I just watched their highlights from last night and Granlund looked pretty good. A point and a few other chances.
The other thing that stood out to me is that they are running a middle six of Baertschi / Horvat / Virtanen - Vey / Granlund / Etem. Three things there. First, all of those guys are under 25, so they are actually going young (and McCann is playing 4C). Second, the third line is a pretty offensively oriented third line - that's not a grinding line by any stretch. Third, the entire Granlund line is made up of other teams' discarded prospects.
As bad as the Canucks management is, and I think they lost this trade, they actually are setting themselves up to rebuild, at least at forward. The problem, of course, is they have no potential first line center anywhere on the horizon. They're about to be pretty bad for a couple of years, which should yield a few consecutive top 10 (and possibly top 5) picks, so maybe there is some sort of plan here - if they did luck into Matthews, they'd be well on their way.
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