"Ils m’ont convoqué pour une réunion et m’ont dit, pour plusieurs raisons, que tu n’étais pas au niveau d’un joueur de la LNH." – 21 janvier 2026. Vasily Podkolzin explique que les entraîneurs de Vancouver ne le considéraient pas comme un joueur de niveau LNH à l’approche de 2023-2024.
Ensuite, après n’avoir pratiquement aucun temps de glace (19 GP, 10 :49 de temps de glace moyen et 2 matchs éliminatoires, 8 :32 de temps de glace moyen), il est échangé à Edmonton contre un 4e, pour libérer de la place pour Sprong.
Nous échangeons ensuite un choix de valeur égale à Edmonton contre Kane un an plus tard, un joueur que nous ne pouvions pas déplacer à la date limite de cette année !
J’en ai tellement marre de voir des joueurs s’épanouir apparemment dès qu’ils quittent cette équipe. Honnêtement, je ne serais pas surpris si cela arrive aussi à Petey.
Désolé de m’exprimer, mais ce n’est qu’un autre exemple d’incompétence de haut en bas.
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Good on him. Hope Podz does well
Jason Dickinson remembers, with his broken hand too.
Ilya Mikheyev remembers.
OEL remembers.
Garland remembers.
Horvat remembers.
It’s infuriating having such a crooked half assed organization as your home town team.
It is 100% going to happen with Petey and we all just have to brace ourselves for that wretched day
FIRE ALLVIN CHANTS
That trade was so bizarre.
Like it’s bad asset management to be out on a player that early in their development curve, especially one with that pedigree. It’s horrendous to be that out on them without giving them a fair shake.
I think the game’s passed Rutherford by. He should have stayed retired after Pittsburgh
Wait. WE had sprong?!
Sweet Jesus he can move. Petey should take some freakin lessons from him.
We’re gonna be the Sabres of the 2020s. An entire roster of good to elite players who find success elsewhere because of how incompetent the organization is
It’s worse than just making room for Sprong, Joshua was out for months to start the season and they could have given him some more runway instead of auditioning Bains. They simply gave up on him.
It never made any sense to me either. I thought he looked good the previous season in his limited minutes. His game without the puck was a lot like Sherwood’s: max effort, dawg on the forecheck, laying the body whenever the opportunity arose, and he flashed some offensive upside sometimes on top of that. Not often enough given his pedigree, sure, but I remember him connecting with Petey on a beautiful stretch pass in one of his late season games and thinking there were but a few other players able to pull that off on our roster at the time. The dawg factor translated in those playoff minutes too.
I was always vocally against that trade, and I reject the « we’d have lost him on waivers » spin because there was no pressure to make that decision yet. Just a total failure of talent evaluation.
Yup, totally assumed that was McDavid
“This core is on its 5th coach!!!” Loved reading that shit 200 times a day by numbskull media members
Change of scenery affects lots of players… Ohgren has been the most productive piece back on the Hughes trade to date… Was viewed as a throw in. Lankinen was given up by preds for free, crushed it for us last year. Picked up Kampf essentially on waivers, proved himself as a bottom 6 centre. It’s just how she fuckin goes sometimes and it goes better in your direction the more talent you have, I’d wager. The more talent you have, the riskier the bets are though too, as it suggests you’re in your window vs being rebuilding
When did Podz find wheels? Had to do a double take on the number.
Let’s not pretend he’s doing incredibly well and that includes ice time with Drai.
I was heartbroken by the trade. Gave management benefit of the doubt even though I had followed Podz since his draft year. Fuck the management, Tocchet, and blueberry fuck
I always liked Podz and what he brought to the team, never really expected him to play a top 6 role, but a mid 6 grinder who can provide energy, physicality and play with an edge.
He’s basically showing that with the Oilers, and producing extremely well obviously is benefitting playing with Draisitl but honestly you cannot tell me he wouldn’t be a better option than some of the players on our team currently
And if I say Höglander or Lekk are gonna be the next ones we’re saying this about….. 😕
Spring has Sprong.
Canucks need to clean house top down and the locker room inside out. Full scale rebuild. It’s going to be a long time and it’s been a long time coming.
Completely agree. Still had tons of potential, threw him away for no reason, goes on to do well as soon as he doesn’t have a coach that hates him.
For everyone saying « where did Podzy get those wheels? » Look at these skating metrics:
He’s always had the work ethic, so why wouldn’t he have found a way to improve his skating? A Bo Horvat-esque turnaround in that department.
https://preview.redd.it/d4hbxok9wcog1.jpeg?width=292&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=18390f971e073fcae6305ede915e417a91ac650e
Good for podz
How did the oilers goaltender avoid an interference call there?
It’s ok, I heard the whitecaps are interesting
I really am starting to think this management might pass Benning on the worst management of the Canucks scale.
Asset management has been awful and not acceptable for an NHL franchise. How many mistakes does someone get at the highest level?
Is he tied with Canucks top goal scorer?
https://preview.redd.it/1gh80fsqzcog1.jpeg?width=499&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8fc6e8affccbac6f98f76a1399a31736ae313b2e
Tired of what? This franchise being enept at developing players?
Same management is still here running the show. Expect more buffoonery as long as they remain here in charge. They’ve done an abysmal job. This is one of the worst run pro franchises not in hockey – in SPORTS.
Its just healthier to stop being a fan of this ownership, of the management and of the team at this point. How many shit sandwiches do you need to be served? It just all starts at the top. The Aquellini family and the departure of Trevor Linden should have made it clear for everyone.