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Thomas Drance

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Canucks Talk
The Whiteboard: 500 to 1

It's like 3.3 million off the top of my head.

Canucks Talk
The Whiteboard: 500 to 1

And this year and next remaining, this is a goaltender who's never played more than 45 games and, you know, who didn't have his best season last year, although he's generally been...

Canucks Talk
The Whiteboard: 500 to 1

a really good player.

Canucks Talk
The Whiteboard: 500 to 1

Simone Benoit is sort of your classic 5'6", if you're being polite, 6'7", if you're being realistic type defenseman.

Canucks Talk
The Whiteboard: 500 to 1

But, you know, I'd say in Wolfe's case,

Canucks Talk
The Whiteboard: 500 to 1

given his abilities and given the environment that Rick talk, it's teams tend to create for their goaltenders.

Canucks Talk
The Whiteboard: 500 to 1

Like, I think there's a world where wool crushes it, like knocks it out of the park here in sort of limited run or potentially greater run behind Dan Vladar, who he could easily outperform by the way, like easily outperform.

Canucks Talk
The Whiteboard: 500 to 1

So if he can stay healthy, there's a huge opportunity for him.

Canucks Talk
The Whiteboard: 500 to 1

Simone Benoit.

Canucks Talk
The Whiteboard: 500 to 1

I mean, we've seen a lot of Noah Juleson, 15 to 17 minute nights for Rick talk at like the fit with Ben was obvious.

Canucks Talk
The Whiteboard: 500 to 1

And so it's really interesting because effectively I think Philadelphia turned a non tender candidate, uh,

Canucks Talk
The Whiteboard: 500 to 1

And a five, nine defenseman that sort of player that very rarely has much trade value and a third round pick into, you know, a pretty significant upgrade in, in terms of their Achilles heel, which is a net, right.

Canucks Talk
The Whiteboard: 500 to 1

And a defender that Rick talk, it's going to play the leather off of, right?

Canucks Talk
The Whiteboard: 500 to 1

Like he's going to play him and he's going to play him a lot.

Canucks Talk
The Whiteboard: 500 to 1

I think the truth of the matter though, is that there's one consequential asset in this deal, right?

Canucks Talk
The Whiteboard: 500 to 1

And it's the third round pick.

Canucks Talk
The Whiteboard: 500 to 1

And so the Maple Leafs, I think demonstrated that like, okay, you're taking a, you know, mid twenties guy with term and money remaining on his contract and durability issues at the most replaceable position in the league.

Canucks Talk
The Whiteboard: 500 to 1

And you're getting a third while getting off that money, right?

Canucks Talk
The Whiteboard: 500 to 1

Like that's a massive indicator of where things are going.

Canucks Talk
The Whiteboard: 500 to 1

Like that's why the,