Confirmed with Link: [VAN/DAL] Canucks acquire F Jason Dickinson for 2021 3rd Round Pick

[JumpierPegasus]

Really good defensive 3rd line C to pick up that can hopefully shift the burden off the top 2 lines when it comes to shutdown. Need to surround Dickinson with other defensive players though for it to really work

Like Dickinson a lot though, should be a great bottom 6 addition for us. Stops Jimbo from overspending in FA

 

[Johnny Canucker]

Dave Dickinson for being a “defensive forward” was a minus player in 3 of the 6 NHL years and has a 44% career face off winning percentage.


Just cuz forwards don’t put up offence doesn’t make them good defensive.

 

[Mr. Canucklehead]

 

[Red]

Dave Dickinson for being a “defensive forward” was a minus player in 3 of the 6 NHL years and has a 44% career face off winning percentage.

Just cuz forwards don’t put up offence doesn’t make them good defensive.

Except he is very good defensively. +/- is a pretty useless stat on its own.

 

[JumpierPegasus]

yup it's guys like this the team should have been moving out picks for/bringing in over the last few years and we could have been competitive and deep during Petey's and Hughes' ELC's

Again, hopefully opens up way more offense for Petey/Brock/Miller next year by taking some burden from them on going 1v1 against top lines and pairings. That is if Green can line match at all

 

[Dab]

Seems decent

 

[AlainVigneaultsGum]

Not a bad pickup. Arguably an upgrade on Sutter for a third of the cap hit.

 

[tantalum]

I think Drance saying toughest need to fill is laughable.

They need two top 4 blue liners (at a minimum) and one needs to be top pairing. Dickinson is a decent player but ultimately it’s not the biggest need the club has. They are a long long ways from being competitive with or without this acquisition.

 

[EpochLink]

Please move to the Seattle board....

His attitude is trash

 

[tiny103]

Sedins must have made this deal if its any good Good pick up. This is how i imagined retooling our bottom six would look (Assuming we sign him to something reasonable)

 

[timw33]

The big thing here will be what it costs to sign Dickinson. That could really make or break whether this deal was worth it or not.

Seems like we're not going to get a lot of offence from him, but his defensive metrics look excellent and I hope that we can form a very competent matchup line.

 

[Red]

No problem with this. Good player, will fill the 3C role better than Sutter, ok price to pay. One of our more compotent trades.

I'm only scared about how much Benning will overpay him on his contract.

 

[BrilliantBroReferee]

Iain McShill is pumping his tires. All the leadership bullshit that comes with trading for a nothing player. Do these shills think all canucks fans are morons?

We need 2 top 4 defencemen like air.

 

[tantalum]

Not a bad pickup. Arguably an upgrade on Sutter for a third of the cap hit.

We don’t know the cap hit yet….

 

[Intoewsables]

Good deal for us as long as we can get Dickinson signed to a reasonable contract. He'll be a nice fit at 3C.

 

[Johnny Canucker]

Except he is very good defensively. +/- is a pretty useless stat on its own.

So useless it’s been recorded for 100 years.

 

[ziploc]

Maybe a Motte/Dickinson/Podz third line? I originally thought Roussel instead of Motte but I'm not sure he still has the motor. Which suggests our 4th line will still be old and slow for the most part.

 

[PG Canuck]

Sutter set the bar pretty low, so shouldn’t be too hard to surpass.

 

[AlainVigneaultsGum]

We don’t know the cap hit yet….

f***. I'm dumb lol.

 

[Johnny Canucker]

The big thing here will be what it costs to sign Dickinson. That could really make or break whether this deal was worth it or not.

Seems like we're not going to get a lot of offence from him, but his defensive metrics look excellent and I hope that we can form a very competent matchup line.

He’s going to get the same price as Sutter last year. Lol.

 

[Ottobot]

Nvm

 

[Red]

So useless it’s been recorded for 100 years.

Because it's easy and simplistic to track. There's other metrics we can use now that we are in the 21st century.

 

[racerjoe]

Draft picks are assets meant to acquire players. A 3rd has a minuscule chance of becoming an NHL player. Using a 3rd from this weird draft to immediately upgrade the most pressing forward hole on the team is a smart move. I have no critique about the reasoning behind the trade.

I know nothing of Dickinson but he’s the kind of player I was looking at yesterday. Fits in the team’s competitive window and upgrades the 3rd line C that has been a huge black hole. This also means there’s no room for Sutter and further reduces the teams cap space they can use to acquire an overpaid 30 year old forward. The way I look at it, the forwards are “done” and fixing the defence should be the focus.

People need to remember the Canucks are a win now team and a 3rd is not some untouchable piece.

I don’t know enough about Dickenson to have an opinion on this trade, but there should be more to it than that, including where a team is. From what people are saying this sounds very much like a win now move which I think is stupid given the talent on the team and the cap situation.

 

[tantalum]

f***. I'm dumb lol.

I suspect it’ll be 3 x 2M or something which would be fine. But I never saw Sutter getting that stupid of a deal either.

 

[canwincup]

He’s an Rfa? Iain saying they see him as a long term fit has me worried that they’ll sign him to a Sutter type contract lol