Confirmed Trade: [VAN/COL] Tucker Poolman (20% retained) and 2025 4th round pick for D Erik Brannstrom

[Canucks LB]

Welcome to Vancouver Canucks fans

Do you know what’s fascinating, I can already predict who types what posts on these websites without actually reading their names, quite a talent.

Pierce you are one of a kind

 

[Rowlet]

Considering it was the same product as we saw for years in Ottawa... The rest of us know how dumb a number of you in this thread will look in a few weeks time.

Nobody is saying he's the next Hughes, the overwhelming sentiment is that he's been good as a bottom pairing D man.

He has played very curated minutes. Not anywhere close to #5 D.

He will be reassigned to the minors or back on waivers before the end of the season. A lot of people will be confused and claim that the Canucks are wrong for not keeping him.

I have seen this story 1000 times with multiple defenseman who get the kind of deployment Brannstrom is getting, where people overrate their performance without accounting for deployment.

He's carrying the bottom pairing, that means he's playing like a #5.

All bottom pairing D get sheltered minutes, if they didn't they'd be top 4D.

 

[beardo]

Yall need to chill, the takeaway here is he has elevated our bottom pairing and that has translated to more depth scoring. A welcome change considering how Forbort and VD as a pair looked early on. He is an RFA cost controlled and due a small raise, if he can keep this up it is found money as the pick sent to Colorado was around the going rate to dump poolmans cap hit.

 

[Andy Dufresne]

Considering it was the same product as we saw for years in Ottawa... The rest of us know how dumb a number of you in this thread will look in a few weeks time.

Sure, sure. All the Colorado fans in this thread have been intensely watching Ottawa games for years. Just in case one of their bottom pairing d-men becomes a ufa and signs with the Avs. Uh-huh.

Funny though- Sens fans have much more nuanced, and sometimes contradictory, takes on this player. Almost like they watched him for longer than one camp.

 

[Breakers]

They need 150 minutes together to label it a success of a pairing.