{"id":443269,"date":"2024-06-20T17:55:15","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T21:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=443269"},"modified":"2024-06-20T17:55:15","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T21:55:15","slug":"nhl-rumours-vancouver-canucks-looking-to-move-on-from-winger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2024\/06\/20\/nhl-rumours-vancouver-canucks-looking-to-move-on-from-winger\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Rumours: Vancouver Canucks Looking To Move on From Winger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to another edition of NHL rumours, this time starring the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/canucks\/\" target=\"_self\">Vancouver Canucks<\/a>. It does appear as though the Canucks want to make some moves to shake things up, although not necessarily anything major. The Canucks just want to identify areas in their lineup that could use some adjustments. One of these areas of adjustments would be in finding a spark for sniper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/p\/petteel01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-06-20_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Elias Pettersson<\/a>. Therefore, one of those players they would want to move, to make room for just such an adjustment, would be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/mikheil01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-06-20_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ilya Mikheyev<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Agent Dan Millstein has permission to help facilitate an Ilya Mikheyev trade.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Canucks?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Canucks<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Rick Dhaliwal (@DhaliwalSports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DhaliwalSports\/status\/1803808450851619315?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 20, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>NHL Rumours: Looking at the Vancouver Canucks Russian Forward Ilya Mikheyev<\/h2>\n<p>Rumour: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/nhl\/article\/report-canucks-mikheyev-granted-permission-to-seek-trade\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rick Dhaliwal of Chek News in BC<\/a>, suggested that Mikheyev&#8217;s agent, Dan Milstein, is able to do what he can to get a trade to happen.<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Now there is no deal done, but it does appear that Mikheyev&#8217;s time in Vancouver may <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">be coming to an<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> end sooner rather than later. Perhaps this is a &#8216;writing has been on the wall for a while&#8217; type of scenario. For example, in the regular season, Mikheyev and Pettersson played together a lot. However, Mikheyev had 11 goals and 20 assists for just 31 points in 78 games <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">played<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">. On the other hand, Pettersson is an elite NHL sniper, who recorded 34 goals and 89 points. It&#8217;s not hard to see there <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">just<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> wasn&#8217;t enough offensive chemistry between the two.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Mikheyev is a solid piece to expect some return value via trade. He has <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">very<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> good<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> speed and isn&#8217;t afraid of chasing pucks into the corners. His scoring has been a bit inconsistent throughout his career, but the offensive upside still remains. His career-high was 21 goals in 2021-22 with the Toronto Maple Leafs. Furthermore, the 29-year-old career PPG average is 0.49 and was only 0.40 this year. So, you can expect a rebound in productivity if you are a team receiving Mikheyev in trade.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">It Just Wasn\u2019t a Fit for Mikheyev and the Canucks<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Furthermore, a couple of Mikheyev and Pettersson&#8217;s most frequent wingers were <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/l\/laffesa01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-06-20_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Sam Lafferty<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> and <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/k\/kuzmean01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-06-20_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Andrei Kuzmenko<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">. The latter, Kuzmenko, has already been dealt out of town. And the word on Lafferty is that <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2024\/06\/12\/open-ocean-vancouver-canucks-free-agent-news-rumours\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">he would like to test free agency<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, but is open to sticking around the Wet Coast. However, if he did return, he wouldn&#8217;t necessarily be expected or even want to play on an offensively-minded line with Pettersson.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Trying to find additional offensive firepower, seems to be where the other journeys are going to land for the Canucks. A name like <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/g\/guentja01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-06-20_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Jake Guentzel<\/span><\/a> <a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2024\/06\/18\/nhl-rumours-canucks-expected-to-pursue-hurricanes-forward\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">recently popped up in rumours<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">. Moreover, this shows that the Canucks are looking to help find some scoring depth, to help support Pettersson and also <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/millejt01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-06-20_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">J.T. Miller<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">. Overall, this seems to be where we <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">find<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> the Canucks and General Manager Patrik Allvin landing themselves. They want to surround Pettersson with elite scorers, and one part of that process is removing current pieces that don&#8217;t fit that description. Mikheyev seems to fit that (the doesn&#8217;t fit) part perfectly, as someone the Canucks&#8217; management can use to help save some cap room, in hopes of landing a big fish this summer.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Main photo: Bob Frid-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to another edition of NHL rumours, this time starring the Vancouver Canucks. It does appear as though the Canucks want to make some moves to shake things up, although not necessarily anything major. The Canucks just want to identify areas in their lineup that could use some adjustments. One of these areas of adjustments [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4222,"featured_media":437163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26,4547,4548,4321],"tags":[4038,6227],"class_list":["post-443269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-canucks","category-hockey","category-nhl","category-rumours","tag-ilya-mikheyev","tag-vancouver-canucks-rumours"],"modified_by":"Levi Pike, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4222"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}