Insider Reveals INSANE Canucks Trade Updates...

Elliot Freeman reveals an insane Vancouver Canucks trade update, including management actively looking for a center at this year's NHL trade deadline, listening to offers on UFAs, and we get a major update on the Brock Besser situation, including Brock speaking on it himself. We're going to break all this down and more later on in this episode, so you're not going to want to miss this. Before we get into it, if you want to subscribe, go down and hit that subscribe button. We'll keep you up to date on everything to do around the Canucks, because the next 56 hours is going to be insane. Well, with that, we're going to hop straight into this today, where we did see Elliot Freeman join the Donnie and Dolly podcast and speak on the Canucks. He said the Canucks are actively looking for a center they can keep with term, but they're also listening to UFA centers. Now looking at this, the biggest thing with this and what's shocking is we've seen Patrik Allvin and Jim Rutherford both say, hey, we don't want rentals. We want to have this team of players that we can keep going into next season. We constantly bring up Zadorov, Lindholm, how they walk for nothing. But seeing the Canucks going out and maybe wanting to acquire a center on a one-year deal, does this kind of shock you on just the kind of changeup the Canucks are currently having? yeah it's almost like a complete 180 where they're not completely committing to going to UFAs but they're not entirely ruling it out and it's very shocking considering where their stance has been and considering what happened last season where because of Zadorov and Lindholm like you said Jim and Allvin they had to come out and say hey we're not interested in long in one-year rentals or just UFAs in general we want to get guys that we can go out we can lock down for a long amount of time so we don't have to worry about this or have a bunch of contracts expiring around the same time And in terms of Brock Besser, that is a big one, too. And we're going to get into that in a second, of course. But as far as them just saying, hey, we are now willing to go towards the rental route, it's very shocking in all aspects. But I think the biggest thing that's telling of it is that maybe this management does not have the faith in this team to pull off a multi-year playoff window to have open or Stanley Cup window. They're kind of saying, hey, maybe this season is a bit lost at this point. or even though we're just on the cusp of a playoff push, we're still in that wildcard race. And if we go on a heater, we can still get in a good playoff position to maybe not even have a wildcard spot and get into that third spot in the Pacific. However, with the way that the Canucks management is almost looking at this, they're looking at it going, if we don't lock Besser down, we're basically going to just give up on this season and just plan for the next few seasons so we don't have to go into a rebuild by trying to keep this season alive. However, as a result of that, they're going to find themselves in a very sticky situation where we're either going to go with a lot of rentals or end up paying a lot of money in big contracts and i mean the biggest thing is we know this Canucks team they have Philip Hischier as their second line center right now Hertl has been outstanding on the Vancouver Canucks, Pito has been slumping quite a bit but this team desperately does need a number two C, i think Hertl would be an awesome winger or someone that could fill out that third line center position if they want to make a deep run but looking at some possible UFAs i know we talked about yesterday in the video where there's a lot of guys that are RFAs or contracts they could acquire a multi-year deals but it's going to get very interesting just looking at the current UFA centers i mean Brock Nelson is the top of the list you can see him in New York Islanders or he is up in age the Canucks could go and acquire a guy like this but i very much rather them stay with the plan maybe move out some pieces pick up a guy a young player maybe even an RFA to fill out the team i don't love the fact of going out using cap space and pieces to acquire guys like Ryan Donato or Brock Nelson or whoever the UFA center might be Nick Bukastad's another name I don't know how the Canucks can justify this with all the UFAs and I know there's only two on forward but I mean they're two big names Brock Besser and Pius Suter but having UFAs already on this team at the forward group there's a lot of guys coming off the books in a couple of seasons Teddy Bluger's one Connor Garland's a big one this is a team that really needs to figure out the direction they're going and this has been a failure of a season in my opinion after just being one goal away from advancing to the Western Conference Finals last year I mean looking at this if they can go out pick up a UFA have a good run with them and put all their money into this guy in the offseason would you be fine with that or would you rather just not pay the premium for a guy like that in the offseason starting a bidding war and just say hey we're gonna acquire a guy with term right now and that's going to be the player we want yeah it's tough especially when we're looking at this graphic here exactly where on the surface like we were thinking okay they're not going to be too much expiring at the same time if they were to go with terms but when we look at in two seasons from now we've got Connor Garland on there you got Teddy Bluger and Keeper Sherwood those are guys that are playing really solid this year particularly Connor Garland Keeper Sherwood where they're going to want to try and extend them and keep them there as long as possible Connor Garland he is playing his ass off this year and he's going to warrant a big extension coming up in two seasons and Keeper Sherwood as well they brought him in on one and a half and he's been the best free agency steal of the entire offseason in the NHL where he's leading the league in hits he's scoring goals he's one of the top scorers on the Canucks he's an absolute wrecking ball he's great for morale so that's another guy that you're going to want to keep around so the Canucks won't get a rental as far as the RFAs or UFAs that are available right now there's none that really scream out this guy needs to be signed or this guy needs to be extended to long term all these guys i'm looking at that aren't named Brock Boeser or Brock Nelson but really guys that you're bringing in to try and go on a one-year run try and get a cup and then letting them go for basically nothing which is what Vancouver doesn't want to do and i don't see any of these guys being extended long term as long-term Vancouver Canucks especially when we look at the current team morale that we have in the chemistry that we have no it hasn't been the smoothest of sailing this season but we do have a group of guys that all care about each other they all get along with each other for the most part i know that that problem is gone for the most part now but they still have a team there they have a lot of chemistry there and they don't want to do too much to jeopardize that especially on guys that you're bringing in that are only going to be there for a little bit of time they're going to bring in guys that hey they're here for a good time not a long time so don't get used to it that's not going to go a good way in the locker room either and i mean going back to what Donnie and Dolly had on the podcast with Elliotte Friedman we've seen on Boeser don't have a great feeling right now on how things will end up listing on him all options open and this led into Brock Boeser today during the media scrum saying I'm not trying to think about it I honestly have no idea what's going to happen and this is when he was asked what's his thoughts on potentially playing his final game tonight with the Vancouver Canucks now the biggest thing with Boeser we know what Boeser is a pure goal scorer scoring 40 goals last year on pace to score in the 30s again this season the biggest thing with Boeser is obviously the injury concerns we haven't seen him be consistent 80 plus games played I know it's only 82 games in the season but you would like to see close to 80 every season but it does seem like he wants term I mean we've seen the reports coming out from months ago according to Frank Servello the Canucks offer Boeser a five-year contract at 8 million AAV Boeser wants more term listen Griffin I know he's a fan favorite I know people want Boeser signed but would you be shocked if Canucks management said hey we're going to trade Boeser we're going to get assets we're going to flip them immediately I mean we've seen it with JT Miller getting the first round pick and Mancini he'd trade that first to get Marcus Pedersen and Drew O'Connor which looks like steals of pickup do you think the Canucks might go the route of saying hey we have a UFA let's move them get more capital maybe they use that capital to get another UFA and someone with term unfortunately it's looking that way and I hate saying it because I'm one of those fans who wants to see Boeser re-signed i want to see him retire vancouver canuck in all honesty and that is what he's wanting with this contract the canucks were able to meet the aav that he was wanting of eight million but he wants more term he wants to retire vancouver canuck he doesn't want to have this uncertainty of the market coming up again at a later point in his career where he's going to be in a position where he's had all these health concerns maybe he does get two a few more 40 goal uh seasons as a result of that but by the end of that term he's going to be very limited as far as where he can go what money he can get and he would become a one-year rental player at that point in his career if he doesn't sign the long-term deal that he wants so that goes to show that if Vancouver wants to make this deal happen they basically have to say to Brock okay you're going to retire Vancouver Canuck here's a deal that's going to ensure that you don't have to worry about going anywhere else for the rest of your career you don't have to worry about contract talks for the rest of your career you are set now with the injuries and all that that's very concerning for Vancouver to make an investment like that however from my perspective i would rather them go out and do that because like i said with the way that the market is right now with centers and what Vancouver has as far as cap space the options are very limited especially as far as one-year rentals too which i know that we keep talking about and we don't want to have to go that route but if you move on from Besser you are at risk of doing that but if you do move on from Besser and you're going for another rental why not have just kept the eight million dollar rental that you or six and a half million dollar rental you had with Brock Besser it makes no sense to do that in my in my eyes at least however with the way this Canucks management works and the way that we've seen them flip players just on a dime and just out of nowhere with this being a player that there's been a lot of speculation around it would not surprise me Vancouver ends up trading him by Friday and the biggest thing is we know this management group and the owners want the Canucks to go on a playoff run they want them to make the playoffs I mean that's where the money is made but the other big thing is if Besser is moved this offseason it or this season I should say at deadline it does seem like players are going at an all-time high especially with the board market being a little skim we're seeing just recently Tampa Bay trading two first round picks for Yanni Gourde and Bjorkstrand from the Seattle Kraken and in my opinion both of these players are not at a Brock level so maybe the Canucks just capitalize on this and say hey this is the most we can ever get for him let's do it right now but what's your guys thoughts on everything that's happening what's your thoughts on Elliot Frumin just going in and saying they're looking at centers including UFA ones because this one is shocking to me and what's your thoughts on the Brock Besser situation and what do you want to happen with Brock Besser by Friday's deadline let us know down below why you're down there leave a like subscribe share this with your friends we'll be back with another episode so keep your eye for that but I've been Mark with my co-host Griffin and take care