Confirmed with Link: Canucks sign D Christian Wolanin to 1-Year, 2-Way Deal ($750K AAV)

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Looks like an AHL signing.

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[Vector]

 

[AppleHoneySauce]

Wut?

 

[Vector]

Wut?

No idea what you mean.

 

[PG Canuck]

Wut?

Canucks sign D Christian Wolanin to 1-Year, Two-Way Deal ($750K AAV)​

 

[VanillaCoke]

Wut?

Canucks sign D Christian Wolanin to 1-Year, Two-Way Deal ($750K AAV)

 

[AppleHoneySauce]

No idea what you mean.

Of course. Must have just been my imagination.

 

[bossram]

Depth for Abbotsford. RJ just doing his business.

 

[CalderSchmalder]

Hopefully Christian doesn't turn the puck over like this

 

[Mr. Canucklehead]

Definitely gives Abbotsford's D corps a boost, while also having some NHL experience under his belt.

 

[Vector]

Madison Bowey replacement.

 

[arttk]

Canucks sign D Christian Wolanin to 1-Year, Two-Way Deal ($750K AAV)​

LOUDER

 

[MS]

Wolanin was a big prospect for Ottawa coming out of North Dakota (where he was a teammate of Boeser for 2 years). Good size, skilled, excellent skater.

Had a great rookie pro season in 18-19 split between the AHL where he dominated and Ottawa where he was playing 20 minutes/game to close out the year. Looked like a long-term important piece there.

Then he blew out his shoulder in training camp in 2019 and it’s been a mess for him since. Barely played for 2 years. Has been nowhere near the player he was before.

At this point he’s AHL depth. Bowey replacement.

 

[alternate]

Needed another LSD for the farm

 

[biturbo19]

Love it tbh. He's one of the obscure "depth signings" i would've pursued myself.

I still think this guy can be a solid NHL depth Defenceman. He's got plenty of tools. He's big and can skate well. He's even shown brief flashes of putting those things together at times. Not completely lacking a hockey brain. He's not that far removed from Sens fans thinking he might be part of their future team. He's "old" now, but he's had one of those really weird development paths that's full of bumps and redirections. Ill-timed injuries and getting lost in the shuffle of a crowded bottom-of-depth-chart as a result. He's not going to be a Top-4 guy, but as a #6/7 guy, i wouldn't be upset with that.

But at worst, he's a solid AHLer.

Absolutely the sort of guy i'd take a flyer on any day.

 

[Josepho]

so that is now 4 of the players on the 2016 north dakota team (wolanin, stecher, boeser, poolman) that have been in the organization.

 

[sting101]

Love it tbh. He's one of the obscure "depth signings" i would've pursued myself.

I still think this guy can be a solid NHL depth Defenceman. He's got plenty of tools. He's big and can skate well. He's even shown brief flashes of putting those things together at times. Not completely lacking a hockey brain. He's not that far removed from Sens fans thinking he might be part of their future team. He's "old" now, but he's had one of those really weird development paths that's full of bumps and redirections. Ill-timed injuries and getting lost in the shuffle of a crowded bottom-of-depth-chart as a result. He's not going to be a Top-4 guy, but as a #6/7 guy, i wouldn't be upset with that.

But at worst, he's a solid AHLer.

Absolutely the sort of guy i'd take a flyer on any day.

was hoping to get him last year through waivers when Hunt was struggling.

well said exactly my thoughts

 

[Mr. Canucklehead]

 

[vadim sharifijanov]

Hopefully Christian doesn't turn the puck over like this

haha first thing that came to my mind too.

the urban legend is after that horrible giveaway (not his first of those playoffs) patrick roy went to crawford and demanded that he never have to play behind wolanin ever again. and he never did.

wolanin never dressed another minute that playoffs and was traded away in the offseason. colorado went 11-2 the rest of the way, and those two losses were to the monster detroit team that won the next two cups.

 

[VanJack]

Wolanin was a big prospect for Ottawa coming out of North Dakota (where he was a teammate of Boeser for 2 years). Good size, skilled, excellent skater.

Had a great rookie pro season in 18-19 split between the AHL where he dominated and Ottawa where he was playing 20 minutes/game to close out the year. Looked like a long-term important piece there.

Then he blew out his shoulder in training camp in 2019 and it’s been a mess for him since. Barely played for 2 years. Has been nowhere near the player he was before.

At this point he’s AHL depth. Bowey replacement.

Thanks for the background.....I was always impressed whenever I watched Wolanin in Ottawa. Always wondered why his career hit the skids.

Big guy, who could skate and handle the puck. But injuries appear to have taken their toll. Still, a good depth signing for Abbotsford and could be called up if a rash of injuries were to hit the big club.

 

[Jyrki21]

I get such a kick out of non-Québécois guys like Wolanin and Paul Stastny who were born in Quebec City because their dads were playing for the Nordiques. In Wolanin’s case, just weeks before the team moved, too. And then you have a guy like Cal Foote who is now saddled with a U.S. tax-filing burden for the rest of his life just because the franchise moved before his birth year and he was born in Colorado instead.

Some real Butterfly Effect stuff.

 

[Paulinbc]

Hopefully Christian doesn't turn the puck over like this

Roenick?
Chelios?
Roy?

just how old is this dude?

 

[Vector]

Roenick?
Chelios?
Roy?

just how old is this dude?

Christian’s Dad, Craig, is 55 years old.

 

[mathonwy]

I actually didn't mind Wolanin when he was a Sen.

He's 27. Maybe he's figuring it out again.

 

[krutovsdonut]

has looked ok tonight