The Vancouver Canucks aren’t actually taken with giving up their 2026 first-round choose in a deal for a centerman
Sportsnet: Elliotte Friedman and Kyle Bukauskas on 32 Ideas: The Podcast – Placing the Highlight on the Hockey World episode on the Vancouver Canucks pursuit of the centerman. Groups are asking about their 2026 first-round choose, and to date, they don’t appear taken with transferring it.
** NHLRumors.com transcription
Bukauskas: “How about Vancouver, their pursuit of a middle, however don’t need to surrender too excessive a value todo it.”
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Friedman: “Yeah, you realize, everyone’s been speaking about it. They’ve been making an attempt for months. Actually making an attempt to see what’s on the market. I did hear that amongst their conversations was, they’ve been requested about subsequent 12 months’s first.
It’s harmful. Primary, it’s an excellent draft. Look. They simply drafted a participant (Braeden) Cootes, who made their workforce for a number of video games anyhow, they usually’re very hopeful about him for good purpose. They may have traded that choose to Minnesota. They didn’t. They saved it. And I believe long run, he’s given them purpose to consider that was the suitable choice.
Now too, you realize this choose, like we stated, actually good draft. And likewise, you realize, you don’t know the place you’re going to be. And I believe additionally they really feel, we added one piece, we are able to add one other. And I’ve simply heard they don’t need to do it.
Now, I all the time qualify these items and don’t say they’re not doing it, since you by no means know what may occur. You may be provided a participant who’s below workforce management for a very long time, and you can say, ‘You recognize what, we do it.’ So I by no means say by no means, however I’ve heard, and the sources are fairly good, that it’s not one thing that they need to do. So to date, they’re holding agency. Nothing has given them purpose to consider that they need to do it.
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