VANCOUVER — For the last two months the Vancouver Canucks had been shopping Bo Horvat to other NHL teams but as late as last Tuesday management spoke with his…
When those talks didn’t produce a deal, and with their playoff hopes all but faded away, the Canucks made the decision Monday to trade their captain and the team’s leading goal scorer to the New York Islanders in exchange for forwards Anthony Beauvillier and Aatu Raty, plus a protected 2023 first-round draft pick.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Calgary Herald, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.
“It wasn’t easy, with everything that went on,” Horvat told reporters in New York about the pressure he had been feeling. “The unknown and my family’s unknown. It’s going to be a fresh start.” With the Canucks in danger of missing the playoffs for the sixth time in the last seven years, Allvin indicated more deals are possible before the March 3 trade deadline.
Beauvillier, selected by the Islanders in the first round in the 2015 draft, has nine goals and 11 assists in 49 games this season. He has 102 goals and 107 assists in 457 career games. “I like the details he plays with, his tenacity, his puck hunting. I think he will fit in well here in our top six group on the left side.”The condition on the draft pick is that if it’s a top-12 pick, the Canucks don’t get it until 2024.“I think the market dictates what the players are worth,” he said. “In this case we’re really excited with what we got back.”
“But when we made our offer and were understanding that might not be the case, my job is to check around the league and talk to teams and see if they have any interest ⦠and if there is a potential return.”
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