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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
Granlund is what he is. A third line centre who will play 500 games in the NHL, score a few points and not much else. Serviceable guy, but utterly replaceable given our centre depth.
Shinkaruk may follow Granlund's path and be the same. If so, its a wash. Or he progresses, and we win. Or he declines, and we technically lose the trade but it doesn't matter because we gave up a player with no long term value for us.
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I'll take the under on 500 games, unless he manages to rotate to teams with terrible forward depth for 5 years (or I suppose learns how to win faceoffs). He's not an NHLer on a good team. Similar deal with Baertschi, they are guys who can play top 6/9 on bad teams, but if the Canucks ever want to be a legit contender they'll need better players in those roles.