McKenzie doesn't see Canucks trading for Vermette
/Bob McKenzie was on Vancouver’s TSN 1040 on Tuesday morning.
On if he sees the possibility the Canucks and Coyotes can find common ground on a trade:
“The deals right now that Don Maloney is trying to do – the ones that are kind of front-burner for him – are his rentals. Antoine Vermette and Zbynek Michalek. Sure, would one or both of those guys look good in Vancouver? Of course they would.
“But the price on Vermette, for example, is going to be a first round pick. Maybe as high as a first round pick and a young prospect. The Canucks are not going to do that. I just can’t see it.
“And not knowing what the cap is going to be next year, not knowing whether you sign a guy. Some of the teams that are in the running for Vermette think they’ve got a pretty good shot of getting him signed to a long-term deal and take him out of free agency. And if that’s the case and if you think you’ve got a reasonable shot of getting a guy for the next four or five years at a number you can live with, and works for you, then you can rationalize giving up a second pick or a first pick and a prospect for Vermette.
“But I don’t think a team like the Canucks can get into that at all.”
Source: TSN 1040/ Transcript: Nichols on Hockey
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