Confirmed Trade: [MTL/VAN] Tanner Pearson and 2025 3rd round pick for Casey DeSmith

[Natey]

Why does a Tanner Pearson trade thread have some many posts. This place is full of Canucks haters. Can’t wait till we are good again.

It’s a 3rd round pick 2 years from now. Boo-hoo at least we moved enough cap to ice a full roster.

Canucks are my second favourite team after Montreal. I honestly like this for both teams.

 

[Goal Caufield50]

Fourth line pick in 2025 or 3rd round with retention at the deadline

 

[Gaud]

Funny comment, as most posts are from Vancouver fans debating their cap state, previous GM debts and goaltender depth...

I was actually looking for Habs fans comments about how this Pearson's acquisition will affect Roy's chances to make the big club...

Or details about how Hugues plans to manage the cap to put Price on in-season LTIR.

But there is nothing but Benning comments...

Hughes passes this off as a "we need more grey hair in the locker room" kind of trade, but i suspect its more of a "better an extra winger than an extra goalie" kind of trade.

I think the habs have rushed too many players in the last few decades, possibly because of the mentality of maintaining the status quo of making the playoffs every year; there was so little coming up from the farm team (after trading all the picks) that fans want talent to be in the NHL and see whoever is in laval as depth or a bust.

I dont think that it would be Pearson blocking Roy from making the team. I just dont see the point of putting the kid up in the big leagues right now, when he would need to oust someone like Anderson, Gallagher, Newhook, etc in order to get the opportunities that he needs in order to succeed. Laval's lineup is starting to look interesting, with quite a bit of competition for those chairs.

I think Montreal can afford (and would benefit from) to sending players like Roy to Laval to grow there. Id much rather see him take top 6 minutes there than 4th line minutes in Mtl and following last year's pile of injuries, I found that, if anything, the coaching staff there is good at prepping players to fit into MSL's approach.

 

[pth2]

Hughes passes this off as a "we need more grey hair in the locker room" kind of trade, but i suspect its more of a "better an extra winger than an extra goalie" kind of trade.

I think the habs have rushed too many players in the last few decades, possibly because of the mentality of maintaining the status quo of making the playoffs every year; there was so little coming up from the farm team (after trading all the picks) that fans want talent to be in the NHL and see whoever is in laval as depth or a bust.

I dont think that it would be Pearson blocking Roy from making the team. I just dont see the point of putting the kid up in the big leagues right now, when he would need to oust someone like Anderson, Gallagher, Newhook, etc in order to get the opportunities that he needs in order to succeed. Laval's lineup is starting to look interesting, with quite a bit of competition for those chairs.

I think Montreal can afford (and would benefit from) to sending players like Roy to Laval to grow there. Id much rather see him take top 6 minutes there than 4th line minutes in Mtl and following last year's pile of injuries, I found that, if anything, the coaching staff there is good at prepping players to fit into MSL's approach.

Well said. In past years Roy would be making this team, as a local boy showing he can play at this level, but that isn't best for his long-term development. Might as well play Ylonen and be sure he has nothing more to offer, or Pearson to have a veteran presence for all the other kids/young players.

Let's not forget how a guy like Gonchar had helped Beaulieu very quickly take that next step. Veteran role models are important, and it's not a 1-size-fits-all situation, you need a number of guys who the kids can look up and model their life habits around (or pick up the best-fitting habits of multiple guys).

Roy can come up in a year or two, he'll be more ready and we have lower odds of burning him out.

 

[GirardSpinorama]

Threadmill team making a treadmill move. Should have given some NHL time to a prospect to develop.

 

[abo9]

Threadmill team making a treadmill move. Should have given some NHL time to a prospect to develop.

How many prospects/young players do Montreal need to ice lol?

Between Slafkovsky, Newhook (who's still not established), RHP and whoever is the 13th forward, Montreal has a lot of learning on the forward side. Thats without counting Caufield, Dach who are still very much developing and learning.

+ the defense where 3 of them will be 23 or under, and Kovacevik has 1 season under his belt.

So again, how many rookies does Montreal need to ice?

 

[Fatass]

Threadmill team making a treadmill move. Should have given some NHL time to a prospect to develop.

It’s a club needing elite players though. They got another pick in the deal. They might find an elite guy with that pick. Seems a good trade for a club needing to draft better players.

 

[Captain Mountain]

With the regular caveats that its way to early to make any judgements and that this is just an observation, its a little nice to see how well this nothing trade has been working out for both teams and players thus far in October:

Pearson - 5GP - 3G 2A 5P with decent impacts
DeSmith - 3GP (2 starts) - 2.28 GAA, .938 sv%, 1.065 GSAA/60

 

[jackjohnson]

With the regular caveats that its way to early to make any judgements and that this is just an observation, its a little nice to see how well this nothing trade has been working out for both teams and players thus far in October:

Pearson - 5GP - 3G 2A 5P with decent impacts
DeSmith - 3GP (2 starts) - 2.28 GAA, .938 sv%, 1.065 GSAA/60

It was great trade for Canucks since old man Pearson had high cap hit and wouldn't fit on Canucks roster especially when we have Lafferty, Garland, Hoglander, Beauvillier and Suter all vying to play on that 3rd line lol

 

[Jumptheshark]

both teams won this trade

Nucks needed a back up who could play 30 games more than they needed pearson

 

[PettersonHughes]

Wonder if Pearson may also get dealt at the TDL to a contender if he keeps up his good play? Also glad to see DeSmith doing well so far.

 

[EpochLink]

Well you've been waiting since 2011 so what's a few more decades ????

We hired Jim Benning, that itself was punishment enough.

 

[BostonBob]

We hired Jim Benning, that itself was punishment enough.

And Bruin fans will forever be grateful that you took him away before he had the chance to get ruin our team.

 

[EpochLink]

And Bruin fans will forever be grateful that you took him away before he had the chance to get ruin our team.

Guy was a fraud, he clearly didn't know what the heck he was doing.
All he did was bring coffee to the games and do massive farts in the press box.

Like Mark Messier, that guy will have his tires slashed in the lower mainland.

 

[BostonBob]

Guy was a fraud, he clearly didn't know what the heck he was doing.

While it's fun now for Bruin fans to laugh at the Canucks for hiring Benning it was seen as a major loss for the Bruins organization at the time.

 

[EpochLink]

While it's fun now for Bruin fans to laugh at the Canucks for hiring Benning it was seen as a major loss for the Bruins organization at the time.

Both Vancouver and Edmonton got Boston's sloppy seconds, both suffered.

 

[Scintillating10]

both teams won this trade

Nucks needed a back up who could play 30 games more than they needed pearson

Pearson playing well. Habs had 4 goalies

 

[Jumptheshark]

Pearson playing well. Habs had 4 goalies

and the other guy has 2 wins for the nucks already---nucks needed him more than Pearson

win for both sides

 

[canuckslover10]

What a win-win trade

 

[Empoleon8771]

Weren’t there Canucks fans in the playoff forum earlier today saying their season was done and the team was dead because DeSmith was replacing Demko? So now is DeSmith a great addition worth bumping a 7 month ago thread over?

I’ve always thought DeSmith was super underrated, he consistently put up good numbers while playing a good amount of games. A lot of teams have worse backups than him and some even have worse starters. Still though, odd bump.

 

[WetcoastOrca]

He’s been a solid pick up. A good backup who can step in and play well through stretches. Has to be quite the year for him being thrust into the starters role partway through the playoffs. What a pressure cooker! So far so good.
Definitely a timely bump.

 

[Sergei Shirokov]

Reading through the thread a bit, great takes @biturbo19

At the time I was hopeful Pearson could return to form, thought it was a good trade value-wise for MTL that also filled a legit need for Vancouver, win-win. Definitely turned out better than I expected.

 

[eviohh26]

Weren’t there Canucks fans in the playoff forum earlier today saying their season was done and the team was dead because DeSmith was replacing Demko? So now is DeSmith a great addition worth bumping a 7 month ago thread over?

I’ve always thought DeSmith was super underrated, he consistently put up good numbers while playing a good amount of games. A lot of teams have worse backups than him and some even have worse starters. Still though, odd bump.

Few fans doesn't sum up a fan base.

 

[Sergei Shirokov]

Weren’t there Canucks fans in the playoff forum earlier today saying their season was done and the team was dead because DeSmith was replacing Demko? So now is DeSmith a great addition worth bumping a 7 month ago thread over?

I’ve always thought DeSmith was super underrated, he consistently put up good numbers while playing a good amount of games. A lot of teams have worse backups than him and some even have worse starters. Still though, odd bump.

To be fair we are also crazy, and Demko is 1B with Hughes as team MVP.

I think most Canucks fans still felt fine with DeSmith in this series (he's been great in a backup schedule all year) but Demko is top 3 in the league, you just can't replace that, fingers crossed Casey keeps it going - we'll see how things go if the Nucks get out of round 1.

 

[Breakers]

Pearson to me will always be remembered as the most random extension in the history of the NHL by Benning

Completely eliminated from the playoffs by the deadline
Pettersson and Hughes unsigned, and they knew they were gonna cost a fortune with like NO CAP room, with a huge off-season coming up

Was getting offers from teams for playoff runs for Pearson

And Benning just randomly gave this guy an extension right at the deadline with no trade clauses in the first few years.