Canucks winger Conor Garland isn’t eligible to sign a contract extension until next week when the 2025/26 league year officially begins. However, it appears he won’t be waiting for long after that to put pen to paper on a new deal. Daily Faceoff’s Frank Seravalli reports (Twitter link) that significant progress has been made in discussions between the two sides, while Rick Dhaliwal of CHEK and The Athletic adds (Twitter link) that if a deal is finalized, it could be for six years and around $36MM.
The 29-year-old has spent the last four seasons with Vancouver after being acquired from Arizona as part of the Oliver Ekman-Larsson trade back at the draft in 2021. A few days after the trade, he signed a five-year, $24.75MM deal that will begin its final season in July.
During his time with the Canucks, Garland’s contract has been viewed as fair at times and also above-market to the point where it was believed that there were off-and-on trade discussions when Vancouver was looking to free up salary cap space. At one point in 2023, Garland changed agents and had permission to speak to other teams about a swap but obviously, nothing came to fruition there.
But even during those times, the team made it known that they valued Garland’s contributions and the suggestion that an extension could be wrapped up quickly suggests that’s still very much the case.
Over his first three years with the Canucks, Garland was certainly consistent. His worst season offensively was a 17-goal, 46-point effort while his best goal total was (2023-24) and best point total was 52 (2021-22). This season was more of the same as Garland tallied 19 goals and 31 assists in 81 games while seeing his playing time jump to a career-best 18:39 per game.
With Brock Boeser appearing likely to depart the organization in free agency next week, Vancouver certainly wouldn’t want to lose their next-best right winger the following year. It appears that won’t be happening and that Garland could officially be signing an extension as soon as next week, ensuring he’ll be staying with the Canucks for the long haul.
Patrik Allvin is not qualified for his position, But he can’t even fake it very well, Vancouver is a dumpster fire, I feel sorry for Adam Foote, I have a question that the media won’t ask, Because the hockey media is not interested in honesty, I’m curious about the timing of the Adam Foote hire solely because his son could be going to prison/Jail on July 24th, I would think that Foote would be focused on that, And not Interested in taking a fulltime coaching position.
You’re not qualified to pretend you’re not Wilf P and have an opinion that matters
It’s Just a bit over a year after Canucks mgmt threw up their hands after claiming they were getting no offers, then told Garland he was free to let his agent find a possible suitor. Credit to garland, he demonstrated his value with a strong season. BUT, for a team that is at best stuck in neutral, keeping older mid-6 players at pricey contracts is asinine. This goes for injury risk Demko too. But the Rutherford – Allvin autobot sees no value in picks’n prospects, dooming us Canucks fans to more downward spiral than the Tidy Bowl man…
Garland was a beast at the World Championships this past May. Gained a new found respect for how good he is.