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

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Podzilla has been unreal in Edm.

Just a hound on pucks.

He's a beauty!

Ya it sounds like Oilers are pretty happy with him even though his offensive production isn't there. I wonder if he will eventually get some more PK time.

 

[VanJack]

Ya it sounds like Oilers are pretty happy with him even though his offensive production isn't there. I wonder if he will eventually get some more PK time.

Still struggling to understand why Allvin gave up on Podkolzin.....I mean surely the guy brings as much or more to the table than the likes of Di Giuseppe, Heinen, Aman, Karlsson or anyone else they kept around.

And before they shipped him out, they'd just signed him to a two-year contract for basically $1m a season.....so he was cheap, this year and next.

Not unlike the team on the ice, Allvin isn't have a very good year either.

 

[BluesyShoes]

Still struggling to understand why Allvin gave up on Podkolzin.....I mean surely the guy brings as much or more to the table than the likes of Di Giuseppe, Heinen, Aman, Karlsson or anyone else they kept around.

And before they shipped him out, they'd just signed him to a two-year contract for basically $1m a season.....so he was cheap, this year and next.

Not unlike the team on the ice, Allvin isn't have a very good year either.

They did him a solid. I'm sure the development staff and coaching staff talked it over with management, and they felt he wasn't going to make the team with all the new acquisitions they got over the summer, i.e. Heinen, Sherwood, DeBrusk, etc. He'd now have to go through waivers to be sent to the AHL, so they'd be lost for nothing should they not make the team.

Could argue that they could have kept Podz over Sprong or something, but they were looking for something specific out of Sprong that Podz wasn't offering. Podz had plenty of opportunity to succeed here, and he didn't seize it.

Why they did him a solid, is that they could have run Podz through camp and then cut him and sent him through waivers, leaving him to be picked up by awful teams in god knows where. Instead, they trade him to a rival within Canada, a short flight away to Edmonton, causing minimal impact on his family. It also so happens Edmonton was absolutely starving for a young, cheap hardworking winger, and probably the best opportunity for Podz to get a footing in the NHL on a top team. And look what has happened, he's playing with Draisaitl and doing well, and will probably have an NHL career now. If they didn't like him as a person, there is no chance they trade him to a rival.

 

[VanJack]

They did him a solid. I'm sure the development staff and coaching staff talked it over with management, and they felt he wasn't going to make the team with all the new acquisitions they got over the summer, i.e. Heinen, Sherwood, DeBrusk, etc. He'd now have to go through waivers to be sent to the AHL, so they'd be lost for nothing should they not make the team.

Could argue that they could have kept Podz over Sprong or something, but they were looking for something specific out of Sprong that Podz wasn't offering. Podz had plenty of opportunity to succeed here, and he didn't seize it.

Why they did him a solid, is that they could have run Podz through camp and then cut him and sent him through waivers, leaving him to be picked up by awful teams in god knows where. Instead, they trade him to a rival within Canada, a short flight away to Edmonton, causing minimal impact on his family. It also so happens Edmonton was absolutely starving for a young, cheap hardworking winger, and probably the best opportunity for Podz to get a footing in the NHL on a top team. And look what has happened, he's playing with Draisaitl and doing well, and will probably have an NHL career now. If they didn't like him as a person, there is no chance they trade him to a rival.

I get your point.....at the start of the season, who knew that their bottom-six forward group would basically implode?

But with the benefit of hindsight, Podz would have been far better than the guys they've had shuttling back and forth down Highway One from Abbotsford to Vancouver. And he'd have certainly brought a lot more to the table than Heinen imo.

But it's a moot point--because they sold 'low' on him. And although he's not moving needle all that much in Edmonton, he's still a regular in a lineup that is far better than the sad-sack Canucks right now.