was the 7th round pick really needed

Year one: Steal for Vancouver

Coyotes in year two: Uno Reverse

unfortunate

It's become #2 most popular buyout

How bad did this backfire?

And the prophecy is fulfilled.

From Hell's heart, Jim Benning stabs at thee.

I can't imagine how hard Bill Armstrong is laughing right now

Admittedly, he has just lost a contract retention slot for four extra years, which sucks. But they remain the obvious winners of this trade by a mile.

Wow, this trade soured badly for Vancouver.

The Canucks are a poverty org.

Funniest part is that the Yotes only retain 320k instead of 990k going forward from 2024 cause of this very buyout.

And now OEL is bought out and it will cost Van a total of 20mill in dead cap

This has to go down as one of the worst trades ever. Of course, hindsight is 20/20, but looking back, it seems that they should have known better. When I broke down the trade in 2021, I figured it made sense for Vancouver only if OEL at 12% retained was a neutral or positive asset, but if you look at the comments made at the time of the trade, most people thought he was a negative asset even then. Even if Vancouver thought he might return to form with a change of scenery, they should have realized that it was a huge gamble to take at his age and cap hit. I know they were desperate to get rid of the $12M 1-year cap hit, but they actually would have been better off just buying those three guys out.

Just remembered its blueberry season. Aquilini probably didnt mind paying 19.3M in a lump sum buyout payment when BC berries and Aquilini farms are just making money hand over fist. Has a new pedestrian bridge been made to Asia to get low cost workers in BC faster?

Woof.

I don't evaluate trades 2 years after they happen based on hindsight.

And Jim Benning wasn't fired as Canucks GM until months later.


I stand by what I said.

I certainly was one of the "negative asset" people. I certainly also could not fathom the price Vancouver paid. If the internet chatter was to be believed at the time, Vancouver was one of the very very few destinations that OEL would accept a trade to. Arizona had zero leverage and they walked away from this trade with the 9th overall pick? Insanity. Utter insanity, even then without the benefit of hindsight and it's even worse now.

Teams constantly letting other teams off the hook for their horrendous deals. We just saw a team lift the cup where other teams let them out of their cap dilemmas by trading with them for cap dumps, not making Vegas pay nearly enough to do so.

I was one of the ones who thought the trade was insane the moment I heard about it, I did not think OEL had much of anything left. Jim Benning was the worst.

It's all good. For some at the time it was a close trade. I thought OEL was a diminishing asset and I couldn't believe the price Vancouver paid even if you thought he could bounce back considering he had a full NMC and Vancouver was rumored to be just about the only destination he would accept a trade to. Even if you thought OEL had something left to give, Arizona had zero leverage in the trade negotiations.

Credit to Benning for swinging hard I guess.