One month ago, the Vancouver Canucks acquired forward Elias Lindholm from the Calgary Flames in a trade to bolster the organization’s top-six. Now, it appears that Lindholm’s days in Vancouver may be numbered, as Chris Johnston of TSN is reporting that the Canucks have spoken with the Boston Bruins about flipping Lindholm in order to acquire Jake Guentzel from the Pittsburgh Penguins.
In theory, a trade could work between the three teams, but there will undoubtedly be a lot of moving parts in any trade of this magnitude. Hypothetically, the Bruins could send a package of Jake DeBrusk and John Beecher to the Penguins, with the Canucks sending Vasily Podkolzin to Pittsburgh as well.
Before this year started, the Bruins were heavily rumored to be a team looking for center help after watching Patrice Bergeron and David Krejci retire in the offseason. Nevertheless, the team opted to utilize Pavel Zacha and Charlie Coyle as their one-two punch down the middle. Both players have handled the pressure well, with Coyle now six points away from a career-high in a single season.
It is interesting to see Lindholm’s name pop back up in trade rumors, as they surrounded him for nearly a year in Calgary. In 14 games with the Canucks since the trade in late January, Lindholm has scored two goals and six points overall coupled with a 58.1% faceoff percentage. Ultimately, the team may prefer to add more offense to their wings, instead of employing Lindholm in a third-line role down the middle.
In the hunt for their third President’s Trophy victory in franchise history, the Canucks are seemingly doing everything they can to create a Stanley Cup-caliber team. Infamously, even with the organization now being 53 years old, Vancouver has lost all three Stanley Cup Finals in team history.
Whoa! Hold da phone! Lindholm has been solid for them! Guess they figured they could not re-sign him and want to get a true rental in Jake!
Man whose stock has dropped quicker in the last 2 years Elias or Johnny?
The correct answer is still Huberdeau.
How’s PLD these days. I don’t stay up for west coast games.
You think? I don’t see it myself…
The Bruins don’t have the cap space to acquire Lindholm. They have under $100,000 in current cap space. No way they can add without moving out salary
Never mind a basic question: which of Boston’s centers is the media arguing that Lindholm is outplaying? Not Coyle. Not Zacha. Not Geekie.
This would be great for hockey. An actual hockey trade 2 teams making a run at the cup. And the 3rd team that tried to steal the colors of an original 6 team. Bruins can always sign Lindholm in off-season when they have the money for him I fear giving more players then the mentioned creates chemistry issues. I wouldn’t mind forbort also
“Steal the colors”. Or ya know, wear the same colors as all the other professional teams in the city.
Of course it took them until 1980 to start wearing them.
What colors are penguins?
What colors are bears?
Google it.
LMAO
Many bears are black. Even have a catchy name for them: “black bears.”
By contrast, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a golden penguin.
Penguins have some yellow on their chest/belly area.
Only so many color combinations to go around.
Were penguins blue and white before 1980? Also if you are talking about the Chicago Bears their colors are navy blue and orange and you can google that.
Right, but go ahead and Google “penguin” and see what color those birds are and let us know.
You still haven’t answered the question: What color were penguins before 1980? Because apparently people in Pittsburgh tought they were blue and white.
Should the Penguins not be penguin colored because the Bruins were already penguin colored?
No. There is an interesting story regarding the color change. Back in the day there were no league wide apparel deals (Adidas, Under Armour, Nike etc..) and NHL got their unis from local suppliers i.e the Blackhawks had Gunzo’s the Rangers had Gerry Cosby’s and so forth. Well it turns out that when the Penguins made the switch the purchased tgheir new unis from the same place as the Bruins were getting theirs which further upset the Bruins in general and Harry Sinden in particular which was always fun.
In actuallity I’ve been a Bruin fan for over 50 years and I never cared when they changed colors as I never understood when they were blue and white to begin with although I believe it had something to do with their original GM Jack Riley hating the name and deciding to use the colors of the Toronto St Michael’s Majors as he was a Toronto native.
I suspect objections from the Bruins is why the Penguins were blue, but don’t know for sure.
Could be. The GM story I posted game from an excellent book by Chris Creamer called “Fabric of the Game” which details every NHL teams uniform history so I’m going with that. He also has an excellent website Chris Creamer’s Sports Logo’s
DeBrusk goes to Pittsburgh, plus 20% retention along with next year’s first …
No thanks. The Bruins can’t afford to trade anymore draft picks.
DeBrusk and Beecher is more of a half empty bag and less of a package.
“Infamously, even with the organization now being 53 years old, Vancouver has lost all three Stanley Cup Finals in team history.”
And sadly, that’s still 1 more finals appearance than their expansion brethren, my beloved Buffalo Sabres.
So it becomes for the Canucks
Kuzmenko (not a loss, a salary dump)
Hunter Brzustewicz (destroying OHL)
Joni Jurmo
1st Round
4th Round
Podkolzin (1st round a few years ago)
For
Rental Guentzel
Not sure anything but a cup Final appearance would warrant that
Jurmo is nothing,late first, brzustewicz is a B+ prospect at best, podkolzin could still turn into a productive nhler.
Still a lot for a rental but I guess let’s see
DeBrusk is a UFA. Why would we give away the top rental for Beecher and Podkolzin?
There has to be a 1st in there and more…..
I still wouldn’t leave a team like the Oilers to take a Crack to get Jake..if another team takes on $$$$
The Edmonton Ken Hollands don’t often take on rentals. And Holland has come out and said he isn’t interested in dealing his 1st or Broberg for a rental this year and all teams they have reportedly been connected to have asked for both in anything they are interested in. Except for the reported rejected Tanev deal. They supposedly offered up their 1st + Ceci or Kulak for Tanev.