Garland’s a terrible roster fit. Aho, Jarvis, Teravainen and Necas is arguably too much finesse, by size or playstyle, already.
I think the FO agrees. Look at the forwards they’ve been linked to publicly over the past year: Marchment, Tkachuk, Meier, Lindholm.
As sort of discussed, i certainly wouldn't describe Garland as a "finesse" winger. He's a cranky little munchkin on the ice. Plays with a lot of grit and bite, and does most of his work in traffic areas, particularly around the net.
But i do understand the dilemma when it comes to just raw "size" and where Carolina already have a pretty darn small core up front...outside of Svechnikov and Staal basically.
Sort of compounded by the way i think Rod Bod Man wants his team to play. It's clear they'd like to add a guy with a bit of at least quasi-power-forward attributes to their game to add some beef to that pressure system and forecheck.
But that's where things circle back to JT Miller, who has also been rumored at times as being of potential interest to the Canes. His ability to play Center or Wing also seems like a plus there. He brings the sort of size, bite, and powerful game that would really satisfy what the Canes seem to be looking for. Problem is...with Horvat moved now, i really don't know that the Canucks are even particularly interested in moving JT Miller anymore. He's one of their two competent Centers and it seems clear that they've chosen him over Bo, as part of the core to move forward with.
And outside of that...Canucks don't really have anything that fits the bill. They're quite frankly,
also kind of looking to add some more of that element to balance out the more "finesse" skill they have assembled.
So unless Carolina are just looking to add more offensive scoring talent, full stop...i'm not sure it's as easy a fit as it might have been previously.
Canes need to aim higher than this.
Yeah. Beauvillier is a decent, but slightly overpaid Top-9 Utility winger who can go on the odd hot streak offensively...but he's miles from the sort of impact scorer the Hurricanes need to be looking for. He's just filler...of which the Canes already have a decent amount kicking around. He's also not a big or particularly gritty player at all either, which just compounds that issue again.