{"id":933248,"date":"2026-10-14T23:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T23:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/933248\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T23:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T23:06:09","slug":"canucks-place-aatu-raty-on-waivers-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/933248\/","title":{"rendered":"Canucks Place Aatu Raty On Waivers \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Vancouver Canucks are days away from activating forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/c\/chytifi01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-10-14_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Filip Chytil<\/a> (muscular shoulder strain) from the injured reserve. To activate Chytil, the Canucks needed to create roster space and made a peculiar roster move to do so.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FriedgeHNIC\/status\/2110431829110997484\" rel=\"nofollow\">According to Sportsnet\u2019s Elliotte Friedman<\/a>, Vancouver has placed center <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/r\/ratyaa01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-10-14_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Aatu R\u00e4ty<\/a> on waivers. If he clears, the team will assign him to the AHL\u2019s Abbotsford Canucks. However, it is not guaranteed he will clear waivers without any issues.<\/p>\n<p>To be fair, Vancouver has a lot of centers on the roster. In eight games this season, 12 forwards have taken a faceoff for the Canucks. That\u2019s not to argue that each one of those forwards is a center, but Vancouver realistically has six players who can routinely center a line, with only four spots to fill. In this case, the Canucks have determined that they can survive without R\u00e4ty.<\/p>\n<p>However, as is often the case, one person\u2019s junk is another person\u2019s treasure. R\u00e4ty has struggled offensively over the past few years, scoring 12 goals and 26 points in 103 games, averaging 11:31 of ice time per game. Regardless, he has one quality that many teams covet. It\u2019s not the flashiest statistic in the league, but R\u00e4ty dominates the faceoff circle, winning 687 of 1,154 (59.5%) of his faceoffs since the beginning of the 2024-25 season.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, R\u00e4ty has begun 54.9% of his shifts in the defensive zone through that stretch, showing the value he could have on multiple clubs. Adding to his intrigue is his league-minimum salary this season and team control through the 2029-30 season.<\/p>\n<p>Because of his league-minimum salary this season, you could count on one hand the number of teams who couldn\u2019t afford him this year. Even if a team has a strong team faceoff percentage in the early stages of the 2026-27 campaign, R\u00e4ty can provide surplus value if a team has an open roster spot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Vancouver Canucks are days away from activating forward Filip Chytil (muscular shoulder strain) from the injured reserve.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":933249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[84613,49,48,82,4584,452,48340],"class_list":["post-933248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-aatu-raty","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-transactions","tag-vancouver-canucks","tag-waivers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933248","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=933248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/933249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}