Canucks' have an upwelling of prospects at all positions. I think they're definitely going to stand pat until they get the trade offers they want, for anyone older than Horvat. Main reason is they don't feel the need to tank, and they can't rush the crop of prospects they have into being ready any earlier.
I come here mostly to run through ideas that won't happen, so I'm not knocking you.
The one angle where a trade is made before October is Juolevi pushing his way into the lineup. He looks ready and maybe good enough to justify blocking out a top 6 spot at season's start.
LHD depth =
Edler (31) $5M
Hutton (24) $2.8M
Del Zotto (27) $3M
Wiercoch (26) $0.65M
--NHL/AHL--
Pedan (24) $0.75M
McEneny (23) $RFA
Holm (25) $0.92M
Brisebois (19, 20 this month) $0.69M
* Tryamkin (22) $RFA
Clearly the Canucks prepared to give Juolevi a year in the minors playing against men (not 20 until next May he's too young for AHL, so he'd be loaned to a Pro team in Europe. No cap hit, they pay his salary, no mid-season).
If Juolevi stays, they have to rethink who they keep in light of vulnerability to waivers. Even though I anticipate Juolevi only staying if he gets minutes in the top 6, it looks like Juolevi vs. Wiercoch for a roster spot.
RHD depth =
Tanev (27) $4.45M
Gudbranson (25) $3.5M
Stecher (23) 0.925M
Biega (29) 0.75M
--NHL/AHL--
Subban (22) 0.75M
Chatfield (21) 0.65M
RHD depth is thinner. Chatfield looked good in the prospect scrimmage, but Canucks would still like to add some RHD depth to fill out Utica even before losing their #1.
Jordan Subban was tied for #3 in AHL D goals, the rest were 27/28 year old journeymen.
young RHD near top of AHL goal scoring:
Ryan Pulock #6, 15 G, age 22, NYI
Kyle Wood #7, 14 G, age 21, ARI
Mackenzie Weegar #7, 14G, age 23, FLA
* Brandon Montour #12, 13G in half a season, age 23, ANA
Kyle Wood
6'5" age 21, 223 lbs, 84 overall in 2014 draft by Colorado
acquired by Coyotes Feb 2016. [ COL: Boedker (left in summer for SJ) | ARI: Tanguay (retired), Conner Bleackley (ECHL), Kyle Wood ]
The NYI lost RHD Hamonic, and they like many teams have many more LHD (Sebastian Aho for example) prospects than RHD. Their NHL RHD are Seidenberg@35yo Boychuck@33yo and fill-in 6'5" 220lb slow Scott Mayfield@24yo. I would not be surprised if they are phoning Jim Benning every Monday morning to talk and ask about Chris Tanev.
Maybe it's time for trade ideas with Arizona or NYI given that they are making a push and bringing in a new lot of new blood to win now.