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    [Trade] Canucks trade Tyler Motte to Rangers for 2023 4th-round pick

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    Posted · Edited by viking mama

    2 hours ago, Crabcakes said:

    Motte is great but how high can you go for a 4th line winger who already is making more than most when you're trying to lower your salary cap?

     

    Moving on from him is just the business of hockey.  It's not going to make much of a difference if any on team performance.

     

    If he wanted too much they had to get an asset back before trading closed.  And the return isn't low, it's market value.  Here are some other players who went for 4th rounders recently:

    Brassard (Edm), Appleton (Jets), Wedgewood (Stars), Vatrano (NYR)

     

    Good move by Allvin

    Motte is on the rise & playing with more speed, heart & consistency in his role  than all 4 of those players you mentioned.

     

    Motte is being under-valued & his intangibles were not properly respected in the price. It’s a sad realization that management has pulled a reliable cog out of the machine pushing hard on fumes to reach the play-offs…& that they’ve officially abandoned this pursuit. 
     

    More of this team’s heart is gone & forgive me for mourning that a little.

     

     
     

     

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    [Trade] Canucks trade Tyler Motte to Rangers for 2023 4th-round pick

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    Posted · Edited by viking mama

    18 minutes ago, Jester13 said:

    One could argue that the team's lackluster play signaled to management that faith in them making the playoffs is not warranted.

    An exhausted goalie losing his edge &  an unreliable back/up says….that management should have found a way , (by hook or by crook), to get Spencer Martin back onto the big club. The players seemed more willing to support Martin better in that role, in all the ways they would not when playing infront of, Jaroslav Halak. 
     

    Perhaps the fresh & eager optimism of Martin’s youth & his newness to the NHL,  just inspire them all to perform better than the cranky insecurities projected by an unhappy or perhaps disgruntled  older veteran player - in apparent decline. 

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    [Trade] Canucks trade Tyler Motte to Rangers for 2023 4th-round pick

    in Trades, Rumours, Signings

    Posted · Edited by viking mama

    Canucks gave Tyler Motte away for virtually nothing. Ugh. 

    Their current 4th line was one of their best lines going - and now it’s toast.
     

    Canucks just signalled to their players that they have virtually NO faith in them making the play-offs with this move….& if by some miracle they had - Motte would have been one of the key reasons.

     

     

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