Sportsnet: Elliotte Friedman on 32 Thoughts: The Podcast – NHL Trade Deadline: A Buyers’ Market episode on the Vancouver Canucks. Tyler Myers may not want to go to Detroit, but in the offseason he loses some trade protection. The rumor of Jake DeBrusk could ask for a trade was shot down, but … The Canucks are basically willing to listen on anyone who is not young, or Filip Hronek.
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“Vancouver. Dom’s Canucks. You know Jim Rutherford he did a podcast, the John Shannon, Darren Millard podcast. You know, the Canucks, they’ll listen on just about anything right now, aside from their young players and Filip Hronek.
The way this year has gone, they are, they’ve recognized, I think there’s a lot of disappointment inside the organization about where they’ve gone in two years. And I think if they could move people out of the organization, more of them, they would. And you know, I think it’s going to be hard. Some of those contracts make it difficult.
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The Myers thing is interesting to me, because I don’t think, when initially, when it got out, Myers found out Tuesday morning that Detroit had an offer for him. That Vancouver wanted to consider. Wednesday night when he set out the game, I had a couple people tell me that it didn’t look like he was going to accept it. I don’t know where that stands as of the time we recorded this, but I do think what it does is it opens up other possibilities for Myers. Other teams might come into it. We’ll see kind of what happens there.
But I think, the thing that Myers has to consider, and I think this does make him consider it is, his full protection ends July 1st. And when this happens, you basically have a choice. You can make the call when you have the power, or you can risk losing the power.
And you know, I think at this point in time, Myers has to realize that the Canucks are not afraid to move away from him. So I think they’re all working together. And I think the Canucks understand that he won’t want to rush. I understand why he does not want to go too far in the middle of the season for his family situation.
But one way or the other, it does look like whether it’s now or later, Myers knows Vancouver is prepared to move on. So I think the effort now is to try to put him into a situation he’s comfortable with.
There was a rumor that Jake DeBrusk could ask for a trade. That was denied to me. But, you know, I still think that if something happens that he likes, he wouldn’t stand in the way of it.
Pettersson, one of the things, with all the noise that’s come out of there and all the news that’s come out of there this week, one of the things I wanted to ask is if there was anything that was going on. Famous last words, but it seems quiet around him, right there.
I don’t think the Canucks are eager to retain. It’s a long time to retain for. And I think that’s, I think some teams have tried to ask them if they would consider it. I don’t think it’s something they’re very interested in doing.
I’ve kind of wondered about Ottawa and Vancouver, if there’s a match there. Just over the year, there’s people said, people have kind of hinted there might be something there. I just have not been able to figure out what it could possibly be.
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Bukauskas: “Hmm, maybe someone left over from the Travis Green era in Vancouver.
Friedman: “That’s what you all, you always wonder about, right? Yeah, and you know, Ottawa, I think, is looking to add. And I just think the Canucks have basically let people know, aside from Hronek and our kids, we’re out there.”
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