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Bob Frid-USA TODAY Sports With over a month to go before the entry draft, the Seattle Kraken expansion draft, and free agency, it’s strategy time for the Vancouver Canucks. The Canucks made decisions on their coaching staff last week, have to find new contracts for Elias Pettersson and Quinn Hughes, and will need to make decisions on a few pending unrestricted free agents. GM Jim Benning has promised to be “aggressive” on the trade front and in free agency, and appears likely to use the buyout option to clear some cap space. But unless he pays a price that hinders the team’s future or...

Eric Hartline-USA TODAY Sports One of the biggest issues plaguing the Vancouver Canucks over the past couple of seasons has been their inability to find a suitable third-line centre. Brandon Sutter was an offensive black hole for whoever played with him, while Adam Gaudette wasn’t good enough defensively to earn the trust of head coach Travis Green. Gaudette was traded last season, and while Sutter could still return ahead of free agency, it’s likely as a fourth-liner at this stage of his career. Their precarious salary cap situation won’t leave the Canucks with many options this offsea...

Jeff Curry-USA TODAY Sports Contract negotiations have begun between the Vancouver Canucks and their two biggest stars, Elias Pettersson and Quinn Hughes. Both Pettersson and Hughes are pending restricted free agents and have hired the same agency, CAA Hockey, to represent them. Pettersson is represented by J.P. Barry, while Pat Brisson represents Hughes. “There’s been multiple talks,” said Barry in an interview with Don Taylor and Rick Dhaliwal on CHEK television this morning. “We’ve started the dance, we’ll have to keep going for a little while here… but we definitely are enga...

The New Jersey Devils will enter the 2021 offseason with a lot of cap space even after they take care of their own free agents. This can be used as an asset. By offering relief to cap-strapped teams, the Devils can pry more assets from them. This post looks at who those teams may be this Summer.

Vancouver Canucks general manager Jim Benning expects to be busy this summer.After a tumultuous year that saw the team weather a COVID-19 outbreak, a spate of injuries and multiple losing skids, the . . .