micky107 wrote:
Yes, waiting is good.
Do you think we could acquire either james or jake or both without giving up too much?
TL;DR - a trade between these two teams would be pretty complicated with contracts/ntc's so it's a deal that would take months to work out, like Edler + Hansen + ___ for JVR + Gardiner + ___.
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They'd probably prefer tanev + probably hansen, so they can solidify their defense with that deal.
We downgrade on defense, but offensively we'd improve.
Upon further investigation - Gardiner is a LD, so in a perfect world we'd deal Edler instead, then Gardiner - Tanev could play together. And they can have an Edler - Reilly pairing, a much better top defensive pair compared to last season - I think the leaves had Hunwick & Marincin playing with Reilly at times Gardiner, but both aren't that great chemistry wise I think with MR.
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And Reilly is playing on his offside, so I bet they'd like to move him back to LD and with Tanev they'd form a dominant #1 pairing.
Gardiner is a fancy stats darling - good shot suppression and creating offense.
JVR has only two years left then is a UFA, but he's the perfect 2nd line LW we need, even though he doesn't play a chippy game, he has size and skills, plus he could re-sign if in 2017/18 he and Boeser create some American chemistry and the team is doing well.
But as some will point out Toronto probably wants to get younger, Edler might not to move out west and JB said he wasn't dealing Hansen thanks to his intangibles and good contract.
Can the Canucks just win a Cup within the next 5 years.