The Vancouver Canucks have traded defenseman Tyler Myers to the Dallas Stars for a second-round pick in 2027 and a fourth-round pick in 2029.<\/p>\n
Myers, 36, has one more season on his contract after this one at a $3 million cap hit. Vancouver retained 50 percent of his contract in the deal, making Myers a $1.5 million player for the rest of this season and next. It\u2019s critical to note that while Myers had a full no-movement clause for the 2025-26 season, which he waived Wednesday to go to Dallas, that clause converts to a 12-team modified no-trade clause for the 2026-27 campaign.<\/p>\n
With a reputation as a shutdown defender, the right shot played more than 20 minutes per game for the Canucks this season\u00a0\u2014\u00a0the 16th time in 17 NHL seasons he\u2019s been over that mark. Over the course of seven seasons and nearly 500 games with the Canucks, Myers was a reliable \u2014 if occasionally chaotic \u2014 top-four capable defender that earned trust and minutes from every head coach that he played for.<\/p>\n
A settled family man who spends his summers in British Columbia, Myers was scratched 10 days out from the NHL trade deadline, although he continued to practice and take the warmup skate with the team. His absence from the lineup was felt enormously. The Myers showcase, in absentia, was a reminder of how understated but significant his contributions are as a big, two-way defender capable of holding up in tough minutes against top competition.<\/p>\n
What Tyler Myers brings to the Stars<\/p>\n
Myers might be 36, but he\u2019s still 6-foot-7 and knows how to use his length and size in the defensive zone.<\/p>\n
The 2010 Calder Trophy-winning blueliner has some mean moments as a physical presence and is generally used in a defensive role, although his primary five-on-five impact has typically been more offensive than defensive. He\u2019s excellent at surfing the blue line and using his long reach to deny entries into the defensive zone. That skill both results in counterattacking opportunities for his team and explains why Myers\u2019 clubs have typically generated more quality looks with him on the ice.<\/p>\n
The key to maximizing Myers\u2019 usage is to limit how often he\u2019s put in a position to solve problems as a puck carrier. Myers has some real skill as an in-zone contributor, and is occasionally even dynamic when attacking downhill (where he\u2019ll often use a deceptive back-hand shot), but his decision-making in the defensive zone as a puck handler and passer is prone to inconsistency.<\/p>\n
What this means for the Canucks<\/p>\n
Vancouver\u2019s trade deadline focus has been to acquire potentially meaningful future assets, as many as possible, to further fuel its nascent rebuilding effort. The resolution to the Myers trade accomplishes just that.<\/p>\n
The return isn\u2019t massive, and Vancouver will be utilizing a retained salary transaction slot through this season and next, but the 2027 second-round pick is a solid asset to return for the 36-year-old blueliner who held a full no-move clause.<\/p>\n
The Canucks dealt their own 2027 second to get off the Ilya Mikheyev contract in 2024, but have now bought back into the second round of that draft class twice, owning both San Jose and Dallas\u2019 picks in that draft.<\/p>\n
The Canucks now own seven picks in the first two rounds cumulatively in the 2026 and 2027 NHL Drafts. They\u2019re legitimately starting to stack up the sort of draft capital surplus that must be the lifeblood of any successful rebuilding effort. That the club was also able to retain 50 percent of Myers\u2019 salary and pull a fourth-round pick in 2029 out of this deal is a bonus.<\/p>\n
Overall, Canucks management has demonstrated the ability in this deal to manage a complex, three-dimensional trade, which was the product of a week-long staring contest between themselves, Myers, Dallas and at least one Eastern Conference team, while netting legitimate future value in the process. There\u2019s value in that, too, given what the conversation might\u2019ve looked like in Vancouver if they hadn\u2019t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Vancouver Canucks have traded defenseman Tyler Myers to the Dallas Stars for a second-round pick in 2027…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":518867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,7521,575,85,2371],"class_list":["post-518866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-dallas-stars","tag-nhl","tag-sports","tag-vancouver-canucks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518866","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=518866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}