He's $4.85M but a UFA as you mentioned.

Good! Less pressure if you're not the favoured Cup winner.

the trade basically gives the Canucks 2 mill in room to add a piece at the trade deadline. Also I think it helps with the cap next year since they are under a certain number at the trade deadline as well.

I feel bad for the hundreds of people I saw wearing Kuzie jerseys at the game the other night.. I had a feeling this was coming and grimaced internally each time I saw one.

Will miss Kuzy a ton, seems like a great teammate and great guy overall but happy with this trade

Not too bummed out about losing Hunter, probably the most expendable prospect at this time and Allvin sold high and worth it for someone like Lindholm. Didn't lose Hoglander, Podkolzin, Willander, Lekkeremaki, Raty, Petey 2.0.

Couldn't sent Jet Woo with the package?

I don't think that Allvin is finished with trades.

Sportsnet article alluded to trade rumours around Tanev:

https://www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/article...uzmenko-trade/

Chris Tanev coming back to Vancouver? Can always use a veteran defenceman for a playoff run.

The scouting report on Lindholm from the article:

To Vancouver: Elias Lindholm

My analysis is very fresh when it comes to Lindholm. I’ve been tracking his play pretty religiously for an extended period of time.

This is how I described him in my most recent scouting report from a week ago:

Vancouver gets a player who will embrace the three-zone detail its coaching staff values. When Lindholm isn’t producing offence, he can be relied upon to take key faceoffs in all areas of the ice and in any situation.

My guess is that Tocchet will put Lindholm as the second line center and put Petey on the wing.

Tanev for Myers pls. Although Tanev is injury prone

Myers is playing much better now than he has during his entire tenure with us. I'd actually like to keep him as he is playing pretty well when paired with Zadorov. It does seem like Canucks management aren't done yet though. We'll just have to see what else they cook up before the trade deadline.

Team Hughes
Quinn Hughes, VAN
Elias Pettersson, VAN
Nikita Kucherov, TBL
Thatcher Demko, VAN
Kyle Connor, WGP
Brady Tkachuk, OTT
Jesper Bratt, NJD
Cam Talbot, LAK
Brock Boeser, VAN
J.T. Miller, VAN
Frank Vatrano, ANA

Team Matthews
Auston Matthews, TOR
Morgan Rielly, TOR
William Nylander, TOR
Mitch Marner, TOR
Jake Oettinger, DAL
Clayton Keller, ARI
Mathew Barzal, NYI
Igor Shesterkin, NYR
Filip Forsberg, NSH
Alex DeBrincat, DET
Vincent Trocheck, NYR

Team MacKinnon
Nathan MacKinnon, COL
Cale Makar, COL
Sidney Crosby, PIT
Alexandar Georgiev, COL
Kirill Kaprizov, MIN
Sebastian Aho, CAR
Tom Wilson, WSH
Jeremy Swayman, BOS
Travis Konecny, PHI
Elias Lindholm, VAN
Oliver Bjorkstrand, SEA

Team McDavid
Connor McDavid, EDM
Leon Draisaitl, EDM
Connor Hellebuyck, WPG
David Pastrnak, BOS
Rasmus Dahlin, BUF
Robert Thomas, STL
Sam Reinhart, FLA
Sergei Bobrovsky, FLA
Boone Jenner, CBJ
Nick Suzuki, MTL
Tomas Hertl, SJS

Team Matthews went for all the bros first.

Meanwhile ours, lol. New guy ain't even on the same team!

:troll:

Strangely enough ... Lindholm made it to All Stars as a Flame but he will wear a Canucks jersey. If I remember, this happened once before, don't know if it was last year.

Bo Horvat

:lol

just from this interview
https://youtu.be/cDJ0jZf2GBo?si=2PBedUjG9GOEZvXv

sounds like petey and lindholm on the same line, and if need be, Elias being the RH faceoff guy will be very useful positionally

I know ASG is all for fun, but it would have been a nice gesture if Hughes took Lindholm earlier. Subtle way of a captain welcoming a new guy to his team.

lol, only looks worse that all of the Canucks but him ended up with Hughes.

They're both Elias lol

Jets trade with the Habs for Sean Monahan:

Elliotte Friedman
@FriedgeHNIC
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Sean Monahan going from Montreal to Winnipeg for a first round pick and a conditional pick
8:11 AM · Feb 2, 2024

Did you guys see the presser after the draft yesterday with Buble? He was taking a friend (turns out it was Bieber) giving him a micro dose of shrooms and he was tripping balls the entire time.

Buble is awesome, guy is rich AF but still seems down to earth and doesn’t really give af

On global news this morning the anchor said she saw him at the Brighton ave Costco shopping last weekend lol

so 6 players in canucks jerseys plus Tocchet. Not bad

and the Canucks announcer Al Murdock

Revamped All Star Skills Competition. I think that this competition will be more exciting to watch compared to last year`s competition given the size of the cash prize for the winner.
One million bucks.

Goalie with the most saves gets $100,000.


The National Hockey League is aiming for a similar outcome this weekend, when a reconfiguration of its All-Star Skills event debuts Friday night at Scotiabank Arena.

Streamlined to 12 players, simplified to eight events and incentivized by a $1 million prize to the winner (with $100,000 for the best of the eight goalies), it’s a very different event. Out are the kitschy local twists (remember the Fountain Faceoff in Vegas or Pitch ’N Puck in Florida?) and in is a focus on pure hockey skills.

Twelve competitors — in alphabetical order, Mathew Barzal, Leon Draisaitl, Quinn Hughes, Nikita Kucherov, Nathan MacKinnon, Cale Makar, Auston Matthews, McDavid, J.T. Miller, William Nylander, David Pastrnak and Elias Pettersson — each take part in four of the first six events, competing for points based on finish.

Fastest Skater

One Timers

Passing

Hardest Shot

Stick Handling

Accuracy

https://x.com/NHL/status/1753487225054990371?s=20

NHL at Olympics are back!

This is exciting, could potentially have old man Crosby as the veteran captain with McDavid, MacKinnon and Bedard all on the same team