Trade Rumour: Original six club working the phones with the Vancouver Canucks to acquire Conor Garland

While the club might not be looking to completely tear things down and enter a full-on rebuild anytime soon, but the Vancouver Canucks are beginning to garner interest from teams around the NHL regarding their pending unrestricted free agents and some, not all, of their veteran players.

Earlier this month, insider Rick Dhaliwal reported that teams around the NHL would begin to call the Vancouver Canucks to see what it would costto trade for Conor Garland & Kiefer Sherwood if the team continued to nosedive in the standings.

Well, a little over three weeks later and it appears that Patrik Allvin is already receiving calls, at least from one Original Six franchise, regarding forward Conor Garland.

In an article for RG.org, James Murphy reported that a source informed him that the Boston Bruins have recently called the Vancouver Canucks to talk trade involving Conor Garland and Kiefer Sherwood as the Atlantic Division club looks for scoring help, despite sitting eighth in the league with 83 goals in 27 games.

Garland, a native of Scituate, Massachusetts, was a member of the Boston Jr. Bruins program growing up and while he probably would like to remain with the Vancouver Canucks, if there's anywhere he'd be willing to go, it'll be his home state.

The 29-year-old is in the final year of his current contract that pays him $4.95 million before his six-year, $36 million ($6 million AAV) extension kicks in ahead of the 2025-26 season, so if Boston wants to bring him onboard, they're going to need to find a way to make the money work, which won't be an easy task given they have just $275,000 in available cap space at the moment.

In 21 games this season, Garland has 15 points (six goals, nine assists), 13 penalty minutes and is a minus-two.