David Pagnotta: Trade season has started, but are prices too good to be true? Canucks willing to retain salary on EP40
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There he is, the editor-in-chief of the fourth period, one half of the DFO Insider with our buddy Irv Gaffar. Great work covering the Stanley Cup finals. Boy, Vegas and Raleigh, you had it tough, David. Good to see you.
Hey, boys. Yeah, yeah. Fun time. Exciting final. The travel, I'm not going to lie, not ideal, but, you know, first world problems, whatever. Yeah. It was out of a final for sure.
Yeah. And two day breaks in Vegas. Not so bad. Oh, just horrible. Yeah. In between, I saw you writing about the Vancouver Canucks, though, and we're going to go over a trio of players here. But I think the most interesting name, just because we thought, OK, he's got a no trade clause. He put a stake in the ground at the end of the season saying he wanted to be here. He wanted to be a career Vancouver Canuck and be a part of the solution, help the young guys, lead them along, and then ultimately be part of the next competitive cycle of this team. But Brock Besser's name is out there, David. Explain.
Yeah, teams are poking around on a bunch of guys in Vancouver, and Brock's one of them. Is it going to be enough? Are the conversations going to lead to Ryan Johnson and company basically being in a position where they feel a deal makes sense for them to bring to Brock? We'll have to wait and see. But there are teams, given the free agent marketplace, as thin as it is, and with so many teams exploring alternative options via the trade route, you want to address your offense? You got to trade for it, basically. So there are teams that are poking around. I think Boston's circled back to an extent, at least one of the teams on Brock Besser, to see, hey, is there a fit? Can we make something happen? And then obviously they got to go through the motions and go from there.
But his name has started to circulate here in the last week or so, I would say. And it's to the point where Vancouver, as they probably should be given where they're at, willing to listen.
There's still so much debate about whether or not the Canucks should trade a ton of these veteran players or one or two.
Which Canucks veterans are teams already 'poking around' with before trade season starts?
In the end, is it going to be up to them? How much of a seller's market, despite all the evidence that we've seen so far, leads you to believe that a team like the Canucks could really have a clearinghouse? Could it be that they could get rid of two or three bodies?
I could see it. I would be a little bit surprised, to be honest, if... It's, you know, their big three forwards that are getting all the calls. So that's Brock and that's Jake DeBrusque and Elias Patterson. I'd be a little bit surprised if all three were to go. But yeah, and Drew O'Connor's name continues to like fluctuate in the market in terms of availability and teams poking around there for, for a depth piece in their mid to bottom six. But yeah, I think there's a pathway if things really start to intensify talks wise. I think there's a pathway for a few more deals, two or three more deals to kind of happen for the Vancouver Canucks over the offseason. we all know Jake DeBrusque's situation and the Canucks are trying to find a new home for him and put him in an environment that, you know, he feels more comfortable in, in terms of compete level and where those teams are at contention wise.
And, you know, you've got the Ottawa's and the Columbus's and the, I think Montreal's poked around Philly. A few other teams have Seattle's been, been linked to him as well with respect to DeBrusque. So again, There certainly seems to be a strong level of interest. It's just a matter of finding the right deals. And does yesterday's Brady-Kachuk move have a domino effect or a ripple effect on the rest of the market? It probably to a degree does, and it certainly intensifies the conversations across the league as we get a few days, four days away from the start of the NHL draft. But the Canucks are certainly popular because of the assets that they have and that they're willing to listen on.
Yeah, and teams are paying healthy prices. Like, DeBrusque may fetch a pretty healthy return.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:02–2:16
2
Which Canucks veterans are teams already 'poking around' with before trade season starts?
2:16–4:55
3
How much interest is there in Brock Boeser and could Boston or others make a deal?
4:55–11:31
4
Could the Canucks realistically clear two or three veteran contracts this offseason?
11:31–15:28
5
What return might the Canucks get for Jake DeBrusk and which teams are linked to him?
15:28–19:25
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