Confirmed with Link: VAN/COL Poolman (20% retained) + 2025 4th for Erik Brannstrom(Waived)

[Hit the post]

That one's been dealt with though. This was the last one that needed to be cleaned up - IIRC, the only other Benning legacy contracts on the team IIRC are Hughes, Demko, and Garland (and Klimovich, lol)

Nope. We still have Luigi's "legacy" contract we have to put up with.

 

[timw33]

Brannstrom has cleared.

 

[Buresflyingelbow]

Good insurance policy on the farm. With Blais and Brannstrom along with potentially Silovs, Raty, Lekkerimaki, Bains they should be a great team.

 

[VanillaCoke]

Brannstrom in Abby is low key an asset, he's got some tools of an nhler and Ottawa not exactly an ideal development locale.

I'll prob buy tickets to a few Abby games to check out him and our other young guns percolating down there (unlike the oil)

 

[Peen]

honestly we needed a body pretty desperately on the left side. i was hoping for someone who had a little bit of a better chance of being a difference maker, like making a trade for kovacevic in the summer

but for now, this is better than calling up hirose, who sucks, or two 20 y/o rookies.

 

[Vector]

honestly we needed a body pretty desperately on the left side. i was hoping for someone who had a little bit of a better chance of being a difference maker, like making a trade for kovacevic in the summer

but for now, this is better than calling up hirose, who sucks, or two 20 y/o rookies.

Not a Wolanin fan?

 

[Peen]

Not a Wolanin fan?

Forgot he exists, but Tocchet clearly isn't

 

[Ernie]

honestly we needed a body pretty desperately on the left side. i was hoping for someone who had a little bit of a better chance of being a difference maker, like making a trade for kovacevic in the summer

but for now, this is better than calling up hirose, who sucks, or two 20 y/o rookies.

Kovacevic was a 6/7 defenseman on a bottom feeder team at the age of 27 last season. If he has a breakout year, that's great for the Devils, but let's not pretend that he was a sure fire top 4 defenceman that the Canucks whiffed on.

The left side of the defence definitely needs some work still and it's likely one of management's top in-season priorities.

 

[timw33]

Kovacevic was a 6/7 defenseman on a bottom feeder team at the age of 27 last season. If he has a breakout year, that's great for the Devils, but let's not pretend that he was a sure fire top 4 defenceman that the Canucks whiffed on.

The left side of the defence definitely needs some work still and it's likely one of management's top in-season priorities.

And he put up stellar results in 16:30 ATOI, managing to be a team leading +11 on a roster with 22 players with a minus in front of their +/-.

At 766k this is exactly the kind of player you should try to get to extact a ton of surplus value from.

 

[Ernie]

And he put up stellar results in 16:30 ATOI, managing to be a team leading +11 on a roster with 22 players with a minus in front of their +/-.

At 766k this is exactly the kind of player you should try to get to extact a ton of surplus value from.

Sure, in retrospect it was a savvy move that you'd like your team to make, but you can hardly use it as a template when 30 other GM's didn't see the player this way.

+/- is a terrible stat and should never be referenced by anyone.

 

[canuckslover10]

Forgot he exists, but Tocchet clearly isn't

Briesbois too probably gets called up before any of them.

 

[VanJack]

Went back in time and checked out the quotes from Sens GM Pierre Dorion when they acquired Brannstrom from the Golden Knights in exchange for Mark Stone.

Officially the trade was Mark Stone and Tobias Lindberg to the Knights for Erik Brannstrom, Oscar Lindberg and a 2020 second round pick (Egor Sokolov). Yes, an anomaly, that two guys named Lindberg swapped teams.

Of course at his media conference Dorion was waxing poetic about Brannstrom and the offensive catalyst he would bring to the Sens. Talk about a 'nothing trade', at least for Ottawa. The Lindberg's are long gone, out of the league.....and Sokolov lasted a couple of training camps and was traded this off-season to Utah for Jan Jenik.

Brannstrom bounced back forth between the NHL and Belleville, and was a frequent healthy scratch in Ottawa. And of course the Ottawa faithful, never warmed to him since he'd been the key guy coming back in the trade of one of the most popular Senators ever in Stone.

LOL!...in the end, Dorion was the Eastern Conference's version of Jim Benning. So it we're looking at looking at things with 'rose-colored glasses', maybe Brannstrom can replicate the career of Gustav Forsling? Then again, maybe not.