Oilers trade Evander Kane to hometown Canucks

The Edmonton Oilers person traded winger Evander Kane to the Vancouver Canucks, clearing invaluable headdress abstraction up of NHL escaped bureau adjacent month.

Kane, 33, has 1 much twelvemonth connected his 4-year declaration that carries a $5.125 cardinal headdress hit, and Vancouver is picking up his afloat salary. The Canucks traded Ottawa's 4th-round prime successful 2025 to the Oilers. That prime was really sent to Vancouver by Edmonton past summertime successful a commercialized for guardant Vasily Podkolzin.

Kane had a modified 16-team no-trade list. He's a Vancouver autochthonal who besides played inferior hockey successful the city.

The seasoned winger missed the full 2024-25 season aft aggregate surgeries, archetypal to his hep and groin areas and past genu country successful January. He returned successful the Stanley Cup Playoffs, scoring 6 goals and 6 assists successful 21 games arsenic the Oilers lost to the Florida Panthers for the 2nd consecutive play successful the Final. His main plus was his physicality, arsenic Kane had 44 punishment minutes to pb Edmonton successful the postseason.

Kane thanked Oilers players, unit and ownership successful a connection connected X "for believing successful maine and giving maine the accidental to beryllium a portion of specified a respected and passionate franchise." He thanked Oilers fans for "embracing maine and showing unwavering enactment passim my clip successful Edmonton." Kane past said that he's "incredibly excited for the adjacent section of my career" with the Canucks.

"It's an grant to go portion of an enactment and squad I grew up watching arsenic a kid. Vancouver is simply a metropolis that lives and breathes hockey, I'm looking guardant to the accidental to play successful beforehand of my hometown arsenic I did galore years agone arsenic a Vancouver Giant," helium wrote.

The Oilers needed to unfastened up wage headdress abstraction to amended their roster, but besides due to the fact that 2 hefty caller contracts volition deed their books adjacent season: Center Leon Draisaitl's headdress deed goes from $8.5 cardinal to $14 cardinal connected a caller contract, and standout defenseman Evan Bouchard volition besides get a rise implicit his $3.9 cardinal AAV arsenic a restricted escaped agent.

The commercialized comes arsenic the NHL is investigating the Oilers for their usage of semipermanent injured reserve connected Kane past season, a root confirmed to ESPN, focusing connected the 2nd country helium had connected his genu successful January. The commercialized is not expected to interaction that investigation.

Daily Faceoff archetypal reported the investigation.

Canucks GM Patrik Allvin said the acquisition of Kane brings toughness to the team.

"Evander is simply a carnal powerfulness guardant who volition adhd immoderate much-needed size and toughness to our group," Allvin said. "We similar the mode helium wins puck battles on the boards and handles himself successful the soiled areas successful beforehand of the net. Evander moves good astir the crystal and has proven to beryllium a productive extremity scorer successful the National Hockey League. We are excited to bring him backmost location to Vancouver and our unit looks guardant to moving with him this coming season."

This volition beryllium Kane's 16th NHL season, having played 930 games with the Atlanta Thrashers, Winnipeg Jets, Buffalo Sabres, San Jose Sharks and Oilers. He has 326 goals and 291 assists for 617 points successful those games, including 1,186 punishment minutes.