Trade confirmed: Carolina Hurricanes - Vancouver Canucks

Trade Details
Carolina Hurricanes Acquire: 2023 5th round pick (VAN - #139 - Charles-Alexis Legault) Sum: $0$0$0 Change: -$1,800,000 Change: -$2,550,000 Change: +$37,050,000	Vancouver Canucks Acquire: Ethan Bear ($400,000 retained - 18.2%) · $1,800,000$1,800,000$0 Lane Pederson · $0$750,000$750,000 (AHL/JR) Sum: $1,800,000$2,550,000$0 Change: +$1,800,000 Change: +$2,550,000 Change: -$37,050,000

This could be the only W for Vancouver this year

Vancouver desperately needed a puck moving defenseman especially on the right side. Good deal

They even had Canes to retain salary...

Nucks win. I wonder what motivated Canes to do it. Perhaps they wanted contract space or something.

Can someone from Carolina explain why the Canes would make this trade? Are they in that much cap hell that they needed to shave $1.4 million this badly?

Carolina obviously didn't care about Bear, but I believe this trade is pretty fair. They get the player out of their hair and Vancouver gets a reinforcement for their bottom pair. I'd also imagine having Hoglander rumored in the deal gave Canucks fans a scare but Bear's value wasn't too much higher than a spare and Carolina were winning to send him anywhere.

I'm totally confused by this as well.

Spoke too late

It’s a decent deal for VAN that needs help desperately on the backend but I question why they are throwing a picks away (a 2nd to shed a contract and now a 5th) for a team that has a sub par prospect pool and are off to a terrible start. This team needs to be rebuilding.



I have no doubt that CAR’s scouting team will use that 5th to draft a player who will out perform Bear lol. Stop giving CAR picks



EDIT:

will have 9 picks now in 2023

I like this trade for Vancouver, but let's see what Bear does when he plays more than #6 minutes

Good trade for the canucks.

Good trade. Canucks win by a landslide

Who Patrick Alvin is having a good week. Never liked that the Oilers gave up on Bear as he seemed just a touch off of greatness. plus, Foegele is one of the best figure skaters I have ever seen (Hey Warren that thing in your hands is a hockey stick try using it)

lol at the canes fans saying he wortha 2nd with retention

Canes fans are pretty clueless on this site I found, had something argue with me that Haydn Fleury was worth a 1st round pick last year

lmfao

It would have been a fair deal without the salary retention.

The Vancouver Canucks win the trade.

Management doesn't see the need to do a scorched Earth rebuild a la Arizona or Chicago, but I think they definitely recognize that the core needs to be shaken up by this point

Fantastic deal for Vancouver

The fact that Florida, Toronto, Vanvouver, etc didn't offer more than this ridiculous return with retention tells you how low is the market for dumping salary. WOW

Or there is some serious problem with Bear but that's speculative.

Anyway it also tells you how confident MTL is about their rookies to not beat that offer

was MTL in on him?

I'd rather Widemen at league minimum than Bear for his current salary. Lateral move for double the salary

Tidy piece of business if Bear regains his mojo.

Big Vancouver W

hes older tho