Zucker can't be traded to Canadian teams.

Good to know but, he might wave.

No. It's a whole legal personal thing with his wife. Something about her not being able to leave the country with her son.

Why does everybody hate Myers and Pearson? They have value. THEY HAVE VALUE!

Nobody wants players that teams seem desperate to get rid of.

Canucks aren't desperate to get rid of them though.

They're traded away like 30 times a day on this site. The fans definitely give off that perception. It makes it seem like there is something obviously wrong with them if so many people want to see them gone.

I know, but that's why they're fans and not NHL executives. I've mentioned it several times here, but those running actual NHL teams value those players positively, not as cap dumps.

On here it's the same 30 trades each day until the player is traded or people lose interest. People see the trade and then take that player and trade them with to a different team with the same pick or some other different tweak to seem different, then the cycle repeats.

That hive mind mentality leads people to be shocked when that "cap dump" player is dealt for more than what they were routinely traded for on here. It happens every year.

A 3rd for Pearson is fair value. I kept Myers because he is hard to replace. Dickinson is a buyout candidate. Poolman I don't think anyone can call it a good contract. Allvin said he wanted to open up cap space so you can't say it's unrealistic to open up space.

Pearson's worth more than that, a 2nd+a low pick/prospect or equivalent.

Dickinson had a bad season for sure, and you at least let him play out another season to see if he can find his game before you buy him out or pay to relocate him.



But you didn't open up cap space. You moved out Pearson and Dickinson and brought on Zucker, who has an almost equal cap hit as those two combined and performs even worse than either Dickinson or Pearson. You just traded a good middle-six winger and a somewhat problematic bottom-sixer for a terrible depth winger.

Taking Zucker back is weaponizing your cap space to gain more assets in a trade. Not to mention it's only for 1 year when Dickinson and Pearson have more term.

What extra asset is in that trade that you think is worth Zucker's cap hit? Marino+Joseph+Kapanen's rights+2022 1st isn't even worth Miller on its own, Zucker just makes that value even worse.

Miller will go for a 1st, a blue-chip prospect and a roster player. Taking on Zucker for 1 year will get you Kapanen's rights. We will see Millers' value in a few days.

Joseph is not a blue-chip prospect. He's 23 and has played 20 NHL games. He's a project defenseman at this point, and an LHD to top it off. The Canucks don't want or need him.

Poulin is the only real blue-chip that the Penguins have.

Kapanen's rights aren't worth Zucker's contract. I'd rather have Pearson and Dickinson and 3m in cap space.