Panthers trade Booth, Reinprecht to Vancouver for Samuelsson, Sturm

just wanted to say i’m quite excited about the canucks new aquisition. you’ll love samuelsson when he’s on his game, and curse vehemently at your television when he’s not… heading down to sunrise in less than two weeks to visit family, so hopefully i’ll catch your game against the flyers…

Fk tallon and the rest of management! here we go again trading away good players for nothing good in return!! I’m fkn fed up of this team and their bull! they give booth 6 games to prove himself wtf is that!? ya lets get sammy and sturm 2 old douche bags who suck and will take roster spots away from players who actually have heart. Wow im fed up of Tallon already hes a fkn idiot

ya we should jump ship cuz when someone can trade booth for sammy and sturm, it means theyre not in their right mind…our GM is on crack

if what you guys are saying is that Florida comes out on top in this trade, then ill just stop wasting my time here

we got f***ked!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! excuse my french.

“They’re two useful, NHL top-notch people that can play,” Tallon said of Sturm and Samuelsson, both of whom are on the final year of their contracts. "They’re solid defensively and offensively.

“Samuelsson won a Cup in Detroit and is coming off back-to-back 50-point seasons. He’s a real useful player. He can play the point on the power play and has size and a big shot that we sorely need. Sturm gives us a player that can kill penalties. He’s scored 20 or more goals seven times in his career, and it just gives us more options and more depth in the organization.”

Translation… he wants someone who can skate backwards.. aka play defensive hockey as well as scoring

They’re solid defensively

Thats the whole point of this move.

Also, Kris Versteeg is your new David Booth. Lost one fan favorite, gain a new (and possibly better) one

we couldve got anyone instead of sturm

I liked Booth but he has never been on his game since his head injury. I see this trade as a roster dump. Sturm and Sam both have 1yr left so they will get dumped at the end of the season if it does not work out. Makes room for Huby and Howden :)

What’s really unfortunate is that Booth wasn’t sent to to the Northeast…imagine the terror in JM’s eyes knowing he’d have to face him six times per year

Samuelsson

Sturm

 I don’t get to watch Booth every game like you guys but I think this was a bad trade. I don’t see how trading for two 33+ players at the end of their careers for a youngish guy who’s scored 20 twice and 30 once plus throwing in a pick is justifiable on any level. You are supposed to be rebuilding not hogging geezers. I can’t understand the thought pattern here. Can someone explain it to me?

You all will love Samuelsson, even if his mind wanders from time to time. Sturm was nothing for us but six games isn’t a solid sample size either. hopefully the trade works for both teams and all the players excel…just Booth moreso ;)

I’m sorry if this has been mentioned before in the thread but I couldn’t read through all the lack of punctuation and poor grammar this late at night:

Dale “Dave to his friends” Tallon saw Booth through 88 games with a -36 and a looming cap hit of 4.25M on the books. Had he not made this trade early Tallon would have had another Olez (sorry Chris) on his hands. We all liked to see Booth on the ice but this is what GMs do. Tallon evaluated the situation and made his move. Had Booth become a a -15or -20 for the season by January there would be no interested trading partners for the duration of his contract.

I guess I’m still a little numb from seeing Frolik go last season but this is the face of change. We can’t, as fans, ask for change and a winning team while simultaneously crying foul when an under preforming fan favorite is handed a boarding pass to an airport in some other NHL city. If only Upshall commanded the interest of other teams…

Look on the bright side kids, there’s no way the Panthers will be as bad as the Dolphins this year!

Booth’s numbers have been in a downward trajectory while his minus rating was climbing at an alarming rate, not a good thing at all when you are a holdover player from a prior regime making a hefty salary.

I like Booth as a player but he’s paid to score goals and he wasn’t doing it. Someone posted the other day that Booth was a “natural” scorer which I don’t agree with. Booth was a guy who scored through hard work and by driving the net. Maybe the Panthers brass thought he was not playing with the same abandon he used to in his better years due to the concussion issue. I think this trade will benefit both parties. Vancouver is obviously a very talented team which will help Booth get his game back on track and I would not be surprised to see Samuelsson come up with numbers similar to Booth’s output from last year.

Tallon wants to keep putting his stamp on the team. These are two guys who are here to help out this year and then as we go forward our prospects will be filling more and more of these roster spots. Vets are slowly going to fall by the wayside as this team moves towards becoming a real contender. You guys don’t think Jovo is really going to be here four years now? This also gives the Panthers even more cap flexibility next offseason in case they want to sign a true top line scoring forward which is badly needed imo.

Sitting at the game and getting texts from my buddies in Dallas saying how sorry they felt for me losing Booth, then twitter reports.. I, like GSP, will admit I had tears. It was not easy for me to enjoy the first period of play knowing Tallon traded away David Booth. As a fan who hasn’t picked a jersey with a player name in 5 years because of the air of uncertainty, this hurt me. After making it past the trade deadline and July 1 I thought for sure he was a part of The Tallon/Santos plan. After a good strong drink and my buddies reminding me that Tallon said perform or be ready to move I settled into the game. I wish Booth nothing but success in his hockey career, he will be missed by me.
  ((Weaver 0g/3A!! Islander killer))

I was listening to the NHL summary show while driving home last night and heard about the trade for the first time. It was also the first time I heard that much praise of David Booth without a mention of any downsides.

Being objective, Booth never regained that touch he had prior to the injury, “Shooting at the crest” has been his weakness for the past 2 seasons and he still hasn’t gotten over it. I’m hoping the change of scenery helps him regain his prior form.

As for what we received in turn, they are rentals, holding space for Panthers prospects to fill in those gaps at the beginning of next season. Or, to be resigned if they perform well. I’m not a fan of the aging of the Cats, and it seems to be a significant departure from “The Blueprint” (which has now disappeared from the Panther’s presentations totally if you haven’t noticed).

Samuelsson hat-trick against Avalanche 3/9/10

Samuelsson Powerplay goal against Flyers 10/12/11

Samuelsson goal against Kings Round 1 2010 playoffs

Monday, Jan 9, 2012 – The Canucks @ The Big Billboard.

Watching NHL on the Fly last night, that new idiot guy (Jamie McLennan?) was sold on Booth because he had ‘sandpaper’ to his game and based that observation on his 10 second square-off with Mike Richards.

I have read with fascination the pro and cons of David Booth from you guys ( (thank you!), and as I digest it, a few things. Agree or disagree if you will.

Even those here that point out his negatives are all resigned to “hes a good player”. Because he is. So, if you go by the old adage in the NHL about “He who gets the Best Player in a trade shall be judged to win said trade”..then the Canucks won this deal.

If you look at it as a Cats fan, or even just dispassionately and with an eye to the financial aspects, than the Panthers did just fine.

One thing I did find interesting, the positive hope that Sammy can replace Booth’s scoring. Well, yes and no. He can, but he might not. And this is no offense to the players on the Cats, or the systems, or any fans of course. But not a one of them are identical Twin back to back Art Ross winners. They just are not. The reason everyone on the team gets all happy and smily ( go to NM and scroll down to the story on new guy Dale Weise, he asked the coach “you sure” when he got tapped for the always dangerous after PK shift with the Twins because Burrows just killed a penalty ) when AV puts them there.

That was Sammy’s place when Burr was not going. Others got it, but even when he struggled, Sammy was out there with those two as the second option. Thats because he is a gifted, gifted shooter. But thats also because the hallmark of any good Sedinery is the pass into open space. Sammy got many of those with the Twins, in additional to the Bonus Twin Time on the PP, where the chances of piling up points from the point really pile up!

So, he get some. That shot alone ensures that. But he is slowing down, and the adductor thing has to be troubling. Thats where speed comes from when you skate.

Sturmy Weathers? He’ll get some opportunistic goals, and even in his struggles here, he always seemed to know where the right place was to go. Just had trouble getting there on his bionic knees. Perhaps in the slightly slower East, I don’t know. We do have one of the collectively fastest teams in the NHL out here too.

We are just jacked out here. Me? I am pretty happy. From seeing Booth in highlights and when the Panthers game was on NHL Network, the one thing I noticed about his game, even post concussion, is he knows where to go and will use the power game to get there. Not afraid of the corners.

That shot. It looks like it could be as good as Sammy’s. He is definitely faster. That and getting a guy that was Kesler’s teammate as teens, giving them a chance to reignite that…pretty positive.

But enjoy Sammy in the room and on interviews, in addition to on the ice. Sturm too. Both will be playing to be on that team or another in the NHL next year, so no slackers! If you needed cool vets to tell it like it is, I know for certain you got that in Sammy.

Sturm you have to decide for yourself. ;-)