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Elias Pettersson

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  1. Losing Leddy would hurt alot. More than Mayfield. They are in win now mode. They are going for a Cup. I guess they can always do what Tampa has done and trade for LTIR money. Send Ladd out and a pick or prospect and get someone on LTIR in return. Worked for Tampa.
  2. I'd rather target a RHD if we are going to give up assets. The Islanders will be in the same position as Colorado, they have 4 good defencemen and can only protect 3. I'd rather go after Scott Mayfield than Ryan Graves as he fills a huge position of need. He is playing 22-24 minutes a night right now on a cheap contract. Would be a perfect partner for Hughes. I'd give them a 2nd and a prospect for Mayfield. Any Dmen we draft won't be ready for years and we have no RHD in the system other than Woo who I don't see as a partner for Hughes.
  3. 6x6 is not our thing. But I hear Treliving is on the phone with his agent...
  4. It’s called trading for a rental. Teams do it every year. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t. The goal is to make the playoffs and win a few rounds and have a chance at a Cup. That’s the objective in the NHL. Not to collect draft picks and prospects every year and miss the playoffs. At some point you have to take a shot. That’s what Benning did. If Toffoli was not injured in the playoffs maybe we beat Vegas and go to the semi final. That was the plan. You can argue the merits of trading for a rental when you are not a Stanley Cup contender but that’s what Benning did. Bergevin make a hockey trade. Gave up on a young stud defenceman to get his next French superstar. It backfired on him big time and the trade ended up being one of the worst in NHL history.
  5. No haven’t gotten my cards yet. I guess getting 9/20 was too hard to believe and I was disqualified.
  6. Toffoli was a rental. Do you understand how rentals work? Sergachev for Drouin was a hockey trade. A lopsided one at that. The Toffoli trade was made to give the Canucks a chance at making the playoffs with Boeser injured. Teams trade for rentals all the time. You can argue the justification for Benning trading for a rental in that we weren’t a playoff contender but that’s what he did. So the trades cannot even be compared as they were done for different purposes. No it wasn’t bad asset management as teams trade picks and prospects for rentals every year at the deadline. The objective for a hockey team is to make the playoffs and do something once you get there. It’s not about collecting assets for years and years and missing the playoffs every year.
  7. Well Boeser was back for the play ins so that is what helped us get into the playoffs. If Toffoli wasn't around we may have lost 10 out of 10 games. At the end of the day Toffoli was acquired to replace Boeser and help us with our playoff push. He was going to be a UFA so in effect he was a rental and wasn't necessarily acquired to keep on a long term basis. At the time of the trade there was no COVID and there was talk the cap would go up in the millions, which would have helped us to re-sign some of our UFA's. At the end of the day the cap stayed flat and we weren't able to re-sign anyone and Benning made a decision to trade for Schmidt to shore up the D and also qualify Virtanen instead of losing him for nothing which basically took up all the extra cap room we had and he never ended up even making an offer to Toffoli. Letting Markstrom walk worked out great as Demko is a stud and is now signed long term to a better contract than Markstrom. Schmidt for Tanev was also a decent trade off as Schmidt has offensive upside which we haven't fully seen yet. Letting go of Toffoli was the only downside to those 3 but at the end of the day we had Boeser as our #1 RW and Virtanen was coming off an 18 goal season so he was expected to step it up and play the #2 RW position which of course never happened.
  8. That's not correct. You said the Sergachev/Drouin trade wasn't worse than the Toffoli trade. It was. It was one of the worst trades in NHL history. Benning could have given away a 2nd round pick for free and added Madden to the deal and it still would not have been worse than trading a top pairing 22 year old Dman for a malcontent small forward who will be out of the league in a couple of years.
  9. PP #1: Hoglander Boeser Horvat Petterrson Hughes PP #2: Pearson Appleton Miller Podkolzin Rathbone
  10. Erik Cernak. He can do it all. I'd give up the 9OA in a heartbeat for this guy...
  11. Sergachev for Drouin is probably one of the worst trades in the history of the NHL. A top pairing Dman who is still only 22 for a malcontent smallish forward who's career is seemingly going downhill real fast and who may be out of the league in 2-3 years. On the flip side Benning traded a 2nd round pick and a 150 pound prospect who may never even make it to the NHL for a player, Toffoli, who helped fill the void left by Boeser's injury and helped us make the playoffs where we won a couple of rounds and took Vegas to 7 games. Those two trades aren't even in the same stratosphere...
  12. We should make it known that we are trying to extend Loui’s contract. Maybe Treliving will interject and do a sign and trade.
  13. I hate the Habs too but I am cheering for them to win the Cup because of one person and one person only... How many other players in Canucks history bled for our team as much as this guy? How many former Canucks players came from nowhere, playing roller hockey, to playing with the Sedin twins and almost making history for us? How many former Canucks players slayed the Dragon? We will never forget you Alex...
  14. Yeah he's having a good playoffs that's for sure. Even better than Toffoli. I think Benning should go hard after him in free agency. Then we can all kiss and make up and forget about Toffoli when Saad scores the Stanley Cup winning goal for Vancouver next June.
  15. He never spoke to the media. What came out was what his lawyer filed in the civil case and was obtained by Glacier Media through court records.
  16. Makar and Fox aren't that type of Dman either, but Hughes can get to their level as they are pretty much all the same size. Hedman is on another level as he's 6'6" so he has an advantage over all of them to be the crease clearing defensive Dman along with being an offensive weapon. Hedman is the complete defenceman.
  17. Fox is no Hedman in his own zone but I guess the analytics will tell me otherwise. The eye test would tell me something different. Maybe it's the fact that Hedman is 6'6" so he kinda stands out a bit more on the ice than Fox does.
  18. Bobby Orr never played with Stan Jonathan. By the time Terry O'Reilly was on the team Orr was already knocking guys out and was on his 6th knee surgery...
  19. Hedman will probably win the next 4-5 Norris Trophies just like Lidstrom. Makar and Fox have a long way to go to be an all around Dman. They will get there eventually as will Hughes I think. Hedman didn't win his first Norris Trophy until age 27 so those guys have plenty of time.
  20. Bobby Orr was actually one of the better defensive defencemen of his generation. He could also hit like a truck and fight with the heavyweights. He could do it all really...
  21. I think the biggest problem is that Hughes needs a partner who can play bigger minutes and stay out on the ice with him for longer periods of time. Hamonic played well with Hughes but he is not a minute munching Dman. He will max out at around 17 minutes while Hughes is playing 23+ minutes. A guy like Cernak can play 21-22 minutes no problem. Hughes needs a partner like that so he's not on the ice often with either Myers or Schmidt, who have their own deficiencies in their own end. The biggest priority for Benning is to get a legit partner for Hughes so we can have a top pairing D that can eat up 22-23 minutes a night.
  22. Abbotsford Canucks... I could see Aquilini doing this. Following in the path of 6 other NHL teams. Aquilini was the one who was instrumental in changing our colours back to the blue and green, so giving the farm team the same name as the NHL team is not inconceivable. Currently, there are six AHL teams that have the same names as their NHL affiliate Providence Bruins Belleville Senators Binghamton Devils (soon to be the Utica Devils?) Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins Iowa Wild Texas Stars It’s not inconceivable that the Canucks AHL affiliate follows a similar trajectory.
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