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The Vancouver Canucks Could Use Milan Lucic

06/25/2015 at 9:07am EDT

from Steve Ewen of the Vancouver Province,

Milan Lucic could use a new hockey home. The Vancouver Canucks need an influx of presence and chutzpah.

There’s a certain symmetry there, isn’t there?

But for the Canucks to add Lucic, the East Vancouver kid who starred in junior with Vancouver Giants, via a trade with the Boston Bruins would take major dominoes falling. It would take multiple deals of substance from general manager Jim Benning.

The Canucks are butted up against the salary cap currently, with $5.03 million to spend on five players, according to the website generalfanager.com. The Bruins, with $7.28 million to spend on seven players, according to the same site, aren’t in a position to take on extra salary in a swap, either.

Lucic, 27, has a cap hit of $6 million for the coming campaign, is one season away from unrestricted free agency, and, by his standards, had a so-so 2014-15, featuring 18 goals in the regular season. That all ties into the talk that Boston will move the 6-foot-3, 235-pound left-winger.

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