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Pettersson will be an absolute beast if he can put on some muscle mass and be impossible to knock off the puck.

Yea that was my bad I meant Norris.

I will complement whoever I want. He is from Van and apparently he isn't a Norris quality Dman to people here. He absolutely is a top Dman in this league.

WOw that was a pretty damn good play by Theodore.

Toffoli is never going to be able to catch tuch.. game legs or not. That was pure speed.

No one was complaining about a mid to late pick. This could have been a lottery pick. It probably had a higher chance of being a lottery pick than not. JT Miller was far better than anyone would have known regardless what people try to say now and this team was bottom of the NHL for years. They definitely over-achieved what was expected by a large margin. If JT miller put up 40-50 points and we gave up a top 10 pick for him next year... this trade would be seen far differently. Best case scenario ended up happening. People here have you believe that that was the most likely scenario all along. This was a hockey trade that few were sure if it was the right time for the canucks to make.

Because during the draft on live TV that is exactly what was reported. I can't remember who it was that said it but something along the lines of Tampa was looking for a first round pick + and Vancouver was the only team willing to pay. Then they discussed how Benning could have negotiated a better deal but that could have led to another team swooping in and stealing JT from them.

Oh yea the Avs are weak on D. Not even Depth wise but after Makar is pretty meh.

Not if you have a number 1 who can play 30 mins a night, which they do in Heiskanen.

Fair enough. I did think that. I still think Kapanen was one of their better cheap forwards.

read it wrong *delete*

Is anyone else confused by this? Why would they trade one of their few good cap hit contracts and not get a dman? How does Dubas have a job? He literally traded their "steal" of a draft pick in the first round, Lindgren, for a pick in the same position a few years later and then added Kasperi Kapanen got 2 nobodies and a prospect back..

You don't need 6m of cap next season. There is no reason to give up valuable assets to get rid of 6m next year. It is pure stupidity.

If you wanted to re-sign all those players, which I would not but let's say you did, why would you give up Juolevi and Demko while getting nothing in return? You're acting as if this team is a Stanley Cup favourite. So you're going to give up the future to keep it together? No. You can trade Demko to get a prospect or draft picks in return. I don't see any reason to trade Juolevi unless a Dman is coming back in the trade. You can dump salary by trading guys like Sutter, Beagle or Roussel. Sutter is 4.2m off the books and he can net you a draft pick or Motte like prospect. You are basically replacing Sutter with Toffoli and getting something in return for it.. What you are saying is just dumb. It makes absolutely no sense at all.

The cap problems aren't this year. They are next year buddy. Even still any GM that gives up Demko and Juolevi to move Eriksson should be immediately fired it's awful. Absolutely terrible.

Your posts are absolutely ridiculous. Why the hell would you give up Demko, and Juolevi to get rid of Eriksson. That is pure stupidity. There is no reason to trade Eriksson first off, second you don't give up 2 great prospects to do so.

People saying they wouldn't trade prospects for Heiskanen.. lol. Proving he is no fluke and there no way you'd ever get him for this pathetic proposal.

DIslike or like Milbury what he said was nothing. It was nothing like what Don Cherry said which people on Twitter were comparing it to. I didn't think it was funny but it wasn't offensive or degrading either. It is true if anything there are countries *cough* russia*cough* that banned families or athletes from seeing 'women' so they can focus on the games.

3 Million is pretty steep.

Oh my god, no.

There are 3 guys who could be potential UFA's Pietrangelo, Brody and Hamonic (Krug isn't what we need) if you can land one of them, unlikely, that would be a pretty solid signing. If you're not getting Pietrangelo then Keeping Tanev is must.

Regardless of what happens the issue is defense. We need better D. That will be tough to rectify unless you get lucky in FA.

Wakeup call to the clueless people here thinking Vegas was going to be a walk in the park after beating St. Louis.

This trade was made to keep Vancouver in a playoff spot and get the young players playoff experience. That was achieved.

The play-in round was for the season not being finished it should not become the norm. 8 teams each conference make the playoffs that's more than enough.