
High market prices leave Vancouver Canucks quiet at NHL trade deadline: GM
VANCOUVER — A tightly contested playoff picture left the Vancouver Canucks quiet as the NHL’s trade deadline passed on Friday.
The cost of bringing in new faces was high, while other teams around the league weren’t willing to meet the Canucks’ ask for players, said general manager Patrik Allvin.
“Definitely was an interesting market and some of the moves here,” he said. “And the reason, the biggest reason, I felt that we didn’t do any moves here today was that there was not a whole lot of market return on our players, unfortunately. That didn’t really make sense for us.”
Vancouver (28-22-11) remains in the playoff race, as one of four teams chasing the Western Conference’s second wild-card berth.