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

[Hale The Villain]

Smart undersized D that makes limited mistakes and helps advance the puck up ice, but isn't someone you'd like to be playing big minutes in the playoffs, if at all.

Wouldn't surprise me if he carves out a Grzelcyk-type career.

 

[Bjornar Moxnes]

I swear it's like Finnesota getting the most out of their Finnish players, and incidentally BC has the most Swedish Canadians.

I wonder which team gets the most out of Norwegian and Danish players.

 

[Raistlin]

Vancouver just seems to be able to get a lot out of Swedish players.

how quickly ppl forget about OEL and Loui Eriksson. its like draft picks, we acquire a lot of Swedish players, in the end its up to their fit.

 

[Xspyrit]

I'll ask this here: People around here talk about Brannstrom as a third pairing defenseman. He seems to be stuck there. Why is that? The way he's playing he'd be on the second pair on some teams.

Not on Ottawa though, we are so damn good that he was barely a 7th D-man here. That's how we understand hockey in Ottawa. Sens pro scouting has been terrible for so long

Replaced Mathieu Joseph by Mike Amadio (even paid a 3rd round pick to do so)
Replaced Brannstrom by Hamonic (I wanted to keep Brannstrom and play him on RD when no LHD is injured)
Etc.

Watch him play right now, you won’t be thinking this.

Even the last 2 seasons, it was easy to see that there was something with this player, backed by advanced metrics of course. I've been insulted so much for defending this player lol, particularly on Cap Friendly's forum.

There was 2 huge biases in Ottawa : size and the fact that he was THE return for Mark freaking Stone (that's on the GM)

Smart undersized D that makes limited mistakes and helps advance the puck up ice, but isn't someone you'd like to be playing big minutes in the playoffs, if at all.

Wouldn't surprise me if he carves out a Grzelcyk-type career.

I initially had Tobias Enstrom and Toery Krug as comps but eventually turned towards Grzelcyk