I'm not going to lie in the summertime and even at the beginning of the year I honestly I thought I was going to be be a

Canuck and you know I thought I was going to be a conduct for life to be honest with you and you

know just things didn't work out that way and you know it led me to this so you know I'm grateful for that and I'm grateful that you know the

New York Islanders really believe in me and I'm proud to be a New York Islander now.

Honestly I you know I can't wait.

So there it is.

The Bo Horvat Saga is over.

Move to the New York Islanders in exchange

for Anthony Bavillier, Atu Ratu, and a conditional first round

draft pick that is top 12 protected, otherwise it punts into next season without any type of protection also Vancouver retains 25% of

Horvat salary according to Lou Lammarillo. So now the Vancouver Canucks

have lost one of the best professionals the team has had in this or any other generation

and was really you know this trade was really destined to happen going back to when they prioritized other players over the team's captain.

Now, the handling of Horvatt along the way by this new Vancouver Canucks regime has been bizarre

to be kind, interesting

in order to give the Rutherford regime a soft landing here.

Look, they spent big money on other players,

namely J.T. Miller and Ilia McKeev.

And then when it was time to settle up and pay their captain who probably

would have been on Canada's Olympic hockey team last winter and was having a

career season it seemed as if the money just wasn't there in the till.

Things kind of went backwards.

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