{"id":942623,"date":"2026-10-22T23:14:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T23:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/942623\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T23:14:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T23:14:13","slug":"nikishin-not-part-of-hurricanes-trade-offer-to-jets-for-hellebuyck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/942623\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikishin not part of Hurricanes’ trade offer to Jets for Hellebuyck"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman and Kyle Bukauskas discussed the latest in the star goaltender’s trade-request saga on Thursday’s episode of 32 Thoughts: The Podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“You’re hearing that (Carolina is) entertaining another offer to try and lure the Vezina and Hart Trophy winner out of Winnipeg that would not involve a package including Alexander Nikishin<\/a>?” Bukauskas asked Friedman. <\/p>\n

“Yeah, so I’ve been saying this a lot … if Nikishin was going to go to Winnipeg, this deal might be done already,” said Friedman, “but I did have a couple people tell me on Wednesday that Carolina does have an offer for Hellebuyck that no longer involves (Nikishin) because it’s just a waste of time, right.”<\/p>\n

Nikishin, 25, is currently an unsigned\u00a0restricted free agent after completing a two-year entry-level contract with the Hurricanes, with the 2026-27 season underway.<\/p>\n

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The defenceman scored 11 goals and totalled 33 points in 81 regular-season games in 2025-26. During Carolina’s run to a Stanley Cup championship, Nikishin had one assist in 17 games.<\/p>\n

He did not report to the Hurricanes’ training camp in September after making a trade request over the summer.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“So I think whatever Carolina’s got out there is a non-Nikishin package,” added Friedman. “Now, if it was so spectacular to the Jets, this trade would be done probably. … I just thought it was interesting that Carolina, I think, has something out there that’s a change from where they originally were, and they remain interested.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman and Kyle Bukauskas discussed the latest in the star goaltender’s trade-request saga on Thursday’s episode…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":942624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49,48,82],"class_list":["post-942623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942623","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=942623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/942624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}