Canucks Management Continues to Slight Captain Bo Horvat, Making a Trade Inevitable
The Vancouver Canucks' management has continually drawn due criticism for the bevy of puzzling moves they have made in the past year or so. Perhaps most confusing was the decision to sign a 29-year old J.T. Miller to a $56 million when they needed that money to sign players like captain Bo Horvat and now Ethan Bear and Travis Dermott.
The recent signing of forward Andrei Kuzmenko was a fair signing, but - again - Vancouver can't really afford him, not to mention the fact that their window to compete is virtually closed. So, signing him rather than trading him for assets is also a head-scratcher.
Bo Horvat has once again been shown by management that he is not a part of the team's future making a trade seem completely unavoidable at this juncture. Still, one would think that maybe management would be interested in keeping things diplomatic, no?
Horvat's agent spent two days in Vancouver, and Canucks management refused to meet with him, according to Rick Dhaliwal:
Dhaliwal also mentioned that the Canucks have not given Horvat's agent - Pat Morris - permission to talk extensions with other teams. So they won't talk an extension with him, and they won't let him talk extensions with possible trade suitors?
In a nutshell, Vancouver has relegated their captain to the role of Monkey in the Middle and given him no opportunity to set a course for his future.
I mean, how putrid can one management group get in one season?
| POLL | ||
JANVIER 27 | 225 ANSWERS Canucks Management Continues to Slight Captain Bo Horvat, Making a Trade Inevitable Who is the most valuable player on the Vancouver Canucks not named Pettersson or Hughes? | ||
| Bo Horvat | 110 | 48.9 % |
| Thatcher Demko | 47 | 20.9 % |
| J.T. Miller | 31 | 13.8 % |
| Andrei Kuzmenko | 37 | 16.4 % |
| LIST OF POLLS | ||
| G | A | PTS | ||
| Zachary Werenski | 2 | 3 | 5 | |
| Sean Monahan | 1 | 3 | 4 | |
| Jesper Bratt | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
| Frederick Gaudreau | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
| Jack Hughes | - | 3 | 3 | |
| Nikita Kucherov | - | 3 | 3 | |
| Mackenzie Weegar | - | 3 | 3 | |
| Kent Johnson | 2 | - | 2 | |
| Alexander Wennberg | 2 | - | 2 | |
| Mitchell Chaffee | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Anthony Cirelli | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Matthew Coronato | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Marcus Foligno | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Nick Foligno | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Conor Geekie | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Brandon Hagel | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Stefan Noesen | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Corey Perry | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Igor Sharangovich | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Dmitry Voronkov | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Complete stats | ||||
| STANDINGS 2024-2025 | ||||||
TOP 10 | GP | W | L | OL | PTS | |
Jets | 19 | 16 | 3 | - | 32 | |
Wild | 19 | 13 | 3 | 3 | 29 | |
Hurricanes | 19 | 14 | 5 | - | 28 | |
Devils | 22 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 28 | |
Capitals | 19 | 13 | 5 | 1 | 27 | |
Golden Knights | 20 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 26 | |
Maple Leafs | 20 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 26 | |
Rangers | 18 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 25 | |
Panthers | 20 | 12 | 7 | 1 | 25 | |
Flames | 20 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 25 | |
| Conference | Cumulative | ||||||