{"id":130465,"date":"2025-07-18T16:41:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T16:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/130465\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T16:41:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T16:41:11","slug":"vancouver-canucks-completed-trade-with-maple-leafs-opens-door-to-major-offensive-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/130465\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver Canucks&#8217; Completed Trade with Maple Leafs Opens Door to Major Offensive Upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\nVancouver Canucks&#8217; Completed Trade with Maple Leafs Opens Door to Major Offensive Upgrade<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/580013.webp.webp\" style=\"width:100%;\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Former Vancouver Canucks forward Dakota Joshua.\" title=\"Former Vancouver Canucks forward Dakota Joshua.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: Vancouver Canucks<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tThe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markerzone.com\/hockey\/stats\/nhl\/player\/Dakota-Joshua-35052\" class=\"lien_marqueur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"Dakota Joshua profile and hockey stats\">Dakota Joshua<\/a> trade on Thursday afternoon opened up the possibility for Vancouver Canucks General Manager Patrik Allvin to make an addition to the team&#8217;s roster.Patrik Allvin was able to move out some salary on Thursday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canucksdaily.com\/nhl-team\/vancouver-canucks\/vancouver-canucks-make-unpopular-decision-to-trade-dakota-joshua-to-eastern-conference-contender\" class=\"lien_marqueur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">as he traded forward Dakota Joshua<\/a> to the Toronto Maple Leafs in exchange for a fourth round pick in the 2028 National Hockey League Entry Draft.<\/p>\n<p>Now that the Vancouver Canucks have some additional cap space to work with, all eyes are on Patrik Allvin and the team&#8217;s management group to make an addition to their NHL roster, perhaps even a top-six forward, if possible.<\/p>\n<p>Vancouver Canucks open up possibility for future addition by trading Dakota Joshua<\/p>\n<p>Trading Dakota Joshua certainly wasn&#8217;t an easy decision for Patrik Allvin to do, especially after signing him to a multi-year contract just a little over 12 months ago, but with the team tight to the cap, it was a necessary move if they wanted to bring in another impact forward this summer.<\/p>\n<p>According to Canucks News Summaries on X, the Vancouver Canucks now have around $3.2 million available in cap space to work with this summer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Canucks now have around $3.2m in cap space. Give or take depending on how you construct the bottom of the roster.&#8221; Canucks News Summaries said.<\/p>\n<p>When speaking with reporters heading into free agency about potentially clearing cap space this summer, Patrik Allvin told David Quadrelli of Canucks Army that he doesn&#8217;t look at it like he&#8217;s moving money, but more so about creating options to make the team competitive for the 2025-26 season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ll see. For me, it&#8217;s not just about creating cap space. It&#8217;s about seeing what options we have to make our team competitive.&#8221; Allvin said.<\/p>\n<p>Previously on CanucksDaily<\/p>\n<p>POLL<\/p>\n<p>1 HOUR AGO\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0220 ANSWERS<\/p>\n<p>Vancouver Canucks&#8217; Completed Trade with Maple Leafs Opens Door to Major Offensive Upgrade<\/p>\n<p>Do you think the Vancouver Canucks will add another forward to the team before training camp?<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tCANUCKSDAILY.COM<br \/>COPYRIGHT @2025 &#8211; ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canucksdaily.com\/terms\" class=\"lediv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TERMS<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.canucksdaily.com\/politic\" class=\"lediv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">POLICIES<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5128],"tags":[894,8080,22988,5,4,547,893,27,5692,13913,5313],"class_list":{"0":"post-130465","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-vancouver-canucks","8":"tag-canucks","9":"tag-dakota-joshua","10":"tag-dakota-joshua-trade","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-nhl-trades","14":"tag-vancouver","15":"tag-vancouver-canucks","16":"tag-vancouver-canucks-news","17":"tag-vancouver-canucks-trade","18":"tag-vancouvercanucks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/114875235450274250","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}