Drakrami
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Great talent. Coulda had a nice career if he'd just stick to the NHL like Datsyuk.
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I gotta say, Hughes is playing horrible defense. He looks like a little kid out there skating out of position and lost in some goals. That's gotta hurt the team a lot when he logs 23-25 minutes a game. Hes gotta figure out how to play defense with his size, or all the hype as #1 defenseman is nothing.
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8 hours ago, garthsbutcher said:
Gaudette will be playing in the Swiss first div league within 2 years
Because....? Hes not a Canucks anymore? We were touting him as a diamond in the rough, high grade prospect we stole in the 5th round like 3-4 years ago.... Have some class LOL.
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Sorry, not trading Virtanen( a #6 pick) + 3rd for a 9million dollars PK Subban that "might work" as our bottom pairing. Not like NJ Devils will take the deal any way; stop underestimating how unplayble Ericsson is. The only reason we have been playing him at all the last few years is because how stubborn Green/Benning is. At this point, if NJ had extra cap space of 3-4 million, they should use it to grab a 1st or 2nd round pick, that's how the market is nowadays.
The once we pay Ericsson's bonus on July 1st, he will be traded. I have seen that for 3-4 years, eh?
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Poor guy, just 29 and need to retire due to concussions. Best of luck!
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Im sitting here laughing at people analyzing Highmore's play trying to put a positive spin on this trade. When this was obviously a Benning let's get rid of Gaudette asap and get whatever is available on the market trade. Highmore, no matter how gritty and grindly he is, the best he could be is a Motte type of player, a 3rd/4th liner who could be easily upgradable either by a prospect or in the open market. He is no Adam Lowry. I could always eat my words here, but what I have described is highly probable and not worth my time to follow deeper.
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5 hours ago, The King said:
Laughable, RY JO has one off year and now he's Skinner. The entire Nashville team has been sub par. Every other team in the NHL would love to have Johansen on their team except for you...
Johansen had a down year? More like he was never "really" good to begin with. He was traded and signed to a big contract based on his "potential" and he is failing miserably on that count. Are you Ryan Johansen posting to try to get traded to Vancouver?
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Did you really just propose to trade for Johansen.....? Might as well go for Duchene and Skinner then. A collection of non performing players on monster contracts; and keep Ericsson.
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Up one on you.
Tkachuk
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Juolevi, Lind and 2022 1st round pick
And it would be a fair trade.
That's how our 2016 1st round pick should have turned out.
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lol @ people calling this dumb.
Others can do whatever they want and voice out their opinion: it's called a democracy.
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So i am scratching my head on this one. How does Highmore come in first game and get more ice time (15minutes) than Gaudette ever gets in like forever?
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Well may be learn not to care too much about the media instead? If you play for a hockey crazed city in Vancouver, you are almost like a celebrity. Media will scout and report anything that catches the eyeballs. So how do celebrities deal with it? Dont give a care to it and just do your job.
Instead of trying to change the media, which is probably impossible.
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4 hours ago, Dazzle said:
Man this thread is HILARIOUS. People are always looking to crap on the Pearson deal when such a position doesn't make any sense.
First off, guy is a center, not a winger, so Pearson and Lowry aren't equivalent there. But if we're looking at points, Pearson outscores Lowry quite a bit, in spite of being roughly the same age.
https://www.nhl.com/player/adam-lowry-8476392
Lowry has 65 goals, 78 assists = 143 points in 452 games.
This season, he had 8 goals 12 assists = 20 points in 44 games. It wasn't really a standout year compared to his other years.
Pearson has 114 goals, 112 assists = 226 points in 490 games.
Pearson had a pretty bad season. 6 goals, 5 assists = 11 points in 33 games.
So no, @250Integra Lowry is not better than Pearson. The thing that Lowry has going for him is that he's a center who happens to win a decent amount of faceoffs. Aside from that, they have different roles, with Pearson being a significantly higher scorer.
3.25 is arguably an overpayment, or at the very least an average signing for Lowry, but of course no one else is going to mention that. We'll just have to keep going on the bash Pearson bandwagon for no reason, right?
People need to take things into perspective, instead of just looking to confirm a bias that is present on these boards.
Get out and watch some hockey if you think 3.25 mil for Lowry is overpaid lmao.
Are you really slamming the books at a 3C that Pearson scores more than him, lol. What does Pearson do exactly? He is sloted in the 2nd LW and gets to easily pot up points; he even gets powerplay time. Think of all the different assignments Lowry gets every game as 3C vs the opposition.
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lol Gustafsson went from a coveted 60points defenseman to being traded for 7th rounders fast.
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How does Bennett fetch ALOT more than Gaudette.... sigh. This is how you trade and get value back.
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lol. Good luck trying to pry Cernak from TB. Just signed a bridge 2.9mil/year contract playing 23 minutes a game.
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You know Buffalo wants 4 1sts.
Let's give them... 2 huge cap dumps instead!
Sutter's rights, lol.
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I'm leaning to say no.
Things are stale. Not much to look forward to. The team doesn't have the compete level, chemistry, structure. Only thing going is hopeully the young uns continue to imrpove ie. Pettersson/Hughes/Beoser, but this is not even a sure thing.
All eyes on the offseason. If Benning can repeat similarly to what he did last year, then he has my vote of confidence. Adding Schmidt, signing Hamonic for cheap, letting go of Tanev/Markstrom/Toffoli; etc... I highly praise those moves even though that's not the norm.
AND, we need a coach change. No matter how much you like Green, change is needed.
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1 hour ago, Dazzle said:
You know it's funny. People here are screaming at Benning for not realizing that Pettersson and Hughes' contracts are due, even though he's the same GM who drafted them and oversaw their successes. LOL.
Does this move show that Benning is making space? Yes. Do the fans bitch about it? Yes. Gaudette really wasn't going to amount to anything more on the Canucks. That much was perfectly clear.Sorry, that's ridcious. Gaudette costs 950K, the minimum we need to fill 1 roster spot. What I think you are trying to say is just lol.... meh.
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1 hour ago, debluvscanucks said:
They're discussing Highmore/Gaudette and how Gaud sees himself as a top 6 and there wouldn't be a fit for him here in relation to that. That he wasn't a guy they relied on in the playoffs and he didn't take that extra step they'd expected.
That Highmore is touted as: a guy who'll do whatever's asked of him. High motor, better skater (Gaud with more talent). Will go to the net every time. Comparing him to a Motte kind of player?
Gaudette is definitely not a top 6. What he thinks he is hardly matters. But during his 153 games here I think we have only given him ice time above 15 minutes only on a few occasions. This is no matter how well he played. That's a problem. There is no work hard, get reward ladder for him. Hoglander on the other hand magically slots into the 2nd line and gets 17 minutes of game time his second game playing for us. Same for Vessey whos done nothing for us and pretty much an unproven NHL player.
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9 minutes ago, SID.IS.SID.ME.IS.ME said:
While I agree with some of the sentiment, I don’t agree with the Highmore being “nothing.”
Sure, I’m not a fan of the value. Even after getting past the shock of Gauds getting moved (I followed him through college, watched a lot of his games, and have a soft spot for him), and trying to look at the trade through an objective lens, I still value this as a “bad trade.” (Honestly, on pure value, there’s probably not enough Leipsic in the world for me to give a glow up to this pig of a trade.)
However, just viewed as a roster addition, I do like the process behind picking up a guy like Highmore, and think he could end up being a good fit for the 4th line. He represents the kind of cheap, younger, cost controlled player we should be using to fill “role player” slots in the lineup.
And given how the organization seems to have come to view Gaudette, this wasn’t “unnecessary.” They were clearly moving away from him, so at least they made a move and extracted some value.
I just don’t like the value, but I still like the new guy we added, in Highmore.
Yes. Look on the bright side. Highmore can turn out to be the Motte trade. Though Highly unlikely.
The Gaudette trade could have played out much better. We have plenty of time to move him for an average return like a 3rd round or something. Why rush at the TDL with no takers because he just got COVID for Highmore? Playing the rest of the 19 games, Gaudette absolutely stinks it and we lose him for nothing in the summer, I am actually way more fine with this than trading him now for Highmore lol.
But you know what... May be this is a locker room problem?
Like other players hate Gaudette for spreading COVID, not following protocols or something like that. Putting it this way, it can make sense.
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Well Mantha is 26 years old already, and Detriot isn't going anywhere for a few years... So it does kind of make sense. Yzerman getting some nice value back especially when Vrana is pretty good too. Seems like young players with potential cant develop in Washington, gets overshadowed by Ovechkin and co. Forsberg, Burakovsky and now Vrana
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4 minutes ago, brbetts542 said:
Hobey baker and 33 points yes. Still had no value none the less so I think the real issue here is your ability to evaluate a hockey player.
If you cant even manage to trade a 24 year old who scored 33 points last year for some value back, you shouldn't be a GM. It actually doesnt matter if Gaudette is good or not. You sell him like a salesman. And Benning gets Highmore rofl.
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Grabbing a name who no team wanted to pick up through waivers mutiple times.... with a 4th round pick.
Ha ha... What a disappointment.
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[Trade] Canucks trade Adam Gaudette to Blackhawks for Matthew Highmore
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No one's saying Gaudette is some hidden 1st line player. The point is asset management, we are not even a contender, still just a bottom feeding team 7 long years under this management. You don't trade a 24 year old on pace for 46 points last season playing just 12 minutes a game for nothing. Even if Gaudette's last season performance is just an anomaly, at least get a 3rd rounder back. Benning's ability to wait and make the right trade is 0. Just like when he rushed the Kesler trade 2 months into his job. When it's been proven again and again in the league waiting for the right trade ripes the rewards. Look at how the Duchene trade is doing wonders for Avalanche.