Heard about the trade before checking out this thread. Read it from the start and some good chuckles were in the first dozen pages, thanks to the power of hindsight. But wow, is this the biggest haul the Flames have EVER gotten for a pending UFA?? On paper and at this moment, it seems like an absolutely massive haul for a player who checked out recently. Love Lindholm, but the time to move on was now. I don't hate the Canucks at all anymore and actually like a lot of their players. VAN/CGY player swaps seem to have worked out well over the past few seasons.
Only funny thing is that there is a lot of online chatter that Lindholm moves the needle quite a bit to making the Canucks a WCF contender. Unless he magically breaks out huge this playoff run, I don't see him as such. But you never know. He's crapped the bed this past season as a pending UFA and probably was on pace to lose a larger payday then he would have gotten had he played up to his standard, but a good playoff run will easily fix that. He was never going to get that kind of run here in Calgary (even if the team made the playoffs), but he has as good a chance as any to redeem his value with a good run.
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Originally Posted by Baaarrden
Anyone know how to pronounce that?
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Pretty sure his name has Polish origins. From what I've learned with my Polish language exposure over the past few years, Brzustewicz would be Brr-jews-te-vich.
Z with a soft J . W is a v sound. Cz is pronounced with a "ch" sound.