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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
Fancy stats are one thing, but Bonino was terrible in the playoffs.
In my opinion, he lacks compete, something Brandon Sutter does not lack.
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I think this is reasonable, but I will go back to my earlier problems with this trade and point out that while Sutter may provide an improvement over Bonino for this reason, it is at best a marginal difference, and at worst completely missing the forest for the trees. The Canucks are a rapidly aging team on the decline, with a very underwhelming base of high end prospects and players to build around for the future. Sutter might address some smaller problems in the short term (and I'm not even certain he does that much), but in the long term the Canucks centre depth that consists of Horvat and Sutter slotting in at #1–2 is just plain ugly. It would be like the Flames pinning their hopes on a much less skilled and smaller Sean Monahan and Michael Backlund to be their top two centres.