[Canucks] General Manager Patrik Allvin announces that the Canucks have acquired a 4th rd pick in the 2027 NHL Entry Draft from the Blackhawks in exchange for Mikheyev, Lafferty, and a 2nd rd pick in the 2027 NHL Entry Draft. Canucks retaining 15% of Mikheyev’s salary as a part of the transaction.
by PaperMoonShine
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Good trade👍
Sign big Z
Idk how I feel about this other than neat, that’s a good sum of money off the books
W
15% retention is not a big deal. I can live with that.
15% retained is fine tbh we still got like 21mil to work with
Jake Guentzel prepare to learn Vancouverese buddy
Wait it’s a 2027 2nd now? That’s so much better than giving up the 2025 2nd.
15% retention isn’t great isn’t awful. Just over 700k in retention?
Allvin just took a diarrhea dump on Yzerman giving up a 2nd to get rid of a top 4 dman. I was worried the market to trade cap would be fucked after that bone-headed trade
It’s wild to being going into July hella flush.
Good to get 4 million cap space. Let Allvin cook
Goodbye Ilya. I’ll never forget wanting to die after you missed on an open net in game 7. A true Canuck
We now have ~~$22.7M~~ $20.7Min cap space after retention. No retention would have been $23.4M. That is totally fine and still an outstanding trade.
Time to make some big moves.
Edit: Stay in school kids and pay attention in math class
I’m an idiot lol.
About 700k in retention for two years and the 2nd is in 2027. I’ll take that for 4m in cap now
Wait it’s a 2027 2nd? Maybe the retain salary moved it from 2025 to a 2027 pick.
Pretty wild that Chicago was willing for a 2027 2nd.
This is a tidy piece of business by Alvin 👏
Now bring home Zaddy and Guentzel!!
Looks like Allvin likes to use the “downgrade a 2nd round pick to a 4th” strategy.
He already did it once before with the 1st + 2nd for Hronek + 4th trade.
When was the last time we had this kind of competency in Canucks Management?
That’s really a perfectly acceptable deal.
They have to land a significant scorer in UFA though. This team is all in on the next 2-3 years with these sorts of moves and they have to make it count.
By the way, anyone furiously refreshing the comments section of the Canucks IG post for Bublés spicy responses? 😂
Too bad Lafferty couldn’t have continued his early season form, as he was flying for a bit.
So out of Petey’s 4 most common linemates this past season, 3 of them were traded (Kuzy, Miky, Lafferty).
Let’s pray they get him that all star winger to play with next season. *cough* Guentzel. 🙏🙏
And that is how the Canucks acquired Guentzel, son.
Retaining $700k sucks but on the bright side we just paid ~50 draft positions for $4M in cap space. This is a big win. The Yzerplan got dick all for his arguably better contract with Walman
The Hawks are likely to still suck or be at least mid while we should be a top-10 team so the pick swap isn’t that bad
So…chance to keep Big Z and Joshua now?
**Vancouver**: Clears about $4 million in cap space over the next 2 seasons.
**Chicago**: Buys low on a player that scored at a 20 goal/82 pace over the last 3 years, while moving up ~60 spots in the draft.
I like this deal for both sides.
I hope he at least asked them to throw Bedard in.
I really hope now we can lock up Zadorov and Myers. Then get that too 6 scoring winger for Petey.
Please sign Zadorov!!