Fair price for Vancouver - Connauton has a great point shot and is a PP asset but has never shown the acuity for playing in his own end necessary to earn an NHL spot. He still has NHL upside, for sure, so he's not a lottery ticket for the Stars, but it's not a piece the Canucks couldn't afford to part with.
As far as Roy goes, he was near the bottom of my list of 5 possible players who could help Vancouver at centre (the top being Vermette and Ott), largely because I thought the cost would be higher to get him (it reportedly will take more to acquire Jagr). Roy is essentially an improved version of Jordan Schroeder - if the Canucks didn't trust Schroeder as a rookie to play significant minutes in the playoffs, and I can see that, this is an easy upgrade.
From here, Roy fills in for Kesler on line 2 until Kesler returns. Then he drops down to line 3 between Hansen and Raymond, and line 3 acts as a "line 2B", another scoring line. line 4 is your checking line. Not sure how that pans out in the playoffs (probably not well against, say, Los Angeles but perhaps better against, say, Minnesota, Detroit or SJS). But as Kesler's line is often used in a shut-down role anyway, it just makes sense to me.
Either way, if the Canucks don't get healthy again pretty soon, they're out in round 1 regardless, and they just wasted a pick and a prospect. And either way, if they could get Roy for this price, they could probably have gotten Vermette, who for me would've been a better fit for the team's needs.
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