Last night the Vancouver Canucks and the Calgary Flames agreed on a blockbuster dead that sent Elias Lindholm to to the Canucks in exchange for Andrei Kuzmenko, a prospect and draft picks, but it fell apart at the last minute.
According to Rick Dhaliwal and NHL trade alerts, Flames defender Chris Tanev was almost included in the deal , but the Canucks didn't want to give up an additional first round pick.
With this trade, the Canucks have signalled that they're going all in to make a run this year, while an additional first round pick going to Calgary would've been a lot, if they were truly going all in and they had an opportunity to acquire Tanev and didn't, that might come back to haunt them.
