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

[strattonius]

You guys are getting sentimental.

The timing of the trade tells you all you need to know. They were planning on passing him through waivers and hoping he wouldn't get grabbed - better to get something in return. No future here and not a lot of faith on Podkolzin finding a new gear.

His peak is a 4th liner for 3 years in my mind. Offensive IQ and the pace he processes the game in general just didn't give Podkolzin much of a ceiling. But maybe I'm being harsh I hated this pick since that draft day.

 

[Tact]

How much cap do we have now?

 

[SopelFanThe3rd]

I imagine they will carry PDG, Aman, Juulsen and Friedman as extras now.

I think PDG and Aman won out cuz they PK and Aman is a C.

 

[AlainVigneaultsGum]

Weird.

Better than losing him for nothing.

 

[Deeds26]

How much cap do we have now?

Just over $1 million with 13 forwards and 7 defence. It's more like just over $200K if they want a full roster of 13 forwards and 8 defence.

Next step is to move Poolman out to clear up 2.5M

 

[Kryten]

Weird but probably for the best. Always rooted for him but will likely be out of the league soon. Another Benning stank gone

 

[krutovsdonut]

i has a sad

 

[arttk]

You guys are getting sentimental.

The timing of the trade tells you all you need to know. They were planning on passing him through waivers and hoping he wouldn't get grabbed - better to get something in return. No future here and not a lot of faith on Podkolzin finding a new gear.

His peak is a 4th liner for 3 years in my mind. Offensive IQ and the pace he processes the game in general just didn't give Podkolzin much of a ceiling. But maybe I'm being harsh I hated this pick since that draft day.

I think it’s natural to be sentimental about our 1st rounders

 

[bbud]

You guys are getting sentimental.

The timing of the trade tells you all you need to know. They were planning on passing him through waivers and hoping he wouldn't get grabbed - better to get something in return. No future here and not a lot of faith on Podkolzin finding a new gear.

His peak is a 4th liner for 3 years in my mind. Offensive IQ and the pace he processes the game in general just didn't give Podkolzin much of a ceiling. But maybe I'm being harsh I hated this pick since that draft day.

Liked him early but he just didn't get his game to nhl level consistently has the size and tools like many didnt make that next step wish him well.
Need cap for guys that can play and moves later

 

[quat]

I've been pretty consistently incorrect about this management team. so I've become a more "wait and see" fan. When he signed the contract, I thought it suggested they saw some promise for Podz, but clearly that wasn't the case.

As others have pointed out, there's definitely attachment issues for me with this one. I'd like to wish him well, but dam ... on the Oilers? That's a hard one. I sure didn't find myself cheering for Troy.

It's difficult to watch so many high draft picks completely flame out, Benning picks or not. I can't think of a time where the Canucks drafted so high consistently, and yet the results were generally as bad as ever. My god those were dark years.

 

[Raistlin]

I am sad. Guy is so likeable. To be traded for a 4th means a massively reduced chance to stick in the big show over here. In the end he was left under Valeri Bragin for too long, all the creativity was squeezed out of him in order for him to conform and earn minutes.

 

[krutovsdonut]

i am surprised at this. he got the pouliot fourth mid-summer. a full punt after last season.

i thought he'd get one more camp. i wonder if they are dissatisfied with his offseason training approach. or maybe he did or said something that makes him oiler worthy.

 

[VanillaCoke]

This trade is a big win for the canucks and if you don't think so you should pass it to the left.

Podkolzin has been a complete bust for atleast two years and any hope of a breakout coming at any time is oiler fan level copium.

He's probably not an NHL player but at best an easily replaceable no offense energy fourth liner, whom we were going to lose for nothing in six weeks because he's not good enough at anything to make the team. He sucks and as nhl coach of the year said, doesn't have the IQ to make it in the nhl.

Clearly mgmt has had him available atleast all summer with zero interest, it's only because edms in a bind we got a rather decent pick, half a dozen better players than pod will be on waivers in eight weeks.
Smart of management to get out in front.

 

[Just A Bit Outside]

Pod will figure it out at 26 and people will complain.

 

[Hit the post]

Pod will figure it out at 26 and people will complain.

Kiril Kolstov will eventually return to the NHL as well.

 

[Andy Dufresne]

This trade is a big win for the canucks and if you don't think so you should pass it to the left.

Podkolzin has been a complete bust for atleast two years and any hope of a breakout coming at any time is oiler fan level copium.

He's probably not an NHL player but at best an easily replaceable no offense energy fourth liner, whom we were going to lose for nothing in six weeks because he's not good enough at anything to make the team. He sucks and as nhl coach of the year said, doesn't have the IQ to make it in the nhl.

Clearly mgmt has had him available atleast all summer with zero interest, it's only because edms in a bind we got a rather decent pick, half a dozen better players than pod will be on waivers in eight weeks.
Smart of management to get out in front.

A big win??? Lol
It's a 4th round pick...4th!!!
His contract was completely buriable too so no gain there.

 

[Tables of Stats]

Kiril Kolstov will eventually return to the NHL as well.

Chubarov will be back for his car too!

 

[WetcoastOrca]

Pod will figure it out at 26 and people will complain.

It’s possible but also extremely unlikely. In the meantime what do we do with him for the next 3 years. He needs to clear waivers this year and Edmonton would certainly claim him for free.

 

[Tables of Stats]

A big win??? Lol
It's a 4th round pick...4th!!!
His contract was completely buriable too so no gain there.

Okay, so what happens if we waive him and he's claimed and we get nothing?

 

[thecupismine]

Writing was on the wall with all the depth signings, there was close to zero chance he made the roster unless he pulled a Hoglander in training camp.

Sucks seeing him go to Edmonton, but getting something for him when he was likely waiver wire fodder is more than I expected. If he didn’t have top 10 pedigree there’s no shot we get anything for him.

 

[Quinton Byfield]

Look at it this way, Karlsson, Bains, Raty, and Sasson are all better prospects at this point.

Kravtsov was traded for a 7th round pick as a former 9th overall one draft year removed from Pod’s.

Middle 6 players can be signed at low cap dollars in FA every year.

Sucks he didn’t work out, but poor drafting led to this. Better a 4th now than waiver fodder this time next year.

 

[VanillaCoke]

A big win??? Lol
It's a 4th round pick...4th!!!
His contract was completely buriable too so no gain there.

Did you read/comprehend the rest of the post and apply any context or just react to buzz words?!

A top 100 ish pick is a big win compared with nothing at all in less than two months..

Replacement level healthy scratch fringe fourth liners not projected to make the roster are worth nothing, getting a fourth and not a fifth or seventh or lost on waivers is contextually a big win.

Nobody should be upset by this trade in the least.

 

[Andy Dufresne]

Okay, so what happens if we waive him and he's claimed and we get nothing?

We don't have to watch him play for the fing oilers!
Also we won't have potentially done the oilers a favour.

 

[arttk]

It’s possible but also extremely unlikely. In the meantime what do we do with him for the next 3 years. He needs to clear waivers this year and Edmonton would certainly claim him for free.

There is also a possibility that the Oilers end up waiving him too.

 

[VanJack]

My gawd the previous regime just sucked at drafting players. So Podkolzin is gone; and it's likely that the last few drafts of the Benning era, Jett Woo and Danila Klimovich, will soon follow.

You don't trade a former first round, top-10 pick like Podkiolzin to a division rival, unless you're convinced he doesn't have a chance to make your club in training camp and you'll lose him on waivers. So I guess a fourth rounder is better than nothing.

But does open the door, at least a crack, for someone like Bains, Raty, Karlsson or even Lekkerimaki to stick with the big club.