Vancouver Canucks defenseman Luke Schenn is back in Vancouver with his family, awaiting a trade.
The popular, reliable, physical depth defender will be dealt, most likely in short order, and probably for something more significant than a mid-round pick.
Although the particulars of Schenn’s situation are complicated given that Schenn’s wife Jeska is due to give birth to the couple’s second child on trade deadline day itself, selling a veteran player on an expiring deal at the trade deadline is ordinary course stuff for a team near the bottom of the NHL standings. The stakes of this forthcoming deal feel anything but ordinary for the Canucks though.
That’s largely because Schenn represents the last traditional bullet in the Canucks’ chamber of assets in the leadup to the 2023 NHL trade deadline.
You can forget the J.T. Miller speculation, that’s almost certainly fantasy hockey stuff.
You might as well give up on the notion of the club moving on from Tyler Myers in the next eight days.
And don’t get too excited about the club’s efforts to move Brock Boeser in-season, although it’s clear that they’re trying.
Brock Boeser is on the trade block and the Burnsville, Minn., native would love to return home and play for the Wild.
Agent Ben Hankinson, with permission from…
