It’s already known that winger Evander Kane won’t finish the year with the Vancouver Canucks since the team allowed his agent to negotiate a trade to another organization. Still, Kane has yet to be moved.
Most of the interest in Kane is coming from the Western Conference, where he may prefer to remain. The Colorado Avalanche and Dallas Stars have already been linked, with beat writer Robert Tiffin confirming the latter team’s interest earlier today. Additionally, Dennis Bernstein of The Fourth Period reported today that the Los Angeles Kings have entered the mix for Kane’s services.
Multiple outlets have claimed that the Canucks were willing to retain some salary on the remainder of Kane’s contract and are only looking for a prospect or draft capital in return. Throughout his career, Kane has achieved at least a 20-goal campaign more often than not, though he has struggled to put the puck in the net this year, with nine goals in 52 games. Still, interested teams have likely placed more value on his playoff performance the past two years, scoring 10 goals and 20 points in 41 games, with 159 hits, helping the Edmonton Oilers reach back-to-back Stanley Cup Finals.
Additional notes from the Vancouver Canucks:
- After losing netminder Thatcher Demko for the remainder of the season, Vancouver may also be without one of their top young blue-liners for the foreseeable future. Passing along a note from head coach Adam Foote, Sportsnet’s Iain MacIntyre reported that defenseman Zeev Buium has a broken cheekbone and that surgery has not been ruled out. The Canucks are wholly expecting him to remain out through the upcoming Olympic break. Buium has scored two goals and six points in 20 games, while averaging 20:25 of ice time per night, since being acquired from the Minnesota Wild in mid-December.
- The injury concern doesn’t end there for the Canucks. According to Sportsnet’s Randip Janda, forward Nils Höglander is being evaluated for a lower-body injury from yesterday’s game against the San Jose Sharks. It’s not the first time Höglander has dealt with injury concerns this year, missing the first two months of the season due to a separate lower-body ailment. He has registered only two assists in 18 games since returning.
Must be a nightmare for Buium going from a playoff team to the worst team in the league.
Buium much closer to home now at least lol
No worries he has a lot more years to play as a main piece of the roster
First Perry, now Kane??? If this happens I’m going to have to root against two of their players for the first time ever. What’s next, Sean Avery as assistant coach?
All good players. How could you be mad about that?
They’re cheap shot artists. There’s a line between hard nosed play and playing dirty. Those two are famously known for crossing the line
That’s exactly what other teams fans said about Brown. Do you think of him the same way you think of Perry & Kane?
Not at all. Refer to the comment above. There’s a difference between hard nosed (Brown) and dirty (Marchand, Kane, etc). That’s why I said Sean Avery. He was a dirty player and I disliked him immensely when he was in a King’s sweater. I’m sure they’re great dudes off the ice, bun the ice? No….
This is how you Tank
Trade best player
Trade second best player
Trade Kane
Everyone else gets hurt
Play Calder Cup winning team as pro team
the injuries do provide plausible deniability to the tank
Trading a 1st for Markus mediocre Pettersson, just to get three-of-a-kind, flies in the face of a rebuilding team. Oh yeah, last year they weren’t rebuilding but ‘win for Quinn’ even tho ol’ Rutherford now admits Hughes had tipped his hand many months earlier… Has anyone backed out of a Hall of Fame before?
Perry has been a breath of fresh air for the Kings and his teammates and more importantly the younger players are raving about him in the locker room. Kane and Perry on the same line? Gets Turcott two legit NHL wingers to center
Hell, even I think it’d be fun to center that line