To NJD - Zadorov
To VAN - 3rd, 5th
To NAS - Mikhayev
To VAN - Barrie
To CGY - Barrie, 2nd, 2nd
To VAN - Tanev
To MON - Raty, Brisebois
To VAN - Evans, Harris
To BUF - Truscott, Celebrini, 7th
To VAN - Greenway, Jost, Stillman, Comrie
Greenway - Miller - Boeser
Hoglander - Pettersson - Lindholm
Joshua - Blueger - Garland
Suter - Evans - Lafferty
Di Guiseppe - Aman - Karlsson
Bains - Jost - Podkolzin
Hughes - Hronek
Soucy - Tanev
Cole - Myers
Harris - Juulsen
Stillman - Friedman
Demko - Desmith
Comrie - Silovs
Tonnes of depth for the next 4 months.
This is...
so much shuffling, to ultimately just kind of downgrade, or at best move laterally on the roster. I don't get the point.
Like Mikheyev >>> Greenway. If they could add Greenway without subtracting Mikheyev, sure, maybe that's a good fit. But as a swap, it's really a downgrade overall. I don't know what people's problem with Mikky is. He's a 20G-40-45pt straight line complementary Top-9 Winger with good size who is solid defensively and a strong PKer. He's exactly what he's supposed to be. He's exactly what a team should want to load up with heading toward the playoffs.
Greenway isn't really that good. He'd be an okay "cheaper" option to bring some extra size to the Top-6 to bump Suter down to the 3/4C spot. But not if it means losing the better player Mikheyev in the process (and a massive unnecessary shakeup to a roster that is just absolutely rolling on chemistry and buy-in).
The whole thing is just...
way too much for a team that's rolling. It's a lot of change for change sake, when what they already have is working.
no picks to even shop for pittsburgh. likely a depth defenseman or two as they say having more depth isn't a bad idea. juulsen/friedman/wolanin/irwin then some abby kids. but might be better if vancouver gets another NHL caliber defenseman likely right handed 1-12 capable dman if one of their top 6 goes down with injury. "next man up mentality" still need another bruising fwd to crash and bang IMO in the playoffs its needed. pry someone like micheal penezzata?
I'm not really a big fan of Pez dispenser personally. I get that Joshua can run pretty hot/cold so having some insurance and someone to push him might be useful. But for me, i'd rather see them just go out and add a little more size/grit in the Top-6/9 filler role. If you can bring in someone roughly on Pius Suter's level or better, with more size+grit...i think that sort of kills two birds with one stone.
Because of the way the roster is constructed, it's a bit weird. It can be either a 1a/1b thing or a more conventional 1/2b sort of thing. But the bottom-6 is peculiar as it's kind of playing like a 3a/3b with great chemistry making it work.
That's where keeping the Bluegers line together seems like a given. And keeping Hoggy+Lafferty together seems like a given if you can. That really leaves Suter/Aman as the guys to potentially move around at this point. And i think you get the most for your money (and an extra layer of depth) if you can actually bump Suter down to that Hoggy/Laffy line. Rather than a guy like Pezzetta who you
hope you don't have to actually play, as lower-end insurance on Joshua basically.
