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Trade talks would begin and end depending on Arizona's willingness to take on Eriksson's contract as part of the deal...
Sutter would cost more than a first round pick to dump right now. Terrible offer but they were only negotiating with themselves so I wouldnt offer more either. Canucks lucky that Schmidt fell in their lap
In normal times, that's probably a soft offer for OEL. I'm not even sure Vancouver makes the playoffs next year and OEL may be on the decline. Giving up a lottery pick and getting saddled with a massive contract on a declining player could absolutely screw the luck we had with Petey and Hughes. Lots of ways that can go poorly.
Much happier with how things turned out.
I wouldn’t consider moving OEL for that package. It’s an easy pass. I’m very glad to have the #1D instead of Virtanen, two future picks, and a dump. If Hoglander or Podkolzin were swapped in for one of the picks, I’d have done the deal. Sounds like Armstrong felt the same way.Ya I'm shocked they declined it too
During this covid time, that's a VERY good offer
I heard from many informed sources on the board that the most Vancouver would offer was Eriksson, Juolevi, and a third. Something about Benning and leverage and the ghost of Kesler past.
Except that they didn’t.Trade talks would begin and end depending on Arizona's willingness to take on Eriksson's contract as part of the deal...
Sutter would cost more than a first round pick to dump right now. Terrible offer but they were only negotiating with themselves so I wouldnt offer more either. Canucks lucky that Schmidt fell in their lap
It's hard to imagine Kesler being offered up if so then Kesler would have told the twins to go talk to Gilles since it was him trying to trade Kesler , instead the twins went to Kesler to try to get him to change his mind because he was needed for any late cup run for the Sedins.It was at the 2014 trade deadline where the Pittsburgh deal was reportedly nixed, that was when Gillis was still GM. That off-season is when he demanded a trade and gave new GM Benning two teams, Chicago and Anaheim, as potential destinations.
Except that they didn’t.
The package offered didn’t include Eriksson. And the reason it wasn’t accepted had nothing to do with Eriksson. Arizona ultimately declined because they wanted one of Demko, Podkolzin or Hoglander instead of one of those picks.
Dreger tweeted just ahead of the 9am deadline that Vancouver added a last minute piece to the deal, but it wasn’t enough to get the trade done. I expect that last minute piece was the 2nd.
Arizona waited 3 years too long with OEL. This is the best offer they are ever going to get.
What’s not clear is how much salary retention Vancouver we’re insisting on. There is no way Vancouver offered that much unless Arizona was going to retain a substantial portion of that albatross contract. I’m guessing that was the sticking point
I wouldn't take that either.
Yes but Edler is getting on in age and he probably isn’t a top 4 D much longer.Didn’t understand why Vancouver was in on OEL anyway. Don’t they have Hughes and Edler as their top two LD? Why do they need OEL?