VANCOUVER — Tonight against the Ottawa Senators, Markus Granlund becomes the 36th player to dress for the Vancouver Canucks this season and the 18th to make his Canuck debut. And all anyone is talking about are the players who might leave Vancouver before the National Hockey League trading deadline passes on Monday.
Besides looming unrestricted free agents Dan Hamhuis and Radim Vrbata, who are expected to be traded, the names of seven other Canucks — Adam Cracknell, Linden Vey, Matt Bartkowski, Yannick Weber, Chris Higgins, Brandon Prust and Ronalds Kenins — were leaked Wednesday from an apparent selling list sent to other teams by Vancouver management.