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This is a guy I'm surprised hasn't "made it" yet. He was fantastic at the World Championships last year. But maybe he just can't handle the pace at the NHL level.

 

Maybe he would be an upgrade on Burroughs? But don't think he kills penalties, so not really what we need in another LD.

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11 minutes ago, D-Money said:

This is a guy I'm surprised hasn't "made it" yet. He was fantastic at the World Championships last year. But maybe he just can't handle the pace at the NHL level.

 

Maybe he would be an upgrade on Burroughs? But don't think he kills penalties, so not really what we need in another LD.

if he doesn't kill any penalties then no. 

 

and we've got enough LD, we need a RD. when is one of those guys going to get on waivers /s

 

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I said this last time, but I would put a claim in and waive Hunt.

 

Guy is a former D partner of Poolman at UND (would make a good bottom pairing rn), former teammate of Boeser. Hasn't played a lot of hockey the past two years, but looked like a solid NHLer in 2018-2019. Canucks could actually use a LHD right now. Decent size, decent underlying #s/Corsi except for his tiny sample with Buffalo this year.

 

Hunt was brought in to be a star in Abbotsford and isn't a dependable 3rd pairing guy. He's not needed on either Canucks PP unit and isn't playing at all.

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10 minutes ago, N4ZZY said:

if he doesn't kill any penalties then no. 

 

and we've got enough LD, we need a RD. when is one of those guys going to get on waivers /s

 

We need good RHD as our line up currently has 4 RHD playing... Schenn, Burroughs, Myers and Poolman. 5 if you count Hamonic when he can play

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21 minutes ago, D-Money said:

This is a guy I'm surprised hasn't "made it" yet. He was fantastic at the World Championships last year. But maybe he just can't handle the pace at the NHL level.

 

Maybe he would be an upgrade on Burroughs? But don't think he kills penalties, so not really what we need in another LD.

Thinking more of an upgrade on depth over Hunt

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1 hour ago, King Heffy said:

He can't possibly be worse than Hunt.

Well.. to be fair, there are a lot of positives too with Hunt...

 

1) He's a local boy

2) He's got experience in PP, decent shot from the point

3) He can skate faster than Chiasson

4) Only making $750k 

5) All of the above...

 

So, let's not trash him over and over again... after all, it was JB who lured him here!! -_-

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Just now, RakuRaku said:

Well.. to be fair, there are a lot of positives too with Hunt...

 

1) He's a local boy

2) He's got experience in PP, decent shot from the point

3) He can skate faster than Chiasson

4) Only making $750k 

5) All of the above...

 

So, let's not trash him over and over again... after all, it was JB who lured him here!! -_-

All useless when he is compete trash in his own zone.

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To be honest, I don't see how Wolanin's the answer. All I'm reading here is people want him mostly because he's a BC boy.... which is just a terrible way of making a team in my opinion. lol

 

Yet, this seems to happen with almost every BC boy that shows up on waivers or gets trade talks on: people somehow thinking geography makes a player better (it doesn't).

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2 minutes ago, The Lock said:

To be honest, I don't see how Wolanin's the answer. All I'm reading here is people want him mostly because he's a BC boy.... which is just a terrible way of making a team in my opinion. lol

 

Yet, this seems to happen with almost every BC boy that shows up on waivers or gets trade talks on: people somehow thinking geography makes a player better (it doesn't).

No one is saying he's great, just that he's better than a liability who can't manage limited minutes in an emergency situation.

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