We're starting with a trade that of course involves the
Vancouver Canucks. They trade goalie, Archer, she
loves. Most recently, the MVP of the Calder
Cup playoffs, uh, for the Calder Cup champion
Abbotsford Canucks. He is now. A member of
the Pittsburgh Penguins organization, Prospect Chase Stillman and a
2027 4th round pick coming back to the Vancouver Canucks
. Shiovs finishes his Canucks career with 19 regular season
NHL games, and 880 save percentage in the regular
season, at 10 games, and an 898 save
percentage in the playoffs. So we've We came into
already an angry text in the Dunbar Lumber text line
, 650, 650. Uh, if you want
to text in and have a question or a comment
for Dodd or I, um, and it just
says it's unsigned, it said, why would they
trade Arie for Stillman and a 4th round pick.
This guy's a prospect that hasn't been proven at the
NHL level. I'm hoping I'm wrong. And we
come out winning. Uh, Clos is a prospect
that hasn't been proven at the NHL level as well
. Uh, I think he was referring to Stillman
. Uh, he might have been referring to Clas
. I'm not entirely sure, but I think that
kind of proves my point. Um, listen.
We all loved. Archer's Clos, but If you
were surprised by this trade, you, you,
you, you weren't paying attention. The Canucks signed
Lankinen and Demko to extensions. They talked up Tolopelo
and Ty Young for Abbotsford next season, then drafted
and signed another goalie in Alexei Medvedev. Um,
the return they got was exactly. What most reasonable
observers were expecting based on previous trades. Um,
now, it's a bit unfortunate because again, we
all loved what Clas did for Abbotsford in the Calder
Cup playoffs, but the goalie market is fundamentally different
from the skater market. And, um, you
know, I think Pittsburgh was the perfect landing spot
for Claws because the Penguins don't, well, they
don't really care about the making of the playoffs.
In fact, they probably want to miss. Uh
, the Canucks do care about making the playoffs,
and they couldn't risk giving C Las a spot on
the NHL roster because of that. But they also
didn't want to risk losing Clas for nothing on waivers
, so they did the best that they could.
Now, I still have time for those who wonder
about the contract they gave Demko, given his injury
history, but they were never Ever going to go
into next season with Lankin and Coffs as their tandem
. No, that wasn't on the table, and
if you wanted to kind of backtrack. To how
we ended up with this goalie tandem going forward for
the Canucks and going forward for the foreseeable future,
right? With Lankinen signed for 5 years, Demko
under contract next year, and then a 3-year extension
beyond that, that's 4 years theoretically of certainty that
it's gonna be Demko Lankinin. The Lankinin side of
things, I think in retrospect, is maybe a
little confusing, right? The a 5-year deal at
4.5 million AAV for a 30-year goalie who's never really
been even part of a starting tandem. Now he
played really well for them. When they signed that
deal, I felt like maybe the writing was on
the wall for Demko's time, uh, with the
Vancouver Canucks. I was like, well, why
are you gonna give Langton in that much money if
you're then gonna turn around and commit, you know
, starter, clear-cut starter money to Demko. That's
what they chose to do. And I guess their
strategy is, hey, we're gonna, we're gonna
pour resources into the position, so we feel we
have a chance to have one of the best goalie
tandems in the league. Fair enough. The caps
going up. I think you can stomach. How
much you're spending on that position. But that was
really the key decision point for me. And then
once they decided to sign Demko as well, as
you said, I, I don't know that Patrick
Alvian has ever tipped his hand as much as he
did. When asked about Archer, she loves,
and he references not only Nikita Tolopilo but also Ty
Young. And that was really the, the,
the tell to me. Like Ty Young was in
the UCHL for most of last season and he played
well there and that's fine for a goalie. Like
a goalie playing in the UCHL is not the same
, uh, as a skater playing in the UCHL
. But the fact that they. They were so
aggressively referencing all of the other goalies they had.
You, you could see where this was going and
, you know, I've seen people say things like
, wow, what are they gonna do if one
of them gets hurt? They're not gonna have it
. Well, they're gonna sign a veteran AHL 3rd
type, like 3rd goalie type. Uh, to
be in the organization. And I mean, this
is just the waiver system working exactly as it's designed
. The waiver system does not prevent you to just
hoard young talent in the AHL. It's designed to
distribute it around to the rest of the league,
and it worked in this case cause the Canucks felt
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