Stop making Goldobin sound like a bonafide superstar. He can't even stick up with the big boys on a bad Canucks team. He'll probably be one of those players that moves around alot in his career. As of right now, the trade isn't as bad as you make it sound. Hansen was easily replacable, and that's exactly what we did. It didn't work out for both teams. Oh well.
Him not sticking was a mistake for Vancouver, not shocking based on the state of that team.
Goldobin spent most of his time playing with Horvat. Together they had positive possession stats, positive GF% and were generally decent together. After Horvat, he played with mainly Virtanen and Boeser, both of which he played fine with statistically.
It appears he was absolutely wrecked playing with the Sedins. As I am not a Van fan, I have no idea why/when they decided to take him off of Horvat's line. However he and Sedin's were an absolute train wreck. He played only 70minutes with Henrik Sedin, and they were on the ice for 1 gf and 8 ga. Yikes. Wonder how much that affected his overall stats.
Horvat primarily played with Boeser and Baertschi. That line looked something like this:
CF% 47.78
FF% 45.48
SF% 47.63
GF% 57.14
HDCF% 47.00
HDGF% 57.14
On Ice SH% 10.60
SV% 92.77
PDO 1.034
ZS% 61.13
So outside of GF% they were not great as a line, with very easy zone starts, and slightly unsustainable PDO. Not great
Add Goldobin to Horvat/Boeser :
CF% 57.02
FF% 57.29
SF% 57.97
GF% 50.00
HDCF% 54.55
HDGF% 100.00
On Ice SH% 7.50
SV% 89.66
PDO .972
ZS% 50.00
That line was leaps and bounds better together. Outside of GF% they were better in every way. They were dominating possession, in harder zone starts, with worse goaltending and lower SH%. Their PDO being so low also shows that line was due for an uptick in production.
Also Horvat's numbers generally were better with Goldobin than without, so its not like that pairing was a one way street with Goldobin dragging Horvat down to prop Goldobin up.
I have no idea what happened during the year that stopped Goldobin from being on Horvat's line, but at the absolute least, he was a better linemate for Horvat/Boeser than Baertschi was, yet Goldobin only got 38 games, while Baertschi got 53.
Goldobin may never be a star, but he was not so bad that he should not have even been playing on the Canucks.