LATEST | Trade Proposal sending Conor Garland to the Bruins emerges: Too good to be true?

Garland has been linked to many teams since his agent was granted the right to facilitate trade; while the Bruins haven't been one of them, the journalists out of Boston have started speculating on what a possible offer for the winger could look like, which could be exciting.

- Matt Grzelcyk
- Fabian Lysell
- 2025 3rd Round Draft Selection

- Conor Garland (30% Salary Retention)
- 2024 3rd Round Draft Selection

Retaining the salary on Conor Garland's contract isn't ideal, but at the point we're at with the tight cap and everything, there's no way a deal of this sort happens without it.

In this offer, the Canucks would be retaining $1.485M of Garland's cap hit for the remaining three years; they'd also be adding Matt Grzelcyk, who has a $3.6875M cap hit until the end of the season. The Canucks would only be freeing up cap space at the end of the season, but they acquired a top-end asset in Fabian Lysell was the 21st overall pick in the 2021 draft. A winger with intriguing potential, he collected 37 points in 54 games in his first AHL season; he's well-known to the Vancouver fanbase for his time with the Giants in the WHL. He had then managed 62 points in 53 games as an 18-year-old.

The Canucks have repeatedly stated that they intended on clearing at the very least $1.5M on the cap; with this deal, they'd recover a whole $3.5M for the next two years and paid a 1st Round Caliber prospect to do so.

It is expected that more talks will come out of this; the latest reports suggest that we're nearing an end to that saga. Mikheyev's injury status may be what the Canucks are waiting for to move their number 8.