{"id":337970,"date":"2026-05-20T21:25:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T15:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=337970"},"modified":"2026-05-20T21:25:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T15:55:07","slug":"nhl-rumors-columbus-blue-jackets-and-the-vancouver-canucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/nhl-rumors-columbus-blue-jackets-and-the-vancouver-canucks\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Rumors: Columbus Blue Jackets, and the Vancouver Canucks"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Three Columbus Blue Jackets pending UFAs could head to market<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Mark Scheig<\/strong><\/a>: It could be looking just like the Columbus Blue Jackets\u2019 pending UFA forwards Boone Jenner<\/a> and Mason Marchment<\/a>, and defenseman Erik Gudbranson<\/a> go to free agency on July 1st.<\/p>\n

Blue Jackets GM Don Waddell is on the World Championships, but he did say that talks with their free agents will pick up sooner or later, they usually could re-sign a number of of them. But after the re-signing of Charlie Coyle<\/a>, the probabilities of Jenner, Marchment, and Gudbranson going to free agency are greater.<\/p>\n

Will Manny Malhotra be the subsequent head coach of the Vancouver Canucks, and will they draft his son at No. 3?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Sportsnet<\/strong><\/a>: Elliotte Friedman, on if Manny Malhotra will likely be the subsequent head coach of the Vancouver Canucks, and the way would that impact their potential first-round pick, as Malhotra\u2019s son Caleb could possibly be on their radar with the No. 3 pick?<\/p>\n

** NHLRumors.com transcription<\/em><\/p>\n

Friedman: \u201cThey move pretty quickly on (Adam) Foote. You recognize, one in every of the challenges about attending to know the Canuckss for office now could be, there\u2019s not a variety of resume to have a look at and say, \u2018That is how they act,\u2019 but their first decision is pretty fast. They might make this decision fast, too.<\/p>\n

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I mean, like, to me, we talked concerning the familiarity. There\u2019s no person they know higher. If he\u2019s ready to educate within the NHL, then no person knows it greater than the three of those guys.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll inform you something else too. The opposite answer to me that I assumed today was really telling was they were asked about Caleb Malhotra. And , I\u2019ll say this: there are teams on the market who think that he\u2019s a really serious candidate to be drafted by Vancouver. That this isn\u2019t, , just lip service. Like they consider it\u2019s real that if he\u2019s there, he\u2019s, he\u2019s, he legitimately could possibly be drafted by the Canucks.<\/p>\n

And when Ryan Johnson<\/a> was asked about it, and it was a very good query, he didn\u2019t say, \u2018 we\u2019ve got to check with Manny about it and see how he feels.\u2019 He said, \u2018I\u2019m not nervous about that.\u2019 I assumed that was an interesting answer.<\/p>\n

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