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WWYDW: Hometown… Hero?
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J.D. Burke
Apr 27, 2016, 11:00 EDTUpdated:
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The Los Angeles Kings and Chicago Blackhawks eliminated? In the same round, you say? I’m not even going to feign objectivity. That’s damn good hockey.
That brings us to a more Canucks related question, though. The elephant in the room that will follow this team into the off-season. Will they, or won’t they sign Milan Lucic? The Vancouver, B.C. native is set to hit unrestricted free agency and there’s been speculation all year that the Canucks will jump to the occasion as presumptive suitors.
We’ve already touched on Lucic as a free agent option in this space, and whether there are better alternatives. But today I’m looking to find out how you would react to a Lucic signing, in a vacuum. Do you approve? Are there conditions on your approval, like, say, term and annual average value? Let your voice be heard.
Last week I asked: Would you pull the trigger on the rumoured Canucks offer for first overall in the 2014 NHL draft, which was their sixth overall pick, Jason Garrison and Hunter Shinkaruk.
NM00:
Beyond dumb.
Of course the Canucks would have done it then (which is why they offered it) and so would Canuck fans…
The Panthers reportedly asked for the #6 pick and Horvat.
That would be a better question.
Particularly since there were some rumblings about Horvat being the cost for Drouin and the Canucks could have easily selected Ehlers or Nylander…
Chris the Curmudgeon:
Why would you envision using the pick on Reinhart or Bennett? As long as we’re revising history, why not do so to take the bona fide #1 defenceman who was actually selected first overall. For all the fawning over however-old-he-is Sam Bennett, Aaron Ekblad had as many points as him this year from the blueline, while playing tough, top pairing minutes to boot.
To answer the question, I would trade Vey, Virtanen and Granlund (what all of those assets represent for us at the moment) for Aaron Ekblad, Sam Bennett, Sam Reinhart or Leon Draisaitl in a heartbeat. However, it becomes a tougher choice if you acknowledge the still unknown quantity Shinkaruk is. Similarly, I’d also have to consider the fact that Jason Garrison is a top 4 defenceman on a playoff team who for some reason got run out of his hometown as the only person on the entire 2014-15 Canucks roster who didn’t get a pass for having a bad year under John Tortorella.
In the end, I’d still do it.
Goon:
I’d be more interested in whether the Canucks made this offer to Buffalo for #2, given that most observers expected (correctly) that the Panthers would take Ekblad #1 overall.
I would have definitely made this trade for either #1 or #2.
A more interesting question for Revisionist History is: knowing that Alex Nylander is expected to go around #5 in this draft, would you have taken William Nylander at #6 overall two years ago and Alex Nylander at 4-6 in this draft so we can have a pair of Swedish brothers on the top line for another decade into the future?
GoodUserName:
I like where your head is with this question. I think the WWYDW, have became a little stale lately, and this definitely is a new direction, but I think any canuck fan would pull the trigger on that one. Virtanen is a good home town boy who in a couple years could be dangerously good, but reinhart or Ekblad just project higher.
I think some better questions would be what would we do based on this years draft if we get 6th pick again, or which finn to pick at 2nd. Im pretty interested in knowing which finn my fellow canuck fans covet the most and why. Or which dman most people like at 6th.
BurnabyBob:
Kind of revealing that Florida didn’t accept the offer, no? Doesn’t it tell you something about the value of Shinkaruk?
Omar49:
If the deal was done having Reinhart and Horvat making up a portion of this teams future #1 line certainly sounds tempting. I have to wonder if such an offer was actually made as Garrison was being bought out and Shinkaruk was a late 1st round draft pick who may or may not make it in the NHL. In reality Garrison and Shinkaruk were simply throw ins and the only player of value we would have to give up would be Virtanen. I like Virtanen a lot but you have to pick Reinhart over him.
Ikillchicken:
Well, since we’ve subsequently turned Shinkaruk and Garrison into Granlund and Vey, there’s essentially no reason not to trade them. Of course, Florida was never going to accept this offer making this a rather silly question. Here’s a more interesting one: What does it take to get you Edmonton’s 3rd overall pick? You wouldn’t get Reinhart (or Ekblad) with it but Draisaitl is looking awfully good these days. Realistically, we were never going to convince Florida to pass on Ekblad or Buffalo to part with any top prospect. But Edmonton, a team that wasn’t going to get Ekblad and already had their forward core in place? More plausible. It might not have taken that much (relatively speaking) to get them to trade down to 6th. Mind you, I’d also be happy to just pick Nylander at 6th.
John Tortorella:
No.

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