WE HAVE A TRADE!!!!!

 We have a trade! And it's from our little brother, the Florida Panthers. Why are they are little brother? Because in a family, when the older brother wants something that the little brother has, he takes it while leaving little to nothing in return. Pretty much is exactley the way the Florida-Vancouver trades have gone over the years. Anyways on to the trades:

Vancouver Receives:
LW David Booth
C Steve Reinprecht
2013 3rd round pick

In Booth, the Canucks get what they have been looking for a while now; a top 6 forward to play with Kesler. Booth had a decent year last year, putting up 23 goals and 40 points in 82 games. He was also a -31, but I`ll get into that and more information about Booth here. Reinprecht is just a throw in, as his $2.05 million is just sitting in the minors and Panthers ownership did not want to foot that bill any longer. The Aquilini`s should not be overlooked in this trade. Without their financial support and willingness to pay a player $2.05 million in the minors, this trade would not go through. The 3rd round pick we received is the Canucks 3rd round pick that they sent to Florida for Higgins (another trade with Florida where we pretty much took the player we wanted and left very little in return).

Florida Receives:
RW Mikael Samuelsson
LW Marco Sturm

In Samuelsson and Sturm, Florida receive two veteran forwards, who still have the capacity to produce offensively. The problem is that both players are coming off major surgery and neither has looked good at all this season. The bonus to this deal for Florida however is that both players are in the last years of their deal. Dale Tallon will insist that this move was not money motivated and he points to the fact that the Panthers took on $250K in salary. However Booth still has 3 more years at $4.25 million after this season, while, as stated before, Sturm and Samuelsson are both free agents after this season. Plus the fact that they gave up a young top 6 forward for two aging, pending UFA's, this deal screams money for Florida.

Winner:

Whenever a trade happens, the short-term winner is whoever gets the best player player in the deal. The long-term winner can't be decided until a year or two down the road. However we are talking short term and in this deal the Canucks got the best player. Some may argue that Samuelsson is the best player in the deal, but that's just their stupid talking. Booth, like Samuelsson, is also a former 30 goal scorer and he did it on a very bad team, while Samuelsson did it while playing with Kesler and the Sedins. Booth is also 8 years younger then Samuelsson and is also much more mobile then Samuelsson, who, along with Sturm, showed the kind of speed you would expect out of the Roger Neilson statue outside of Rogers Arena. So the short-term winner is the Vancouver Canucks