Vancouver Canucks: Still Hope For The Future

The Vancouver Canucks had a disastrous NHL Trade Deadline, no arguing that. But there’s still things to be excited for.

When February 29th and the NHL Trade Deadline passed and it was all said and done for the Vancouver Canucks, it amounted to losing Adam Cracknell on waivers, trading Hunter Shinkaruk for Markus Granlund, and giving up a draft pick to acquire the rights to Philip Larsen from the Edmonton Oilers.

Not exactly groundbreaking. Not exactly what anyone was expecting.

Dan Hamhuis is still here, Radim Vrbata is still here, and six of the “Garage Sale Seven” are still here. Epic fail. Although, Canucks GM Jim Benning was pretty adamant that they tried to make deals but in the case of…