HockeyWooot
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Despite pedestrian offensive totals in the regular season, he’s been great these playoffs.
Confirmed Trade: [VAN/CGY] Elias Lindholm for Andrei Kuzmenko, Hunter Brzustewicz, Joni Jurmo, 2024 1st, cond. 2024 4th
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Agreed.
He's been very good all series. That is why teams make trades like this one. They do it so the player can help them in the playoffs. He's scored in 2 games and game 4 may very well have been the dagger the Preds can't overcome. It's looking like Lindholm was a key factor in the Canucks making it to the 2nd round with a chance to keep it going. That is exactly what they could have hoped for when making this trade. Win/Win for sure.
Let’s not speak in past tense yet, need to win one more gam but yeah he has been good so far. Worth the trade.
That’s what we thought Petterson would do for him, but at this point Garland has been doing a better job at setting up linemates for while
bleedgreen
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He’s been what they needed and what they were hoping for with the trade. He’s healthier now and fitting in exactly when they needed him to. 104 pages of vitriol to just say….”well that worked out”.
nucks88
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Canucks 4, Predators 3 (OT): Brock Boeser the saviour, Elias Lindholm the hero
Boeser strikes twice with goalie pulled for first playoff hat trick, Lindholm scores overtime winner, Arturs Silovs holds the fort
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I think the rather obvious point is that the Canucks are starting to get value out of Lindholm and are not missing Kuzmenko, whom they traded as part of the package for Lindholm.
Also, for the record, Kuzmenko is a good 2nd line support player, nothing more.
He has been a difference maker for us this series. We would likely be down 3-1 without him. Huge add for the Canucks playoff run.
I get that, but it makes far more sense to bump the trade thread rather than one singularly on Kuzmenko.
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15-5 as a RHS Center for 75% last night and 1+1 including the OT winner. Thank you!
This could be the TSN turning point on the Canucks playoffs.
This could be the TSN turning point on the Canucks playoffs.
Someone sacrifice a virgin, I'm sure Edmonton has a surplus lol. Never look ahead.
Love Lindholm and am still hoping we find a way to keep him, Myers and Zads, which likely means moving Hronek and Mikheyev and signing Tanev to play with Quinn, hopefully as a placeholder for Willander if he pans out.
Hronek would easily be able to fetch a young winger to play with EP.
Hronek needs to be on a team with a spot on pp1 and from a nucks pov moving him for a winger preferably on an ELC, freeing up money for 2 maybe 3 of Zads, Myers and Tanev? Or at least a large chunk of their contracts.
Sorry got a bit side tracked.
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Canucks only traded for Lindholm to help with a playoff run (and free up cap space next season in dumping Kuz). People who prematurely judged this trade based on his limited regular season results with the team totally missed the point of the trade and embarrassed themselves. I guess some people were never taught to not count your chickens before they hatch.
Honestly, it seems that both sides are pretty happy here. The Flames got really good value for an underperforming upcoming UFA, and Kuzmenko's hot streak fueled even more good feelings while Lindholm was injured/struggling to find his groove for VAN.
Fast forward to the playoffs and it looks like Lindholm is providing exactly what the Canucks were hoping for when they traded for him.
This trade may be one of those rare win-win's and I hope that is the case. I hate hoping for players traded away from my team to fail, so I hope Lindholm continues to play very well, and I suspect most Flames fans feel the same.
Fast forward to the playoffs and it looks like Lindholm is providing exactly what the Canucks were hoping for when they traded for him.
This trade may be one of those rare win-win's and I hope that is the case. I hate hoping for players traded away from my team to fail, so I hope Lindholm continues to play very well, and I suspect most Flames fans feel the same.
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Yup. Kuzmenko is a perfect fit for a rebuilding club. He’s fun, and exciting. Lindholm is a guy teams need to be a winner. Good deal for both clubs considering each has different goals.
Really bad trade for the Nucks.
Lindholm has been good since returning from some missed games, and was a good target to upgrade the 3C position, but that's not the price they paid nor the intended position he'd fill.
Nucks were weak at the wing before the trade, and now that hole is massive. It also doesn't help the C depth, cause now Pettersson is completely useless without his play driver.
This team was bottom 10 in scoring before Kuz, and went right back to that the day he was traded.
Zadorov, Suter, Blueger, Lafferty, Cole, Hronek etc. The list goes on for moves made to address the overall D and PK. Why the FFFF would you trade away one of your top offensive catalysts and leading goal scorer from the previous year!?
We now have half a dozen wingers, that are combined for ZERO goals in the last 20-30 games.
They traded away the exact skillset they are now missing, in the name of '2 way play'.
Toch should have been strong armed into giving Kuz more rope, or at least a move needed to be made to address the winger void after.
Lindholm has been good since returning from some missed games, and was a good target to upgrade the 3C position, but that's not the price they paid nor the intended position he'd fill.
Nucks were weak at the wing before the trade, and now that hole is massive. It also doesn't help the C depth, cause now Pettersson is completely useless without his play driver.
This team was bottom 10 in scoring before Kuz, and went right back to that the day he was traded.
Zadorov, Suter, Blueger, Lafferty, Cole, Hronek etc. The list goes on for moves made to address the overall D and PK. Why the FFFF would you trade away one of your top offensive catalysts and leading goal scorer from the previous year!?
We now have half a dozen wingers, that are combined for ZERO goals in the last 20-30 games.
They traded away the exact skillset they are now missing, in the name of '2 way play'.
Toch should have been strong armed into giving Kuz more rope, or at least a move needed to be made to address the winger void after.
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bleedgreen
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I don’t think I’ve seen more hand wringing over a player than I’ve seen over Kuzmenko here. Is he going to cure some disease or something like that? Invent the sequel to Velcro? I watched the guy play post trade, he’s good? Nothing to cry over. Vancouver doesn’t seem to miss him, moved him out to a team that will use him more, and got a great piece for a playoff run.
What a nothing burger trade for the rest of the league fans. For Nucks and Calgary fans it’s 104 pages of toxic horse pucky.
What a nothing burger trade for the rest of the league fans. For Nucks and Calgary fans it’s 104 pages of toxic horse pucky.
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Say what you want about the trade, the Canucks don't win that series without Lindholm, which is why we traded for him, Kuz would have been benched the entire series.
