Dave Nonis

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Dave M. Nonis (born May 25, 1966, Burnaby, British Columbia) is the Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Vancouver Canucks, a National Hockey League franchise. He replaced Brian Burke in 2004. Prior to this he spent six years of Senior Vice President and Director of Hockey Operations for the Canucks. Since taking over from Brian Burke, Nonis' most high profile moves have been to replace coach Marc Crawford with Alain Vigneault and to trade troubled power forward Todd Bertuzzi to the Florida Panthers for goaltender Roberto Luongo. The deal also involved defenseman Bryan Allen and goaltender Alex Auld going to Florida and defenseman Lukas Krajicek and a 6th round pick in 2006(Sergei Shirokov) going to Vancouver.

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Nonis played NCAA College Hockey in the United States at the University of Maine, collecting 14 goals and 78 points in 153 games from 1984 through 1988. Nonis spent his final two years for the Bears as team captain, leading the University of Maine team to back to back NCAA championship tournaments. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1988. Following this, Nonis played 1 year of professional hockey in Denmark and in 1989 returned to the University of Maine, moving behind the bench as an assistant coach.

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Got Rid Of	Brought in	Excellent	Just Ok	Not Good	Summary
Bertuzzi, Auld, Allen	Luongo, Krajicek		OK		Move would be better if Luongo made a bit less
	Marc Chouinard			Not good	He was not wanted in Minnesota, too much money
	Richard Park		OK		Did not pan out, not signed again
	Ryan Kesler			Not Good	Should've let him go to Flyers, got 2nd Pick and saved 1.9m
	Anson Carter	Excellent			Good Signing and for good money 1 million
Anson Carter			OK		For money demanded by Carter no choice here
	Willie Mitchell		OK		Paid a little too much, no offensive potential, too slow
	Jan Bulis			Not Good	The player is not a star. Too much expected of Bulis. Never scored more than 20 goals
	Trevor Linden			Not Good	Should have asked him to retire. 650,000 Saved.
2nd round pick	Mika Noronen			Not Good	No longer with Canucks. Played 4 games total.
Brett Skinner & 2nd Round Pick	Keith Carney			Not Good	Too old too slow and did nothing for the team
Mojzis & 3rd Round Pick	Eric Weinrich			Not Good	Too old too slow and did nothing for the team
4th round pick	Sean Brown			Not Good	No talent and is in minors now
	Brent Johnson	Excellent			Great move, only $500,000 but Washington took away on waivers
Marc Crawford			OK		Good coach but no longer effective for the team
	Alain Vigneault		OK		Good coach. Coached the canucks farm team prior to promotion
	Luc Bourdon		OK		Has future potential, could have taken Anze Kopitar for more immediate impact
	Matt Cooke		OK		Has underperformed since a 4,700,000 3 yr extension. Nonis overpaid but can't be faulted
	Manitoba Moose	Excellent			Renewed deal for farm team. Good organization and central location in North America
Dan Cloutier	2nd round pick		OK		Sent goalie to Los Angeles. Won more games than anyone from 01-03 but often injured
	Markus Naslund		OK		At 3 years 18 million if he plays well, he is worth it. Otherwise a bit expensive for 75 points
	Danny Sabourin			Not Good	Picked off waivers. Earns $450,000. At 26, he has yet to show NHL talent
	Mattias Ohlund	Excellent			Signed for 3 years at 3.5 million each. A very good deal for Canucks moneywise
Brent Sopel	6th round pick			Not Good	Sent away for no reason. Was a number 4 defenceman. Makes 1.2 million a year
Marek Malik			OK		Malik wanted 2 million per season, Nonis thought too much and Malik left