{"id":9847,"date":"2025-07-20T06:12:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T06:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/9847\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T06:12:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T06:12:09","slug":"vancouver-canucks-window-shopping-stanley-cup-champion-for-second-line-center-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/9847\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver Canucks Window Shopping Stanley Cup Champion for Second Line Center Role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/580341.webp.webp\" style=\"width:100%;\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Robby Fabbri during his time with the Anaheim Ducks.\" title=\"Robby Fabbri during his time with the Anaheim Ducks.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n<p>A former Stanley Cup champion and first-round pick could be a potential target for Patrik Allvin and the Vancouver Canucks on the free agent market this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Less than 48 hours ago, the Vancouver Canucks made the decision to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canucksdaily.com\/nhl-team\/vancouver-canucks\/vancouver-canucks-make-unpopular-decision-to-trade-dakota-joshua-to-eastern-conference-contender\" class=\"lien_marqueur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">trade Dakota Joshua<\/a> to the Toronto Maple Leafs in exchange for a fourth-round pick in the 2028 NHL Entry Draft.<\/p>\n<p>Former Stanley Cup champion &amp; first-round pick could be target for Vancouver Canucks<\/p>\n<p>Now that the Vancouver Canucks have a little less than $4 million to work with, Patrik Allvin and the team&#8217;s management group are evaluating their options and see who they could target, whether it be a free agent or through a trade.<\/p>\n<p>In an article on Canucks Army recently, Stephan Roget shared some players that the team could target through the free agent market, if they wish, before training camp in September.<\/p>\n<p>There are a few intriguing names on Roget&#8217;s list including centerman Robby Fabbri, who was a first round pick of the Blues back in 2014 and went on to win a Stanley Cup with them in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Fabbri is coming off a difficult year in his first season with the Anaheim Ducks, who acquired him in a trade with the Detroit Red Wings back in July of 2024 in exchange for goaltending prospect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markerzone.com\/hockey\/stats\/nhl\/player\/Gage-Alexander-55493\" class=\"lien_marqueur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"Gage Alexander profile and hockey stats\">Gage Alexander<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Mississauga, Ontario native isn&#8217;t going to come in and play a second line role for the Vancouver Canucks, that&#8217;s for certain, but he would help the team with their lack of depth down the middle and be plugged in at 4C by Head Coach Adam Foote.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fabbri could no longer be considered anything close to a top-six solution. Nor is he typically viewed as ideal for deployment in the bottom-six. But if a team were looking for affordable offence &#8211; something in the mold of Daniel Sprong last year &#8211; they could certainly do worse than taking a flyer on Fabbri, who will make a quarter of his previous salary if he&#8217;s lucky.&#8221; Roget said.<\/p>\n<p>In 44 games with the Ducks, the 29-year-old registered 16 points (eight goals, eight assists), 20 penalty minutes and was a minus-six.<\/p>\n<p>With Thomas Drance of The Athletic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canucksdaily.com\/nhl-team\/vancouver-canucks\/nhl-insider-confirms-the-vancouver-canucks-are-not-done-adding-some-key-names-to-their-roster-this-summer\" class=\"lien_marqueur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">reporting earlier this week<\/a> that the Vancouver Canucks aren&#8217;t done adding to their roster this summer, it&#8217;s going to be interesting to see what Patrik Allvin has up his sleeve and if it perhaps could be a free agent signing of someone like Jack Roslovic, Victor Olofsson or even Robby Fabbri.<\/p>\n<p>Previously on CanucksDaily<\/p>\n<p>POLL<\/p>\n<p>2 HOURS AGO\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0190 ANSWERS<\/p>\n<p>Vancouver Canucks Window Shopping Stanley Cup Champion for Second Line Center Role<\/p>\n<p>Should the Vancouver Canucks sign Robby Fabbri?<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo credit: USA TODAY Sports A former Stanley Cup champion and first-round pick could be a potential target&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,4670,2365,9838,82,452,9837,4669],"class_list":["post-9847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-free-agency","tag-robby-fabbri","tag-robby-fabbri-canucks","tag-sports","tag-vancouver-canucks","tag-vancouver-canucks-free-agent-targets","tag-vancouver-canucks-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9847","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=9847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}