And some trade protection.

The only reason to give trade protection would be to keep the AAV down.
The only reason to give more than 2 years would be to keep the AAV down.

Both those things happened but the AAV was not decreased lol.

Pathetic when it is framed this way lol. Not a good look for the Canucks.

Podkolzin beast moding rn in the K

Benning must've read The Art of the Deal at some point in his life and felt much smarter than he really is since.

The kid refuses to give up and also a big fuck you to the coaching staff.

Still averaging only about 10 to 13min a game, and he has 5 pts in the last 2. 11pts in 15 games, which ties with Kravtsov u20 player in KHL playoffs. Team was about to be swept but Podkolzin says no

I can’t wait to see what he can do in Vancouver. I hope they play him with Bo and Nils.

I think it's pretty clear Benning was determined to get rid of Gaudette today.

Not sure if the team is upset with him, or he requested it because of everything that happened, or what, but it seems to abrupt for something not too smell. Especially because the word was the Canucks wouldn't be trading players after the entire ordeal they went through.

This post was edited by LuLer on Apr 12 2021 11:12am

Yeah it's kinda sus, his wife deactivated all social media or something and gaudette was quick to take off all canucks related stuff on his shit. All speculation and rumors at this point, but I can see why the team may have been upset with him if he was being irresponsible and gave covid to the team. Especially with Hamonic's kid situation, and bo having to live in his basement by himself to isolate from his kid and wife during his bday etc.

Anyway as for the trade, it was clear gaudette wasn't good enough to be a 3c or 4c in the NHL, at least for the Canucks. He couldn't even outplay sutter or beagle. He only proved that he could score pts in an extremely sheltered deployment, but so did virtanen lul. Otherwise he isn't as useful to the team since he can't pk, hit, play defense etc. If hall fetched only a 2nd, gaudette would've fetched 4-6th even if he's a rfa. The chances of those picks turning into a depth NHLer or anything is already slim, and it would take at least few yrs. So I guess Benning's scout felt that chances of highmore turning into a motte is higher than the the late pick turning into something useful.

Gaudette can't play defense but he can at least contribute in soft minutes or a PP2 and do OK scoring wise. All I see is an undersized guy with AHL skill in Highmore. Even if he were the next Tyler Motte it's just not realistic to have your grinders be all sub 6' 200 lbs guys. Poor targeting by Benning as usual.

Ppl noticed that bo horvat and gaudette unfollowed each other lol.

Rumors also floating that Benn and Horvat were upset with gaudette for breaking the rules.

Also interesting that the team and players didn't post anything about gauds departure, like they did with others like stecher, tanev, Marky etc.

I'm told the opposite. That there were resentful players & that management was upset with him. This was final straw with a player that was already backsliding on the ice. - Matt sekeres, dunno if he's just stirring the pot as usual for attention