The rebuild rebrand continues in Vancouver.

It’s been called a “youth movement.” It’s been called a “hybrid rebuild.” But this past weekend, both Patrik Allvin and Jim Rutherford dropped the pretenses and qualifiers and officially called what the Canucks were doing a “rebuild.”

In that same conversation with Sportsnet’s Iain MacIntyre in which he said “the fact of the matter is we’re in a rebuild,” Rutherford also mentioned that “I would suggest that we listen to teams when they call — about anybody.” And that’s a change in the plan, as presented, too.

Previously, it was assumed that when the Canucks talked about moving veterans, they were primarily talking about their crop of pending UFAs, like Kiefer Sherwood, Evander Kane, and David Kämpf. But as Rutherford and Allvin seemed to hint in their interviews, and as Thomas Drance of The Athletic later confirmed, “The Canucks are now comfortable noting both publicly and in trade talks with various teams that they’re willing to listen on veteran players, even those with term who have recently committed to the organization.”

One had to think this was coming eventually. Trading UFAs is really just part of the ordinary cycle for a non-playoff team, and if that’s all the Canucks were prepared to do, it’d be hard to call that a ‘rebuild’ of any sort, hybrid or otherwise. But the fact that the Canucks are now being so open about the possibility of trading veterans with term suggests that some such trades may happen within the 2025-26 season.

And before that happens, we can’t miss the chance for a good ol’ fashioned ranking-based listicle.

Below, we present (our opinion on) the Canucks’ veterans with term, ranked by their approximate trade value.

We’ve covered this before, but being a 28-year-old right-shot top-pairing defender on a great contract until 2032 makes Hronek one of the Canucks’ best value assets, period – never mind among the veterans with term. In that crowd, Hronek is head-and-shoulders above the rest.

In playing just as good, if not better, in the wake of the Quinn Hughes trade, Hronek has proven himself a borderline 1D and continues to up his theoretical value.

Were the Canucks to ever put him on the block, the expected return would be truly immense, as in multiple high picks and quality prospects.

It’s as of yet unclear where Garland fits in the Canucks’ long-term plans. But there’s little doubt that he’d be able to fit into the plans of a number of teams around the league. Despite an injury-plagued season, Garland is still putting up points at about the same rate he has since arriving in Vancouver five seasons ago, and is still making a demonstrable impact on the ice each night.

His pending six-year, $6 million contract is, at worst, fair value, and although it takes him from age 30 right through to 35, those should still be mostly good and productive years for Garland.

Were he to be shopped around the entire league, Garland would return at least a first-round pick, and probably a couple of pieces more. If the team respected his upcoming no-movement clause, that would complicate matters, but it wouldn’t change his overall value.

At 24, Rossi isn’t very old for a ‘veteran’ and is, in fact, younger than a couple of players we didn’t include on this list: Linus Karlsson and Max Sasson. But he’s obviously got some significant trade value to him.

The Minnesota Wild reportedly asked for a first-round pick and a couple of prospects for him this past summer – including the first, Aatu Räty, and Arturs Silovs from the Canucks. They didn’t get it, so Rossi’s value is probably a bit south of that…but not too far south.

A productive and competitive centre with the majority of his career still ahead of him is going to have the value of at least a first-round pick and change.

Myers represents one of the smallest contract commitments on this list, signed for just this season and the next at $3 million per season. But he’s also still a gigantic right-shooting D who is capable of taking on a ton of minutes, and who plays a game especially suited for the postseason. There would be a market for Myers’ services – so long as he was willing to move off his current NMC, which becomes a limited NTC on July 1 – and perhaps a surprisingly robust one.

If he were being offered around to the entire pool of playoff contenders, Myers would return a first, easily. Even with a limited list of suitors, the return starts at a second-round pick, minimum.

DeBrusk is a hard one to figure out. He is in the midst of perhaps the worst year of his career, but he’s still managing to put up points, especially at the net-front on the power play. That special teams play gives him some value around the league, and at 29, he is expected to have several productive years left.

DeBrusk’s cap hit of $5.5 million is very reasonable for what he does, even within this 2025-26 season, and should not be a major barrier to a deal. His NMC is a bigger problem. A second-round pick seems like a good ballpark for DeBrusk’s general value, if the right suitor can be found.

Surely, our most controversial entry. The range of opinions on Pettersson’s value goes from ‘negative’ to ‘1C price-tag,’ and the true answer probably lies somewhere in between.

Pettersson has rebounded well enough, and centres of his skill level remain rare enough that there would still undoubtedly be a market for his services. The $11.6 million cap hit is an overpay in the present moment, but not as big a ticket as it once was.

Someone would take a flyer on Pettersson, figuring it out with a fresher start, and probably multiple someones. The question of a potential return is tough to figure out, but could definitely get toward a first-round pick and some change if given the right circumstances. It’s also entirely possible that no team can realistically fit him in this season, and that he’s more of an offseason target if anything.

We wrote about this Pettersson’s value recently, and while it won’t approach the 12^th overall pick the Canucks wound up paying for him (and Drew O’Connor and some cap dumps), it could still be a first-round pick. Pettersson is, after all, a sizeable defender still capable of playing top-four minutes in most situations.

That said, Pettersson is having a tough year and may be starting to show some age. A high second might be a more realistic value for him until he shows signs of a rebound. 

Few players have upped their value more this season than O’Connor. A big, fast body on pace for career numbers and continuing to develop into a strong penalty killer is going to have some serious value around the league. That’s especially true with him under contract for $2.5 million for another season.

Getting something like a second back for O’Connor might be a surprise for some, but it seems very doable in this current market. He seems like the kind of asset who could make an outsized difference on a playoff-bound roster.

Who really knows on this one? On the one hand, Demko is just two years removed from a Vezina nomination. On the other hand, he’s suffered what may be yet another season-ending injury, and his chances of being a long-term solution for anyone seem to be dwindling.

The goalie market is dry enough that someone would probably take a swing at Demko, but with that pending three-year, $8.5 million contract attached to him, few would take an expensive swing. As it stands, the Canucks might be lucky to get a second back for Demko.

We toyed with the idea of placing Lankinen above Demko on this list. He is the more readily available of the two goaltenders, and while he’ll probably never be a genuine starter, he’s a solid backup with some strong attributes of his own.

That dry goalie market increases his value, but a full NMC also significantly limits the Canucks’ ability to exploit it. It’s a second-round pick in the best of cases, and probably a little bit less in most.

We speculated recently that Höglander has about the same value as Vasily Podkolzin did when the Canucks traded him last year, which was a fourth-round pick. Still with zero points on the year, no one will be beating down the door to trade for him, but Höglander is still young enough for someone to take a shot on him repeating those 24 goals in a season eventually. 

The Boeser extension is already aging poorly, and the player is currently mired in the least productive season of his career. One suspects that Boeser may have crossed the threshold into negative value this season.

That said, one still hears his name mentioned around the league plenty, and there is a chance that a team desperate for goal-scoring takes a chance on his past performance. Even if they did, however, they wouldn’t be willing to pay much, or anything, for him. At this exact juncture, Boeser may be an outright cap dump.

We don’t need to get too into the reasons here, because they’re of no fault to Chytil. But until he returns to contact hockey and shows he can safely return to play, Chytil essentially holds no value, especially with one more year at $4.438 million left on his contract.

What do you think Canucks fans? What would you change in these rankings? Let us know in the comments below!