Vancouver Canucks' worst completed trades that did more harm than good

The Vancouver Canucks have made their fair share of bad trades in recent years, but here are some of the worst, according to Tyson Cole of Canucks Army.

As we get closer and closer to the National Hockey League's trade deadline, we're bound to see a deal or two that a team will end up regretting in the years to come.

That may come through a contending team trading a first-round pick to a seller in exchange for a player who will help them during their chase of a Stanley Cup, with that eventual prospect going on to be a star in the league.

Now, that exact scenario doesn't happen too often, but there have been several cases over the years of teams that go on to regret moving a specific asset or they regret bringing in a player because they didn't perform as they expected.

For the Vancouver Canucks, they've made some bad trades over the years and with it being 25 years since the dawn of the millennium, Tyson Cole of Canucks Army decided to share his six worst trades made by the Vancouver Canucks over the last quarter century.

Oliver Ekman-Larsson and Elias Lindholm deals highlighted by Canucks Army

Among the six trades that Tyson Cole examined, there were two more recent ones that those in the fan base still aren't too happy about.

The first one being a July 2021 trade between Vancouver and Arizona that saw the Canucks acquire defenseman Oliver Ekman-Larsson and forward Conor Garland.

Garland has been a useful middle-six forward for the Vancouver Canucks, but it was Oliver Ekman-Larsson who didn't work out, leading to a contract buyout, which the team will be paying until the end of the 2030-31 season.

On top of that, the main piece of the deal going back to Arizona was a 2021 first-round pick, which they used to select forward Dylan Guenther.

Another piece of that trade, a 2022 second-round pick, was flipped to Minnesota the following March in exchange for the signing rights to prospect Jack McBain.

Elias Lindholm deal with the Calgary Flames

The Calgary Flames and Vancouver Canucks became quite familiar with one another on the trade market last season, with Patrik Allvin first bringing in Nikita Zadorov in November 2023.

Then in late January, he added Elias Lindholm from the Flames for a massive haul that saw Calgary acquire Hunter Brzustewicz, Joni Jurmo, Andrei Kuzmenko, a 2024 first-rounder that they used to select Matvei Gridin and a conditional fourth-rounder that they flipped to the Philadelphia Flyers.

Lindholm's time with the Vancouver Canucks wasn't great, especially during the regular season as he had six goal in 26 games, before turning it up a notch in the Stanley Cup Playoffs, registering ten points in 13 contests.

The Boden, Sweden native would go on to leave the Canucks as an unrestricted free agent on July 1 signing a seven-year deal with the Boston Bruins worth $7.75 million annually.

With rumors swirling regarding the possibility of possibility of trading J.T. Miller and/or Elias Pettersson, Vancouver Canucks fans are hoping that Patrik Allvin won't make a deal that'll come back to haunt the franchise.