Long-heralded "future captain" - and the first of now-former GM Dale Tallon's Florida selections - sent to the 'Nucks for prime prospect and picks
Was it Dale Tallon (six-year GM and newly-minted President of Hockey Ops) or Tom Rowe (newly-minted General Manager) who pulled the trigger? That's the question many will be asking every time a deal is announced by the club. Because, well, "It's Dale's team", as we've been told by the latter. But who cares at this point, now that the on-ice business of hockey has resumed at One Panther Parkway.
In case you've somehow avoided a slavish but somehow fulfilling attachment to Twitter here's the dope: Florida traded 24 year-old defenseman Erik Gudbranson to the Vancouver Canucks on Wednesday, with forward Jared McCann, 20, coming to Sunrise.