“Why it makes sense for Vancouver: Canucks president of hockey operations Jim Rutherford wasn’t in Pittsburgh when the team added Rakell, but general manager Patrik Allvin was still with the Penguins organization at the time, so there’s some familiarity there.” Wegman said.<\/p>\n
He added, “While he’s not the center the Canucks have been searching for, adding a legitimate top-six winger to a forward group that severely lacks high-end talent outside of Elias Pettersson<\/a> and Brock Boeser<\/a> would be a good start. Rakell, 32, is a physical two-way winger under contract for three more years with a $5-million cap hit. He’d be a massive upgrade over Hoglander, who scored just eight goals last year and is under contract for three more years at $3 million annually.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“Why it makes sense for Vancouver: Canucks president of hockey operations Jim Rutherford wasn’t in Pittsburgh when the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,47546,78845,85,2371,27867,78844,72285],"class_list":["post-110200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-rickard-rakell","tag-rickard-rakell-trade-rumors","tag-sports","tag-vancouver-canucks","tag-vancouver-canucks-news","tag-vancouver-canucks-trade-proposal","tag-vancouver-canucks-trade-rumors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}