Cam Robinson: All eyes on the rebuild. Veteran trade? Options for the 24th overall pick.
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Director of everything at Elite Prospects. And of course, you want to follow Elite Prospects for everything National Hockey League draft related. We're going to get to the draft as we always do with Cam Robinson. But first, I want to ask him the poll question. Cam, do the Canucks need to trade a vet at or before the draft to prove they're serious here about the rebuild, to get the rebuild going? and make sure it's real. Do you want to see a vet traded at or before the draft?
Do I want to see it? Yes, I do. And I think many people would. And I think that that would be a nice kind of call to arms that, hey, we are serious about this. But I don't think it has to happen because generally, I don't think many things have to happen unless it works out in your favor. So if a deal is there that they think is a good deal, make that trade. If the deal is not, don't force something just to be like, Hey, Hey, we're, we're open for business and see, we're proving it is that you can, you can send the memo to all 31 teams and be like, we're open for business, but you don't have to prove it to the fans. You just, you don't have to just be a little more patient. Yeah.
We talked about it earlier. You go back a few summers and, the Canucks were hunting for that right shot defenseman or hunting for that second line center.
Do the Canucks need to trade a veteran before the draft to prove their rebuild?
Eventually got the right shot defenseman and Roenick, of course, never got the second line center and thus last season blew up. When you're in the buying mode, These opportunities, the trade deadline, the draft, free agency, if you miss them, you don't have a lot of recourse. When you're a seller, you should typically have longer runways, especially with vets under contract, right? And be able to pick your spot a little bit more readily, particularly if you're committed to a longer term rebuild. Is that fair, Cam? Like the urgency is on the buyer more than the seller at the draft?
Yeah, almost always the urgency is more on the buyer too, because traditionally there are far more buyers than sellers in this kind of new age that we've been living in. So I think you're right is that the pinch points are still going to be there for sellers. You can sometimes choose to get your business done early. Some teams like to wait until the last minute to maximize the deadline or something like that, or leading up to the draft, where other teams like to get it done a little bit earlier. And buyers certainly like to get things done earlier if they can to get ahead of the mix. So so I do think that advantage seller generally, especially like if you look up and down the standings, Vancouver is one of the very few teams that you can like these guys are for sale.
Like this is a team that is rebuilding. They're not in a rush. Like even you look at some of the other bottom feeders, you know, Chicago wants to take a step forward. Calgary wants to take a step forward. Like there are teams that want to move up. Vancouver is looking to stay down. And so they will they will have a lot of dance partners if they choose to.
But they are not too good. So, like, there's no gun to the head of the Vancouver Canucks because if they don't get the trade that they want, they just don't make that trade. And it's not like they're trying to get to the bottom. They are on the bottom. They own the bottom. They have paved the bottom with their colors. So... If they don't make a trade, it's okay. They don't come off desperate like they have so many years in the past when they've been in the mushy middle and we're trying to make trades to get them over the top. This is a different set of circumstances. So it's a rare moment where the Canucks get to sort of dictate terms a little bit here.
No, you're absolutely right. And I do think that they are, you know, obviously they proved it last year. A lot of things went wrong for them to get that low and to stay that low. And there is an X factor coming back too, right? A healthy Thatcher Demko can drag that team out of the basement, you know. Is he dragging them to 27? I don't think he's dragging them up to 18 or something like that.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:03–1:25
2
Do the Canucks need to trade a veteran before the draft to prove their rebuild?
1:25–7:16
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Why does urgency tend to sit with buyers rather than sellers at the draft?
7:16–18:20
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Could the Canucks realistically trade Thatcher Demko and when might that happen?
18:20–23:04
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Does Carolina’s Stanley Cup win mean NHL teams should value size less in prospects?
23:04–31:02
Speakers
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