{"id":471362,"date":"2026-02-25T15:46:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T15:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/471362\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T15:46:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T15:46:13","slug":"kane-pettersson-laine-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/471362\/","title":{"rendered":"Kane, Pettersson, Laine \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the trade market<\/a> for nearly a month, the expectation remains that Vancouver Canucks forward Evander Kane<\/a> will be moved in the next few days before the trade deadline. On Insider Trading<\/a>, TSN\u2019s Chris Johnston reported renewed interest in Kane from playoff-bound teams after the Olympic break.<\/p>\n

He didn\u2019t provide an exhaustive list, but Johnston stated that the Carolina Hurricanes, Dallas Stars, Tampa Bay Lightning, among others, have each inquired about Kane to some capacity. Johnston doesn\u2019t expect the price to be all that high, and he indicated that the Canucks have no issue retaining half of Kane\u2019s salary for the rest of the season, making him much more financially palatable.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no question that Kane has had a disappointing season by his standards, scoring nine goals and 25 points in 56 games with a -18 rating, averaging 16:50 of ice time per game. Still, he remains a physical middle-six winger who\u2019s one year removed from scoring six goals and 12 points in 21 postseason games for the Edmonton Oilers.<\/p>\n

Additional trade notes:<\/p>\n

On\u00a0Insider Trading, TSN\u2019s Darren Dreger spoke briefly about\u00a0Kane\u2019s teammate, Elias Pettersson<\/a>. Although there is heightened interest in Pettersson, Dreger shared that the Canucks haven\u2019t received any legitimate offers for their first-line center and haven\u2019t had any reason to contact Pettersson or his agency about waiving his full no-movement clause. After scoring 73 goals and 191 points in 162 games from 2022 to 2024, Pettersson has only registered 28 goals and 79 points in 113 games since, making him a difficult player to assess. Factoring in his $11.6MM cap hit through the 2031-32 season, it\u2019s becoming increasingly likely that Vancouver won\u2019t find a suitable offer.
\nAfter the injury to winger Kevin Fiala<\/a> in the Olympics, the Los Angeles Kings have a near-drastic need for a scoring winger<\/a> if they have any hopes of reaching the playoffs this year. One player that has been mildly linked to Los Angeles in the last few days is Montreal Canadiens winger Patrik Laine<\/a>, though that no longer appears to be in the cards. According to Dennis Bernstein of The Fourth Period<\/a>, the Kings checked in on Laine over the last few days, but no longer believe there\u2019s a fit between the two. Bernstein didn\u2019t clarify if the Kings were turned off by the price, Laine\u2019s injury history, a combination of the two, or something else entirely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On the trade market for nearly a month, the expectation remains that Vancouver Canucks forward Evander Kane will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5128],"tags":[894,29,147,2318,690,5,145,21,4,640,92,893,27,5313],"class_list":{"0":"post-471362","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-vancouver-canucks","8":"tag-canucks","9":"tag-carolina-hurricanes","10":"tag-dallas-stars","11":"tag-elias-pettersson","12":"tag-evander-kane","13":"tag-hockey","14":"tag-los-angeles-kings","15":"tag-montreal-canadiens","16":"tag-nhl","17":"tag-patrik-laine","18":"tag-tampa-bay-lightning","19":"tag-vancouver","20":"tag-vancouver-canucks","21":"tag-vancouvercanucks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116132052008043666","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471362","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=471362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}