{"id":16070,"date":"2025-06-26T10:46:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T10:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/16070\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T10:46:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T10:46:11","slug":"pacific-notes-kane-demko-turcotte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/16070\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacific Notes: Kane, Demko, Turcotte"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.prohockeyrumors.com\/2025\/06\/oilers-canucks-working-on-evander-kane-trade.html\" rel=\"noopener\">recently traded<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/k\/kaneev01.html\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Evander Kane<\/strong><\/a> has just one year remaining on his four-year, $20.5MM contract, the Canucks are eyeing him as a potential long-term asset beyond this season.<\/p>\n<p>Per <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ThomasDrance\/status\/1937964901127098582\">Thomas Drance of The Athletic<\/a>, GM Patrik Allvin stated that in his estimation, Kane has matured over the past few years in Edmonton and is a candidate for a long-term deal in Vancouver. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/canucks\/news\/patrik-allvin-discusses-evander-kane-trade-abbotsford-canucks-calder-cup-win-and-his-team-s-first-round-pick-in-upcoming-nhl-entry-draft\" rel=\"noopener\">NHL.com\u2019s Chris Faber<\/a> adds that Allvin believes Kane\u2019s physical presence will make the Canucks hard to play against.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery team is looking to be harder to play against and for us, with the group we have here, when a player like this comes available [at this] cost, we felt we have a chance to upgrade our top-nine [and] middle-six, and become a harder team to play against,\u201d said Allvin.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old winger put up 24 goals, 44 points, and a staggering 250 hits in 77 games for the Oilers last season. He currently ranks 20th all-time with 2,216 career hits.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in the Pacific:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Canucks are interested in extending goalie <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/d\/demkoth01.html\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Thatcher Demko<\/strong><\/a>, and TSN\u2019s Darren Dreger said on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/radio\/toronto-1050\/overdrive-june-25-2025-hour-2-1.2326849\" rel=\"noopener\">Toronto 1050\u2019s Overdrive<\/a> that he believes an extension is more likely than a trade at this point. While Demko is coming off his worst NHL season (due in large part to injuries), posting an .889 save percentage in 23 games, he carries a career .910 save percentage and is still on the right side of 30. Demko has one year remaining on his $5MM AAV deal and is set for unrestricted free agency next year. While the Canucks extended goalie <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/l\/lankike01.html\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Kevin Lankinen<\/strong><\/a> to a five year, $22.5MM deal, Dreger believes the team is still interested in getting a deal done with Demko. \u201cIt made sense until recently that they would have to consider trading Demko. But I was told by a couple teams today that Demko is more or less off the market,\u201d he said. While Dreger said he wouldn\u2019t call a deal close or imminent, he does feel both sides are getting closer on a multi-year extension.<\/li>\n<li>Multiple teams are interested in trading for Los Angeles Kings\u2019 forward <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/t\/turcoal02.html\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Alex Turcotte<\/strong><\/a>, per <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mayorNHL\/status\/1937911189935427799\">Mayors Manor<\/a>. While speculation has been ramping up surrounding defender <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/spencjo01.html\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Jordan Spence<\/strong><\/a> and forward <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/mooretr01.html\" rel=\"noopener\">Trevor Moore<\/a><\/strong>, Turcotte is an interesting name to monitor. While Turcotte, a former first-round pick, has underperformed so far in his career, he\u2019s coming off a career-high 68 games played and 25 points, and he\u2019s still just 24. The fifth-overall selection in the 2019 draft could benefit from a change of scenery.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Although recently traded Evander Kane has just one year remaining on his four-year, $20.5MM contract, the Canucks are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[4245,15982,14380,2081,293,62,15983,67,132,68,3114],"class_list":{"0":"post-16070","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-2025-free-agency","9":"tag-alex-turcotte","10":"tag-evander-kane","11":"tag-los-angeles-kings","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-thatcher-demko","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-vancouver-canucks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114749268735089775","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}