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Vancouver Canucks 2026 NHL Trade Deadline live blog
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Lachlan Irvine
Mar 6, 2026, 12:00 ESTUpdated: Mar 6, 2026, 17:06 EST
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Hello and welcome to our annual CanucksArmy Trade Deadline live blog!
This trade deadline is shaping up to be a massive seller’s market, and the 2025-26 Vancouver Canucks should be among the NHL’s most prime sellers. Jim Rutherford and Patrik Allvin’s team sits dead last in the league with just 43 points and a solar system between them and the next closest competitor in the tank battle, the New York Rangers (54 points).
The Canucks traded their biggest asset before the turn of the calendar, sending Quinn Hughes to the Minnesota Wild for a haul of picks of prospects. Former leading goal scorer Kiefer Sherwood was traded to San Jose in January, and longtime Canuck Tyler Myers was sent to Dallas on Wednesday, helping to stock the cupboard with as many draft picks as possible and jumpstart an aggressive rebuild. And just hours before midnight, the Canucks dealt Conor Garland to the Blue Jackets for a pair of draft picks, a smaller-than-expected price due to his six year contract extension kicking in during the offseason.
But the Canucks still have a lot of work to do before today’s noon deadline hits. Unrestricted free agents need to be moved, including Evander Kane, Teddy Blueger and David Kampf. Players with term who garner interest from contending teams might be worth trading, be it a Brock Boeser, an Elias Pettersson or even a Fil Hronek.
If the long term goal is expediting a rebuild and spending as little time in the NHL’s basement as humanly possible, then practically no veteran player should be considered untouchable today. Whatever garners the biggest return and the largest selection of blue chip prospects, the Canucks have to be willing to consider pulling the trigger on.
And with the rates some players are going for this week, the market has never been better for a team committed to a full teardown. The only matter now is executing on that plan.
Keep this page updated throughout the morning and afternoon as deals start to roll in.

12:30

12:25

We will see what the return is for David Kämpf, but the Canucks have seemingly turned a midseason flyer into an asset or two. A tidy piece of business.

12:15

The Rangers are pulling off a masterclass in how not to run a last place team. Very impressive.
We also have the final return on the Brayden Schenn trade.

12:07

That’s one of Evander Kane, Teddy Blueger or David Kampf, for those keeping track at home.
Also some roster shuffling.

12:05

Here come the late trades and final deals.

12:03

The Toronto Maple Leafs did something! Bobby McMann isn’t a huge needle mover for most teams, but the Kraken have the opportunity to make the postseason in an incredibly weak Pacific Division and a city where the expansion honeymoon is wearing off. McMann will boost their depth. We’ll see what Toronto got for him.

12:00 PM – TRADE DEADLINE HITS

The horn has sounded! On what has been one of the most boring trade deadline days in recent NHL history, it looks like the Canucks have made a couple small deals according to Patrick Johnston.

Canucks have made "a couple of minor moves" I'm told.Will know more soon.

— Patrick Johnston 🇨🇦 (@risingaction.bsky.social) 2026-03-06T19:57:41.564Z

11:45

With 15 minutes to go, all is quiet on the Canucks’ front.
In the meantime, here’s our own Tyson Cole with some details on the Canucks’ newest member, Curtis Douglas.

11:30

Still waiting on what the return is between these two teams, but the Islanders clearly feel the Metro is wide open and are trying to capitalize on the opportunity. Outside of the Hurricanes, home ice in the first round is ripe for the taking if they can get past the Penguins. Brayden Schenn should help in that push.

11:20

Here’s your potential big trade of the day, if Schenn waives to go to Long Island.

11:10

Feel like this trade says a lot about the kind of trade deadline day we’re having.

11:03

It’s not a trade, but the Canucks have done something.
A big gritty player who’ll seemingly make the Canucks harder to play against down the stretch. Stands at a very nice 6-foot-9. No NHL goals in 29 career games, but he does have two assists!

11:00

One hour to go till the deadline!
An update on Evander Kane who won’t play tonight due to illness courtesy of The Province’s Patrick Johnston
Plus a Jake DeBrusk update from TSN’s Ryan Rishaug.
Things aren’t looking great, but there’s sixty minutes or so for that to change.

10:00

Donnie and Dhali’s Rick Dhaliwal added some context for the stalled negotations between the Canucks and Islanders when Conor Garland was still on the trade block yesterday.
Even in his new home, Bo Horvat is always helping the Canucks.
If you’re going to rebuild properly, part of that requires taking some money back eventually. Be it in a bad contract you take just to be packaged with draft picks, or to help get a bigger deal done. If this is a hill the Canucks are dying on, it’s going to be a long journey back to relevance.

9:50

9:45

It’s better to lose the mock lottery to the worst case scenario. Save that luck for the real thing. The Canucks even got Ivar Stenberg in Craig Button’s mock draft after, so what did they really lose?
Also we have the return on Corey Perry:
If the Kings can get a second rounder for a 40 year old Perry, I don’t know how the Canucks couldn’t get a similar deal for any of their pending UFAs.

9:30

A picture’s worth a thousand words.

9:15

When will teams learn that trading for Corey Perry only guarantees you won’t win a Stanley Cup? Heck, the Lightning have already tried this and it didn’t work against Colorado!
Ah, well. We’ll see if the return is any good for an LA team that needs any wins it can get right now.

8:45

A nice move to get Foligno onto a solid team alongside his brother. The Wild are an interesting test case as a franchise that’s never gotten over the hump aside from their one trip to the conference final in 2003 (no one check who they beat to get there). And in a division with Colorado and Dallas, they’ll have their work cut for them for the foreseeable future.

8:00 a.m.

Let the trades begin!
The Flyers and Wild have made the first deal of the day, swapping Bobby Brink and David Jiricek. Brink’s been a solid middle-six winger for the Flyers over the past couple of seasons, and now the Minnetonka native gets to head home and play for a Wild team competing in a Central Division full of heavyweights. Jiricek has struggled to find his place in the NHL since being drafted 6th overall in 2022, but the Flyers should be able to give him a longer leash and more ice time to establish himself.

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