Cody Hodgson Retires

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CoHo retires

https://twitter.com/AdamVingan/status/783041735580680192

http://theprovince.com/sports/hocke...anucks-first-rounder-to-coach-wee-tennesseans

This trade was a debacle all the way around - even the splinters hurt other teams.

For the Canucks - UGH
Hodgson -> Kassian -> Prust (Waived last season)

For the Sabres - UGH
Kassian -> Hodgson - $$$$ and then bought out

For the Preds - meh
Hodgson for 1/2 a year in NHL and 1/2 in the AHL

For the Habs - ugh (but not in capital letters)
Prust -> Kassian (Supsended, waived) -> Scrivens

For the Oilers - meh (8P in 36 GP)
Scrivens -> Kassian

Hodgson - Retired
Prust - Waived by Canucks halfway through season and now at Leaves on a PTO
Kassian - In Oilers Camp - I don't follow enough - is he top 6? 9?
Scrivens - now in KHL

Other than CoHo's bank account, this really seems like nobody won this trade.

Kevin
 
This is a situation where Cody should have known his role & shut his mouth. He drove his own career into the ground by allowing his parents to become his mouthpiece. He could have played those 2nd line minutes he was craving for if he was willing to be patient and learn from experienced vets. Granted his footwork deficiencies would have caught up to him eventually, but I am convinced he would have been far more productive if he had stayed/developed with the Nucks instead of the Sabres.

Too bad we took in another lost cause in Kassian though. As Kev already mentioned, there was no winner in THE deadline trade of 2011/12. What a waste of a draft...especially when the Nucks could have selected guys like Karlsson (15th), Eberle (22nd), or even Josi (38th) that year.
 
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Never got to see much of him play. I remember a lot of hype but never seemed to reach his potential. Probably one of those situations where he didn't get a chance to develop properly from Jr to NHL. A lot of the kids think they are ready and they aren't and there is also sometimes an issue with teams rushing the player and not providing enough time. Sad to see such a good young Jr player to. It develop into a solid NHL player and to retire at only 26. Was there injury issues or did he just decide to quit?
 
I don't remember him having any injury issues but I could be wrong.

He was a really nice guy off the ice if you ever met him, was great interacting with the fans
 
The Province headline, "Former Canucks first-rounder Hodgson to coach young Tennesseans" tells you everything you need to know about him. Somehow, despite his NHL experiences, he didn't lose his passion for the game, and still wants to share it with kids. That's amazing.
 
c_bass22 said:
Didn't he have a major issues with his back, I could be wrong too.
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Perhaps? I know the last season he had with us he played close to 82 games and just didn't produce, which is why we bought him out in Buffalo

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Last season he had in Buffalo:

78 GP: 6G, 7A - 13 pts.
 
Uh he got hyped cuz he played with Duchene. Solid nhler but shot up draft rankings cuz of his insane final OHL season... or it should have been but then he got injured training the summer he got drafted.

So he got sent back to the Batallion, and looks good again breezing by bad competition. Does he ever fully recover? Probably not. Gets injured some more. Vancouver misdiagnoses him and he's injured even more. From that point on he definitely never recovered. So yeah, did he have time to properly develop? Probably not. Should he have been hyped to be Vancouver's saviour on draft day? Probably not as well.
 
Certainly not the first high first round pick to be a flop. I think back to a local guy Terry Ryan who had a great jr career but for one reason or another couldn't make the jump to the next level.
 
Yeah but he was a good OHL player that became "elite" once Duchene came. His point total basically doubled. Probably went to his head but then the injury made everything worse. Vancouver or someone really screwed him on the diagnosis.
 
paulxing said:
Uh he got hyped cuz he played with Duchene. Solid nhler but shot up draft rankings cuz of his insane final OHL season... or it should have been but then he got injured training the summer he got drafted.

So he got sent back to the Batallion, and looks good again breezing by bad competition. Does he ever fully recover? Probably not. Gets injured some more. Vancouver misdiagnoses him and he's injured even more. From that point on he definitely never recovered. So yeah, did he have time to properly develop? Probably not. Should he have been hyped to be Vancouver's saviour on draft day? Probably not as well.
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I remember that he was injured that year. ITG had a few cards of his in Mem & they usually don't miss on prospects. It took him a while to get back and there was plenty of hype when he did show. Yeah, he could have had more time to develop his game but was that 1st round pick "impact player" that Vancouver 'waited' too long for as it was.

not surprisingly, they are still screwing up their draft prospects...since they have traded most of them away recently and only have a mediocre aging team to show for it.
 

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