The pick is top-12 protected and shifts to an unprotected 2024 first-round selection should the condition trigger this season — which is relevant information given the Isles currently sit two points out of a playoff spot in the Eastern Conference and are tied for the most games played in the league at 52. The Canucks have to hope he does, as they’re carrying his cap hit of $4.15 million through next season.
SUN SPORTS ROUNDTABLE: Who deserves blame for the Bruce Boudreau blunder? WATCH BELOW as Postmedia’s Rob Wong, Toronto Sun Sports columnist Steve Simmons and National NHL writer Michael Traikos discuss who is at fault for Bruce Boudreau’s exit in Vancouver, where the Bills go next and if the Maple Leafs should trade for a star at the deadline.
“We’re definitely sitting in the standings in the bottom, so we need to improve our team,” he said. “As we said when we got here (we’re) trying to get younger.
He has 201 goals and 219 assists in 621 career NHL games with the Canucks. Horvat will join an Islanders team in the midst of a dogfight for a playoff position in the Eastern Conference.
The New York Islanders have acquired center Bo Horvat from the Vancouver Canucks in the first blockbuster of NHL trade deadline season. The teams announced the deal Monday.
The Vancouver Canucks traded All-Star center and team captain Bo Horvat to the New York Islanders for winger Anthony Beauvillier, youngster Aatu Raty, and a conditional 2023 first-round selection, the teams announced Monday. The Canucks are also retaining 25% of Horvat's cap hit and salary, according to LeBrun.
For better or for worse, and whether Torontonians like the comparison or not, their Maple Leafs are the New York Yankees of hockey. "No one gives Toronto any credit for how good defensively they've been," Trotz told The Athletic.
Coach Darryl Sutter’s famous sneer has been unable to push them to a comfortable spot in the Pacific, but there’s still enough talent on this team to keep them in playoff contention. Without a clear plan for the future, Vancouver is destined to finish too far away from the bottom of the standings to land a generational player in the 2023 draft and not nearly close enough to a playoff berth to make the last weeks of the season interesting.
With a few end-to-end goals, a save-of-the-year candidate, and one very large hat, here’s everything you need to see from this past week of NHL action. Ok, while he technically wasn't an EBUG, Matt Berlin and the Edmonton Oilers are still most certainly the talk of the town after he made a cameo to end the Oilers-Blackhawks game Saturday night.