Guest Posted July 5, 2022 Share Posted July 5, 2022 Picture this, Shane Wright, Slavkovsky, and Logan Cooley go 1-2-3. Seattle takes Simon Nemec at 4. Then in a slight reach both Columbus and Philly go for a center in taking Savoie and Cutter Gauthier. Suddenly Ottawa is on the clock and we see Gary Bettman come to the stage, showered by boos from the raucous Montreal crowd. To Ottawa: Bo Horvat 15th overall pick To Vancouver: 7th overall pick Zach Ostapchuk (19 year old center prospect from Vancouver Giants) Dylan Gambrell (25 year old center) We use the 7th overall pick to take David Jiricek, the 6'3 right d-man that's in everyone's top 10 list. Zach Ostapchuk gives us a very good center prospect that's also 6'3 and had excellent WHL playoffs. Dylan Gambrell is a center who battles for a 3rd/4th line spot on the roster, needless to say a big downgrade from Bo Horvat. Bo Horvat then signs a long term extension with Ottawa that takes him close to home and gives them a legitimate top 6 forward who can be 2nd line center for them until 2-3 years down the line Tim Stutzle or Josh Norris are ready to take over. Ottawa is closer to being a playoff team and still has an excellent 21 year old center prospect in Shane Pinto. Vancouver walks away weaker in the faceoff circle and with an opportunity for someone new to take the bumper spot on the power play. Our cap situation is solved this year and in the future, and we can sign JT to a significant 6 year extension to be our number 1 center/new captain. We get a potential top pairing RD, an excellent center prospect, and a stop gap in our lineup until we find a better center solution in the future. We have about 9 million in cap space to re-sign Highmore and Lammikko and potentially try and take advantage of a cap-strapped team later in the summer/season. Flame away! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drakrami Posted July 5, 2022 Share Posted July 5, 2022 If we are trading Horvat I'd rather get another 1st instead of moving up 8 spots. Tons of Dmen drafted #15-25 and do well. Styzle and Norris is already taking over. This is why you dont retool, you rebuild. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nuxfanabroad Posted July 5, 2022 Share Posted July 5, 2022 Bold, decent proposal, VH. Have been pondering a few Bo moves myself. Maybe when talking to teams out east, they should take Bo/JT offers simultaneously? Inform suitors that likely one(not both) will be moved. Ensure a young C is part of any incoming pkg. Rags, Canes, Wash, Bos, Philly..could see a list of teams being interested in both C's. Got a feeling we could pry that 7 OA from OTT in a Garland pkg. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownUndaCanuck Posted July 5, 2022 Share Posted July 5, 2022 I understand the hype of the draft and a RD prospect in the top 10 but it makes no sense to go after him for the rest of the team. The kid will be 18 next year, probably take 2-3 years to become a 20 minute defenceman and at that point our core is getting older. He would fit with Petey and Hughes but suddenly Demko is nearly 30, Miller is in his early 30s, Myers will hopefully be gone but OEL will still be playing at 33-34. JR said we want to find players around the 25 year old mark to complement this team, not rebuild in patches, because we'll just end up with a bunch of kids hitting their primes at different times and become very disjointed as a team. No to trading Bo anyway, but if we were it should be for a top young defenceman who can slot in right away and hit 20+ minutes with Hughes. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-AJ- Posted July 5, 2022 Share Posted July 5, 2022 I am not a fan of trading Horvat, but I do really love Ostapchuk. I watched him in the playoffs and he actually reminded me a bit of Horvat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elias Pettersson Posted July 5, 2022 Share Posted July 5, 2022 BO just had another kid. I'm sure he considers Vancouver his home now. I'd rather move Miller than our captain. Also, JR said he likes BO and wants him to be here. He's the perfect 2C behind Petey. 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alflives Posted July 5, 2022 Share Posted July 5, 2022 I think Bo’s value is that return by himself. Then we trade Miller too at the 2023 TDL, and it’s a super tankeroo! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rawkdrummer Posted July 5, 2022 Share Posted July 5, 2022 No thanks 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IBatch Posted July 5, 2022 Share Posted July 5, 2022 If Horvat won't sign then sure let's trade him and this would be a decent return. However think we sign him. Preferably we just ice a better team year after year - get that could take some "re-tooling" of the rebuild. Don't think we need to trade our 15th as well if Horvat is game going to OTT. Personally think he'd rather go to TO though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wildcam Posted July 5, 2022 Share Posted July 5, 2022 8 hours ago, VancouverHabitant said: Picture this, Shane Wright, Slavkovsky, and Logan Cooley go 1-2-3. Seattle takes Simon Nemec at 4. Then in a slight reach both Columbus and Philly go for a center in taking Savoie and Cutter Gauthier. Suddenly Ottawa is on the clock and we see Gary Bettman come to the stage, showered by boos from the raucous Montreal crowd. To Ottawa: Bo Horvat 15th overall pick To Vancouver: 7th overall pick Zach Ostapchuk (19 year old center prospect from Vancouver Giants) Dylan Gambrell (25 year old center) We use the 7th overall pick to take David Jiricek, the 6'3 right d-man that's in everyone's top 10 list. Zach Ostapchuk gives us a very good center prospect that's also 6'3 and had excellent WHL playoffs. Dylan Gambrell is a center who battles for a 3rd/4th line spot on the roster, needless to say a big downgrade from Bo Horvat. Bo Horvat then signs a long term extension with Ottawa that takes him close to home and gives them a legitimate top 6 forward who can be 2nd line center for them until 2-3 years down the line Tim Stutzle or Josh Norris are ready to take over. Ottawa is closer to being a playoff team and still has an excellent 21 year old center prospect in Shane Pinto. Vancouver walks away weaker in the faceoff circle and with an opportunity for someone new to take the bumper spot on the power play. Our cap situation is solved this year and in the future, and we can sign JT to a significant 6 year extension to be our number 1 center/new captain. We get a potential top pairing RD, an excellent center prospect, and a stop gap in our lineup until we find a better center solution in the future. We have about 9 million in cap space to re-sign Highmore and Lammikko and potentially try and take advantage of a cap-strapped team later in the summer/season. Flame away! Horvat will sign new deal in Vancouver before August 1st -- 7 years X 6.8 AAV Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hairy Kneel Posted July 5, 2022 Share Posted July 5, 2022 Swapping first rounders? With Bo? No way. A swap of firsts with them should be worth Podz and a pick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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