngelo
	Josh Mahura