Quoting: cagauf
Haha even the way you phrase the state of the team makes no sense. Not rebuilding but not willing to move a pick? What are they doing then? What I am proposing doesn’t take away a pick, they are sliding down 8 spots to get rid of some brutal contracts.
Since coming in, Allvin has swapped 3rds and some how come out with a worse dman, traded away a 2nd round pick to get rid of Dickinson, gotten a 1st round pick for their captain and then turned around and traded that pick for second/ third pair dman. If that doesn’t scream no direction and absolutely running that franchise into the ground you might need to give your head a shake.
You ever heard of a re-tool? They aren’t holding a fire sale, but they aren’t throwing away futures either. Canucks already traded away a first round pick to acquire a 25 year old top 4 RHD. Not trading the other one unless we get a similar value player. Canucks have a shallow prospect pool. The GM has made it very clear that they are looking forward to drafting at 11. Even suggests they might trade up.
Allvin traded Hamonic for a 3rd. Hamonic was supposed to be a 3 mil cap dump but he flipped him for value. Even though Dermott didn’t pan out, the Canucks won because they cleared cap space
Canucks traded a 2nd to get rid of Dickinson so they could acquire Ethan Bear for a 5th round pick. Since then, Bear has been our 2nd best defence man so I’d say that trade worked well for us. It isn’t his fault that the previous GM left him with little to work with
As for the Horvat trade, it was an excellent move. Horvat was unwilling to tell-sign, so Allvin sold high on him and got a good return. He got a good centre prospect, a young middle 6 winger (Beauvillier outproduced Horvat after the grade), and a first round pick which they traded for a very good top 4 RHD. They turned an expiring UFA into their top prospect, middle 6 winger, and their top pairing RHD. Pretty good in a re-tool perspective. How is this no direction? It is abundantly clear what the direction is right now. The canucks have added useful players to the lineup for cheap. Kuzmenko and Mikheyev are crucial parts to the team and they signed them for free. Turned an expiring UFA into potential core pieces. What do you not get?