Drance: Why Canucks’ successful trade deadline hinges on the Luke Schenn return
New York TimesVancouver Canucks defenseman Luke Schenn is back in Vancouver with his family, awaiting a trade. That’s largely because Schenn represents the last traditional bullet in the Canucks’ chamber of assets in the leadup to the 2023 NHL trade deadline. No, once Schenn is dealt and the return for him is added to what the Canucks netted for Bo Horvat, Vancouver’s trump cards as a trade deadline seller will have been played. Schenn and Horvat were expiring, Vancouver’s other pieces have term and inefficient term is essentially toxic for NHL member clubs still navigating a flat cap environment at the moment. As an illustration, if the market price to take on Zaitsev’s deal is a second-round pick and an additional fourth-rounder from a non-contending team, what would a bonafide elite team like the Boston Bruins be willing to pay to get off of Mike Reilly’s contract in a trade that also returned a playoff upgrade like Schenn?
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