The year of avoiding arbitration hearings continued with Jannik Hansen and the Canucks avoiding their head-to-head meeting of the minds, signing a new 3-year deal on Thursday afternoon. The deal is said to be worth $4.05 million, which works out to be a $1.35 million cap hit per season. Hansen, 26, will have this deal take him into unrestricted free agency in the Summer of 2014.Hansen, mainly a bottom six player for the Canucks in 2011 (and likely into 2012), played in all 82 games, scoring 9 goals and adding 20 assists, ranking him 215th among all forwards in scoring. Another year under his belt, not to mention a good playoff run, may give him the experience necessary to boost those numbers, but any boost won't likely be too significant with players like Marco Sturm now in the fold to help fill some top six positions.
With Hansen on board for the Canucks, I currently have their projected roster with 11 forwards, seven defense, two goalies and a minuscule cap overage penalty coming out to $60 million, leaving them approximately $4.3 million to add a couple more forwards to the list, likely to come within the organization. Additions of Mark Mancari, Andrew Ebbett, Aaron Volpatti, Byron Bitz and/or Cody Hodgson would definitely look to fit the bill and any pairing combination from those five would come well below the cap space allotted to them.
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