It’s Presidents Week on TSN 1040 AM, which to the best of my knowledge is a week featuring extensive interviews with the Presidents of each Canadian market team in the NHL. Yesterday was the Vancouver Canucks day, which means that Trevor Linden sat in on the show.

Our very own Vanessa Jang did a fantastic job transcribing and providing analysis on that radio hit. Given the time frame, Linden had the opportunity to talk about any number of topics. They ranged from the Evander Kane rumours all the way to trades they’ve already completed and beyond. This nugget in particular about the deals they’ve already made sticks out…

I’d change nearly all of them, but I can hardly fault Linden for standing by his management teams decisions. Now, assuming you were in Linden’s shoes and had the ability or desire to change any of these contentious trades, which one(s) stick out to you and what would you have done differently?

So, I’m asking you, which player(s) are you most willing to part with to land that marquee name in a trade. As always, try to be reasonable. You’re not landing Gabriel Landeskog for Jannik Hansen.

Benning has replenished the talent pool to the point of legitimate job competition on d and the bottom six.

Now there is a chance that one or two players surprise to the upside,giving the Canucks opportunistic leverage when the league is deep into injury season.

Trade from strength and not weakness.

I highly doubt this will happen but one can dream. ( Value wise I’m trying to make it as even as possible so if I’m off just let me know ). Anyways, if I was Benning I’m looking at flipping Sbisa for a draft pick, get rid of his cap and clear up the back end, leaving space for Larsen and Pedan. Let’s say we get a 3rd rounder in either 2017 or 2018 ( From whatever team it maybe) . Now we have another asset to add to a trade, a minor one but something to sweeten a deal. Now we look at Detroit, look at Nyquist, Tatar, Jurco, Mantha or Pulkkinen. Let’s say we try for Tatar, We trade the 3rd we got from whichever team ( 3rd is conditional, if Jurco signs With us they receive a 2nd rounder) and possibly Gaunce , giving that our bottom six is filled with players. Either way we give up some player, maybe Hansen? I would’ve offered them Sbisa n pick but I believe they have a logjam on the backend too.

Or if that doesn’t work, Collin Wilson, Hartnell, E.Kane, Palat ( due to Tampa possibly not able to re-sign all their core players ), we most likely overpay on a trade that brings as a LW.

There’s not a heck of a lot that excites me in the trade market beyond Landeskog, unfortunately he’s likely going to take a lot to bring in. Short of giving up 1st rd picks the biggest trade chip is easily Tanev. I don’t think he alone is going to cut it for the Avs, so we’ve likely got to throw in another roster player (Burr/Beaker) and a relatively high pick.

It’s a lot, but if we’re serious about making it happen how about this:

Landeskog for Tanev/Burr/2nd Rounder

It also creates some cap space to bring in another right handed dman short term (Wiesnewski, Boyle, etc), assuming that Larsen isn’t already that fill in guy.