Past Canuck Players

[donlever]

Ha...no...that was later that same year (I think) when Gino decided to beat up Thomas Steen lol....

[Hockey Widow]

So is it true that Evander Kane has signed in the KHL. His agent, reportedly, said he had numerous NHL offers but none were good enough so Evander is taking his game to the K.

[Lancer]

Good place for that PoS. They’ll love him out there.

[Per]

Höglander with a beauty!

https://youtu.be/5ME9CWHUfc4?is=tdXJ_SefSqfO_BV0

[Tciso]

Höglander with a beauty!

https://youtu.be/5ME9CWHUfc4?is=tdXJ_SefSqfO_BV0

Quick. Let's trade Cootes for a 4th before he breaks out too.

TNFG

[Meds]

Höglander with a beauty!

https://youtu.be/5ME9CWHUfc4?is=tdXJ_SefSqfO_BV0

Quick. Let's trade Cootes for a 4th before he breaks out too.

TNFG

9 points in 19 games.

If he hadn't scored that one it would have been 8 in 19 and he would have looked like a retard for trying that.

[Lancer]

Höglander with a beauty!

https://youtu.be/5ME9CWHUfc4?is=tdXJ_SefSqfO_BV0

Quick. Let's trade Cootes for a 4th before he breaks out too.

TNFG

9 points in 19 games.

If he hadn't scored that one it would have been 8 in 19 and he would have looked like a retard for trying that.

Taking a different angle, and noting that Bains has a whopping 4 points so far himself, which is more valuable to the club at present - Hoglander or Bains and a 4th? Hoglander costs more, but with the cap being what it is, it's a distinction without much of a difference.

Hoglander wouldn't move the needle much, but no one can tell me he isn't an upgrade on Bains. Maybe he wasn't so good a fit in the room moving forward? Maybe it was a case of Hoglander just wanting out for the sake of increased opportunity he may have felt he was owed? The numbers don't really speak to unrealized potential, though.

[donlever]

I don't give 2 sweet fucks about Hoglander either way and once (if) we ever achieve anything he'd be long gone regardless.

But Lancer is right.

He's better than Bains.

Another money saving play (allegedly) by AIG is all dispensing with Hoglander represents.

[Hockey Widow]

They had Hoglander down in Abbey for almost a year. You gotta think there was something about him or his game they didn't like. But I was shocked they dumped him for a 4th and made that one of their first moves.

[Lancer]

They had Hoglander down in Abbey for almost a year. You gotta think there was something about him or his game they didn't like. But I was shocked they dumped him for a 4th and made that one of their first moves.

Hoglander being in Abby that long, Manny & Co. no doubt had their read on him. Foote and Tocchet had enough of him, but was it just them who didn't like the cut of Hoglander's gib? Must have been something they didn't like.

Water under the bridge now, and it's not like the team would have any more wins with Hoglander than with Bains. Plays may have died just as much with the puck on Hoglander's stick as they have on Bains' stick - it just may have been entertaining to watch than seeing Bains look overmatched in the NHL.

But like Leves says, Bains is easier on AIG's pocketbook for what that's worth.