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“I think that’s something we are going to study going forward and keep in mind for future trade deadlines.”

Read that again. It should give you chills.

How do the Canucks not seem to know teams regularly overpay for D at the deadline?

This has been a thing for a long time.

So the Canucks will study this to make changes for future deadlines, and that’s fine.

But what about today?

How did it impact the prep for this deadline?

What would Guddy have been worth by the end of this TDL?

Did they know?

Could the Canucks have unearthed a pick 0r more for MDZ if they were shopping him?

What about Edler if they had been willing to pester him like they did with Garrison about waiving his NTC?

Because, remember, Garrison didn’t want to waive his NTC either. But they made it happen.

On 650 today responding to an A&W question, Linden admitted they would have considered going to Edler if they got a big offer.

But isn’t there something to be said for being proactive on this front?

“We weren’t looking to move any of our defencemen,” Benning said.

Damn.

“If teams called about any of them, we’d listen,” he said.

“We have some good young defencemen we’re looking to develop, so we weren’t looking to move any defencemen.”

What about the the older guys?

Mike Reilly was a bad defenceman for Minny this year and a playoff team moved him for a fifth-round pick.

It’s points like this which is why some of us think the front office could use an addition to help them better predict things like the TDL market for D-men.