Canucks Young Guns

[BoS]

We can only hope the trade turns out.

Admittedly, I haven’t watched a game in months, but if Mancini is the best piece to come back in the Miller deal, baldies got bent over.

[Hockey Widow]

We can only hope the trade turns out.

Admittedly, I haven’t watched a game in months, but if Mancini is the best piece to come back in the Miller deal, baldies got bent over.

Well we did get DOC and M Patterson.

[donlever]

He did say best piece.

[Cousin Strawberry]

Meaty and The Plumbers are like the house band down at GM Place

[donlever]

Nice stuff from Buium here....

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWKw6ZGi ... E5bjFibA==

...for those that didn't see the game.

[Cornuck]

Thanks - missed the game, but nice to see that there was at least one bright moment.

[Lancer]

Sad that the best players on the ice were the Minnesota cast-offs.

[Ronning's Ghost]

Sad that the best players on the ice were the Minnesota cast-offs.

I don't think that "cast-offs" is a reasonable characterization when the players were Minnesota's 3 highest draft picks since 2020.

I think that fans who hope for the Canuck re-build to yield playoff-relevant hockey in less than 6 years also have to hope that at least once of these players can become part of the Canucks' new core.

[donlever]

https://x.com/i/status/2035827772187365710

[Lancer]

Sad that the best players on the ice were the Minnesota cast-offs.

I don't think that "cast-offs" is a reasonable characterization when the players were Minnesota's 3 highest draft picks since 2020.

I think that fans who hope for the Canuck re-build to yield playoff-relevant hockey in less than 6 years also have to hope that at least once of these players can become part of the Canucks' new core.

They're cast-offs in that the closest player of consequence was, at best, their 2C this season. Rossi was the only player of the three who moved the needle in terms of production and playing time in Minnesota. They were deemed expendable when it came to getting Hughes - it's not like it was a Kaprizov for Hughes trade. Minnesota is a playoff team who think they are in a window of contention; none of these players were going to be significant parts of the team this year - Rossi's ice time was noticeably down in the playoffs last year - so their biggest value to the organization evidently was as trade chips for players better than they were - no matter what round Rossi, Ohgren and Buium were picked.

They may all turn into something down the road. Crazier things have happened. If nothing else, they're depth while the team drafts the core moving forward. Rossi is, at his floor, a placeholder in the top-6 while the organization drafts his replacement for when they contend. There's a plausible future where he can become perhaps more than that. Ohgren looks like a player. Buium has his moments. For this rebuild to take less than a decade, at least one of them has to "pop". Haven't seen any "pop" yet from any of them. There's still a bit of time left in their development curve for them to show it.

If the Baldies are still lucky enough to have their jobs by this time next year and none of these three spike in their development and make a case to be considered part of a core of a contending team, they should look elsewhere for work.