If those are your 10 protected players they take Lind I think.

Protect lind over highmore

MacEwan could be a decent target. SEA will need some 4th liner or AHL all star in their system too. That's how it works. Anyway they will probably do just like Vegas did and select players just to sell them right away like Methot, Emelin...

Lind or Gadjovich

Kole Lind. I would protect him over Highmore or Motte but who knows, it's Benning.

I'd assume they were going Lind even before

Definitely Lind. I also never understood why Virtanen would be considered for protection or selection. He’s hot garbage, on the ice and off.

Anaheim came very close to trading for Virtanen earlier this season.

And I never understood that. I didn’t know who the Ducks player was but good for them for not following through.

It was believed to be Danton Heinen

Heinen and Virtanen have been discussed but if both teams decide to move forward in talks, probably not a 1 for 1 deal... would be another component to make the money work I think. And that’s if they decide to keep talking. Not sure. https://t.co/PFnTKNr3xH

— Pierre LeBrun (@PierreVLeBrun) February 27, 2021

Anaheim was going to trade Danton Heinen for Virtanen straight up.

But, Anaheim didn't do it because Virtanen is owed 3 million in salary next season.

Vancouver offered to take Derek Grant as well in order to alleviate Anaheim's concerns, but getting rid of Grant would not come close to dumping enough salary for Anaheim.

So, they called it off

Lind gets protected over Highmore and they might even protect Gadjovich over Motte

Highmore perhaps?

EDIT: Oh he's protected lol, yeah then maybe Holtby

I'm someone who only occasionally pays attention to the Canucks - and that's literally only when it occurs to me to check in on Demko - so I have no answers here. HOWEVER, I wanted to tell you how ****ing much I appreciate your immediate rejection of Virtanen. It's been a challenging couple of days to be a hockey fan who is also a survivor of sexual assault, and seeing this helps lessen the sting of all the twitter hot takes defending him.