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By now, it’s common knowledge the Canucks offered Cory Schneider to the Oil for a package consisting of the seventh overall pick, a second-rounder and Martin Marincin.

For the Canucks, turns out, it wouldn’t have mattered if they had the Oil pick or Lou’s New Jersey one. They were taking Horvat over Nichuskin (and that was the debate, if there was one).

Before the negotiation with MacTavish broke off, however, the Canucks offer came down to No. 7 and Marincin.

Mac-T had to think long and hard over that one.

But he came back to Vancouver and declined, saying:

“My goalie coach says Dubnyk is going to be a star.”

The Gilly response to Mac-T: “You’re going to be firing your goalie coach.”

He was right.

http://blogs.theprovince.com/2015/10/07/the-provies-its-money-back-guarantee-night-first-game-is-the-best-game/

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I wonder who we were going to draft had we gotten the 7th overall pick? Nurse?

For the Canucks, turns out, it wouldn’t have mattered if they had the Oil pick or Lou’s New Jersey one. They were taking Horvat over Nichuskin (and that was the debate, if there was one).

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Funny that Gillis had swag when he was doing such a poor job with the goalie situation.

Gillis did pretty good with the goalie situation in hindsight. The Luongo contract screwed him, and he has to take part of the blame for that (the other part going to the NHL for changing cap rules). But, he turned Schneider into Horvat, and Luongo into Markstrom. Markstrom has the potential to be a great starter, and Horvat is already proving his potential as a solid two way centre who brings it every night he plays.

I'd say MG did a very not-poor job with the goalie situation.

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That doesn't entirely make sense, I believe the negotiations for Schneider began after the Oilers had already taken Nurse with the 7th pick. That's why Gillis said when asked why he didn't take Edmontons better offer, "We wanted to get into the top ten." It was probably the Oilers 2014 1st round pick, a 2nd, and Marincin. All that wasn't good enough to Gillis and he figured Horvat alone coming out of a top ten pick was better. He was right.

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That doesn't entirely make sense, I believe the negotiations for Schneider began after the Oilers had already taken Nurse with the 7th pick.

Wrong. The deal was made the night before the draft. They just agreed to wait for the draft(was in new jersey and if they didn't have a pick people might not have come)
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By now, it’s common knowledge the Canucks offered Cory Schneider to the Oil for a package consisting of the seventh overall pick, a second-rounder and Martin Marincin.

Mac-T had to think long and hard over that one.

But he came back to Vancouver and declined, saying:

“My goalie coach says Dubnyk is going to be a star.”

The Gilly response to Mac-T: “You’re going to be firing your goalie coach.”

Well, technically the goalie coach was right. Dubnyk had a fantastic year last season, wasn't he a Vezina finalist? Schneids has yet to do that. Honestly, I doubt Schneids would have done much better in Edmonton with that team and defence.

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Gillis did pretty good with the goalie situation in hindsight. The Luongo contract screwed him, and he has to take part of the blame for that (the other part going to the NHL for changing cap rules). But, he turned Schneider into Horvat, and Luongo into Markstrom. Markstrom has the potential to be a great starter, and Horvat is already proving his potential as a solid two way centre who brings it every night he plays.

I'd say MG did a very not-poor job with the goalie situation.

The return was fine and I'm huge Horvat fanboy, but the drama that overshadowed the team at the time was horrible. A year after a SCF the Canucks couldn't even make it to the 7th game of the 1st round, and not only did Luongo want out, then Kesler did too. Torts brought it all crashing down, but it was definitely building up before him.

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