Listen: J.D. Burke Joins Halford & Brough on TSN1040 to talk Elias Pettersson, Nikolay Goldobin and the Canucks Off-Season

As is becoming something of a weekly ritual, J.D. Burke joined Mike Halford and Jason Brough on TSN 1040 to talk about some of the storylines following the Canucks season.

They start with a little positivity, touching on Elias Pettersson’s historic success in the SHL playing with the Vaxjo Lakers. Pettersson just set the SHL record for points by an under-20 player with 55 points in 43 games, passing Peter Forsberg and Kent Nilsson. The only question now is whether Pettersson can keep it up if he makes the jump to the NHL next season.

After the Pettersson question, Burke is asked to take a step back and look at the players already on the roster. One such player, Nikolay Goldobin, has been a hot topic this week after sitting the final 15-minutes-plus in Wednesday’s 2-1 loss to the Arizona Coyotes. Brough has thrown the towel in on Goldobin, and it’s starting to seem like the Canucks are ready to as well if tonight’s scratch is any indication. Where does Burke stand? Well, he’s running out of faith in Goldy.

Part of the reason Burke’s faith is waning is the simple fact that the Canucks might be running out of room for Goldobin faster than they’re running out of patience. Before the Canucks re-sign the Sedins, which isn’t a given naturally, they have only one roster opening going into this summer and an obscene amount of cap space. There’s going to be a lot of player movement in Vancouver period.

If you were a fan of Burke’s segment on TSN 1040, be sure to catch Nation Network Radio next Thursday at 7 PM on TSN 1040. Burke and his co-host Jon Abbott will cover the Canucks in unrivalled detail and bring the best voices in the industry to the show to keep their listeners up to speed on all the most important storylines leaguewide.