{"id":419950,"date":"2026-01-19T20:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T20:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/419950\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T20:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T20:30:08","slug":"canucks-trade-kiefer-sherwood-to-sharks-for-two-picks-prospect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/419950\/","title":{"rendered":"Canucks trade Kiefer Sherwood to Sharks for two picks, prospect"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vancouver received defenceman Cole Clayton<\/a> and second-round picks in both the 2026 and 2027 draft in exchange for the bruising winger.<\/p>\n

Canucks general manager Patrik Allvin thanked Sherwood for his “hard work and dedication in Vancouver.”<\/p>\n

\u201cAs an organization, we take a lot of pride in giving him the opportunity to grow and excel as a player,” Allvin said in a statement Monday. “Given where things currently stand and the direction of our rebuild, we felt it was necessary to make a move like this as we continue to build our pipeline.”<\/p>\n

News of the trade comes ahead of Vancouver’s home game against the New York Islanders on Monday night (Sportsnet, Sportsnet+, 10 p.m. ET \/ 7 p.m. PT).<\/p>\n

The Canucks are in the midst of a 10-game winless streak (0-8-2) and sit at the bottom of the NHL standings with a 16-27-5 record.<\/p>\n

Sherwood has a team-high 17 goals for Vancouver this season, alongside six assists over 44 games.<\/p>\n

He posted career highs in goals (19), assists (21) and points (40) for Vancouver last season.<\/p>\n

The 30-year-old undrafted forward from Columbus, Ohio, is in the final year of the two-year, $3-million deal he signed as a free agent on July 1, 2024.<\/p>\n

Sherwood previously played for the Nashville Predators, Colorado Avalanche and Anaheim Ducks.<\/p>\n

Clayton comes to Vancouver after recording two goals and three assists over 33 games with the American Hockey League’s San Jose Barracuda this season.<\/p>\n

The six-foot-two, 200-pound blue liner from Strathmore, Alta., has 66 points over 257 regular-season AHL games, and has appeared in 14 Calder Cup playoff matches.<\/p>\n

He signed with the Sharks as an undrafted free agent on July 1.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vancouver received defenceman Cole Clayton and second-round picks in both the 2026 and 2027 draft in exchange for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-419950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419950","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=419950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}