DeNiro Posted April 12, 2021 Share Posted April 12, 2021 What a strange deadline that didn’t accomplish anything positive except freeing up some contracts for expansion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewbieCanuckFan Posted April 12, 2021 Share Posted April 12, 2021 Just now, aGENT said: Calling Gaudette a centre is also a bit of a stretch I know he sucked there but he was the "best" available option left (which says alot more about our depth there than anything else). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Maniwaki Canuck Posted April 12, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted April 12, 2021 Two takeaways here: (1) Gaudette doesn't have much value on the market. Other teams have scouts and notice the same defects in his game that our management has. (2) Benning wasn't willing to wait for Gaudette to rebuild the value he may have had at the end of last year. Whether it's covid, some other issue in the room, the expansion draft, or just a negative assessment of Gaudette's future as an NHL player, something forced Benning's hand. I think those posters who bring up Shinkaruk for Granlund have a point. 1 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dats hockey Posted April 12, 2021 Share Posted April 12, 2021 1 hour ago, tas said: moving tweeners for guys who fit a role makes perfect sense. gaudette isn't top 6 and isn't bottom 6. he should be in europe. same with virtanen. Did you base that off just this season? Look at last season you know the one not impacted by covid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vinny in Vancouver Posted April 12, 2021 Share Posted April 12, 2021 Fwiw, just visited the Blackhawks forum (and will be taking a full bath shortly), but apparently, Gaudette will be one of the players that will proabably be exposed in the expansion draft. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UFCanuck Posted April 12, 2021 Share Posted April 12, 2021 Hockey Gaud's cellies are worth a first. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awalk Posted April 12, 2021 Share Posted April 12, 2021 2 hours ago, PhillipBlunt said: e-1 e-GADS MARTY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McBackup Posted April 12, 2021 Share Posted April 12, 2021 4 minutes ago, 6of1_halfdozenofother said: Maybe Jim Benning (and Stan Bowman) was trolling the fanbase and the actual deal was AG + 4rd for Bowey, Highmore, + 5rd, but he purposely announced them separately in as slanted a way possible to evoke the largest triggered response. Not really wise to provoke a rabid mob that's already calling for your job Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nuxfanabroad Posted April 12, 2021 Share Posted April 12, 2021 Just awoke to this news. Dealt Gaudette? As Ol' Blue Eyes used to sing.."Ain't that a kick in the head?" ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhillipBlunt Posted April 12, 2021 Share Posted April 12, 2021 1 minute ago, awalk said: e-GADS MARTY 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VforVasili Posted April 12, 2021 Share Posted April 12, 2021 51 minutes ago, hammertime said: Canucks weren't gonna re sign him so they got something instead of nothing. Clearing out a Judd pick. I see no other reasons to do this trade. Bingo. Imagine the usual refrain of "why did Benning let x player go for nothing!" if he didn't take what was available in this depressed market. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Vintage Canuck- Posted April 12, 2021 Author Share Posted April 12, 2021 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twilight Sparkle Posted April 12, 2021 Share Posted April 12, 2021 gave the team corona got traded for his troubles. bye ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VforVasili Posted April 12, 2021 Share Posted April 12, 2021 40 minutes ago, 189lb enforcers? said: Shhh, someone might hear you having an opinion... Whisper it to me, or it may cost you your career. The New Normal... insert sheep sounds for effect, or possibly an Orwell quote-prophecy. Orwell didn't say it, but you do bring to mind a quote: "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt." Please keep your neocon buzzwords out of a hockey thread. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alienhuggyflow Posted April 12, 2021 Share Posted April 12, 2021 29 minutes ago, 189lb enforcers? said: I give him credit for playing at 172lbs with low energy levels. Anyone who plays sports should immediately understand how useless you feel when playing even just with the flu. The kid did ok in my books, considering. Don’t really mind/hate the trade as much as I do the return commodity, which is arguably the second most easily ascertained value out there, next to one-dimensional, smallish soft skill. I’d rather he was traded for toughness or something the organization lacks. I think JB just made a hole. All will need to go well to see AGs hole filled within. Sound like Canucks Luck?? So he's had this issue since college, had a career year last season then has his worst season after finding a treatment, seems like that wasn't much of an issue on ice. As someone who has colitis and suffers from several stomach issues that have led to a feeding tube AG's sounded simply a weight issue, doesn't sound like he was in a lot of pain nor did it hold him back in hockey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RakuRaku Posted April 12, 2021 Share Posted April 12, 2021 I saw somebody tweet that we have been coveting Highmore for 4 years now... geez.. that sounds awfully familiar!! but seriously.... is he better than Boyd or Vesey?? If not... it's just a move for Utica! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RakuRaku Posted April 12, 2021 Share Posted April 12, 2021 16 minutes ago, Twilight Sparkle said: gave the team corona got traded for his troubles. bye ! Yup!! That was pretty much it... quite fair to be honest.. and I'm sure he's happy to join a rebuilding and improving Blackhawks team! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
189lb enforcers? Posted April 12, 2021 Share Posted April 12, 2021 4 minutes ago, Alienhuggyflow said: So he's had this issue since college, had a career year last season then has his worst season after finding a treatment, seems like that wasn't much of an issue on ice. As someone who has colitis and suffers from several stomach issues that have led to a feeding tube AG's sounded simply a weight issue, doesn't sound like he was in a lot of pain nor did it hold him back in hockey. Meh, subjective exchanges are down this road for us. Respectfully, I don’t think there is value in comparing an NHL shift and AG’s medical issues to whatever you’re likely conflating yours with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spook007 Posted April 12, 2021 Share Posted April 12, 2021 2 hours ago, SID.IS.SID.ME.IS.ME said: Chicago HC Colliton’s take on Highmore (from 2020): “Highmore is a perfect example,” Colliton said after the season. “He doesn’t play 25 shifts in a game, but the shifts he gets he knows exactly what he’s supposed to do. He goes out there, he does it 100 miles an hour, he doesn’t cheat, he wins 50-50s, he advances the puck, he gets it in, he goes to the net. That line scored three or four goals at least in the series playing against top-line competition. It’s just because he’s willing to do the right thing. I thought the other guys did too, and then he gets off. He doesn’t extend his shift, he doesn’t hang around in the offensive zone hoping to get a goal or get a second assist or get a plus (rating). If he started in D-zone, gets it out of D-zone, gets it in and 35 seconds in the alarm bells are going off in his head that he’s got to get off so that Patrick Kane can step off in a good spot, maybe playing against tired guys or in the offensive zone or on an offensive zone faceoff. We need more of that, we need it up and down the lineup.” https://www.google.ca/amp/s/theathletic.com/1790389/2020/08/27/ranking-the-blackhawks-top-40-prospects/%3famp Sounds really good actually... Thanks SID 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RakuRaku Posted April 12, 2021 Share Posted April 12, 2021 18 minutes ago, -Vintage Canuck- said: Sounded like another Tyler Motte project to me.... I think MacEwen should worry for his job now... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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