If Vancouver Canuck Brock Boeser does get dealt before Friday’s NHL trade deadline, watch carefully what happens with Mikko Rantanen. The Carolina Hurricanes traded for Rantanen in late January, fully intending to sign him.

Sellers around the NHL from Philadelphia to San Jose, Mikko Rantanen and the defending Stanley Cup champion Florida Panthers were winners at the trade deadline.

The Vancouver Canucks were unable to get a trade done on Friday involving forward Brock Boeser and now thanks to Sportsnet's Elliotte Friedman, we know why.

The NHL trade deadline has come and gone, and several bombs were dropped on the hockey world with big moves being made by teams. But for the second year in a row, the Vancouver Canucks were relatively quiet on trade deadline day and did not make any big moves other than trading Carson Soucy.

Everything has gone wrong this season for the Vancouver Canucks. Elias Pettersson and JT Miller’s locker-room rift forced the latter’s trade back to the New York Rangers. Thatcher Demko is hurt again,