{"id":500927,"date":"2026-02-26T14:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T14:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/500927\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T14:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T14:07:09","slug":"canucks-make-several-roster-moves-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/500927\/","title":{"rendered":"Canucks Make Several Roster Moves \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

On top of having a potential trade<\/a> on the horizon to shake up the roster, the Canucks have made several roster moves today.\u00a0 The team announced (Twitter link<\/a>) that defenseman Zeev Buium<\/a>, winger Brock Boeser<\/a>, and center Marco Rossi<\/a> have all been activated off injured reserve.\u00a0 To make room on the roster, center Filip Chytil<\/a> was placed on IR retroactive to February 18th.<\/p>\n

Buium was the centerpiece of the return in the Quinn Hughes<\/a> trade back in December.\u00a0 He\u2019s in his first full NHL season (after a brief stint with Minnesota in the playoffs last year) and has shown some flashes of the dynamic offensive upside that made him the 12th overall pick in 2024.\u00a0 While he\u2019s still going through the ups and downs of his first taste of NHL action, Vancouver has been deploying him in a top-four role when he has been healthy and he has six points in 20 games since the swap.\u00a0 Buium had been out for the last month due to a fractured cheekbone.<\/p>\n

Boeser, meanwhile, missed the last month with a concussion.\u00a0 The 29-year-old has struggled by his standards this season, potting 12 goals and 13 assists in 50 games.\u00a0 Two years ago, he had a career-high 40 goals and 73 points and reached the 50-point mark for the fifth time last season, earning him a seven-year, $50.25MM agreement to remain with Vancouver in the opening day of free agency last summer.\u00a0 While this season is a write-off for the Canucks in terms of the standings, he\u2019ll certainly be looking for a big finish to show he can still be a top contributor.<\/p>\n

Rossi also came to Vancouver in the Hughes trade but hasn\u2019t had a chance to showcase himself much since then.\u00a0 Injured at the time of the swap, he only got into eight games with his new team before sustaining a lower-body injury in late December, one that took nearly two months to return from.\u00a0 With the Canucks lacking capable options down the middle, it\u2019s fair to say that they will be giving Rossi a big role over these next couple of months to try to determine what the best spot on the depth chart will be for him moving forward.<\/p>\n

As for Chytil, his tough injury luck continues.\u00a0 While this particular injury isn\u2019t a recurrence of the concussion symptoms he has battled frequently in recent years, it\u2019s one he sustained in practice after taking a puck to the face.\u00a0 Chytil was also supposed to be a part of Vancouver\u2019s solution down the middle after being acquired last season but has played in just 27 games with the Canucks since then, including 12 this season where he has three goals.\u00a0 The retroactive placement makes him eligible to be activated at any point moving forward once he\u2019s cleared to return.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On top of having a potential trade on the horizon to shake up the roster, the Canucks have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[450,49,48,21601,14929,448,82,4584,452,97058],"class_list":{"0":"post-500927","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-brock-boeser","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-filip-chytil","12":"tag-marco-rossi","13":"tag-nhl","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-transactions","16":"tag-vancouver-canucks","17":"tag-zeev-buium"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500927","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=500927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}