Kesler to Anaheim - My Condolences, Ed

[RGM81]

To Anaheim #Ducks Ryan Kesler 2014 3rd round pick
To Vancouver #Canucks Nick Bonino Luca Sbisa 24th overall pick 2014 3rd round pick.

[bladesofsteel]

ouch


the 24th pick might be ekblad right?

[flemingc04]

Well it was bound to happen sooner or later. Initially it doesn't look like Anaheim got a lot except for the 1st, but then again I don't know a lot about Bonino and Sbisa.

[canucksfan007]

Just heard this too ...... not just Ed, another sweet trade as of late for the Canucks.

24th pick - unless they have plans to package this somewhere else, its a little too late to help us ...... were not the best drafting team ....

Sbisa - a slightly less skilled similar dman than the rest of our bunch .... I see a good 3-4 people infront of him, not including youth ... so essentially he becomes a 6th - 7th guy

Bonino - sure he did well last year, but who wouldnt playing with someone like Getzlaf, Perry or Selanne .... we dont have the same caliber of talent to make this trade in our favor


Kesler ( top end talent ) .... traded for no top end talent ......


Unless there is more to come, another loss for the Canucks

[miscs75]

How many more of these NTC will Vancouver rid themselves of?

[n7unleashed]

Kesler in 2014 - 43 points in 77 games, Bonino in 2014 - 49 points in 77 games. I know Kesler probably played against tougher opponents, but Bonino is a couple years younger and he could turn out half decent. A nice package of 6th, 24th, a defense man and a prospect for 1st overall?

[stamkosfan]

This trade IMO all determines on how well Bonino plays. Sbisa is a 3rd pair dman at best on the Nucks and the 24th pick won't be ready to enter the NHL immediately. Yes Bonino had better stats than Kesler last year, but how good was this guy before he played with Getzlaf and Perry? Idk about this trade tbh......there has to be something else to come.

[pur3strpker0]

Well with Kesler and garrison gone it roughly 21$ million in cap space if anything!

[30ranfordfan]

That's the big rumor right now.... Canucks want to move up to #1, and get Reinhart (which would be awesome, IMO, Bennet would go to Buffalo, and Ekblad slips to #3 for Edmonton. lol).

Florida, also, is allegedly really high on Nikolaj Ehlers... and the talk is that they'd be willing to move down, outside the top 4 but still in the top 8, and believe they could get him. Certainly the Canucks pick would work for that. If you believe that the top 4 will be Reinhart, Bennett, Ekblad, and Draisaitl is some order.... and I think Michael Dal Colle seems to be the consensus #5, there's still a handful of guys that out rank Ehlers, so the chances of him being gone at 6 are slim.

I don't know Vancouver's system well enough... but does something like #6 + #24 + Chris Tanev (I'm just looking at a young dman, that is already in the NHL) get it done?

Kesler in 2014 - 43 points in 77 games, Bonino in 2014 - 49 points in 77 games. I know Kesler probably played against tougher opponents, but Bonino is a couple years younger and he could turn out half decent. A nice package of 6th, 24th, a defense man and a prospect for 1st overall?

[Gibby]

Makes you think they would get rid of the Twins if they could

Blow it up real good !!!

Not a bad idea with McDavid coming out next year