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Canucks Open To Moving Jaroslav Halak

January 11, 2022 at 8:59 pm CDT | by Brian La Rose 5 Comments

Jaroslav Halak has played well in limited action for Vancouver this season.  However, in his latest column for the Toronto Star, Chris Johnston reports that the Canucks are open to moving the veteran netminder.

Through his first eight appearances this season, the 36-year-old has posted a 2.59 GAA along with a .915 SV%, numbers that are better than the league average in both categories.  But if you’re thinking that his games played total is awfully low for someone with those numbers – he hasn’t been injured – there’s a reason for that.

It’s that reason that seemingly has him on the trade block.  As part of his contract for this season, Halak is owed a $1.25MM bonus when he reaches his tenth game plus another $250K for maintaining a save percentage of .905 or higher which he’s clearly above at the moment.  Placing those incentives in there helped the $1.5MM AAV of Halak’s deal become more affordable for them on the salary cap this season.  However, with Vancouver deep into LTIR with Micheal Ferland’s contract, they won’t have any unused cap space to offset those bonuses against, meaning that they’d face a $1.5MM overage for Halak when his incentives are met which would come off their 2022-23 cap room.

Under new management, it appears as if that’s a price they’d prefer not to pay, both in money spent and the corresponding cap penalty.  On the other hand, that type of upcoming payment could also scare off potentially interested teams as they’d be on the hook for the full bonus amount plus the remaining balance of Halak’s salary.

It’s a little early for the trade market for a backup goaltender to really materialize with the deadline still more than two months away but Halak’s games played total acts as a shorter-term pressure point.  He has placed just twice in the last six weeks which has allowed them to stretch this out for the time being but Thatcher Demko can’t play basically every game in the second half of the season.  At some point, Halak will have to play if he isn’t traded.  As a result, his situation will be one to watch over the next couple of weeks.

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  1. sox4ever

    1 year ago

    They can have Ullmark. Bruins can call it a mulligan

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    • Nha Trang

      1 year ago

      Ullmark’s got a no-movement clause.

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  2. manos

    1 year ago

    Makes no sense. Why move a reliable, affordable backup when you’re chasing a playoff spot? If Demko goes down the Canucks are in serious trouble. At least with Halak, they have somewhat of a safety net. Who’s going to replace Halak? DiPietro? Silly premise. Unless they’re somehow getting a cheaper, younger, better backup I don’t see how this makes sense. Even at that, they’d have to give up more assets to acquire that, which again, makes even less sense.

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    • Johnny Z

      1 year ago

      Yeah not a rumor that makes much sense, but it is Vancouver., and they are penny-wise and pound-foolish LOL
      I would think that the Pens would be very interested. Another report said they were not interested in getting a goalie back for him, another LOL.
      Anyway, Would the Nucks take Heinen for Halek? Maybe a 5th with Heinen would suffice.

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    • 66TheNumberOfTheBest

      1 year ago

      Halak would be a big upgrade on DeSmith, but we’d have the same problem…not wanting to pay bonuses on next year’s cap for a backup.

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