Seachd
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Confirmed Trade: [EDM/VAN] Vasily Podkolzin for OTT '25 4th
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KeithIsActuallyBad
SPEEN!
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bleedblue1223
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Canucks LB
My Favourite, Gone too soon, RIP Luc, We miss you
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Really really interesting, I wonder what the Canucks are cooking up here
Canucks LB
My Favourite, Gone too soon, RIP Luc, We miss you
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Pod should do well in edmonton, extremely likeable guy, hard worker, has not found his foot in nhl
HockeyVirus
Woll stan.
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If they match that Broberg contract and then he sucks as he has before it would be peak entertainment
Josepho
i want the bartkowski thread back
Only surprising thing is the team they traded him to
CanadienShark
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What a fall from grace for a top 10 pick, my gosh.
StickShift
In a pickle 🥒
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.
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MarkusNaslund19
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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).
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).
Gaylord Q Tinkledink
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Unbelievable steal by edmonton, what is vancouver doing?
BWJM
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Hopefully the Canucks are cooking up something else, or I’m a little confused on this one.
Josepho
i want the bartkowski thread back
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.
