Jason Bukala

No one else would take him.

You cannot permit the best prospect in the organization, the highest pedigree guy in this organization, the 20-year-old, to be on a development path in which his absolute ceiling case... Is Sam Gerrard.

...provides no path to value.

Like, that can't be... He must play power play one.

How does he play power play one if you've got Filip Hronik, given the way that Filip Hronik looked...

down the stretch of the, of last season.

Like, you know, increasingly I'm, I'm becoming convinced like the big test for incoming Canucks management is we, we felt like in the previous iteration of Canucks hockey operations leadership, that Philip Peronic was going to be essential as a mentor and that he was likely to be named the team's next captain.

Right.

And the truth is, is that because he is good and because he is 29, uh,

And because he's by far this team's most valuable U25 asset or U23 asset on the trade market, holding his value in the form of a player who could tear an ACL, who could get hurt, who could, you know, have age-related decline, who could have a tough season by the bounces and see their value diminish is wholly inefficient.

for how the Canucks are positioned.

And then when you factor in the roadblock on PP1 to see William having any path to value, like it kind of becomes a no brainer.

Like I don't really see the counter argument.

And if your counter argument is his value as a mentor, I actually think there's a reasonable argument to be made that in three, four years, when you've got some of the players that we really believe are going to be the core of the next great Canucks team, that that's a reasonable stance to have, but you have to know where you are now.

which is years from having constructed that core and you have to behave accordingly.

And for me, like the heronic canary in the coal mine, not like the Tyler Myers canary in the coal mine, but like the, the heronic test case for me is going to be the primary thing I'm watching in this new Sadeen, Ryan Johnson access, because if they've got the stomach for what this is going to take to execute the emergency measures required to pull the Canucks out of this muck,

exploring the trade market for Philip Peronic this summer is like an absolute.

No question about it must do.

And by the way, it's... What do you want?

To win a Stanley Cup?