The Zeev Buium Clock is Ticking for Vancouver

The Canucks are facing a familiar problem that's about to get a whole lot more expensive - keeping a talented young defenseman before someone else decides to do it for them. With offer sheets becoming the new leverage play around the league, Vancouver can't afford to let Buium hit the open market or risk losing him to a rival's aggressive bid. The window to lock him up at a reasonable number is closing fast, and every day the Canucks wait is another day a GM somewhere is sharpening his pencil.