Calder Cup champion suddenly traded while on a PTO with the Vancouver Canucks organization

After winning their first Calder Cup championship in franchise history last June, the Abbotsford Canucks roster saw plenty of change, as is the case with any winning team, no matter the level.

The most notably departure most notable departure from the Abbotsford Canucks last summer was goaltender Arturs Silovs, who was traded to the Pittsburgh Penguins where he's playing fairly well so far this season, with 2.89 goals against average and one shutout in 26 games.

Along with Silovs' departure, there were a handful of others who decided to sign elsewhere over the summer, whether it be in Europe, another AHL club or in the ECHL and last month, one of those players returned to the Vancouver Canucks organization after agreeing to terms with Abbotsford on a professional tryout.

In the offseason, defenseman Christian Felton decided it was time to move on from the Vancouver Canucks organization after one season, and would go on to sign a contract with the ECHL's Utah Grizzlies for the 2025-26 campaign.

After 30 games with the Grizzlies, where he had nine points (three goals, six assists), 15 penalty minutes and was a minus-one, Felton was brought back to Abbotsford on a PTO and it looks like that could be coming to an end in the near future.

In Monday's ECHL transactions log, it was it was announced that the Utah Grizzlies have traded Christian Felton to the Cincinnati Cyclones in exchange for defenseman Andrew Noel.

Felton, a native of Medina, Ohio, was signed by the Vancouver Canucks as a free agent in March of 2024 after four seasons in the NCAA, one with Bentley University and the other three with Merrimack College.

There hasn't been any official announcement from the Abbotsford Canucks as to whether or not Felton will be released from his PTO or when he will report and make his debut with the Cincinnati Cyclones, but given that the latter traded for him, it would make sense that they'd want to onboard him at some point in the near future.

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