As we settle in for a long but potentially newsy Vancouver Canucks offseason, we opened the mailbag to submissions from the VIPs.As usual, the VIPs delivered. We received hundreds of questions from our subscribers, and we’re so grateful to all of you for your support and engagement with our content.Independent local coverage of the Canucks feels more vital than ever. You, our loyal subscribers, allow us to cover this team with a level of detail and resources that simply don’t exist anywhere else in the market. We can’t thank you enough.It seems to me that the least we can do is occasionally answer our readers’ questions about the state of the Canucks at length. That’s what we’ll do today and tomorrow with a two-part mega offseason mailbag.With our continued thanks, this is your Canucks mailbag.Note: Submitted questions may be edited for clarity and style.NHL offer sheets are just businessSean Gentille and Sean McIndoeWhat’s the outlook for local Canucks radio coverage, especially your involvement? — AnonymousThis question came in after Rogers Media shuttered Sportsnet 650 on Tuesday morning as part of a wider restructuring that impacted communities across the country and eliminated 230 jobs, mostly in the AM radio space.And I wanted to address what’s been a terrible week for my Sportsnet 650 colleagues and me.Obviously, some disclosure is in order here. I was a longtime freelance contributor to Sportsnet 650 and served as the co-host of Canucks Talk (previously Canucks Hour) for a five-year run from September 2021 until last Friday.It goes without saying that I’m heartbroken. I’m heartbroken because I loved doing Canucks Talk and working with my co-host Jamie Dodd and our producers Dom Šramaty and Elan Chark. I was proud of the show. I know we built an audience, and I never took for granted how lucky we were to get to do it.And I’m heartbroken for the many extremely talented, dedicated broadcasters and producers who were working at 650 and made the station what it was. Not to mention the journalists and ops at Sportsnet 960 in Calgary, and at News 1130 in Vancouver, and at other stations across the country who suddenly found themselves out of work this week.Lastly, I’m heartbroken that sports fans in Vancouver have been left without an all-sports talk radio station to listen to in their cars or to congregate around when there’s big breaking news.The AM format has some issues, of course, in the digital age. Vancouver still feels like it should be big enough to support one all-sports talk radio station. Perhaps if things were structured a bit differently or if the investment were more localized, it could.Looking ahead, it’s still too fresh to walk you through my thinking on the evolution of the sports talk media space in Vancouver. I think I’ll need a bit of time and space to process the events of this week before I’ll be able to see the board clearly.I just hope my 650 colleagues can find creative ways to leverage their talent, adjust, innovate and go about creating the sports content that fans in the market crave, with or without strong local sports media institutions backing them.Personally, I suspect that the innovation required to build the next generation of strong, profitable, local sports media institutions is most likely to be incubated independently. In all likelihood, it’s going to require a lot of very clever, very dedicated people taking some big swings and taking on significant risk. I hope Vancouver sports fans will support them when they do.Honestly, you can scratch out that last part, because I don’t even think “hope” is a big part of the equation there.I know with certainty that there’s a tremendous appetite for insightful coverage of local teams from a local perspective in Vancouver. I also know that the business opportunity to serve that appetite remains, and I’m convinced that it’s significant.The return for Marcus Pettersson was an exciting look at what veteran players can go for on this hot trade market. What kind of return could we expect for other players such as Jake DeBrusk, Brock Boeser and Elias Pettersson, from teams who struck out in free agency? — Dan W.The problem in trying to analyze DeBrusk and Boeser’s exchange value in this manner is twofold.First of all, I’d note that teams in need of help on the wings this summer haven’t actually struck out in free agency yet.