{"id":539244,"date":"2026-03-14T04:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T04:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/539244\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T04:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T04:34:09","slug":"canucks-oilers-swap-josh-bloom-and-jayden-grubbe-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/539244\/","title":{"rendered":"Canucks, Oilers Swap Josh Bloom And Jayden Grubbe \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

With Friday representing the AHL\u2019s trade deadline, which also sets roster eligibility for the rest of the season, there have been a handful of moves made in recent days.\u00a0 The Canucks and Oilers were among them, with the latter announcing<\/a> that they\u2019ve acquired winger Josh Bloom<\/a> in exchange for center Jayden Grubbe<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Bloom was a third-round pick by Buffalo back in 2021 but never played in their system.\u00a0 Instead, he was flipped to Vancouver near the trade deadline two years later in exchange for blueliner Riley Stillman<\/a>.\u00a0 Since then, Bloom has primarily played at the ECHL level, getting into 70 games over parts of three seasons compared to half as many at the AHL level.\u00a0 This season, the 22-year-old has 15 goals and 13 assists in 19 games with ECHL Kalamazoo but has been limited to just one goal in 19 appearances with AHL Abbotsford.\u00a0 Bloom is a pending restricted free agent and will need a qualifying offer in June for his rights to be retained.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the exact situation that Grubbe also finds himself in.\u00a0 Originally a third-round pick by the Rangers (65th overall) in 2021, New York opted not to sign him and flipped his rights to Edmonton two years later.\u00a0 The 23-year-old played exclusively in the AHL with Bakersfield over his first two professional seasons, notching nine goals and 24 assists in 129 games.\u00a0 However, this season, he hasn\u2019t seen any action at the AHL level, instead playing with ECHL Fort Wayne, where he notched seven goals and a dozen assists in 28 contests.<\/p>\n

Since the swap occurred after the NHL\u2019s trade deadline, both Bloom and Grubbe are ineligible to be recalled for the remainder of the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With Friday representing the AHL\u2019s trade deadline, which also sets roster eligibility for the rest of the season,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,3275,267219,267220,575,85,206,2371],"class_list":["post-539244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-edmonton-oilers","tag-jayden-grubbe","tag-josh-bloom","tag-nhl","tag-sports","tag-transactions","tag-vancouver-canucks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539244","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=539244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}