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[VanillaCoke]

Good news is after the road trip and four or five game losing streak, Rutherford is sure to make something happen 100%.




Myers, soucy, juulsen, Heinen, Miller, Boeser, Suter, hog, forbort, Desharnais.

Atleast Four of the above need to be gone to greener pastures, need new energy.

 

[valkynax]

 

[iFan]

Gotta wonder when management starts making moves, this season hasn’t been good at all. Our D is terrible and we don’t have the pieces to fix it without opening up holes in the top 6. It really feels like a incoming rebuild, which I thought we just got out of?

 

[SelltheTeamFrancesco]

Romanov is a 25 year old top three defenseman that’s physical and skates well and is a RFA this summer, and won’t command a big contract.

What do you think a Brock Boeser rental is worth? He’s not going to get what Horvat was traded for.

No he is not. His number away from Dobson are terrible, when they try to play him in a matchup he really struggles. His underlying number playing are not great. He is a 4/5, in some ways very similar to Zadorov.

 

[VanJack]

As a follower of Canuck futures on HD Boards, I'm torn. One the one hand, if the Canucks hang around in the wildcard race until late March, Allvin will be tempted to blow more assets on rental defensemen.

On the other hand, if they're toast in the playoff race, then it's more likely we see Wilander, Elias Pettersson, Kudryavtsev and maybe even Mynio get some games in Vancouver.

'Hope for the future' is more important than a futile chase for a wildcard spot, which would only see them get annihilated by Vegas in the first round anyway.

 

[Canucks LB]

I think they need a trade just to pump up the team a little bit at least, get some new players and some new energy

 

[David71]

I think they need a trade just to pump up the team a little bit at least, get some new players and some new energy

agreed need some fresh new blood.

Good news is after the road trip and four or five game losing streak, Rutherford is sure to make something happen 100%.




Myers, soucy, juulsen, Heinen, Miller, Boeser, Suter, hog, forbort, Desharnais.

Atleast Four of the above need to be gone to greener pastures, need new energy.

LOSE THEM all.

 

[MarkusNaslund19]

Yeah he's got size, some toughness, and will back an opponent but it doesn't change that he's poor at defending and lazy to defend on top of that. I don't see 5 or 6 years of that being worth whatever he would have added to this D-core this year. I would far rather wait and use that money on a good top 4 player that fits the team moving forward. Zadorov is impatience. Personally I doubt we're much better with him in the line-up.

This 100%.

Would we be better with Zadorov today? Yes. But if we sign him, we are hamstringing ourselves to him for 5 or 6 years based on a good trip to the 2nd round.

He wasn't an indispensable force during the regular season, and we are so starved for playoffs that many of us over emphasize the impact of who was good and who was bad during that time.

Keeping our powder dry was the right call.

that is one way to save face for kypreos i guess. chuckle.

I don't think Kyper's statement necessarily means we were willing to make the move.

I think if the Rangers were thinking of tabling a serious offer, they would need to use his money ideally, and would need to find out whether it was a complete non-starter or not.

I'm also not hell bent against Zibanejad. I mean, if he's the primary asset then obviously not.

But if it was like KAM, Lafrenierre, and Zib for Miller, Hoglander, Desharnais or something built around that (which I doubt) then I'm not hanging up immediately.

Which would be a great reason for Allvin to say "if you want to include Zibby, that door isn't closed, but let us know what it would entail".