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The Canucks just traded Cody Hodgson to the Buffalo Sabres at the trade deadline. This is kinda wacky and absolutely no one was expecting this. Perhaps especially not Cody Hodgson.
I don't pretend to understand how trading and salaries and things work in hockey. And I know that if I were in charge of a team we would never win anything, because I would be spending too much time getting together a good group of people rather than a team that actually wins games.
But I'm sad to see Cody go.
He's a candidate for Rookie of the Year, and he's quite good. He's not quite as awesome as some of the commentary about him has suggested. But he's good and I was really looking forward to watching his development as a player. I remember back when I was in Halifax and Cody was playing for Canada in the World Juniors. I watched the gold-medal game and every time he did something awesome (which was often) I turned to C and cheered: "He's going to be a Canuck!" because he'd already been drafted at that point.
So I'm sad to see him go. He's developing into a good hockey player, and from what little I know about him from stalking the team he seemed like a cool guy too. The other guys on the team used to tease him about dressing like he was in grade nine, and then took him out shopping to get a proper wardrobe. :) A couple of days ago (before they knew about the trade) his road roommate, David Booth, tweeted about them watching Aladdin together. Which is absolutely adorable. Even moreso after it inspired this comic by Chloe Ezra:
Cody is the one in the fish pjs. Booth has the hat. There's nothing more awesome than grown men enjoying children's movies. :)
So yeah. I'll miss you Cody. Good luck in Buffalo! There are much worse places for you to go. But I wont see much of you anymore (the Canucks only play Buffalo a few times a year at most), which is too bad.
I don't pretend to understand how trading and salaries and things work in hockey. And I know that if I were in charge of a team we would never win anything, because I would be spending too much time getting together a good group of people rather than a team that actually wins games.
But I'm sad to see Cody go.
He's a candidate for Rookie of the Year, and he's quite good. He's not quite as awesome as some of the commentary about him has suggested. But he's good and I was really looking forward to watching his development as a player. I remember back when I was in Halifax and Cody was playing for Canada in the World Juniors. I watched the gold-medal game and every time he did something awesome (which was often) I turned to C and cheered: "He's going to be a Canuck!" because he'd already been drafted at that point.
So I'm sad to see him go. He's developing into a good hockey player, and from what little I know about him from stalking the team he seemed like a cool guy too. The other guys on the team used to tease him about dressing like he was in grade nine, and then took him out shopping to get a proper wardrobe. :) A couple of days ago (before they knew about the trade) his road roommate, David Booth, tweeted about them watching Aladdin together. Which is absolutely adorable. Even moreso after it inspired this comic by Chloe Ezra:
Cody is the one in the fish pjs. Booth has the hat. There's nothing more awesome than grown men enjoying children's movies. :)
So yeah. I'll miss you Cody. Good luck in Buffalo! There are much worse places for you to go. But I wont see much of you anymore (the Canucks only play Buffalo a few times a year at most), which is too bad.
