{"id":462575,"date":"2025-02-18T17:13:07","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T22:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=462575"},"modified":"2025-02-18T17:13:07","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T22:13:07","slug":"vancouver-canucks-sign-new-acquisition-to-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/02\/18\/vancouver-canucks-sign-new-acquisition-to-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver Canucks Sign New Acquisition to Extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/02\/17\/waiting-for-vancouver-canucks-star-forward-to-emerge\/\" target=\"_self\">Vancouver Canucks<\/a> have announced some news during the Four Nations Faceoff break. News came down Tuesday afternoon that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/o\/oconndr01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-02-18_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Drew O&#8217;Connor<\/a> <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/nhl\/article\/canucks-sign-forward-drew-oconnor-to-two-year-extension\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">signed a two-year extension<\/a> with the club. This deal has an average cap hit of $2.5 million and runs until the end of the 2026-27 season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bluesky-embed\" data-bluesky-uri=\"at:\/\/did:plc:sdobrsxnvwczrjydmnubhibh\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3lihrwqud3h2j\" data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreidx5m4enf2osaricpf6rs5wane2cdspfui5bvrrxhjbjiohgdrhg4\">\n<p>Drew O\u2019Connor 2x$2.5M extension in Vancouver<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; <a  href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:sdobrsxnvwczrjydmnubhibh?ref_src=embed\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Elliotte Friedman (Bot) (@notfriedgehnic.bsky.social)<\/a> <a  href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:sdobrsxnvwczrjydmnubhibh\/post\/3lihrwqud3h2j?ref_src=embed\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2025-02-18T17:28:51.226Z<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.bsky.app\/static\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Drew O&#8217;Connor Inks Extension with Vancouver Canucks<\/h2>\n<p>O&#8217;Connor <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/02\/09\/nhl-rumours-vancouver-canucks-hope-to-extend-new-acquisition\/\" target=\"_self\">was recently acquired<\/a> by the Canucks along with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/p\/pettema01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-02-18_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marcus Pettersson<\/a> as part of a deal with the<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/02\/04\/nhl-rumours-pittsburgh-penguins-forward-possible-trade-chip\/\" target=\"_self\"> Pittsburgh Penguins.<\/a> Vancouver had already signed their newest model of Pettersson<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/02\/05\/vancouver-canucks-extend-newly-acquired-defenceman\/\" target=\"_self\"> to an extension<\/a>. However, it was O&#8217;Connor&#8217;s turn to get a new deal done.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old forward has played the Penguins and the Canucks over his six-year NHL career. O&#8217;Connor has eight goals and 10 assists for 18 points in 57 games between the two clubs. The Wayne, New Jersey native has a Corsi for of 50.0 and a relative Corsi of -3.6.<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Connor has 32 goals and 36 assists for 68 points in 214 career games. Pittsburgh signed him as an undrafted free agent after a strong NCAA career with Dartmouth of the ECAC. He was the Ivy League player of the year in the COVID-shortened 2020 season.<\/p>\n<h3>What It Means<\/h3>\n<p>O&#8217;Connor has impressed in his short time with the Canucks. One wondered how he would do with a new team. However, it seems like he&#8217;s taken well to his new surroundings. He is coming off a career-best 16-goal season with the Penguins. However, he does well as a solid depth addition to the Canucks&#8217; roster.<\/p>\n<p>The young forward has fit in nicely and seems to be part of the Canucks&#8217; plans at least for the near future. He can do a number of things and his cap hit is a relatively low one. If the Canucks have to move him next season, he could get back a decent return back.<\/p>\n<p>Vancouver General Manager Patrik Allvin has already made some moves and may not be done. However, this seems like a solid move.<\/p>\n<p><em>Main photo by: \u00a0Bob Frid-Imagn Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vancouver Canucks have announced some news during the Four Nations Faceoff break. News came down Tuesday afternoon that Drew O&#8217;Connor signed a two-year extension with the club. This deal has an average cap hit of $2.5 million and runs until the end of the 2026-27 season. Drew O\u2019Connor 2x$2.5M extension in Vancouver &mdash; Elliotte [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2352,"featured_media":462316,"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":[26,4547,34,4548],"tags":[4671,3630,7127,5820],"class_list":["post-462575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-canucks","category-hockey","category-news","category-nhl","tag-drew-oconnor","tag-marcus-pettersson","tag-patrik-allvin","tag-vancouver-canucks-news"],"modified_by":"Dan Mount, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462575","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\/2352"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":462576,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462575\/revisions\/462576"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}