2025/2026 Season Trade Rumours and Speculation Thread

[traptor]

Originally Posted by traptor

Cost is 1st (vgk) + Parehk + Gridin + Frost.

Not too far off

[trackercowe]

I saw Kypreos mentioned Kadri to Florida as a possible suitor earlier today. I'm sure it's idle speculation, but would make sense if Barkov's rehab hits a setback.

[Rhett44]

Canucks GM used the word "rebuild" in their official statement about the Hughes trade.

Shocking to see a team admit they are starting a rebuild.

[traptor]

Originally Posted by trackercowe

I saw Kypreos mentioned Kadri to Florida as a possible suitor earlier today. I'm sure it's idle speculation, but would make sense if Barkov's rehab hits a setback.

TThe problem with florida is their assets aren't that interesting.

[traptor]

Originally Posted by Rhett44

Canucks GM used the word "rebuild" in their official statement about the Hughes trade.

Shocking to see a team admit they are starting a rebuild.

Canucks making the type of moves the flames should have made after losing a young franchise player


This is the type of deal we should of went after for Tkachuk after losing him and Gaudreau.


We could of had this type of return and been going into the bedard and celebrini drafts.

[GioforPM]

Originally Posted by Rhett44

Canucks GM used the word "rebuild" in their official statement about the Hughes trade.

Shocking to see a team admit they are starting a rebuild.

Yeah, let's pattern the team after the Canucks. Such role models.

[Jay Random]

Originally Posted by traptor

Canucks making the type of moves the flames should have made after losing a young franchise player

It’s the type of move you make when you are dead last in the league. That describes the Canucks right now. It absolutely did not describe the Flames in 2022.

[Strange Brew]

Originally Posted by SuperMatt18

I do like how fast the Canucks acted and didn't have a bunch of indecision about moving a player with term.

Just pushed the market and got it done quickly

Penguins made a great move today too. getting a nice draft pick for almost nothing.

It shows that deals can happen in season and you can do well being a seller.

[keenan87]

I hope the Flames make a move soon too. Mostly for the entertainment and discussion.

[Flamesfan05]

Originally Posted by traptor

Canucks making the type of moves the flames should have made after losing a young franchise player


This is the type of deal we should of went after for Tkachuk after losing him and Gaudreau.


We could of had this type of return and been going into the bedard and celebrini drafts.

The wizard didn’t want to stick around that long

[Inferno]

Originally Posted by Jay Random

It’s the type of move you make when you are dead last in the league. That describes the Canucks right now. It absolutely did not describe the Flames in 2022.

Yep, it's easy to say that now but at the time they had just had a season where yeah they choked against their biggest rival but they finished first in the Pacific.

When you get offered a 115 point player after losing one yourself and a good defensemen + I don't blame them for taking it over giving up. They only had to replace Tkachuk at that point and they tried to with Kadri.

Nobody expected Huberdeau to drop like he did, for Sutter to go insane, and for the team to completely implode.

[Roko]

Just catching up but Dreger again on barnburner spitting “they cant just throw in the towel when they are right in the race”. I’m so sick of that narrative. We are second last after an insanely hot stretch. This team stinks.

Dreger is driving me mental.

[Sandman]

Originally Posted by Roko

Just catching up but Dreger again on barnburner spitting “they cant just throw in the towel when they are right in the race”. I’m so sick of that narrative. We are second last after an insanely hot stretch. This team stinks.

Dreger is driving me mental.

Management/Ownership better not have this mindset.

[Rhett44]

Originally Posted by Roko

Just catching up but Dreger again on barnburner spitting “they cant just throw in the towel when they are right in the race”. I’m so sick of that narrative. We are second last after an insanely hot stretch. This team stinks.

Dreger is driving me mental.

We have such a clear path forward in trading Rasmus, Kadri and Coleman. And loading up on 1st round picks and prospects. And helping the tank this year by trading these guys.

But then you hear from insiders that Kadri and Coleman are not being shopped and will not be traded unless they ask out basically.

If any team can screw this up, it is Murray Edwards, Don Maloney and the Calgary Flames. I have faith that Conroy knows what needs to be done, I just doubt he is going to be allowed to do it with the other stooges who are above him in the organization.

[tony-soprano]

Originally Posted by Rhett44

Canucks GM used the word "rebuild" in their official statement about the Hughes trade.

Shocking to see a team admit they are starting a rebuild.

Rutherford wants that first overall pick.

[Rhett44]

Originally Posted by tony-soprano

Rutherford wants that first overall pick.

Do you blame him? A top 3 pick speeds up any rebuild.

There is no honor or winning culture being built by finishing 10th last and being competitive. You dont get brownie points for not tanking. The best teams picked at the top of the draft at one point.

[Groot]

The Flames are still 31st overall, you're acting like they're pushing themselves out of the top 10.

[Aarongavey]

Originally Posted by Groot

The Flames are still 31st overall, you're acting like they're pushing themselves out of the top 10.

That dynamic is weird and the idea that the Canucks won a trade where they traded Quinn Hughes is wild to me. Quinn Hughes led their team in scoring by 26 points last year and played far fewer games than the players he was leading by that much. It was an abject failure of that franchise to have a player that good (the best player far and away drafted in the 2018 draft) and end up in a situation where you just have to trade him because your team is so bad.

The Flames are still bad, they have been rebuilding for two and half years right now, they still have far more in their system than the Canucks do even after this trade and they still have assets to trade away.

[IamNotKenKing]

Originally Posted by Sandman

Management/Ownership better not have this mindset.

They don’t.

[dino7c]

The Canucks were trading for rentals that all walked 2 years ago and traded a first less than a year ago. They traded a 26 year old superstar in his prime...lets slow our role on how shrewd they are.