In the lead up to today\u2019s noon deadline, the expectation was that the Canucks would trade most \u2013 if not all \u2013 of their pending unrestricted free agents, but mostly crucially Teddy Blueger and Evander Kane. But once the clock struck twelve, a pair of deals for David K\u00e4mpf and Lukas Reichel arrived, but nothing for the team\u2019s biggest assets.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a story that feels like deja vu after last season\u2019s trade deadline. Allvin and the Canucks didn\u2019t like the offers for then-pending UFAs Brock Boeser and Pius Suter and kept both past the deadline. While they managed to sign Boeser to a new contract on July 1, Suter opted to sign with the St. Louis Blues in free agency instead.<\/p>\n
Speaking to the media this afternoon, when asked about comparisons between last year\u2019s trade market and this year\u2019s, Allvin called the market \u201cvery unpredictable\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t get any offers. So, I was a little bit surprised,\u201d Allvin said. \u201cThose two guys have been playing really well for us. Teddy has been here for a couple of years now and is a good player on the ice and a good player off the ice for us as well. Evander Kane is a veteran player in the league. We all know that roster spots and cap space flexibility play into it.\u201d<\/p>\n
The supposed lack of interest in either player, particularly Blueger, is odd when you consider some of the players the Canucks were able to move. K\u00e4mpf was a midseason signing that the Canucks turned into a sixth-round pick from the Boston Bruins, after a relatively quiet stretch in a depth centre role. Conor Garland was dealt to the Columbus Blue Jackets on the eve of the deadline, despite being on a 20+ game scoring drought and carrying a six-year contract extension that will kick in next year. One would expect Blueger to garner a lot of interest as a solid depth middle-six centre and ideal playoff rental. But according to Allvin, that market never materialized.<\/p>\n
Kane\u2019s future is likely set in stone, with the 34-year-old expected to leave in free agency. But discussions with Blueger are expected to move towards signing him to a contract extension. Whether he\u2019ll want to stay with a last-place franchise is anybody\u2019s guess, but Allvin feels some confidence they can get a deal done.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe know that he likes it here. It\u2019s too early to tell where things are going here,\u201d Allvin said about Blueger\u2019s future. \u201cI mean, again, Teddy has been playing really well for us. He\u2019s a good character guy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the lead up to today\u2019s noon deadline, the expectation was that the Canucks would trade most \u2013…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":520500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-520499","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\/520499","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=520499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}