I haven't been making realistic rosters recently, so lets stick to that trend. Basically tick off all the boxes for a successful post season for the nucks
-Move out OEL and Myers
-Revamp D core, try and get a partner for Hughes
-Refuel prospect pool from stacked draft by landing as many early picks as possible
-Draft a RHD
-Draft a Swede
-Acquire a centerman who's a PK specialist
-Fit under salary cap
As always, there's a bit of praying involved with these moves, like Chicago being desperate enough for a top end pick while also meeting the demand of the cap floor, a GM actually wanting Myers, Boston being desperate enough to shed cap that they'd trade Carlo, Carlo waiving his M-NTC if Vancouver's on it, Silvos playing at WC caliber, Compher not extending, and a whole lot of avoiding injuries. All things considered, Vancouver has themselves a crazy amount of demands to meet if they want to be good, while having very few assets to facilitate, so if they can in fact close out any of these moves, they're at least making some form of progress. Best case scenario this team is still a wildcard team, worst case, everything falls apart and they look no better than where they started, but hey, what do they have to lose?
Literally any return for OEL is a positive, so being able to add 2 prospects to your dry prospect pool is massive, while also shedding over 7 mil in cap. This would actually give Canucks fans the hope they've been looking for. Now, personally I doubt this goes through, but it was rumored that a trade like this was possible, so I'm taking a swing at it.
At first, this might seem like a lot to send out for a cap dump of one of the league's worst contracts, which is right to assume because it is, but if you're Chicago, you get a chance to turn Jayden Perron and Mikhail Gulyayev (probably) into a guy like Oliver Moore or Sandin-Pellikka (potentially), that's a massive jump, and the OEL contract is bad, but you need to reach cap floor, and by the time this contract is a problem, it'll be way easier to move than it is now,
Carlo is the perfect fit with Hughes, finally Vancouver can get a guy who can be on a pair with their star defenseman long term. Mike Reilly, though definitely overpaid, only has a year left, and he can't be worse than OEL on the left side. Also the pick is cool I guess
The team is trying to shed cap, so moving out 7.1 mil and a 5th for a really underrated middle 6 winger on a crazy good contract after retention is perfect for the Bruins, especially if they lose a guy like Hall to the cap crunch. It's unfortunate to have to part ways with Carlo, but a sacrifice has to be made to have the team cap situation under control by next season.
To everyone rushing to the comments to say "Garland is still 3.5 mil in cap, which is more than Mike Reilly, and makes opening space for Bertuzzi irrelevant!", you'd be right, but remember that first, Garland at 3.5 is infinitely better than Reilly at 3, second, this gets rid of the need to keep Hall and his 6 mil salary because there's no longer a drop off in winger talent, meaning that you can look at it not as losing half of the 7.1 mil salary you dumped, but as an extension of a Hall trade, replacing him with an option that's 2.5 mil cheaper. And third, shut up, I traded OEL and got back a 1st, this trade isn't close to the hardest to believe.
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The end of an era for the Canucks, being completely honest, I'm gonna miss making fun of the guy, but other than that, I don't think Vancouver fans are gonna look back after this trade. Myers has basically been the symbol of Vancouvers awful signing era, with guys like Eriksson, Vrbata, Beagle, and other notable names being just a few of the guys to make a living off of being bad. Freeing up the 6 mil a year early at the cost of a 4th definitely is ok in nucks fans' eyes.
It is definitely disappointing to see Considerations go like this though, he's been a key prospect for this team, and I could absolutely see the Nucks looking back and wishing they had this one.
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