Jets gave them the 15th pick in the 2017 draft so they would not take Tobias Enstrom..they took Brannstrom and subsequently traded him for Mark Stone.
Umm....kind of, I wouldn't say its that simple.
Jets traded down by sending them the 13th OA pick and Jets got Columbus' first at 24 OA. They picked Nick Suzuki at 13, who ended up in a trade for Paccioretty.
The 15 OA pick was from the Islanders, who traded this pick with Grabovski and his 5-mill cap hit (to get rid of his contract), and get some "expansion draft considerations" to protect some of their un-protected players. With this pick they drafted Brannstrom and traded him for Mark Stone.
All season I have thought that the 2019–20 Canucks look an awful lot like the 2014–15 Flames: young, plucky, well coached and extremely fortuitous. The playoffs have not done much to change affect this opinion. Much like the Flames, they now find themselves following a gutsy round one win in a brutal mismatch with a Division powerhouse, and on the brink of elimination heading into Game 5.
We'll see how it goes for them next game, next season and beyond. But so far, this is a story with which I am quite familiar.
Lol, so other teams haven’t given the league money over decades of being in the league? Only the NHL would make all their teams give up a player and exclude the team with the most depth
It has nothing to do with depth.
Vegas was an expansion team. The league could have waited until Seattle (or whoever it turned out to be) was also ready, but instead, let Vegas join as soon as they were ready. So the league did a split expansion. In doing so, they allowed Vegas to not have to give up a player to the new expansion team seeing as they were just getting started and paid $500M to do so.
That was the deal.
Now, 3 years later, the fact that Vegas has the most depth in the league (an arguable position) has nothing to do with the deal and everything to do with the fact that they made several great trades and other teams fumbled the draft terribly.
All season I have thought that the 2019–20 Canucks look an awful lot like the 2014–15 Flames: young, plucky, well coached and extremely fortuitous. The playoffs have not done much to change affect this opinion. Much like the Flames, they now find themselves following a gutsy round one win in a brutal mismatch with a Division powerhouse, and on the brink of elimination heading into Game 5.
We'll see how it goes for them next game, next season and beyond. But so far, this is a story with which I am quite familiar.
With better goaltending and a higher ceiling on their top end talent.
Time will tell, Oilers have been the second coming of Christ for over a decade now according to the media. When the cap crunch comes we will see how they fill our their roster.
I haven't been watching but has Ryan Reaves continued to mess with them? I saw an interview after GM1 where he said he was living rent free in their heads. Has he been a consistent physical force in subsequent games?
I haven't been watching but has Ryan Reaves continued to mess with them? I saw an interview after GM1 where he said he was living rent free in their heads. Has he been a consistent physical force in subsequent games?
Well the Canucks coach was arguing with him last night so I would say that is a big YES
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