Canucks Trade Kesler to Anaheim, Garrison To Tampa Bay
Prince George, B.C. – There is an old adage in sports that you never trade a competitive, productive player to a rival team within your own division or conference, the thought being that the traded player may come back beat you in the future.
Well, we’ll have to wait and see if the adage holds true in the case of former Vancouver Canucks forward Ryan Kesler. The Canucks today traded Kesler to the Anaheim Ducks, one of Vancouver’s rivals in the 7-team Pacific Division of the Western Conference of the NHL. In exchange the Canucks get 26-year-old forward Nick Bonino, 24-year-old Swiss defenceman Luca Sbisa and a 24th overall pick. Kesler has spent his entire 10-year career with the Canucks since being drafted 23rd overall in the 2003 NHL Entry Draft.
And the day wasn’t done for new Canucks GM Jim Benning, who announced the team has traded defenseman Jason Garrison to the Tampa Bay Lightning for the 50th overall pick in the draft this weekend. The Lightning also receive the rights to forward Jeff Costello and Vancouver's seventh round pick in the 2015 draft.
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Well it’s a start :)
Kesler is probably the most elite American player… and traded for a couple of no names? The Canucks traded all their talent the last year or so for essentially nothing.
I guess they got a lot of good draft picks this year and one can hope they can do some serious rebuilding with their picks. I think they got the right GM for that and their Calder Cup winning coach no doubt is as good a minors scout as they can ask for… so might be a contender in a couple of years… maybe make the playoffs next year?
Canucks Trade Best Player.
I am a Canucks Fan
BUT
I hope Kesler comes back and in his first game makes the Canucks look like Little Girls on Stakes.
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