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Forum: Armchair-GMJul. 4, 2018 at 11:03 p.m.
Thread: Realistic Tanev Trade?
Chris Tanev is one of the best defensive dmen in this league. You can’t argue against that, and if you choose to do so, your opinion is irrelevant quite frankly. Injuries have hurt his value, but there’s no denying that either, but his play is still top-class in terms of shutting opposing top lines down. When healthy, that’s always the role he takes part in.

He’s better than all Leafs defenceman other than Reilly. Gardener can’t make a simple play in his own zone for his life (whereas that’s Tanev’s speciality). Hainsey is a good defensive dman but is in no way at Tanev’s level. Dermott is the only guy who maybe has a case here, but other than that there’s no one other than Reilly better at actually defending than Tanev.

The value for top pairing RHD aren’t cheap in today’s market, so there’s no way despite the injuries that Tanev is worth a 2nd or any less. A realistic asking price is a 1st or 2nd + a prospect - one of Bracco or Nielsen let’s say.

As for the rebuilding Canucks comment, yes the Canucks aren’t nearly done a rebuild, but moving Tanev will help accelerate that; Tanev doesn’t have a place in the Canucks 5+ years down the road. And as for palhal’s comment regarding the Tanev trades only to the Leafs...our bad :p