Confirmed with Link: Canucks trade Sam Gagner to Oilers for Ryan Spooner, one for one, no salary retained.

[Michael Dal Swolle]

More Benning vanity projects

This is the term I didn't know I needed since 2014.

 

[Megaterio Llamas]

 

[kcunac]

I wouldn't think it's really considered 'taking care of your employees' when your pro UFA signing ends up in the AHL in large part because you gave his job to other UFA's the next season.

No doubt but his handling of it (sending Gags to TO then to EDM) potentially mitigates the negative impact/perception. But yeah, UFAs probably aren’t signing here anyway.

 

[LordBacon]

Great song

 

[F A N]

Hard not to like the trade on paper: We traded Gagner... without giving up a draft pick or asset... didn't have to retain any salary... got back Spooner... who actually saves the Canucks 50K in cap space and money.

With that said, I think there's a reason why he passed through waivers despite the offensive production he put up over the past 3 seasons and I don't see how Green would like him for long given Green's preference for forwards who can play a 200 foot game. I do fear he'll be thrown in with Horvat ,Spooner will score a few goals, and become a mainstay on the top 9. He does have nice hands, some playmaking ability, and is a decent skater.

 

[stampedingviking]

I’m getting hot over the stupidity of this management team! Which should be something everyone shares! This is a bad trade! See my previous post to this one for why!

It's a nothing trade and nothing for you to get your panties in a twist about.

There are plenty of things to moan about, this is not one.

 

[David Bruce Banner]

 

[timbermen]

There used to be a guy here with Bilbo Baggins in his avatar. He used to get real mad over every move the Canucks did. I bet his head is spinning around like Linda Blair in the Exorcist, lol. I think he got ran off HFCanucks awhile ago.

 

[Cupless44]

Rather keep MacEwen up than watch another fringe player like Spooner be given ice.

 

[timbermen]

Rather keep MacEwen up than watch another fringe player like Spooner be given ice.

Who wouldn't? No way Mac's going back after that performance, same with Gaudette.

 

[Cupless44]

Who wouldn't? No way Mac's going back after that performance, same with Gaudette.

I am out of town and missed game but wasn’t his icetime 2.34 last night?

 

[timbermen]

I am out of town and missed game but wasn’t his icetime 2.34 last night?

Wow, you're right. He did spend 5 minutes in the penalty box. What a fight. He played 2:34 and 1:46 on the PP. They don't seem to trust his 5 0n 5 play. Green does ease new players in though.

 

[Nomobo]

Wow, you're right. He did spend 5 minutes in the penalty box. What a fight. He played 2:34 and 1:46 on the PP. They don't seem to trust his 5 0n 5 play. Green does ease new players in though.

Yeah, great fight and he can chuck them with both hands. Hopefully he didn’t injure himself in that scrap.

 

[PavelBure10]

A nothing trade. Good on Benning for getting Gagner the opportunity to play in the NHL again. I really wish the trade involved future considerations rather than Spooner.

 

[LordBacon]

Waive him, send him to Utica because they need help big time.

 

[xtra]

If this organization wa Savkur developing players instead of trying to make the playoffs; mac would have the ice time that granflind has had but we are all about the playoffs

 

[Nick Lang]

I actually liked Gagner in Vancouver. I thought in his limited time up this year he played well. I think Gagner is a much more impactful player than Eriksson is. Also struck me as odd that spent this offseason chasing and throwing money at Beagle and Roussel for veteran leadership when we already had Gagner. Don't feel like the Canucks handled Gagner well.

wtf

 

[VanJack]

Spooner has cleared waivers and is already in the AHL. For a team committed to a rebuild, they just leave him in Utica and elevate a kid like Dahlen for the last 20 games of the season. It's not like Gagner was ever going to help them anyway.

Spooner could do a lot more for the Comets than he ever could for VanCity.

 

[JanBulisPiggyBack]

If this organization wa Savkur developing players instead of trying to make the playoffs; mac would have the ice time that granflind has had but we are all about the playoffs

The fingers you used to dial are too fat for this phone

 

[TruGr1t]

Benning provided one of my favourite Benningisms on this trade in The Province:

“He’s a skill player who can play all three forward positions,” Benning said of Spooner. “I thought he had a real good year last year. I don’t know the reason it hasn’t gone his way this year but we’re going to give him a chance.”

So you didn't watch any recent tape of the guy who is having a historically horrid year, but decided to put him in your NHL lineup because, as far as you can recall, he looked pretty good last year.

I guess this is why our pro scouting sucks. We don't actually do any.

 

[ProstheticConscience]

Benning provided one of my favourite Benningisms on this trade in The Province:

“He’s a skill player who can play all three forward positions,” Benning said of Spooner. “I thought he had a real good year last year. I don’t know the reason it hasn’t gone his way this year but we’re going to give him a chance.”

So you didn't watch any recent tape of the guy who is having a historically horrid year, but decided to put him in your NHL lineup because, as far as you can recall, he looked pretty good last year.

I guess this is why our pro scouting sucks. We don't actually do any.

Yeah, I saw that too.

*deep sigh*

They're going to Granlund the shit out of him, aren't they.

 

[Catamarca Livin]

Benning provided one of my favourite Benningisms on this trade in The Province:

“He’s a skill player who can play all three forward positions,” Benning said of Spooner. “I thought he had a real good year last year. I don’t know the reason it hasn’t gone his way this year but we’re going to give him a chance.”

So you didn't watch any recent tape of the guy who is having a historically horrid year, but decided to put him in your NHL lineup because, as far as you can recall, he looked pretty good last year.

I guess this is why our pro scouting sucks. We don't actually do any.

Does not mean he has not seen him play, means he does not know why he sucks this year.

 

[xtra]

The fingers you used to dial are too fat for this phone

Man I hate autocorrect, but my fingers are too damn fat for this phone

 

[sting101]

Benning provided one of my favourite Benningisms on this trade in The Province:

“He’s a skill player who can play all three forward positions,” Benning said of Spooner. “I thought he had a real good year last year. I don’t know the reason it hasn’t gone his way this year but we’re going to give him a chance.”

So you didn't watch any recent tape of the guy who is having a historically horrid year, but decided to put him in your NHL lineup because, as far as you can recall, he looked pretty good last year.

I guess this is why our pro scouting sucks. We don't actually do any.

this is pretty funny but to take it for having no idea how he is currently performing is just as laughable.

We just took a player we couldn't gift to anyone for a pick or futures and were paying to play for a rival team in the AHL and got a guy who earned a 4million dollar contract once upon a recent time. Now Spooner is small and weak and doesnt have a great shot but he can wheel and has good hands and has been decent producing with special teams play. Sven Baertschi might have to be shut down and Goldobin is playing himself to the KHL so i like this move. If he sucks he helps Utica which is a helluva #1 C for the Comets.

Get the feeling this is like Carcone for Leivo all over again....i just dont expect as good a player at the end of the day but this is a progessive move any way you look at it IMO.

Since the deadline of 2017. (2yrs)

Dahlen Goldobin MacEwen Pouliot Motte Leivo Spooner have been brought in for washed up junk and a 4th rd pick.....not half bad

Edit: we got a 4th for Hansen also so basically nothing and also drafted probably the best Canuck ever and have Hughes Madden Woo Lind DiPietro and Gadjovich in the pipeline.

 

[Melvin]

That’s actually abysmal for a supposedly rebuilding team, lmao. I guarantee you every other rebuilding team has done better. I would trade all of those players to get the 4th back.

I didn’t even realize it was that bad. Two years and those are the players they’ve added? Jesus Christ that’s awful. Who have the Rangers added in that time?