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  1. Because he is a veteran pro and is leading by example on the ice. He knows he isn’t a fighter, and is still stepping up against bigger tougher guys to protect teammates. That is why someone will trade for him at the deadline. It should be embarrassing to other guys on his team who should be doing it. Anyone questioning his actions probably hasn’t paid attention to hockey.
  2. The vitriol is based on what these sorts of trades and Allvin’s comments show their plans are… not the actual players involved. They should be giving up zero prospects for short term fixes. We have in short order given up a 2nd to get rid of a bottom six centre and then given up our best (though mediocre) prospect in the position the organization is weakest in just to get a worse bottom six centre who was almost certainly bound for the waiver wire.
  3. I am too engrossed in our massive trade to pay attention to a meaningless game… were the fights good at least or just holding on and slow dancing?
  4. Not even remotely… he is just 19. That is a mens league, not many teenagers in it. The season just started, a young guy getting big reps in a lower league rather than low minutes in a higher league is pretty normal for development. He probably shuffles between the two leagues this season. He was dominant in the J20 (Their major junior equivalent) last year against guys older than him. If the draft happens again, he is easily a 3rd round pick with his trajectory.
  5. Why did they “need” to fill Lazar’s spot? We have players in the system and on the roster to cover injuries. Your premise is just flawed so don’t get all preachy Aman has been one of the brighter lights on the roster and Dries has more NHL experience and success than Strudnicka has. Strudnicka has only played a few games in the league and is so far a career AHLer, not a “decent” 4th line centre . We aren’t in a competitive spot to be giving away prospects for players who you can find on the waiver wire.
  6. …. Nor is the guy we just traded for he was drafted 5 years ago and is an AHLer with a cup of coffee in the NHL in relief call ups. The guy we just gave up a 2nd round pick to get rid of was a legit NHL centre.
  7. True… like the Canuck’s timing to win a playoff round? It is a minor move, but the worrying part is the sentiment behind this….are they looking at this roster and seeing a competitive team in the near future?
  8. … by trading even younger players? Myrenberg would have probably moved up to a 3rd round pick if they redrafted now. He had a great D+1 year. You can’t easily trade for big, fast skating RHD who can put up points and defend well. Even if Myrenberg only has a 10% Chance of doing that in the NHL… this is just a dumb trade. He is 19 on a really good path. We have downgraded significantly from Dickenson and traded one of our best D prospects (of a very thin pool), and moved a 2nd round pick to save a little cap space. Don’t see the big picture on this…
  9. It isn’t really much either way, but trading a young RHD prospect with upside for a waiver fodder level player seems odd.
  10. This should also read the same for the Canucks. We actually have more pieces teams would want than San Jose I think.
  11. Patrick Johnson trying to make people forget he gets his news from 14 year old Anonymous Fake Reddit posts…
  12. You are missing how optimistic this tweet was. He could have mentioned that the teams under us were spending near or below the cap floor. There weee years were Ottawa and Arizona had tiny budgets and used free IR players on insurance to fake making it to the cap floor. In terms of wins per dollar spent we are almost certainly #1 (last) with a bullet. A doom and gloom journalist would have mentioned that part…. Drance was trying to pump us up by calling us just almost worst.
  13. Both LD… though they played Dermott on the right sometimes. Not that it is any difference. At least the call ups should be pushing hard and playing their hearts out. It is actually hard to lose this many times in a row. We will eventually play a team that just decides to look past us and sleepwalk through the game… though we have lost to some of the worst rosters in the league already so Pittsburgh at half effort still beats us
  14. D-Petey… ya I probably do that. Otherwise it is just a dumb comparison. I am not sure you understand the difference between prospects and actual proven high end NHLers. You seem to think they are the same thing based on what round they were drafted. Elias is a top line centre in the league. Hughes is a high end 1st pairing D. Almost all first round picks never end up as good as either of those guys. Using your logic, I absolutely trade Virtanen, Juolevi, and a 1st for an established Hughes level D man.
  15. I cancelled Sportsnet yesterday, my masochistic tendencies can take a break. If I feel like tuning in, I can listen to it on the radio while sitting and drinking scotch. That way I can at least pretend that good stuff is happening away from the play. Apathy setting in for sure. I don’t want to see all these same faces in our uniforms anymore. This is a fan base knowledgeable enough to appreciate when players are working hard and putting their heart into it… even if they lose. We spent decades cheering our guys on with standing ovations at the end of seasons where a bunch of lunch pail guys out it all out there and still missed the playoffs. Talented teams not playing to their potential is just maddening. How badly do we miss Tanev, Edler, and Stecher who were out best shot suppressors just by virtue of grinding it out and playing hard and doing the thankless jobs of eating pucks or taking punishment in the corners.
  16. Could he take care of Rathbone on a 3rd pairing… maybe. Do we have 7 or 8 healthy NHL calibre D better than him already? No.
  17. For an established young top 10 D in the league on a locked in team friendly deal who is also marketing gold with two brothers already on their team? Yep. Absolutely. He is more than what you hope your prospects turn into and they haven’t shown they are NHLers yet. Guys like Hughes don’t come on the market and everyone wants them. The only reason we would trade him is the worry we can’t re-sign him and want to maximize value rather than wasting a bunch of his prime years while rebuilding. For perspective, we paid - 1st round pick for Miller who was a 3rd liner who scored 14 goals and 46 points. Teams pay 1st round picks for “ok” rentals at deadlines.
  18. That is actually a really good idea. We save a little salary and see if Bear can capture some of his career year play. If he can’t then we walk away at the end of the season and save a year of cap on Pearson. I could see it as attractive to Carolina as well as he is a good bottom six addition to a playoff run kind of like us adding Higgins. The other bonus is opening a space for Hoglander so we can at least do a pump and dump on him by getting him playing time to raise his trade value .
  19. I don’t know anything about him… the scouting reports look promising. Looks like the type of player I would like to target. Maybe not as a main piece because we need to stock up on centres and D… but maybe we get winters in trade where they have less value and pick the premium positions at the draft. Honestly beyond the first half of the 1st round where I follow prospects in case they end up on the Canucks… I don’t really know much about most of them. Even those high ones, after they have been drafted I don’t follow their development.
  20. I don’t see any high prospects I want, they have graduated most of the really good ones. If we are rebuilding I want big, mean, and fast. It is easy to find smaller skill guys. Ostapchuk is a guy in their system and from the Vancouver Giants.. but he isn’t really high end, maybe a Branden Sutter type (which isn’t nothing). I would ask for two first round picks, let them do the 2023 as top ten protected and push to the next year if it ends up a top ten.
  21. Whoever gets you the return. Horvat is a priority as he is on an expiring contract so needs to be moved by the deadline. The other players basically as the market demands. If a contender has a long injury maybe they want to get a player. Goalie trade markets are weird, but if a top team loses their starter for the season… Demko becomes worth a whole lot to them, enough that they worry about future cap considerations later. If Ottawa wants to push for the playoffs with the Norris injury, Horvat or Miller makes a great option. Horvat because you aren’t committed and Miller because he can slide to the wing and help out a young Centre like he eased Petterson into it. Jersey may be willing to pay a ton for Hughes as a marketing coup and to beef up their chances of a playoff round or two. For me a rebuild includes anyone Hughes or older.
  22. I don’t want Brannstrom… if we are rebuilding I want the team to be big, mean, and fast. Get extra picks.
  23. Considering his cap hit And how much it has cost to move money, I assume he has neutral to negative value. I had posted a trade proposal in the armchair GM. If we give up an actual asset for Bear that is just silly. Bear Nikishin 1st (which is going to be very late) or 2nd for Hoglander Mid/late round pick
  24. Rumour keeps popping up about us being interested in Ethan Bear. No idea why really aside from as a reclamation project. He is behind Jalen Chatfield on their depth chart… but at several times the cap hit. We had to give up a 2nd to offload Dickenson and at least he was dressing in games. I propose the following trade with the assumption Bear has negative value as a cap dump. Bear Nikishin 1st (which is going to be very late) or 2nd for Hoglander Mid/late round pick
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