{"id":344808,"date":"2025-12-08T14:33:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T14:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/344808\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T14:33:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T14:33:10","slug":"vancouver-canucks-upped-asking-price-on-pending-ufa-kiefer-sherwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/344808\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver Canucks upped asking price on pending UFA Kiefer Sherwood"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Vancouver Canucks have let it be known the team is open to dealing its pending unrestricted free agents, but it appears the price for Kiefer Sherwood has gone up. <\/p>\n

Michael Russo and Joe Smith of The Athletic<\/a> report the Minnesota Wild have shown \u201csignificant interest\u201d in Sherwood and offered a good young prospect to fit Vancouver\u2019s asking price, but the cost has been upped and the Canucks \u201cnow want a good roster player and have also asked teams for a first-round pick.\u201d<\/p>\n

Unfortunately for Vancouver, the shift has timed up with a sudden downturn in production for Sherwood, who is without a goal in hispast nine games after scoring 12 goals in the first 20 games of the year. He\u2019s without point in his past seven games, owning 16 points this season.<\/p>\n

The 31-year-old winger carries a cap hit of $1.5 million on his expiring deal. He posted a career-high 19 goals and 40 points in 78 games last season, his first with the Canucks. <\/p>\n

Undrafted to begin his NHL career, Sherwood has 55 goals and 114 points in 294 career games with the Anaheim Ducks, Colorado Avalanche, Nashville Predators and Canucks. <\/p>\n

Winger Evander Kane is the other top pending UFA on the Canucks roster as the struggling team eyes changes. Vancouver currently sits last in the Pacific Division with an 11-15-3 record. Trade rumours have also started to involve captain Quinn Hughes, who is signed through next season at a cap hit of $7.85 million. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Vancouver Canucks have let it be known the team is open to dealing its pending unrestricted free…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4759,5,44272,33170,4,34339],"class_list":{"0":"post-344808","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-kiefer-sherwood-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8480748","11":"tag-minnesota-wild-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-30","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-vancouver-canucks-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-23"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115684442375073055","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344808","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=344808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}