NHL Trade Rumors have been floating around for weeks that the Vancouver Cancuks will trade J.T. Miller. It is now looking like the Canucks would rather keep Miller and make a Brock Boeser trade.
Frank Seravalli of The Daily Faceoff reports trade chatter has grown around Boeser being traded to create some salary cap flexibility.
Seravalli went on to say, there is a sense the Canucks are not sold Boeser’s play will be commensurate with the large qualifying offer due to him this summer, which makes him a prime candidate to be traded.
Boeser is due for a $7.5 million qualifying offer on his next contract.
Seravalli see’s the New Jersey Devils being a team interested in a Boeser trade.
Boeser is effectively a rental now. Only an idiot would give him his 7.5M qualifying offer so he’ll wind up being a UFA this summer rather than an RFA.
As a rental he’d fetch a late first and probably a little something extra from a contender if the Canucks retain salary and/or take an expiring big contract back. Without retention or a contract going back, contenders can’t afford his contract and non contenders won’t be at all interested in that 7.5M QO due this summer.
Totally agree.