Bruins and Stars eyeing up trade for Vancouver Canucks' Sherwood: report
It’s becoming more and more likely that Kiefer Sherwood’s time with the Vancouver Canucks is drawing to a close.
The NHL trade deadline is two months away, and Sherwood is set to be one of the bigger fish available on the market. It’s been a great season for the 30-year-old, who has 17 goals and 21 points through 41 games. He is also second in the entire NHL with 198 hits, something that has piqued the interest of many contending teams.
In a recent report from The Province’s Ben Kuzma and Patrick Johnston, it appears that both the Dallas Stars and Boston Bruins are sniffing around a trade for Sherwood.
“The Dallas Stars have a pressing need to replace injured right-winger Tyler Seguin,” Kuzma and Johnston wrote. “Forward Mavrik Bourque, 23, who can play the middle or right wing, might be of some interest to the Canucks in a package.
“The Bruins are offering centre Casey Mittlestadt.”
With the Canucks in the midst of a “hybrid retool,” there is a distinct willingness to get younger in Vancouver. The team has already offloaded franchise cornerstone Quinn Hughes earlier this season, and their playoff hopes are all but dead this season, sitting second-last in the NHL.
Bourque would fit the mould for a Canucks as he is a former first-round pick who has graduated into a full-time NHLer. The results in Dallas haven’t been great for the 23-year-old, but he would get more of an opportunity in Vancouver. Mittlestadt is an intriguing name, though he might be a tad too old for the direction of the Canucks, and his production isn’t anything to get excited about.
This all comes as Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman recently reported that the Canucks have actually made a contract offer to Sherwood, though the gap between the two sides remains large.
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Johnston and Kuzma acknowledged this, but remained steadfast that Sherwood is much more likely to be traded rather than re-signed.
“The prospect of the Vancouver Canucks retaining unrestricted free-agent right-winger Kiefer Sherwood is ‘highly unlikely,’ Postmedia has learned,” Kuzma and Johnston wrote. “You can either call it due diligence or increasing the value of their top commodity in a bidding war.”
Jim Rutherford and Patrik Allvin have never shied away from making deals whenever they see fit. With the deadline quickly approaching, Canucks fans should stay on their toes awaiting news of Sherwood’s future.