said last year on a podcast,<\/a> translated from Russian to English.<\/p>\n\u201cThey told me your work ethic is definitely the best, you\u2019re in the best shape of anyone. They were like, \u2018Your hockey IQ isn\u2019t at the NHL level, you\u2019re making the wrong decisions out there.\u2019 That line really stuck with me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Vancouver clearly made a mistake by trading Podkolzin for pennies on the dollar to Edmonton, a mistake amplified by the fact that they used that same fourth-rounder to acquire Evander Kane.<\/p>\n
Ironically, Kane is now blocking H\u00f6glander\u2019s path to the lineup.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s been no direction that the Canucks want to trade H\u00f6glander. However, another coach making him ride the bench, coupled with the fact that the team is listening on everybody outside of a select few players, makes you wonder if it\u2019s possible.<\/p>\n
Dealing H\u00f6glander may not be as straightforward for the Canucks, since he now makes $3 million per season. Still, you\u2019d have to imagine there are NHL teams that may be willing to take a flier on him if the Canucks no longer believe in the player.<\/p>\n
Of course, if that were to happen, it would be easy to see H\u00f6glander having a Podkolzin-like ascension.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The trauma of being a Vancouver Canucks fan is real. Just this season, Canucks fans have watched their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-537523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}