AFTER CLEARING CAP SPACE, IT’S ABOUT TO GET INTERESTING FOR THE CANUCKS
The Vancouver Canucks dealt Ilya Mikheyev, the rights to pending unrestricted free agent Sam Lafferty and a 2025 second-round pick to Chicago yesterday. The Canucks will receive a 2027 fourth-round pick in exchange.
With this deal, the Canucks were able to clear $4 million of Mikheyev’s contract as they retained 15%, or $712,000. But that gives the Canucks much-needed cap flexibility heading into July 1.
Today on Daily Faceoff Live, Frank Seravalli chimes in on what the Canucks can do with some of that extra money available to them.
Tyler Yaremchuk: So the trade yesterday basically boils down to the Canucks move from a second to a fourth-rounder to get off a huge piece of salary.
Frank Seravalli: The Canucks had to swallow hard on the Mikheyev deal, they felt like this is a good enough player that one year away from an ACL tear that he would bounce back in a big way, so they didn’t want to attach a big asset to that. Yes trade the round second-round pick and essentially slide back 60 slots in 2027, but you now have the ability to find another pick in 2027. But way more importantly it allows the Canucks to go hard at re-signing Nikita Zadorov, and take a run at Jake Guentzel when free agency opens on July 1. That’s their game plan. Whether they can pull it off, it was impossible to do with Mikheyev’s $4.75 million contract on the books.
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