Confirmed with Link: Brandon Sutter & 3rd to Vancouver for Nick Bonino, Adam Clendening, 2nd

[GreatjonUmber]

What does Bonino's contract look like?

1.9 for two more years

 

[Beauner]

Bones is clutch. Congrats guys. Also his real nickname is *****, but the damn filter...

Put him with Hornqvist....we can have the Horny-***** line.

 

[T1K]

Put him with Hornqvist....we can have the Horny-***** line.

Nicccceeee

 

[cheesedanish87]

This is a great deal, i don't know how anybody could not like this deal.

 

[dr robbie]

wow, didn't see this coming. honestly, I liked sutter unlike the rest of the board, but this seems like we won the trade.

 

[Headshot77]

Jim rutherford is god

 

[Tasty Biscuits]

1.9 for two more years

Really? Damn that's solid.

 

[Contender]

so is fehr or bonino going to move to wing or is that our 3c/4c? If so that's pretty sweet

 

[Penguinzilla*]

GMJR, I love you.

 

[Jag68Sid87]

Tremendous job by Rutherford and co. here. Now just dump Kunitz and Lovejoy for futures and this off-season will be almost perfect.

I really like Clendening. Very underrated.

 

[kk87]

Wow. Unreal trade, and then we sign Fehr. I'm feeling better about this team now than I have been in a long time. It looks like we might not bring Sunqvist up this year, and I'm fine with that. This forward group is so damn deep it scares me.

 

[Beauner]

Bonino is 2 season removed from 50 points. 40 last year on the Nucks.

Perron-Sid-Horny
Bonino?-Malkin-Kessel
Kunitz-Fehr-Bennett
Plotnikov-Sundqvist-Duper

???

 

[FDBluth]

Bonino is a very good player.

 

[systemsgo]

Fantasticcc. Bye Sutter!

 

[Mischa]

JR is really securing defensive depth after last year. Lots of guys that are borderline NHL.


Love the upgrade from Sutter to bonino. And a better pick too. Wonderful

 

[WVP]

Perron - Crosby - Hornqvist
Plotnikov - Malkin - Kessel
Kunitz - Bonino - Bennett
Dupuis - Fehr - Sundqvist/Wilson/Rust

Bonino also plays a lot of PK minutes.

 

[Zero Pucks]

Awesome. Just gotta get rid of Scuds and Lovejoy now.

 

[Greeneye]

Wow. JR pulled off a minor miracle. I think Bonino is better than Sutter, the other parts are just gravy.

 

[xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Man, if we didn't throw away Despres, JR's 1st year as GM would've been damn near perfect. We now have a formidable forward corps, top to botttom. If we can get the defense sorted out in the next year and find a way to dump Scuderi and Kunitz soon™, we'll be ****ing golden.

 

[Penguinzilla*]

Bonino is 2 season removed from 50 points. 40 last year on the Nucks.

Perron-Sid-Horny
Bonino?-Malkin-Kessel
Kunitz-Fehr-Bennett
Plotnikov-Sundqvist-Duper

???

Not sure why, but I'd hate to see Plotnikov on the 4th line, but it may be the only place he fits

 

[Scandale du Jour]

Bonino is 2 season removed from 50 points. 40 last year on the Nucks.

Perron-Sid-Horny
Bonino?-Malkin-Kessel
Kunitz-Fehr-Bennett
Plotnikov-Sundqvist-Duper

???

Bonino is a center, isn't he?

I would expect something like:

Perron - Crosby - Hornqvist
Plotnikov/Kunitz - Malkin - Kessel
Dupuis - Bonino - Fehr
Kunitz/Plotnikov - Sundqvist - Bennett

They wanted 4 scoring lines, they would have 4 scoring lines. The 3rd line would have three guys who can score between 15-20 goals. Nice.

 

[TNT87]

I still can't believe he fleeced Vancouver like that. What an excellent trade!

 

[Beauner]

Not sure why, but I'd hate to see Plotnikov on the 4th line, but it may be the only place he fits

To start off, it could be good for him. No pressure to produce. Just play his game and get used to the league. If he dominates he can move up. I'm just worried the fourth line in general won't get many minutes.

 

[Penguinzilla*]

Canucks fans not happy at all

 

[BlindWillyMcHurt]

Damn. Full marks once again to JR and co. Really nice trade. And not just because I wasn't much of a Sutter fan. Getting Fehr makes this all the better.