Travis Yost: Contract structure makes Vancouver Canucks' Tyler Myers an intriguing trade option

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Any team considering a move for the veteran Vancouver blueliner should strongly consider how they plan on deploying him, Travis Yost writes.

Is there a trade market for Vancouver Canucks defenceman Tyler Myers?

The second scenario is the more pertinent one. With such little cap growth around the league in the post-COVID era, teams have had less difficulty reaching the cap floor, so the appetite for contracts where cap hits may dwarf real salary is muted. To be frank, you had better believe that Myers has been uniquely and disproportionately impeded by the talent he’s played with over the years if you are going to trade for him – especially if you are a contender looking to plug a hole on your blueline at a fraction of the cost.Those two years, he produced like a bona fide first-pairing talent, and at a uniquely young age to boot.

Perhaps a more defensively dense team can insulate Myers and free up some of the offensive goodness he’s capable of providing. Myers’ teams have been historically average scoring with him on the ice, which is about what you’d expect from a second- or third-pair tweener. But increasingly, Myers plays most of his shifts in the defensive third, and the goals-against numbers have piled up:

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