Confirmed Trade: [EDM/VAN] Vasily Podkolzin for OTT '25 4th

[Seachd]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1825303766578704423

https://x.com/i/web/status/1825302952149459194

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[KeithIsActuallyBad]

Uh, okay.

 

[Taro Tsujimoto]

The fourth rounder was originally Ottawa's.

https://x.com/i/web/status/1825302952149459194

 

[bleedblue1223]

Holloway replacement?

 

[Mrfenn92]

A bit surprising by Vancouver here

 

[Canucks LB]

Really really interesting, I wonder what the Canucks are cooking up here

 

[StrompTroller]

Goodbye Holloway

 

[Canucks LB]

Pod should do well in edmonton, extremely likeable guy, hard worker, has not found his foot in nhl

 

[HockeyVirus]

If they match that Broberg contract and then he sucks as he has before it would be peak entertainment

 

[LemonSauceD]

bro wtf

 

[Josepho]

A bit surprising by Vancouver here

Only surprising thing is the team they traded him to

 

[CanadienShark]

Holloway is gone.

 

[Vitto79]

Holloway replacement?

Sure looks like it ?

 

[Michoulicious]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1825303766578704423

https://x.com/i/web/status/1825302952149459194

What a fall from grace for a top 10 pick, my gosh.

 

[Mrfenn92]

Only surprising thing is the team they traded him to

I mean they extended vlad in season last year.

 

[StickShift]

Podkolzin showed such glimmer when he first made the NHL—but the offense just fizzled. His near term ceiling with the Canucks was likely 4th-line energy forward.

 

[Phrasing]

Why Canucks or Oilers make this trade is confusing.

 

[Canucks LB]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1825305770910527905

It’s Ottawa fourth rounder

 

[ScottishCanuck]

I don’t get this.

 

[MarkusNaslund19]

I'm not in love with this.

I was bullish on Podkolzin.

He doesn't look like he's likely got top 6 chops at this point, unless he's got perfect chemistry with someone.
But his off puck hockey sense, his small space plays (chipping it to a teammate in space, tying a guy up so his teammate can get it), his tenacity, and his raw tools of size, speed, and shot make me feel like he's still got potential to be a useful player.

With that said, I looked at our roster and really couldn't see where he would fit and wondered what would happen. I guess now I know.

It's probably not a bad move in terms of the other players we have. Kiefer Sherwood, Nils Hoglander, even Arshdeep Bains have shown more NHL potential in the last couple of years.

Podkolzin seems to have really mercurial confidence and when he's low confidence it seems like he processes the game really slowly. If he can't move past that, he's a 4th line/scratch tweener. But it's possible the Oilers have gotten a decent replacement for what Holloway has shown so far (Holloway has higher potential at this point one would think).

 

[Spawn]

Sounds like there’s your answer as to Holloway.

 

[Gaylord Q Tinkledink]

Guy isn't very good.

 

[nerevarine]

Unbelievable steal by edmonton, what is vancouver doing?

 

[BWJM]

Hopefully the Canucks are cooking up something else, or I’m a little confused on this one.

 

[Josepho]

I mean they extended vlad in season last year.

No team is going to openly get rid of someone when they still think the player has value and don't know how their lineup is going to look in the next season.

After all the forward signings in UFA he seemed like the odd man out.