The Vancouver Canucks aren’t exactly interested in giving up their 2026 first-round pick in a deal for a centerman
Sportsnet: Elliotte Friedman and Kyle Bukauskas on 32 Thoughts: The Podcast – Spotlighting the Hockey World episode on the Vancouver Canucks’ pursuit of the centerman. Teams are asking for their 2026 first-round pick, and so far they don’t seem interested in moving it.
** NHLRumors.com transcription
Bukauskas: “What about Vancouver, their pursuit of a center, but they don’t want to give too high a price for it
do it.”
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Friedman: “Yeah, you know, everyone’s been talking about it. They’ve been trying for months. They’re really trying to see what’s out there. I heard that among their conversations was also asking about next year’s first.”
It’s dangerous. First of all, it’s a good design. Look. They just called up a player (Braeden) Cootes, who has already put together their team for a few games, and they are very hopeful about him for a reason. They could have traded that pick to Minnesota. They didn’t. They kept it. And I think in the long run he gave them reason to believe it was the right decision.
You also know this choice, as we said, really good sketch. And you know, you don’t know where you’re going to be either. And I think they also feel like, we added one piece, we can add another. And I just heard they don’t want to do it.
Now I always qualify these things and don’t say don’t do it because you never know what can happen. You could get a player who’s under team control for a long time, and you could say, ‘You know what, we’ll do it.’ So I’ll never say never, but I’ve heard, and the sources are pretty good, that they don’t want to do this. So far they are holding up. Nothing has given them reason to believe they should do it.
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