June 16, 2026: NHL trades begin, Canucks next? Does NHL size matter?
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Do the Canucks need to trade a veteran before the draft to prove the rebuild?
Secures some price for Tuesday, June 16th, 2026. Presentation of Bet365 at Bet365. Boring games, a thing of the past. There's always a reason to tune in, even if the score isn't one of them. Download the app today. Must be 19+. Please play responsibly. Matt Secures with Blake Price. Four-time Juno Award winner. Two-time basketball champion. And world log rolling champion, Mike Rogerson, hitting switches and conducting things. And you see him on camera today because he wants to shout out a special friend. He does? Oh, yeah. He absolutely does.
Okay. What kind of special friend?
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Okay, I'm intrigued.
Yep, yep. We'll keep it a surprise. Gonna save it. Daily poll question today. Do the Canucks need to trade a veteran at or before the draft to prove the rebuild is real? You can vote yes, you can vote no. Got all summer. Now, a little history lesson here. Last year around this time, we were like, okay, well, if the Canucks plan to getting back to competitiveness... They've got to strike here and get that second-line center or another center by the draft. The draft is one of the true marketplaces in the National Hockey League, and if you miss the draft, okay, you have free agency, and then you move into the wasteland that was last summer. And people kept telling me, no, no, no, they have all summer. They have all summer.
And the summer came, and the summer went. And the Canucks still didn't get another center. And then Jim Rutherford and Patrick Alvin emerged at training camp talking about, no, we're going to look at this in season. We feel good with the group we have. No, Heal's healthy. And then we all know what happened. Heal got hurt first month of the season against Washington. Bluger was also hurt. They were absolutely destitute at center. They were playing wingers out of position and the season was scuttled early. So I'm a little gun shy of the got all summer line of reasoning slash excuse. That said, there is context. The Canucks were a buyer. This year, the Canucks are a seller. And it's not like any of these veteran contracts are expiring anytime soon.
So time should be on their side. The urgency should be on the side of the seller. And look. While there may be urgency at the draft, maybe there's even more urgency in free agency once teams start missing out on players.
Which Canucks veterans are most likely trade candidates and what markets exist for them?
As we know, it's going to be a competitive marketplace for talent this summer with a relatively weak free agent class. So all the teams who, like the Canucks last year, fancied themselves buyers, playoff teams, contenders... are going to have to up the ante and be willing to pay good prices if they want to fill their roster holes. At least theoretically, that's how we're working here with supply and demand economics.
This is an opportunity, but they can't let it pass them by. They can't, in the words of a previous Canucks general manager, run out of time. You do have to conduct business when most people are conducting business. Your market does diminish as the summer goes on.
You can't even get a hold of a general manager in mid-August. They say, oh, we work so hard, blah, blah, blah. They don't work in August. I'm absolutely convinced that general managers do not work in August.
Now, all that being said. The Canucks are not over a barrel here like they were when they were trying to be competitive. That's right. So many times they were hungry. They needed this piece in order to be even close to a playoff contending team. There were clear gaping roster holes that they knew they weren't going to get to where they wanted to be. And the rest of the league knew that too. And so the rest of the league said, okay, we're playing hardball. We're going to dance around this a little bit and make you raise the price and win the trade. Here, the Canucks... Canucks can run it back. It's not ideal. They can.
It's not ideal, but... There'll be a lot of skepticism in the market because, of course, the Canucks have never rebuilt.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Do the Canucks need to trade a veteran before the draft to prove the rebuild?
0:14–3:17
2
Which Canucks veterans are most likely trade candidates and what markets exist for them?
3:17–18:16
3
Does player size still matter after Carolina’s Stanley Cup run and how does it affect draft priorities?
18:16–22:20
4
Could CBC’s Hockey Night in Canada shift to CHL or feature programming instead of live NHL games?
22:20–1:06:20
5
Will the Canucks trade a veteran before the draft to prove their rebuild?
1:06:20–1:11:13
6
Could Thatcher Demko or other vets be moved and when might that happen?
1:11:13–1:16:44
7
Does size matter in the NHL after Carolina’s championship run?
1:16:44–1:26:46
8
Which upside prospects should the Canucks consider with the 24th pick?
1:26:46–2:01:54
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