Originally Posted by
Godfather
Holy shit the Nucks actually made a huge, interesting hockey trade. Feels like it's been forever since a major trade like this that wasn't just a player for picks.
Canucks Acquire:
- Oliver Ekman-Larsson (Arizona retains 12% of salary)
- Conor Garland
Arizona gets back:
- Louis Eriksson
- Jay Beagle
- Antoine Roussel
- 2021 first round, 9th overall pick
- 2022 second round pick
- 2022 7th round pick
I like this. Eriksson was on a brutal contract for $6mil with just 14 points the last 2 seasons total. Antoine Roussel had 4 points in 35 games last year. Beagle had 5 points last season.
Sure it hurts to see us give up a 9th pick, but OEL and Garland are solid. Garland is an RFA so that'll be expensive, but he put up 39 points in 49 games last season and we needed a top line RW. OEL has been declining and his contract is kinda ugly, but he's a big, point scoring, puck moving d-man that the Nucks desperately needed since we get almost no offense from our D except Quinn Hughes.
The Coyotes recognize they need to get worse to get better so the trade makes sense for them too I think.
Ultimately we might still end up being the losers of this trade with that 9th pick being given up, but I'm all for taking the risk for these two new additions.