Former Canucks Thread 2023-24 Off-Season Edition

[thecupismine]

You are rewriting history and ignoring actual facts. It wasn't till 3 season ago that McCann actual put his shit together and the number 1 D is Gustov? He is not a number 1 D.. he is good but you ignore it took 7 years from his draft year to actual show he was any good. Hawks and Carolina let him go as well. How many teams dud McCann play on before he put solid numbers together?

McCann became a solid middle six player 4 years out from his draft which is reasonable for a late first round pick, and then blossomed into a bona-fide top 6 player in 2020. We gave up on him 2 years after his draft, along with more draft picks, for a replacement level dman because he's "big." That's hardly revisionist history, that's just poor management.

Forsling was traded after a good draft +1 season for a AHL tweener who's numbers had gone down year over year because of the "age gap." The deal made no sense then and looks asinine now.

Thinking Ekblad is the number 1 in Florida right now makes me think you didn't watch much Panthers hockey last year, or aren't particularly good at player evaluation. Forsling is a modern day Mattias Ohlund, guy just eats minutes for the Panthers and wins his matchups much more consistently than Ekblad.

Of course, no one knew back when the deals were made that they would turn out THIS terribly, but the point is these guys were progressing at a reasonable rate & were dealt for negative assets, while we held on forever to stalling/negative assets.

When you have a couple 30%ers, and deal them for 10%ers, that's poor management, regardless of how each panned out.

 

[Jyrki21]

before my time, but i did have a misprinted pro set joe nieuwendyk that they fixed very quickly so it was supposed to be fairly rare

beckett had it listed at $5

and check it out, it’s held its value

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That Pro Set line had a bunch of errors, with the one I remember most being their NJ mixup of Peter Stastny and Patrik Sundström:

 

[F A N]

McCann became a solid middle six player 4 years out from his draft which is reasonable for a late first round pick, and then blossomed into a bona-fide top 6 player in 2020. We gave up on him 2 years after his draft, along with more draft picks, for a replacement level dman because he's "big." That's hardly revisionist history, that's just poor management.

That deal was more nuanced than that though. Gudbranson was a "big" 24 year-old RHD coming off a season where he logged over 26 minutes in the playoffs. Gudbranson didn't improve and wasn't/isn't very good but he clearly brought perceived traits that hoodwinked other GMs including our current POHO. So while we can argue about whether he is "replacement level" he clearly wasn't seen as one or utilized as one. He's clearly enjoyed career where he's been utilized as a #5/#4. Poor pro scouting? Sure. Bad methodology (giving up McCann to acquire a 24 year old RHD coming off a relatively strong playoffs logging over 25 minutes)? Not really.

As for McCann, we kind of knew we were potentially giving up a top 6 player though. It wasn't a situation where we thought that he probably wouldn't make it. Plus if you have to be technical, he was traded for a failed prospect and a 7th round pick and wasn't protected in the expansion draft.

 

[RandV]

That deal was more nuanced than that though. Gudbranson was a "big" 24 year-old RHD coming off a season where he logged over 26 minutes in the playoffs. Gudbranson didn't improve and wasn't/isn't very good but he clearly brought perceived traits that hoodwinked other GMs including our current POHO. So while we can argue about whether he is "replacement level" he clearly wasn't seen as one or utilized as one. He's clearly enjoyed career where he's been utilized as a #5/#4. Poor pro scouting? Sure. Bad methodology (giving up McCann to acquire a 24 year old RHD coming off a relatively strong playoffs logging over 25 minutes)? Not really.

I always like to point out here that this was a 6 game series with a lot of overtime. Just doing a quick double check the top 4 of Ekblad/Campbell/Kulikov/Gudbranson all average over 25 minutes that playoffs. The #5/6 logged 21:41 and 19:55 respectively.

I think the most important thing though is that we could have just resigned Hamhuis, instead of letting him walk for nothing then paying a heft price for Gudbranson.