{"id":470994,"date":"2025-06-25T12:02:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T16:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=470994"},"modified":"2025-06-25T12:02:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T16:02:00","slug":"vancouver-canucks-acquire-forward-with-stanley-cup-final-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/06\/25\/vancouver-canucks-acquire-forward-with-stanley-cup-final-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver Canucks Acquire Forward With Stanley Cup Final Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Vancouver Canucks have completed a trade with the Edmonton Oilers for a forward with Stanley Cup Final experience. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/k\/kaneev01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-06-25_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Evander Kane<\/a> is headed to Vancouver.<\/p>\n<h2>Evander Kane Trade<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Trade details:<\/p>\n<p>To <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Canucks?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Canucks<\/a>:<br \/>\nEvander Kane<\/p>\n<p>To <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Oilers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Oilers<\/a>:<br \/>\nOTT 2025 4th Round Pick<\/p>\n<p>No salary retained, Edmonton clears $5.125 million off the books.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Frank Seravalli (@frank_seravalli) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/frank_seravalli\/status\/1937893533568123378?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 25, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In exchange for Kane, the Oilers are acquiring a fourth-round pick in the upcoming NHL Entry Draft.<\/p>\n<p>Last season, Kane did not play in the regular season due an injury he sustained during the 2024 Stanley Cup Final. Kane returned for the Stanley Cup Playoffs, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/05\/29\/western-conference-final-ends-edmonton-oilers-return-to-the-final\/\" target=\"_self\">helping the Oilers return to the Stanley Cup Final<\/a>, where <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/06\/17\/florida-panthers-have-defeated-edmonton-oilers-win-2025-nhl-stanley-cup-champions\/\" target=\"_self\">they were defeated<\/a> once again.<\/p>\n<h3>Kane and the Canucks<\/h3>\n<p>After making the playoffs in 2024, the Canucks missed the playoffs last season. The acquisition of Kane seems to be an attempt to boost the offence for next season. The Canucks lost offence when they <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/01\/31\/j-t-miller-traded-in-major-shakeup\/\" target=\"_self\">traded<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/millejt01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-06-25_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">J.T. Miller<\/a> last season.<\/p>\n<h3>Edmonton Might be the Winners in this Trade<\/h3>\n<p>It is no secret the Oilers are dealing with the salary cap right now. Their issues with the cap caused them to lose <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/h\/hollody01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-06-25_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dylan Holloway<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/brobeph01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-06-25_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Philip Broberg<\/a> last August to <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2024\/08\/13\/st-louis-blues-tender-offer-sheets\/\" target=\"_self\">offer sheets<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Oilers did shop Kane in the regular season to clear his $5.125 million contract from their cap. While they were unsuccessful then, they are now. The Canucks are taking on the full contract. This might make the Oilers the winner of this trade. They have already <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/06\/18\/report-edmonton-oilers-re-sign-forward\/\" target=\"_self\">re-signed<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/f\/fredetr01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-06-25_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trent Frederic<\/a>, but there are other players who will be due for contracts soon. Defenceman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/bouchev01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-06-25_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Evan Bouchard<\/a> and star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/mcdavco01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-06-25_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Connor McDavid<\/a> are the biggest names approaching contract renewal.<\/p>\n<p>This additional $5.125 million will come in handy for the Oilers as they look to build a team that can return to the Stanley Cup Final for a third-straight season.<\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo: Perry Nelson- Imagn Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vancouver Canucks have completed a trade with the Edmonton Oilers for a forward with Stanley Cup Final experience. Evander Kane is headed to Vancouver. Evander Kane Trade Trade details: To #Canucks: Evander Kane To #Oilers: OTT 2025 4th Round Pick No salary retained, Edmonton clears $5.125 million off the books. \u2014 Frank Seravalli (@frank_seravalli) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3464,"featured_media":470995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_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":[34,23,2,4547,4548,26],"tags":[726,5746],"class_list":["post-470994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-oilers","category-featured","category-hockey","category-nhl","category-canucks","tag-evander-kane","tag-nhl-trade"],"modified_by":"Andrew Willis","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470994","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\/3464"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":470996,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470994\/revisions\/470996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}