The beginning of the 2017-18 NHL season for the Vancouver Canucks means that it has been two years since the infamous incident that cost the club prospect defenceman Frank Corrado to the Toronto Maple Leafs.
The Canucks did not trade Corrado to the Leafs. Vancouver did not get anything in return. Corrado was lost for naught. That’s the power of the waiver wire. The blackhole that can make nothing out of something.
The Canucks also lost forward Emerson Etem to the Anaheim Ducks a similar way this time last season, only months after spending former first-round pick Nicklas Jensen and a fifth-round pick to pry him away from the New York Rangers.