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.

 

[frightenedinmatenum2]

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

Everything is relative. It's an objective truth that he is playing highly curated and managed minutes relative to your average bottom pairing defenseman. 14 minutes a night is nowhere near average bottom pairing minutes, let alone with the kind of hand picked deployment and competition he has faced.

Nothing he has shown is any different from what he brought in Ottawa all these years. He will be back down in the AHL or in the press box pending the health of Vancouver's lineup. Although, they might lose him to waivers if another team has injuries, because as you're seeing in Vancouver now he is a solid pro. He's just one that cannot be trusted to play a big enough role to be an everyday NHLer. Which is why I suspect he's being used in the way he is in Vancouver as per the curated minutes.

He will be out of the NHL by next year because he's a superstar in every other league in the world, and there won't be 1-way money on the table for him.

People do this all the time. Puck moving defenseman look great playing minimal minutes with buttersoft deployment, and people overrate their performance without realizing that it's not something that can be scaled up into a bigger role because you can't shelter Ds playing bigger minutes like that.