Confirmed with Link: [VAN/VGK] Canucks acquire D Nate Schmidt for a 3rd in 2022

[VancouverJagger]

WOW - Christmas came today. Apparently they've been working on this deal all weekend and when it was first agreed to there was a larger package going back - however with the Pietrangelo deal Vegas obviously got desperate and Jimbo acted accordingly.

Not sure if I'm more surprised at how good of a trade this is for us or more at the fact Benning pulled off something like this.

What a massive steal. Any other year and this is first plus picks +/or prospects. Solid work here that changes our outlook dramatically moving forward.

 

[Canucks LB]

I’m not kidding I was expecting a first round pick and a good prospect at least for Nate

 

[flyerslducks]

great job nucks!!! love it

 

[Bleach Clean]

yep and they still don’t have a third pairing. Benn is awful. I highly doubt they can have two youngsters and think they will be successful. This is a good deal but the team has still taken a significant step back from where it ended the year...as things stand.

Out: Tanev, Markstrom, Stecher and Toffoli.
In: Holtby, Schmidt.

Yeah, it's still a step back, but Holtby + Schmidt cover Tanev + Markstrom in a net impact sense. Schmidt is that much better than Tanev.

If they get the 3rd pairing RHD resolved, then Toffoli would be the swing asset.

This trade salvaged the offseason though. I'm stunned. I thought for sure that when Toffoli went to MTL, Benning was in trouble.

 

[Yultron]

Love this move so much and I’m also speechless

 

[beachcomber]

Or the OEL trade.

Like, if they'd intentionally sat back and this fell into their laps you could say it was the result of a good plan, but that clearly wasn't the case.

This might be the most bizarre series of events I've ever seen as a Canuck fan.

I get your hatred but do you know they haven't been working this one as a fall back plan?

 

[JiffyPB]

How on earth did Boston, New Jersey or Florida not match that.

Wow. This is the first time Benning bent someone this hard in a trade and it wasn't himself.

 

[Vector]

I'll qualify this further: trades for NHL players with a proven track record (Schmidt, Miller, Pearson, Toffoli). It's when he goes for the players that put up good AHL numbers but haven't proven themselves as NHL players that's the problem (Pouliot, Vey, Clendening, Pedan, Baertschi, etc.).

*Sbisa
**Sutter
***Gudbranson

 

[Britton]

I mean this is an insane deal for us, but I just can't fathom how Vegas accepted this. Like how is it possible that this was the best offer they got. I legit feel like we are being trolled here. Like I'm not sure giving Petro 7 years at 8.5 is that much of an upgrade on Schmidt, at least not so big of one that you can just give Schmidt away like this. It's mind boggling.

 

[Nucker101]

I’m not kidding I was expecting a first round pick and a good prospect at least for Nate

I was expecting to just get used as leverage and see him get dealt for like a 2nd + solid prospect to a team in the East

 

[BlueBull]

Thank God.

We have a Functioning Top 4.

Can't wait to see that Hughes-Schmidt pairing next year.

 

[MS]

The dominoes were going to fall in Vegas , or Tampa at some point..luckily Benning was ready

He really wasn't though. He was trying to overpay for a terrible fit (as you yourself admitted) in Tyson Barrie like, yesterday. He wasn't shrewdly sitting back and waiting for an opening, he was flailing all over the place and then had this fall in his lap.

 

[Blueangel1891]

No way Benning did this. How the f***?

Hughes Schmidt
Edler Myers
Juolevi Rafferty
Benn

Looks a lot better

 

[Lat]

Credit goes where credit is due. Great move, from somebody that hasn't been happy with much Benning has done through his tenure.

 

[VC]

Shocked! Amazed!

Love it, Best move possible. Still more to be done but happy camper here right now.

 

[Pastor Of Muppetz]

Flames and Oiler fans right now..

 

[wonton15]

Gotta imagine that Vegas did Schmidt a favour and at least sent him to a decent team that he wanted to goto.

 

[mouz135]

I don’t know how to feel. Earlier I was steaming mad at this guy and wanted him fired.

Don’t get me wrong I still want him fired, but then he goes and pulls this move? I’m so conflicted with emotions

 

[Dissonance Jr]

I still can't process this. Quite a few Eastern teams seemed like they had the cap space to take on Schmidt, and presumably Vegas would've preferred to ship him far away... yet no one was interested? Do all those GMs still think of Schmidt as the depth defender Washington let go for nothing in 2017?

 

[Britton]

I get your hatred but do you know they haven't been working this one as a fall back plan?

Because getting a top pair d-man for a third round pick should never be a back up plan. Like that's beyond stupid. Schmidt is a superior player to OEL, he should never have been the backup plan he should have been the main target.

 

[Ginger Papa]

THIS is what we mean by taking advantage of teams in a tough position.

Feels weird having the roles reversed.

Agreed

 

[beachcomber]

He really wasn't though. He was trying to overpay for a terrible fit (as you yourself admitted) in Tyson Barrie like, yesterday. He wasn't shrewdly sitting back and waiting for an opening, he was flailing all over the place and then had this fall in his lap.

Who said Barrie was offered 6 mil?

 

[MS]

I get your hatred but do you know they haven't been working this one as a fall back plan?

It seems unlikely. There wasn't a whiff of this until immediately before it happened and everything else they've done this offseason has been a completely open book.

I doubt they're offering $6 million for Barrie if they knew there was a good chance this was coming down the pipeline, and it was pretty obvious for a couple days that Pietrangelo was going to Vegas.

 

[JiffyPB]

 

[Bleach Clean]

I get your hatred but do you know they haven't been working this one as a fall back plan?

Schmidt as a fall back plan to Tanev? Barrie?