{"id":344268,"date":"2025-12-14T08:03:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T08:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/344268\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T08:03:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T08:03:13","slug":"canucks-place-lukas-reichel-on-waivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/344268\/","title":{"rendered":"Canucks Place Lukas Reichel On Waivers"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a result of yesterday\u2019s blockbuster trade<\/a> with the Wild, the Canucks had some roster juggling to do after bringing in three players and only sending one out with only one roster spot available.\u00a0 They dealt with one of the extra slots by putting Marco Rossi<\/a> on their injured reserve.\u00a0 But one player had to come off the roster and it will be winger Lukas Reichel<\/a>, who will be placed on waivers at 1 PM CT, reports Rick Dhaliwal of CHEK and The Athletic (Twitter link<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Jeff Paterson of Canucks Army relayed (Twitter link<\/a>) earlier today that Reichel had been removed from Vancouver\u2019s active roster.\u00a0 Players can be waived with non-roster status and that\u2019s clearly the move that the Canucks have made to get back to compliance.<\/p>\n

This was not the plan for Vancouver when they moved a 2027 fourth-round pick to Chicago to acquire him back in October.\u00a0 Reichel had gotten off to a good start with four points in five games before the swap but had fallen down the depth chart, resulting in the Blackhawks giving him a fresh start elsewhere.<\/p>\n

Reichel played big minutes upon being acquired, even spending time at center with Vancouver\u2019s injury issues at that position.\u00a0 But the production simply hasn\u2019t materialized as he has just one assist in 14 games following the swap.\u00a0 Meanwhile, his role diminished to the point where he has only played once in the last ten games.\u00a0 Over his career, Reichel has 22 goals and 37 assists in 188 NHL appearances.<\/p>\n

The 23-year-old was a first-round pick by Chicago back in 2020, going 17th overall.\u00a0 He\u2019s in the second and final season of a two-year, $2.4MM pact and will be owed a $1.3MM qualifying offer with arbitration rights to become an unrestricted free agent.\u00a0 Based on how things are going, it seems likely that he\u2019s heading towards a non-tender.<\/p>\n

That said, players with first-round pedigree often get multiple opportunities so it\u2019s not impossible to think that a team might be interested in taking a flyer on Reichel by 1 PM CT on Sunday, hoping that a different fresh start could get him going offensively.\u00a0 If not and he goes through unclaimed, Vancouver will ultimately clear $1.15MM of his $1.2MM cap charge off the books by assigning him to AHL Abbotsford which would allow them to get out of using LTIR and allow them to start banking salary cap room again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As a result of yesterday\u2019s blockbuster trade with the Wild, the Canucks had some roster juggling to do…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[6066,49,48,17001,82,4584,452,48340],"class_list":["post-344268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ahl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-lukas-reichel","tag-sports","tag-transactions","tag-vancouver-canucks","tag-waivers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344268","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=344268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}