{"id":413629,"date":"2026-01-18T02:26:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T02:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/413629\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T02:26:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T02:26:15","slug":"vancouver-canucks-reportedly-spoke-with-pacific-division-rival-about-evander-kane-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/413629\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver Canucks reportedly spoke with Pacific Division rival about Evander Kane trade"},"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 reportedly spoke with Pacific Division rival about Evander Kane trade<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Vancouver Hockey Daily has no direct affiliation to the Vancouver Canucks, NHL or NHLPA<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t  &#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/634467.webp.webp\" style=\"width:100%;\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Jan 6, 2026; Buffalo, New York, USA; Vancouver Canucks left wing Evander Kane (91) takes a shot on Buffalo Sabres goaltender Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen (1) during the first period at KeyBank Center.\" title=\"Jan 6, 2026; Buffalo, New York, USA; Vancouver Canucks left wing Evander Kane (91) takes a shot on Buffalo Sabres goaltender Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen (1) during the first period at KeyBank Center.\"\/>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: Timothy T. Ludwig &#8211; Imagn Images.<\/p>\n<p>A new report suggests that the Vancouver Canucks have spoken with a Pacific Division rival about a potential trade involving nine-time 20-goal scorer Evander Kane.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;According to several sources, the Vancouver Canucks have let it be known that &#8211; in an effort to get younger &#8211; they are willing to listen to offers on &#8216;veteran players.'&#8221; Sportsnet&#8217;s Elliotte Friedman said.<\/p>\n<p>Vancouver Canucks reportedly spoke with division rival about Evander Kane<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While it&#8217;s still a rumor &#8211; something we don&#8217;t normally spend too much time on, but this was just too intriguing to not stop and give it pause for a few minutes &#8211; two separate sources over the past week have indicated to Mayor&#8217;s Manor that they believe Holland is kicking the tires on a potential Kane trade.&#8221; Mayor&#8217;s Manor said.<\/p>\n<p>With it being the final season of Anze Kopitar&#8217;s career in the National Hockey League, the Los Angeles Kings are almost certainly going to try and make a big splash at the trade deadline in March to go on a deep playoff run this spring.<\/p>\n<p>Now while Evander Kane might not be considered a &#8220;big splash&#8221; anymore, the 34-year-old winger would still provide Head Coach Jim Hiller some nice scoring depth and a physical presence that all teams need in the Stanley Cup Playoffs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canucksdaily.com\/nhl-team\/vancouver-canucks\/vancouver-canucks-handed-a-hard-reality-check-on-what-theyll-receive-for-trading-evander-kane\" class=\"lien_marqueur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The cost to acquire Evander Kane<\/a> is still relatively unknown, with some like Thomas Drance of The Athletic believing that the Canucks could get a mid-round pick for the Vancouver native.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At this point, it seems like the Canucks may be able to recoup the mid-round pick they paid for Evander Kane&#8230;but that might be all that the club can expect. The sense I get is that the trade market for Kane is lukewarm at the moment.&#8221; Drance said.<\/p>\n<p>The NHL&#8217;s trade deadline for the 2025-26 season is set for Friday, March 6th at 12 p.m. PT and it&#8217;s shaping up to be a very busy one for Patrik Allvin and the Vancouver Canucks.<\/p>\n<p>Previously on Vancouver Hockey Daily<\/p>\n<p>POLL<\/p>\n<p>52 MINUTES AGO\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0\u00a037 ANSWERS<\/p>\n<p>Vancouver Canucks reportedly spoke with Pacific Division rival about Evander Kane trade<\/p>\n<p>Do you think the Los Angeles Kings make sense as a potential landing spot for Evander Kane?<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/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":413630,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5128],"tags":[894,690,45001,5,145,4,893,27,5692,8441,5313],"class_list":["post-413629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver-canucks","tag-canucks","tag-evander-kane","tag-evander-kane-trade-rumors","tag-hockey","tag-los-angeles-kings","tag-nhl","tag-vancouver","tag-vancouver-canucks","tag-vancouver-canucks-news","tag-vancouver-canucks-trade-rumors","tag-vancouvercanucks"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115913739028012805","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413629","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=413629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}