Have the Canucks created enough cap space to sign Jack Roslovic?

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Vancouver’s Dakota Joshua trade was clearly to move out money and they’ve been linked to Roslovic, a 22-goal man last season with Carolina

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Columbus native Jack Roslovic had his moments with the Blues Jackets in 2021-22 with 22 goals and 45 points. Photo by Jason Mowry /Getty ImagesArticle content

The Vancouver Canucks are said to be chasing free agent Jack Roslovic but whether the team has opened up enough cap space to land him remains to be seen.

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PuckPedia has the Canucks with $3.27 million available to spend after they dealt winger Dakota Joshua to the Toronto Maple Leafs on Thursday for a 2028 NHL Draft fourth-round selection.

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Roslovic, 28, is undoubtedly the top remaining unrestricted free agent on the market, coming off a 22-goal, 39-point season with the Carolina Hurricanes. Vancouver needs to upgrade its team’s top-six forward group and Roslovic was sixth in ice time, at 13:49 minutes per game, with a Carolina team that won 47 and finished 10th overall in the regular season.

Rick Dhaliwal of CHEK’s Donnie and Dhali was reporting Thursday that the Canucks have been in talks with Roslovic’s camp. The 6-foot-1, 194-pound right-shot forward, who can play both centre and wing, has been linked to the Canucks at various points over the past few years, dating back to when Jim Benning was general manager.

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Roslovic had a cap hit of $2.8 million on a one-year deal last season. He’s undoubtedly looking for a significant raise and a multi-year contract. He came into last season following a two-year deal with a $4.0 million cap hit.

For comparables, the Philadelphia Flyers inked centre Christian Dvorak, 29, who had 12 goals and 33 points with the Montreal Canadiens, to a one-year, $5.4 million deal earlier this off-season. Vancouver is said to have made a play to land Dvorak.

Vancouver had just three players score 20 or more goals last season. Pius Suter, who had 25 goals with the Canucks, left as a free agent, signing a two-year deal with a $4.125 million cap hit with the St. Louis Blues, The Canucks, of course, didn’t have the cap space when Suter, 29, departed.

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Vancouver would seemingly have ample competition to land Roslovic. He’s been linked this off-season to the Washington Capitals, Buffalo Sabres, San Jose Sharks and, oddly enough, the Maple Leafs.

PuckPedia has the Maple Leafs $2.93 million under the cap after the Joshua move. The Capitals are at $4.13 million under, the Sabres at $7.39 million and the Sharks at $19.74 million.

Of the remaining free agents, Roslovic was the top goal scorer last season, followed by winger Joel Kiviranta (16 with the Colorado Avalanche), winger Victor Olofsson (15 with the Vegas Golden Knights) and centre Luke Kunin (11 with San Jose and the Columbus Blue Jackets).

Ideally, Vancouver would add a No. 2 centre to play behind Elias Pettersson. Roslovic was fifth in faceoffs taken with Carolina last season.

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Joshua, 29, is heading into the second year of a four-year contract he signed with Vancouver last June. Rick Tocchet, who cut ties with the Canucks as head coach at the end of last season, is said to have been a particular fan of Joshua.

Joshua had seven goals and 14 points in 57 games last season, but his campaign is impossible to gauge fairly on its own considering he was diagnosed with testicular cancer and needed surgery in September.

He put up 18 goals and 32 points in 63 regular season games in 2023-24 with Vancouver, and then notched four goals and eight points in 13 playoff games. He’s still seen as largely a third-line type, though.

He’s the eighth regular from the Vancouver team that two seasons ago won 50 regular season games and took the Edmonton Oilers to seven games in Round 2 — plus goalie Artūrs Šilovs — who’s no longer with the club.

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Roslovic is from Columbus and was a 2015 first-round pick (No. 25 overall) by the Winnipeg Jets out of the U.S. National Development Team program. He’s teammates there included Maple Leafs star Auston Matthews. His coach there was Don Granato, the brother of Canucks assistant general manager Cammi Granato.

Winnipeg nabbed Roslovic two spots after the Canucks drafted winger Brock Boeser. Roslovic has 102 goals and 260 points in 526 regular season games.

His 22-goal season with Carolina this past year tied his career high, which he set in 2021-22 with the Columbus Blue Jackets. He had his career high for points that campaign with 45. He signed the deal with the $4 million cap hit after that season.

Roslovic had nine goals and 31 points in 59 regular season games split between the Blue Jackets and New York Rangers in 2023-24.

He also has 45 playoff games on his resume.

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