{"id":488798,"date":"2026-03-06T09:35:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T09:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/488798\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T09:35:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T09:35:32","slug":"columbus-blue-jackets-agree-to-acquire-conor-garland-from-vancouver-canucks-for-two-draft-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/488798\/","title":{"rendered":"Columbus Blue Jackets agree to acquire Conor Garland from Vancouver Canucks for two draft picks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/columbus-blue-jackets\/29\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/columbus-blue-jackets\/29\" target=\"_blank\">Columbus Blue Jackets<\/a> have agreed to a trade to acquire forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/conor-garland\/8478856\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/conor-garland\/8478856\" target=\"_blank\">Conor Garland<\/a> from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/vancouver-canucks\/23\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/vancouver-canucks\/23\" target=\"_blank\">Vancouver Canucks<\/a> in exchange for a second- and a third-round draft pick, according to TSN Hockey Insider Pierre LeBrun. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The deal is pending a trade call.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Pending trade call, Connor Garland is being traded to Columbus in exchange for a 2nd RD pick and 3rd RD pick<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pierre LeBrun (@PierreVLeBrun) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PierreVLeBrun\/status\/2029786399453434185?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 6, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The third-round pick is in the 2026 draft, while the second-round pick is in 2028.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Columbus currently sits one point behind the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/boston-bruins\/6\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/boston-bruins\/6\" target=\"_blank\">Boston Bruins<\/a> for the second Wild Card playoff spot in the Eastern Conference. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 29-year-old Garland has seven goals and 19 assists over 50 games for the last-place Canucks in 2025-26, his sixth season in Vancouver and ninth in the NHL. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 5-foot-10 winger is in the final season of an eight-year, $36 million contract that carries a cap hit of $6 million. He is scheduled to become an unrestricted free agent at the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Drafted 123rd overall by the Arizona Coyotes, Garland has 129 goals and 317 points in 535 career games split between the Coyotes and Canucks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">His best season came during the 2021-22 campaign when he registered 19 goals and 52 points in 77 games with the Canucks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Scituate, Mass., native has represented the United States three times at the World Hockey Championships, winning gold in 2025 and bronze in 2021.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Columbus Blue Jackets have agreed to a trade to acquire forward Conor Garland from the Vancouver Canucks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4759,32986,58201,5,4,34339],"class_list":{"0":"post-488798","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-columbus-blue-jackets-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-29","10":"tag-conor-garland-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8478856","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-vancouver-canucks-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-23"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116181553969315040","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488798","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=488798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}