{"id":109763,"date":"2026-06-30T06:37:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T06:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/109763\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T06:37:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T06:37:11","slug":"nashville-predators-acquire-nils-hoglander-from-vancouver-canucks-for-2029-third-round-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/109763\/","title":{"rendered":"Nashville Predators acquire Nils Hoglander from Vancouver Canucks for 2029 third-round pick"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Nashville Predators<\/a> acquired forward Nils H\u00f6glander from the Vancouver Canucks<\/a> on Monday in exchange for a third-round pick in the 2029 NHL Entry Draft.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe would like to thank Nils for his time in Vancouver, and we wish him the best with his new team Nashville,\u201d said Canucks general manager Ryan Johnson<\/a>. \u201cPicking up another draft pick is important for us as we continue to try and accumulate assets for our rebuild.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hoglander is set to enter the second season of a three-year, $9 million contract. <\/p>\n

The 25-year-old Hoglander struggled this past season for the last-place Canucks, recording two goals and three assists over 38 games, missing over half of the season with numerous injuries. <\/p>\n

Vancouver is in an transitional phase after earning just 25 wins this past season, finishing last in the NHL by a wide margin. <\/p>\n

The Canucks have since replaced general manager Patrik Allvin with Johnson and added franchise legends Daniel and Henrik Sedin as the team\u2019s co-presidents of hockey operations. <\/p>\n

After just a single season on the job, head coach Adam Foote was also fired and replaced by Manny Malhotra.<\/p>\n

Hoglander was selected by the Canucks in the second round of the 2019 NHL Draft and put together a promising rookie season in 2020-21 with 13 goals and 14 assists over 56 games.<\/p>\n

The native of Bocktrask, Sweden scored a career-high 24 goals in 2023-24, but hasn\u2019t reached the same form since, finishing his Canucks career with 60 goals and 60 assists over 331 games. <\/p>\n

He appeared in 11 playoff games during his time in Vancouver, all in the spring of 2024, record one goal and one assist. <\/p>\n

Nashville finished sixth in the Central Division with 38 wins in 2025-26, missing the playoffs for the second straight year. <\/p>\n

Canucks Add Gallagher <\/p>\n

The Montreal Canadiens<\/a> have traded forward Brendan Gallagher<\/a> to the Canucks.<\/p>\n

The Canadiens will retain 50 per cent of Gallagher\u2019s $6.5 million cap hit in the final season of his deal, according to TSN Hockey Insider Chris Johnston.<\/p>\n

Gallagher, 34, was the longest serving Canadien after spending his entire 14-season career in Montreal and was a fan favourite for his grit and heart he displayed on the ice.<\/p>\n

The 5-foot-9 winger recorded seven goals and 23 points in 77 games this season. He added a goal in three playoff games before the Canadiens were eliminated in the Eastern Conference Final.<\/p>\n

He saw a career low in ice time this season at 12:21 and for the first time since January of 2013 as a rookie, he was made a healthy scratch on March 14.<\/p>\n

Gallagher is entering the final season of his six-year, $39 million contract that carries a cap hit of $6.5 million.<\/p>\n

Drafted 147th overall by the Canadiens in the 2010 draft, Gallagher has 246 goals and 487 points in 911 career games.<\/p>\n

Gallagher scored 30 or more goals twice in his career and put up a career-high 54 points during the 2017-18 season.<\/p>\n

He helped lead the Canadiens to the Stanley Cup Final in 2021 and pushed his team to the Eastern Conference Final twice in 2014 and 2026.<\/p>\n

The Edmonton native represented Canada at the 2016 World Hockey Championship, winning gold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Nashville Predators acquired forward Nils H\u00f6glander from the Vancouver Canucks on Monday in exchange for a third-round…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[147,38532,38531,95,1311],"class_list":["post-109763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-apple-news","tag-nashville-predators-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-18","tag-nils-hoglander-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8481535","tag-vancouver","tag-vancouver-canucks-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-23"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}