{"id":261816,"date":"2025-11-04T20:34:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T20:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/261816\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T20:34:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T20:34:09","slug":"canucks-place-vitali-kravtsov-on-unconditional-waivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/261816\/","title":{"rendered":"Canucks Place Vitali Kravtsov On Unconditional Waivers"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Canucks placed winger\u00a0Vitali Kravtsov<\/a>\u00a0on unconditional waivers with the intent to terminate his contract, the team announced<\/a>. It\u2019s presumably a mutual decision, and he\u2019ll become an unrestricted free agent tomorrow if he clears.<\/p>\n

Kravtsov began his second stint in the Vancouver organization when he signed a two-way deal with them in August. The No. 9 overall pick in the 2018 draft last played in North America in the 2022-23 campaign, during which he was sent from the Rangers to the Canucks for\u00a0William Lockwood<\/a>, and had spent the last two seasons playing with Traktor Chelyabinsk in his native Russia. He remained on Vancouver\u2019s reserve list during that time because they issued him a qualifying offer when his contract expired, so they were his only option for an NHL return this year if they didn\u2019t trade his signing rights.<\/p>\n

The 25-year-old Kravtsov was coming off a resurgent showing in the Kontinental Hockey League. He made 66 appearances for Chelyabinsk last season, notching 27 goals and 31 assists for 58 points with a +31 rating. He was among the most dominant two-way players in the KHL with the only professional club he\u2019s ever suited up for in his home country. There was understandable optimism that he could be a contributor in Vancouver\u2019s top nine as a result, but he didn\u2019t have a great camp and only got into one preseason game. He cleared regular waivers at the beginning of October and began the year on assignment to AHL Abbotsford.<\/p>\n

Kravtsov hasn\u2019t had much of an impact in the minors through 10 games, limited to one goal and three assists with a -7 rating. That performance wasn\u2019t going to get him an NHL recall anytime soon, and he\u2019s already been passed over by options like Joseph LaBate<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Mackenzie MacEachern<\/a> during Vancouver\u2019s recent spree of injuries to its forward group. With very little pathway to minutes and him essentially taking up a contract slot for little return in the minors, the Canucks likely have no qualms about losing his rights and letting him pursue a contract elsewhere, likely back in Russia.<\/p>\n

Kravtsov will forfeit the remainder of his salary, which would have been $450K if he spent the remainder of the season in the minors. He\u2019ll easily outpace that with a new deal in Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Canucks placed winger\u00a0Vitali Kravtsov\u00a0on unconditional waivers with the intent to terminate his contract, the team announced. It\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49,48,82,4584,452,35595,48340],"class_list":["post-261816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-transactions","tag-vancouver-canucks","tag-vitali-kravtsov","tag-waivers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}