For sure the Playoffs is what it's all about, but you can't forget about the future too. This is the first real year that we have made the playoffs and we dumped a 1st, Kuzy, that defensemen I'll call him B cause I can't remember how to spell his name and potentially a 4th. If we resign Lindholm that goes a long way to making this better but if not, then what we dump more futures next year before the playoffs and before you know it we have no future and we are looking at another 10 year rebuild. I'm not apposed to going all in but the timing has to be right, IMO the timing is at least a year too early.
I think we should have done a couple smaller moves, seen how we do and maybe make the big push next year, in a bubble this trade isn't so bad, I get that. It's what it signals in the future that bothers me. How many more years are we going to trade our first +++ for a push before we are back to 2015 level hockey? If Lindholm re-signs with us that makes this much better, but the amount of futures we spent on a rental that scares me a bit. I look at it like this, if you can't afford to go on a big holiday you don't, you go on what you can afford, you don't just go on a big holiday anyways and put it all on a credit card, cause your going to have to pay for it eventually and now it's going to cost you more. IMO the Canucks couldn't afford it yet, they are close to being able too, but they jumped the gun IMO.
Maybe they win the Cup this year and I'm wrong that's ok, I will be thrilled to be wrong. There is a time for these types of moves, IMO this just isn't it. I've been watching this team for over 40 years and while it's fun to go on a nice holiday, the only thing that matters to me anymore is winning the CUP at least once before I die and premature moves like this IMO just put that goal a little farther away.