In an article by Michael Russo and Joe Smith from The Athletic, which was later confirmed by Patrick Johnston of The Province, there is a growing consensus that the Vancouver Canucks have made a formal offer to the Minnesota Wild for Marco Rossi. While the complete trade offer remains unclear, the trio of writers believes the Canucks proposed the 15th overall pick in the 2025 NHL Draft along with a player.
Johnston elaborated in his article stating that it’s unclear whether the player offered to the Wild was a prospect, or one currently rostered with the Canucks. Still, the news confirms that Vancouver is being aggressive in their pursuit of upgrading their second-line center.
While it’s essentially understood that the Canucks and scoring winger Brock Boeser will be parting ways this summer, Vancouver has over $12MM in salary cap space for the offseason. That means the Canucks could comfortably offer Rossi his desired seven-year, $49MM contract, while leaving room for a few further upgrades.
Other trade notes:
- After signing center Matt Duchene to a new four-year, $18MM contract earlier today, the Dallas Stars only have a projected $455K in salary cap space entering the offseason. Given this, the Stars are looking to move salary off the roster, and forward Mason Marchment has found his name in the center of the rumor mill. According to David Pagnotta of TheFourthPeriod, Dallas is receiving interest in Marchment’s services, particularly from the Toronto Maple Leafs and Utah Mammoth. Marchment already has some familiarity with the Maple Leafs, appearing in four games for the Original Six franchise during the 2019-20 season.
- In a new report from Stefen Rosner in Responsible Gambling, he suggests that the New York Islanders are garnering trade interest in defenseman Alexander Romanov from the Boston Bruins and Philadelphia Flyers. Rosner provided context for the report by stating that he anticipates the Islanders will begin contract negotiations with Romanov in a few weeks. However, he noted that some teams expect these negotiations to take longer since the Islanders also need to sign Noah Dobson, Simon Holmström, and Maxim Tsyplakov, all while managing a cap space of only $21 million.
Patrik Allvin can’t figure out a sign and trade that would send Boeser to Minnesota for Rossi.
Why would Minny agree to this when they can just sign Boeser on July 1st without giving up Rossi????
Allvin had the opportunity to get something for Boeser; likely the owner vetoed it & now they’re getting squat…
Even with moving out Marchment’s 4.5M cap hit, that would leave the Stars with 5M to sign a minimum of 4 forwards to get to 12 forwards. Can be done, but that’s alot of league minimum contracts.
As for the Wild, is it a pretty safe bet Boeser will end up there?
Seems like the Stars will probably pay teams to take Dumba and Lyubushkin. Not sure if itll be enough to keep Robertson but I’m sure they are trying everything to do so.
Pay them with what? They have next to nothing in assets, and the 2nd worst system in the NHL according to Scott Wheeler. A buyout or two is more likely
No doubt, but the problem they’ll have even if they can offload both of them is that they’ll only have 4 Dmen signed for next season, so those spots have to be filled too. Again, they should be able to do that, but they’ll need cheaper players to be signed to make it work.
this is easy, if islanders want 7th overall from bruins, it cost islanders 1st overall in 2026 and cal ritchie.
if islanders are trying to move pageau, for cap reasons, then bruins 3rd rnd in 2026, if romanov is in , then maybe a 2nd in 2026.
bruins need to consider 2nd round draft picks this year, high upside players like nathan Beham and peyton kettles who could still be there at their selections 51 and 61…
pls send to bruins scouts..
but do not trade this 7th pick for less than cal ritchie and 2026 1st rnd from islanders. bruins would have 3 firsts in 2026 to try and land Gavin McKenna.