Debatable. He got a body. Wasn't more useful than a waiver wire pick-up while taking a non-waiver eligible roster player from Utica who was coming off a good season.
perfect example of sophistry.
you discount granlund's "good" statistical season where he scored 19 nhl goals and claim he has been no better than a waiver pick up.
but you count shinkaruk's "good" statistical ahl season.
sure, that makes sense.
in the real world, "waiver wire pick ups" who score 19 goals in 69 games are a huge unexpected win, regardless of the usage they get to achieve that. only a small percentage of waiver wire pick ups can do that, and for that matter only a small percentage of them can get the usage to do that even on a bad team and underwater.
and in the real world, the canucks assessment of the value of shinkaruk as a prospect went down during that "good" ahl season regardless of his ahl stats. and in the real world, they turned out to be right.
and in the real world, non-waiver eligible players are not valuable if they are not a good prospect.
granlund is no great shakes so far in his career, but has been a young cheap nhl replacement level player who filled a roster role for us and gave us scoring we needed and he still might do more. shinkaruk has not been any of those things. win.