Trade Plans force the Vancouver Canucks into Damage Control

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Tom Banks
March 14, 2024 (4:49 PM)

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The Vancouver Canucks had a solid trade deadline, picking up some key pieces from the Calgary Flames, but it's a failed trade that may have had the most impact on the locker room.

Leaked trade plans lead to trouble in house for the Vancouver Canucks

According to NHL Insider Elliotte Friedman, Swedish star Elias Lindholm wasn't too happy with the organization after plans leaked to send him to Boston in a three-team trade with the Pittsburgh Penguins.

"The Canucks did have to do some damage control with Elias Lindholm. They weren't happy it got out they even remotely considered moving him. (It was hard to tell who was angrier: Vancouver about that, or Los Angeles about speculation of who might have been involved in an Ullmark move.) In the end, I don't believe the three-way between Boston, Pittsburgh and Vancouver came anywhere close to occurring." Friedman said.

Having only just acquired him a few weeks earlier, it's understandable why he would be frustrated to hear his name in trade talks, and for the Canucks, it led to major frustration that those plans were leaked.

Friedman would go on to reveal that while there was talks about this deal, the conversation never came close to a deal, so the Vancouver Canucks went to all this trouble having to do damage control with a newly arrived player for nothing.

It's easy to see why the team considered a deal however, as Lindholm has struggled since coming over from the Calgary Flames, but now they will need to rely on him to be a major part of a Stanley Cup push.

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