Mike Gillis was so bored during the Minnesota game, that he decided to give everybody something to talk about by trading Samuelsson and his big off-season pick up Sturm, for David Booth and Steven Reinprecht from Florida. Wow was that a slow game. The Wild are notorious for being the worst team in hockey to watch - entertainment wise - but wow. Every time I get ready to watch a Canucks vs Wild game, I think to myself, "Well it can't be as bad as the last game." Every time, I'm wrong.
A friend of mine said that it seems like Salo's shot is even harder and more accurate this year, and it's hard to argue with that when he's got goals like that OT winner. He had a little time to set up and rifled it into the top corner past Backstrom.
The Wild are lucky that they play in a city that actually cares about hockey, otherwise they would draw less of a crowd than the Dallas Stars when there is a playoff baseball game the same night. Anyways, that's all there is to say about that, moving along...
The main components to this trade are the Canucks gaining a top six forward in David Booth and the Panthers dumping salary. Samuelsson and Sturm both equal to just over what Booth is making alone, plus the Canucks owners - the Aquilini's - are basically eating Reinprecht's salary for dinner by sending him to the minors. Sturm was a bust, at least from the short sample of work we saw, and Samuelsson was getting along in hockey years and was still nursing off season surgery. Booth is young, fast, can score and has played with both Higgins and Kesler before. Reinprecht, well, he's old too and we probably won't be seeing him unless we absolutely have to. Although, Vancouver always seems to dip a little further in the talent pool than they'd like to during the course of the season, but only time will tell.
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