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Confirmed with Link: [VAN/DET] Canucks acquire D Filip Hronek, 4th in ‘23 for NYI 1st (condt’l), 2023 2nd

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timw33 said:
This is the kind of trade you make in the 48 hours leading up to the NHL draft and it costs you a 2nd/3rd rounder and maybe a B prospect: Sigenthaler, Marino, Graves, Toews, all guys traded with either term or team control. You don't just a team just dump 4.4MM in cap for nothing and not get a discounted price.

I don't mind the player. I don't mind his contract. I just *****ing hate the price, and more importantly the timing and what it means for their plans.

Hard to not feel a bit hopeless and just be baffled at what they are trying to do. I haven't seen this place so excited for a draft in years with multiple 1st round picks.

Hronek essentially needs to emerge as a breakout top pair player for us for this value to make sense, and for a reasonable ~5 year extension to lock up 27-32 year old seasons to make it a home run. I pray that our proy expected the pick even to be in play but scouting read knows something we don't know about the potential of Hronek.

Multiple more moves at deadline, draft, and offseason are an absolute must to continue reshaping this D core.

Got this news while shin deep in a muddy work site so the vibes are not good.
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this is exactly how i feel. i fully even expected the pick to be in play at the draft. But now when picks are worth less when we dont know the position, when it could become a lottery pick still for next year?

Detroit has some serious potential to escalate that picks value.......why did we need to take that risk now and why would we want anyone coming in to help us win games and screw up our chance to draft top6 or 7.

damn it's hard to wrap my head around this right now
 
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me2 said:
Just had no assets, no way we could give up the 2022 2023 2nds we need for drafting....
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Sad thing is last offseason they probably could have traded picks to clear salary and traded for Marino for less than it cost to get Hronek.
 
Quinntessential said:
A little something to maybe get excited about from the Wings board:
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Problem is the partners Canucks have to offer are ECHL quality too, aside from Hughes that is. OEL is Canucks' Chiarot. and Hronek will likely play a good amount with him. Unless they just load everything to that Hughes-Hronek pairing and let everything else burn.

I guess you can consider this as the first step to fix the defense, but there's so much work to be done that it's difficult to see how they can pull it off. Hronek is a good player, but he's not good enough especially defensively to carry a pairing. Pairing him with Hughes might be overkill.

It's a good foundation for top 4, but how can they fix the rest of it is still a mystery.
 
Peter Griffin said:
You literally can’t even make this shit up. “Capspace is hard to come by”, instantly spends all available cap space.
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Member when people could blame JB for our cap space problems? And then feel good about how the new guys would get us out of that trouble?- ahhh the good old days.
 
I am so frustrated by this team constantly having the chance to rebuild and refusing to outright commit to it. We needed a rebuild 5 years ago and we keep pushing it off year after year after year after year after year.
 
Gotta love having a management making completely fools of themselves within moments of making a trade no one in their right minds would do to begin with.

Imagine starting the day with Boeser rumors, and end the day with us paying almost as much for Hronek than the Senators just did for Chychrun...

This franchise has long been hopeless, and despite some good moves the new front office keeps finding new ways to keep the despair going.
 
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Reactive instead of proactive is how we got into this mess. And we're still doing it.
There's like no reason we can't have Chychrun/Marino based on the prices that were actually paid. And now we have to give assets to clear cap and eventually sign another inferior UFA defenseman like Gavrikov to a bloated deal to retool on the fly.

I love this team
 
Gurn said:
Member when people could blame JB for our cap space problems? And then feel good about how the new guys would get us out of that trouble?- ahhh the good old days.
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The problem has always been at the top. It doesn't matter who is running things from the GM position.
 
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Nucker101 said:
the fact that its even close is demoralizing
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I dont trust the media and have not in the past, and dont watch arizona or detroit enough.

Has anyone watched these two closely to compare? I watch alot of buffalo games when I can and other teams but these are two players I cant form a detailed well informed opinion on. Chycrun was the bigger name in the media thats for sure.
 
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