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Let’s talk about one of former Vancouver Canucks GM Jim Benning’s (non-ironically) really great moves, that just so happens to be his last trade as GM of the team too: the Olli Juolevi trade with the Florida Panthers, where the Canucks acquired defenceman Noah Juulsen and forward Juho Lammikko.
This video is taking place after the 2021 NHL Entry Draft.
The 2021 NHL Draft 1st Round went as follows:
1st) Buffalo Sabres, Owen Power
2nd) Seattle Kraken, Matty Beniers
3rd) Anaheim Ducks, Mason McTavish
4th) New Jersey Devils, Luke Hughes
5th) Columbus Blue Jackets, Kent Johnson
6th) Detroit Red Wings, Simon Edvinsson
7th) San Jose Sharks, William Eklund
8th) Los Angeles Kings, Brandt Clarke
9th) Arizona Coyotes (from Vancouver Canucks), Dylan Guenther
10th) Ottawa Senators, Tyler Boucher
11th) Arizona Coyotes, FORFEITED
12th) Columbus Blue Jackets (from Chicago Blackhawks), Cole Sillinger
13th) Calgary Flames, Matthew Coronato
14th) Buffalo Sabres (from Philadelphia Flyers), Isak Rosén
15th) Detroit Red Wings (from Dallas Stars), Sebastian Cossa
16th) New York Rangers, Brennan Othmann
17th) St. Louis Blues, Zachary Bolduc
18th) Winnipeg Jets, Chaz Lucius
19th) Nashville Predators, Fedor Svechkov
20th) Minnesota Wild (from Edmonton Oilers), Jesper Wallstedt
21st) Boston Bruins, Fabian Lysell
22nd) Edmonton Oilers (from Minnesota Wild), Xavier Bourgault
23rd) Dallas Stars (from Washington Capitals via Detroit Red Wings), Wyatt Johnson
24th) Florida Panthers, Mackie Samoskevich
25th) Columbus Blue Jackets (from Toronto Maple Leafs), Corson Ceulemans
26th) Minnesota Wild (from Pittsburgh Penguins), Carson Lambos
27th) Nashville Predators (from Carolina Hurricanes), Zachary L’Heureux
28th) Colorado Avalanche, Oskar Olausson
29th) New Jersey Devils (from New York Islanders), Chase Stillman
30th) Vegas Golden Knights, Zach Dean
31st) Montreal Canadiens, Logan Mailloux
32nd) Chicago Blackhawks (from Tampa Bay Lightning via Columbus Blue Jackets), Nolan Allan
This video is also taking place after 2021 NHL Season, and after the 2021 Stanley Cup Playoffs, where the Tampa Bay Lightning defeated the Montreal Canadiens in the Finals.
Olli Juolevi was one of the top NHL prospects a the 2016 NHL Entry Draft.
The 2016 NHL Entry Draft saw many top NHL prospects get selected by a variety of teams. The first round of the draft went as follows:
1st – Toronto Maple Leafs, Auston Matthews
2nd – Winnipeg Jets, Patrik Laine
3rd – Columbus Blue Jackets, Pierre-Luc Dubois
4th – Edmonton Oilers, Jesse Puljujarvi
5th – Vancouver Canucks, Olli Juolevi
6th – Calgary Flames, Matthew Tkachuk
7th – Arizona Coyotes, Clayton Keller
8th – Buffalo Sabres, Alexander Nylander
9th – Montreal Canadiens, Mikhail Sergachev
10th – Colorado Avalanche, Tyson Jost
11th – Ottawa Senators (from New Jersey Devils), Logan Brown
12th – New Jersey Devils (from Ottawa Senators), Michael McLeod
13th – Carolina Hurricanes, Jake Bean
14th – Boston Bruins, Charlie McAvoy
15th – Minnesota Wild, Luke Kunin
16th – Arizona Coyotes (from Detroit Red Wings), Jakob Chychrun
17th – Nashville Predators, Dante Fabbro
18th – Winnipeg Jets (from Philadelphia Flyers), Logan Stanley
19th – New York Islanders, Kieffer Bellows
20th – Detroit Red Wings (from New York Rangers via Arizona Coyotes), Dennis Cholowski
21st – Carolina Hurricanes (from Los Angeles Kings), Julien Gauthier
22nd – Philadelphia Flyers (from Chicago Blackhawks via Winnipeg Jets), German Rubtsov
23rd – Florida Panthers, Henrik Borgstrom
24th – Anaheim Ducks, Max Jones
25th – Dallas Stars, Riley Tufte
26th – St. Louis Blues (from Washington Capitals), Tage Thompson
27th – Tampa Bay Lightning, Brett Howden
28th – Washington Capitals (from St. Louis Blues), Lucas Johansen
29th – Boston Bruins (from San Jose Sharks), Trent Frederic
30th – Anaheim Ducks (from Pittsburgh Penguins via Toronto Maple Leafs), Sam Steel
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22 Comments
Noo
Did this just go down? Jk nm can you tell I’m not familiar with the canucks roster
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This trade wouldn’t even exist if Jimbo actually knew what he was doing at the 2016 Draft. Every other GM in the league would taken Matthew Tkachuk over Juolevi.
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Juho Lamiko 975K X 3
Mathew Highmore 890K X 3
Brock Boeser 6.55 X 5
Jack Rathbone 1.125x 2
Tyler Myers gets traded
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Bo 6.5×5
Hoglander 2.125×3
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Give praise whenever you can and everyone will listen to you once you criticize
He seriously should have token Tkachuk or Keller
Amazingly you can say a 10 word thought in 287
Jake was a monster in Jr, that is why they drafted him. He left it there. And Juolevi I thought he would at least be serviceable. I backed him too. At first I thought Lamiko was an AHLer but he kept getting better and playing harder with confidence. I believed Benning traded for warm bodies. One of the few times I was glad I was wrong.
Lol, not much a loss for Panthers
But Benning stunk on the trade getting dicki with our 3rd round pick!
The best trade he ever made is still jt Miller. Didn't look good at the draft when it first went down. But aged really well
To be honest, JB's trades have been above average. His FA signings were more misses than hits but then again, our team wasn't that good /attractive for FAs to take paycuts to play for us (e.g. Laffs)
If I remember correctly, Juolevi was actually the highest defenceman before the draft. The Canucks felt they had a positional need and drafted him. Personally, I did not have a huge problem with the decision to go with Juolevi, but the Canucks could have easily traded down and still got him, and would got something else from whoever that wanted their pick. Instead, Benning drafted a guy who, even if his development panned out and became a serviceable RD for the Canucks, would not have been worth that high of a pick to acquire.
Benning fkd up by not drafting Tkatchuk … biggest blunder since drafting Nedved over Jagr
I think the fact hoglander is in the nhl is good but maybe needs some seasoning
Great trade Benning. I held out hope for Juolevi until he was traded. Lamikko is a big, rough and tumble player with some skill and guts. He could have been a 2nd round pick. Again, Jim built a pretty good team, but couldn't evaluate his coach, and they got drug down. If they make the playoffs, Boudreau should get the Jack Adams. Allvin, please get us ONE top end D man. Big, mean and reliable
This to me was Benning trying to hide the body after he royally screwed up at the draft. As long as Juolevi was in our system it was right under his nose daily how badly he, and his trusted scouts screwed up. As for the rest of his drafting – Virtanen (F), Boeser (A, and I must think that this was Judd Brackett's guy as he was watching the College and University hockey), Pettersson A – but Canucks seemed to prefer Cale Makar, and the guys picked ahead of Petey were expected to go high. I still give them credit for this one. Hughes – A, but we weren't even supposed to be close to getting him. He should have gone in the 3-5 spots, but a few surprise picks by Arizona and Detroit and he fell to us. Same with Podkolzin.
Benning was far from the worst GM in the league during his tenure. He drafted well during the end of his tenue and he did make some pretty good trades / signings (Miller, Garland, Motte, Pearson, etc.). He shot himself in the foot right away by agreeing to not re-build as he should have. Look at the drafting record of basically any other team over the past 10 years and you'll find flop after flop. Definitely wasn't a problem exclusive to Vancouver.
As a lifelong Canucks fan, seeing Yzerman pick Juolevi off waivers scares me. Yzerman is good at spotting talent, and I fear Olli might be kickass as a Red Wing.
Jim Benning did a great job reducing the damage of the Juolevi pick by acquiring Lammikko and Juulsen in return. It does not compensate for the loss of Sergachev, Chychrun, or Tkachuk, but it is far better than nothing.
Your view of the 4 line (especially Lamako) has changed. Awhile back you said he didn’t deserve to be in the line.