Confirmed with Link: Canucks Trade W Vasily Podkolzin to Oilers for 2025 4th (OTT)

[F A N]

F A N said it, so it must be true.

I'm pretty sure Robert's post wasn't directed at me.

 

[F A N]

Hard to believe Benning ever had the rope to blow 3 of 5 top 10 picks, and trade another.

Instead of getting credit for Hughes and EP40, people should just be thankful he didn't blow or deal those picks too.

I don't see why a GM wouldn't own his entire draft record with the exception of his first year where a new GM wouldn't typically get a chance to provide instructions and guidance to his scouts and change the personnell if needed. Ultimately it's his draft record.

Podkolzin was a reasonable pick. One that they got wrong (with Boldy sitting there). I don't blame them for not picking Caulfield if they had size concerns. There was and is zero indication that Brackett favoured or pushed for Boldy, a player that one would assume Brackett would be very familiar with given his MA roots.

 

[Curm]

I don't see why a GM wouldn't own his entire draft record with the exception of his first year where a new GM wouldn't typically get a chance to provide instructions and guidance to his scouts and change the personnell if needed. Ultimately it's his draft record.

Podkolzin was a reasonable pick. One that they got wrong (with Boldy sitting there). I don't blame them for not picking Caulfield if they had size concerns. There was and is zero indication that Brackett favoured or pushed for Boldy, a player that one would assume Brackett would be very familiar with given his MA roots.

I have no idea what Brackett's role was with the pick, but Boldy seemed to be a name connected to the Canucks around that time. Maybe they liked him, maybe it was that he was forecasted to be selected near where they were picking. It was a major miss, though.

 

[ManVanFan]

2019 draft had a lot of misses. Boldy, York, Caufield, Harley, McMichael (this year), might be the only players in the first that are that much better than Podz.

I was very up for trading down and picking Harley or Pinto in the late teens early 20s

 

[tantalum]

I don't see why a GM wouldn't own his entire draft record with the exception of his first year where a new GM wouldn't typically get a chance to provide instructions and guidance to his scouts and change the personnell if needed. Ultimately it's his draft record.

In general ya you give the first year a pass as often a new GM hired at the start of the off season is forbidden from participating in that draft as a condition of the hire. Interestingly, Benning was not forbidden AND he was coming from a role where he was the guy putting together the draft stuff for the Bruins. It's a case where a GM does get to own that first draft as he was able to use his knowledge and prioritization from his previous job if he so wanted. And I think he did on the Virtanen pick.

But that's completely an aside....

 

[Jyrki21]

I have no idea what Brackett's role was with the pick, but Boldy seemed to be a name connected to the Canucks around that time. Maybe they liked him, maybe it was that he was forecasted to be selected near where they were picking. It was a major miss, though.

I think Boldy's name came up more in projections on this site (and possibly others) than from rumors of actual interest.

Podkolzin, from what I understand, was a rare Brackett miss. I think he's been reported as pushing for him.