Canucks make Sneaky good move...

The Vancouver Canucks make a sneaky good trade. As Ryan Johnson announced it today, they've traded Aatu Rotu to the Toronto Maple Leafs in exchange for two young prospects with one being labeled as the perfect workhorse. We're going to break down everything you need to know on the two players the Canucks just got back in this trade, what it means moving forward, and how the Vancouver Canucks are slowly building up the pipeline outside of the draft. We're going to break down all this and so much more in this episode but before we start remember to reach a goal of 10,000 subscribers so if you haven't hit the subscribe button yet but you want to stay up to date with everything around the Canucks from prospects trades anything at all make sure to go down and hit it we're so close just about 100 and some odd away so shout out to absolutely everyone watching and let's just dive straight into it today where the Canucks trade Aatu Rotu to the Toronto Maple Leafs after clearing waivers just a day ago now with Aatu Rotu of course a lot of people might say why did the Leafs just not claim him and of course with the whole cap you can send them down they have 30 days to send them up and down between the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Marlies but the Vancouver Canucks went out and in this trade acquired two very interesting young pieces and that comes back with Jacob Quinlan and Brandon Burr now of course losing Aatu Rotu sucks a very young player that a lot of Canucks fans absolutely adored myself included and a young guy that's incredible when it comes to the draft looking at this of course the Canucks took on a bit of cap space both guys will be buried in the minors so it's not going to affect them going into the remainder season not that the cap really mattered at this point but getting back Brandon Burr and Jacob Quinlan adds two very young pieces to this Canucks AHL team and ECHL where Ryan Johnson spoke on the trade and said two new young players to work with and that's exactly what it is now diving into this of course Jacob Quinlan signed with the Toronto team coming out of college we've seen Brandon Burris sign with the team as well coming out of union with his professional path both joined the Canucks after this trade with Oto Rotu and again diving into how this works and why the Canucks are looking good good for Oto Rotu and Toronto good trade for the Canucks I do agree with this both sides are genuinely getting a lot but Jacob Quinlan is a very interesting piece coming back to the system and I'm quite excited to see how this young kid who has NHL experience just from last season continues to progress looking at Quinlan in 24 25 37 points in 67 AHL games 18 goals with the Marlies 36 points in 40 AHL games in 25 26 now joining the team with three points in 24 NHL games this is a young guy that of course again has that NHL experience not a ton and not someone that's to run home and write about already but the biggest thing now with Jacob Quinlan a young 24 year old winger slash center that can play both of the positions has had that stretch of games for the Leafs when they sadly ended up winning that first overall pick though we got the best player in Calum Altrichter so who really cares but looking at Jacob Quinlan over a stretch of those games with the Leafs 10 and a half minutes time on ice we can see very comparable to a rate when it comes to the time three points including a goal a minus five but again not a great team what we're going to see out of Jacob Quinlan and what a lot of people rave about including diving into Cam Robinson or sorry Dave Paul he speaks to say oddly enough i've had to watch both of these guys in my NCAA watch to listen over at the Daily Faceoff Vancouver for a few seasons Jacob Quinlan is a real workhorse that can do it all i was a big fan at the time he signed with Pro Tickets this is a guy that again isn't going to shoot out the gate and immediately become a 20 goal scorer within the Canucks system but a guy that's had success over his AHL career 37 points in 67 games again in 24-25 getting the call up to the Leafs last season putting up three points one goal in 23 games going back to the Marlies for the remainder of that season 36 points nearly a point per game and being held scoreless to start the season but now going down and getting that speed added to an absurd lineup we can see he could still carve out a depth energy role with his skating and diving into his scouting report a young guy that of course has a great highlight pace and net drive college defensive value offers a route beyond scoring which you love to see because a lot of the young guys pushing through the NHL and a lot of these guys that are undrafted tend to come through with either a great defensive game and no offense Dave Campbell for example not an NCAA guy or a guy that comes through with an offensive piece and no defense Quinlan is carving out a role of having both of those two with the work ethic mentality is going to be fun on how a little defensive scrappy guy gets into the lineup he plays with detail and determination in all three zones now of course getting Quinlan you'll have to end up signing him after the season as an RFA I do believe it's group six but I can break that down later in a different video 850k again isn't going to be the biggest cap hit when you're looking across and Rick Dalley will be speaking on this as well not only is Jacob Quinlan a great piece but Brandon Burr is from North Van and the Canucks tried hard to get him last season when he left Union College they like this player a lot Burr will start in the ECHL and that dives straight into the second piece that hasn't even been spoke about in Brandon Burr and the scoring that he brings now of course Canucks fans a lot of people are going to look and say hey the Canucks didn't go out to get a second round pick and of course the Bo Horvat trade doesn't look the best thank god we got Phil Pronka with one of those picks but the biggest thing is is the Canucks place this player on waivers the opportunity is not there for Ohto again but going into of course what Burr brings to the lineup is a big body or a body that had 11 goals and 24 points in 35 games at Union 19 goals and 28 points in the season following a 24-25 jumping in at even strength 19 goals 36 points 7 power play goals this is a kid that adds a legitimate another piece now 24 years old yet again his size and skating offer a check and wing route shot is a tool worth developing must become more reliable defensively but his college scoring was good so if this can translate even to an AHL to help build if this is Brayden Coutts getting a new linemate that ends up being a point per game pace next to him we love to see it Burr will need to add leverage in size lean into his physicality and improve defensively now of course going into Burr and what he brings to the team looking through Union some very good seasons in the ECAH or ECAH with 35 games played 19 goals in back-to-back years this is a young player 24 years old from North Van we love to see the Vancouver boys come six foot two 200 pounds again these are players that are coming from free you took the risk of placing Oteratu on waivers he cleared waivers so a guy that didn't have a path within the team a guy that wasn't going to ever be able to hit his potential we love that Oteratu gets to go over to Toronto and i don't want Toronto to win but i hope Oteratu has a very good career and the Canucks get two young guys two assets in five or two assists in five NHL games but of course fans aren't going to be pleased Oteratu is my favorite i agree a huge part of my fandom last year was Oteratu and of course the doghouse memes and getting them into the lineup of fans i want to know your thoughts what are your thoughts on the Canucks actually getting some young guys that they can have the new development priorities of course with the Canucks they still have a lot of young guys within their starting lineup we see in the game this is being recorded immediately after sadly losing in overtime but their lines looked insane but this is a team that has some young guys they have it through the system, we know Braden Koots in the AHL looking outstanding, Kael Maholtre highlight reel in the NCAA and that's not even looking at Adam Davin in the AHL this is a team that needs to stack their prospects, one of them's bound to hit and the Canucks have quite a few that more than one are going to be good, let me know your thoughts on everything down in the comments because again i love reading through each and every one of them, you guys are incredible for the support, once again let me know your thoughts on the trade, grade it from an A to an F, i'd give this a solid A, you got two guys for free, one from North Van and another guy that has a bit of potential there for a guy that you almost lost some waivers for nothing, let me know your thoughts down in the comments, take care, Canucks Canucks fans, see you in the next one, go Canucks hopefully we get a win next time