Frank Corrado: So many moves! Has the flurry of trades changed where players will go in the draft?
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How are Canucks fans reacting to the initial trade news?
Frank Corrado back with us once again. Frank, how are you, sir? I'm good, boys. What's happening over there? Oh, we are waiting for Canucks fans to react to the first trade from the Vancouver Canucks. Everybody's jealous of everything that's happening around the league here. Everybody's clearing house and moving veterans and all that. Canucks fans are being left on the doorstep here. What's going on?
Okay, you can't do nothing, clearly, but you can't do everything. When the Canucks say that it's a rebuild but not a sell-off, they have to strike the right balance of making sure that, A, you're hitting a salary cap floor. You have to do that, so you need certain money on your books. But if you use Chicago as an example, they went full scorched earth. And they've unintentionally finished 31st again now when they don't want to be because they want to be turning a corner. So there's a balance there between trading players off, bringing assets in, but not getting it to the point where your young guys are all trying to figure out the NHL together without the right experience and veteran guys around them because it makes a difference when you have good mentors who can show you the way.
You talk about Chicago. Let's start right there. One of the teams that was active this week made the splash, pay a price in the fourth overall pick, but they get Bo Byram on their blue line, and obviously they need to make moves to support Conor Medard and, as you said, try to move this thing forward here. Is Bo and Byram a healthy Bo and Byram? Is he the guy, the right guy for the job there?
I think that's the big thing, right? He's got to be healthy, which he has been now for... for a couple years, which is good. He's never been a number one because he's had to play behind Makar and Rasmus Dahlin. So he's going to be a number one now. He's going to be a number one on a team that isn't going to give him a ton of support. So there's going to be moments where maybe he's trying to do a lot with the puck and could get exposed that way or eaten some minuses that is not a good feeling.
Why might the Canucks' 'rebuild but not sell-off' strategy be risky?
But that's the reality of the team that he's going to. But the big question I had was, Like Chicago needs help for sure. Chicago needs forwards. Like they need forwards to play with Conor Bedard, like highly skilled forwards. And I get it. Bowen Byram's a good defenseman up in the rush, all that kind of stuff skates with the puck, but like, it felt like that was an area where they were really building it right on the back end, um, with guys like Vlasic and Kaiser and, you know, Lev Shanoff has to take another step, but, um, you know, the crevier kid is, is massive who goes the other way. I was, I was just, I thought if you were going to expend that, spend that asset, you were going to bring back a difference making forward to play with Conor Bedard, not a defenseman.
The, uh, potential for either one of those players to end up as a Vancouver Canuck and I'm talking Bedard and Byron going down a little bit maybe if they can make that work and and turn that into something another big deal was well there was two that sort of came together and that is the Brady Kachuk deal from Ottawa down to Florida and then Ottawa's got to react because they need to replace what Brady Kachuk was so they get Willie Mechlin from San Jose which which means San Jose's got two top 10 picks as it stands as we record this right now. And we all wonder now how that changes the price of bread for the Canucks at number three in the draft because now maybe the dreams of them passing on Stenberg because they need a defenseman so bad, maybe that goes out the window because you can still find, there's so many defensemen, they can still find a defenseman at number nine.
Do you think this changes everything now in the top 10 of the draft that San Jose tried?
Well, you know what's crazy about this is San Jose is going to have two drafts in the last three years. So this one in two years ago where they're going to draft potentially like a franchise slash superstar forward and then possibly like a top pair defenseman because they had Celebrini Dickinson two years ago.
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