{"id":86834,"date":"2025-08-21T18:32:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T18:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/86834\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T18:32:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T18:32:07","slug":"canucks-kraken-re-engaging-in-marco-rossi-trade-talks-with-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/86834\/","title":{"rendered":"Canucks, Kraken Re-Engaging In Marco Rossi Trade Talks With Wild"},"content":{"rendered":"

While previous reports indicated the Canucks<\/a> and Kraken<\/a> both had interest in acquiring Wild restricted free agent center\u00a0Marco Rossi<\/a> at various points during the offseason, talks have been quiet for weeks now after Minnesota didn\u2019t land the type of offers they wanted. However, with less than a month now until training camp, they\u2019re now restating their interest in acquiring him if \u201ccontract talks between Rossi and the Wild reach a point of no return,\u201d a league source told RG\u2019s James Murphy<\/a>. Neither club has had intensive talks with Minnesota since mid-July at the latest, the source added.<\/p>\n

Wild general manager\u00a0Bill Guerin<\/a> spoke to Murphy last week<\/a> and gave a rather clich\u00e9 non-update on talks with both Rossi and pending UFA superstar\u00a0Kirill Kaprizov<\/a>, saying there were \u201cno real updates\u201d on either player. The two sides haven\u2019t had serious contract discussions<\/a> since June, leaving them with little time to work out a new deal if a trade doesn\u2019t come to fruition in the next few weeks. The latter outcome is undoubtedly the preferred outcome for both sides at this point, given how the summer has transpired, but that\u2019s been difficult too with Rossi\u2019s desire for a lucrative long-term commitment<\/a> and the Wild\u2019s need for a top-six forward coming the other way to stay competitive.<\/p>\n

For those reasons, the Kraken seem like a better match on paper. As Murphy\u2019s piece pointed out, Seattle has a nearly perfect veteran to offer to satiate Minnesota\u2019s particular desires in\u00a0Jared McCann<\/a>, who they were reportedly open to moving<\/a> last month.<\/p>\n

McCann has been a staple atop Seattle\u2019s roll-four-lines attack over the last four years as one of the crown jewels of their expansion draft haul. While he\u2019s spent more time on the wing for the Kraken as his career has progressed, he has plenty of experience down the middle and could feasibly be a direct replacement for Rossi on the depth chart to join Joel Eriksson Ek<\/a>\u00a0as the Wild\u2019s top-six pivots. The 29-year-old rattled off 61 points in 82 games last season, but that was actually his lowest per-game output since his first year in Seattle. He\u2019s also due to reach unrestricted free agency in 2027.<\/p>\n

While Seattle has a multitude of other veteran forwards slated to hit the open market next summer, there\u2019s likely still an appetite from general manager\u00a0Jason Botterill<\/a>\u00a0to better align the age of their forwards on longer-term deals to match their timeline to emerge as perennial playoff contenders \u2013 still a year or two away. Rossi, who put up a nearly identical scoring line to McCann last season and is more comfortable down the middle, would be more expensive to sign than McCann\u2019s current $5MM cap hit but is nearly six years younger. Now entering his age-24 season, he\u2019d be giving Seattle his prime in the middle of a cost-certain deal as the cap rises if they reached a long-term commitment out of the gate.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s harder to see how the Canucks could put together a competitive offer for Rossi. He would be an offensive improvement over their current young second-line piece,\u00a0Filip Chytil<\/a>, but his concussion history means he\u2019s not likely to move the needle for Guerin, especially if McCann is a realistic option.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also worth noting that the Kraken and Wild have already connected on a trade this summer. Seattle picked up center Fr\u00e9d\u00e9rick Gaudreau<\/a>\u00a0in exchange for the 102nd overall pick in this year\u2019s draft, which Minnesota used on skilled but undersized pivot\u00a0Adam Ben\u00e1k<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While previous reports indicated the Canucks and Kraken both had interest in acquiring Wild restricted free agent center\u00a0Marco…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49,48,9975,14929,761,768,82,452],"class_list":["post-86834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-jared-mccann","tag-marco-rossi","tag-minnesota-wild","tag-seattle-kraken","tag-sports","tag-vancouver-canucks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86834","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=86834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}