Incoming forwards Anthony Beauvillier, Aatu Räty plus first\u002Dround pick look solid now, could tick up if their play breaks the right way.
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The straightforward take is this trade having a big look towards the future: There’s the first-round pick, which if used this year could land a player that would hopefully prove to be an intriguing rookie in 2024-25, when Canucks management hope their squad will be tracking into a Cup contender; and there’s Aatu Räty, an intriguing prospect who has already played a handful of NHL contests this season and scored a pair of goals, including one against the Canucks.
The Canucks are finally amassing some young, top-end talent who could break into the NHL as a collective unit, buttressing the likes of Elias Pettersson and Quinn Hughes a couple seasons from now.Article content That said, there’s also the cynical take on Monday’s trade, that the first-round pick was simply to convince the Canucks to take on Anthony Beauvillier’s contract, that Beauvillier hasn’t lived up to the hype that saw him drafted late in the first round in 2015 and is thus paid too much for the kind of player he’s turned out to be and thus the trade is really just Horvat for Räty, a forward who fell out of the first round and was picked in the second round, no matter what Canucks GM Patrik...
“Given the past decade in Vancouver, this was good work but not good enough in my opinion,” another NHL scout said of the trade.This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
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