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It’s a fascinating case Dellow weaves his way through here and definitely worth your time.

The first thing, and maybe the most important, is the question of whether the Canucks would actually do something like this.

If you look at the 2016 draft, you’ll get your answer.

It was then the Canucks openly chased P.K. Subban, offering the fifth overall pick, something the Habs were considering if Pierre-Luc Dubois would have been available.

The old tale got some play this year after a bit on the 31 Thoughts Podcast, in which it was confirmed the Canucks were willing to move the fifth overall for PK.

This is what I wrote in 2016 on it:

“Word was, the Canucks weren’t going to include Tanev in that deal for Subban and if they didn’t, their package wasn’t going to be enough.”

That was my understanding.

It’s worth noting, the Canucks didn’t have Pettersson back then.

If you believe Pettersson is going to be an impact centre soon, and the Canucks do, it’s a game changer.

It means trading top assets for one of the game’s best Dmen makes a lot more sense now than it did in ’16.

So my gut is that the Canucks would absolutely twig to it.

Once I got past that, I started going crazy trying to get takes from around the league on the nut of Dellow’s premise.

Essentially it’s this:

It makes sense for the Canucks to trade Juolevi and the fifth overall for Karlsson if Van could then extend him on a long-term deal, paying him $13 million a year.

The responses I got — asking people what they thought about it from a Canucks perspective — ranged from “Dellow is high” to “Dellow is a genius.”