1st and 2nd is fine, taking into account Tanev's injury history, like you said. He would be relied upon even more here (he's probably going to be put on the 1st pairing PK the second he comes here) and his usage will be even tougher into the playoffs, if he remains healthy. The playoff point is something that I feel some*, not all Canuck fans fail to realize. The playoffs are a war-zone, we need Tanev's body to hold up when the game gets even faster and more heavy.
The problem is, *some of your fellow Canuck fans are asking for either Nylander, 2 1st's.......even pushing for an extra 2nd/equivalent prospect, on top of late 1st + 2nd is too rich for me. The idea is that, you need a pipeline of ELC guys that develop well feeding into the system when the core guy's contracts start eating up large amounts of cap-space. A guy like Tanev, is a guy who is promising enough to cement himself as a core player if he's healthy and performs well, but we're still going to need those picks to get prospects to feed the other positions (guys like Liljegren on their ELC, Grundstrom, list goes on).
If anything, I think Dubas has this archetype all planned out and based on his interviews, I actually think he's leaning more towards the status quo rather than moving any picks, period. Otherwise, something like this would have been done around the draft. The next window probably opens closer to the TDL.
