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Dan Hamhuis has facial fracture; Guillaume Brisebois signs ELC
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Jeff Veillette
Dec 10, 2015, 17:44 ESTUpdated:
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It seems like you can’t go more than a day or two in Vancouver without something happening to or with a defenceman in the organization. Today is no different, as we got an update on Dan Hamhuis’ face and one of the team’s most recently drafted prospects got to put his pen to paper.

Hamhurt

We’ll start off with the news that directly affects the present roster. 

Hamhuis suffered his injury against the New York Rangers when he took a Dan Boy slapshot to the face. Not much else is known about the injury beyond the above tweet. We can, however, look at other similar cases.
  • Mark Fraser suffered a facial fracture in the 2013 Playoffs after stopping a Milan Lucic shot with his skull. The Leafs were eliminated three games later, so it’s hard to know what moment he became 100%, but he wasn’t allowed to blow his nose for a month after the incident, which is kind of crazy.
  • Alex Tanguay suffered a facial fracture on November 20th, 2014 against Washington. His fracture was in his jaw, and he came back six days later. 
  • Keith Ballard suffered a facial fracture and a concussion two weeks prior to Tanguay’s when playing for the Islanders. He was out for the remainder of the season and, coincidentally, retired yesterday without ever having played again.
Basically, with what he know, Hamhuis could either play by the end of the weekend or never play hockey again. We should probably wait for more information.

Brisebois’ Christmas Present


For those who don’t speak french, the report basically states that Brisebois, who was Vancouver’s third round selection in the 2015 Entry Draft, has signed an Entry Level Contract with the team. 
Details were not disclosed yet, but you’d imagine that the deal is similar to the one to the one that Andrew Neilsen (who was picked one spot above him) signed recently. Nielsen’s contract pays him a cap hit of $700,833, with performance bonuses that could bring him up to $925,000 on a given year. It also pays him $70,000 in the AHL. Expect Brisebois to get similar.
Through 28 games this year, the 18-year-old native of St. Hilaire, Quebec has picked up 12 points with the Acadie-Bathurst Titan. His production has slowly improved after an extremely cold start to his year, meaning that it’s likely that he’ll top his 28 point total from last year. As for why he signed this contract now, the Canucks have likely seen enough to commit to playing him in the pro ranks by 2017/18 and wanted to give him some cash for the holidays. After all, ELC’s also come with signing bonuses; in this case, Brisebois will likely receive between $90-95,000 now, and at the start of each of the next three seasons. He shouldn’t spend it all in once place, though, seeing as each year of his sliding ELC will just give him more real life years without that cushion.

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