What started out as a boring and uneventful day for the Vancouver Canucks and general manager Jim Benning, swiftly turned into emotional roller coaster in the dwindling hours of the NHL trade deadline.
After the absence of netminder, Jacob Markstrom at team practice on Monday morning raised some eyebrows, it was later reported by The Vancouver Province’s Patrick Johnston that the veteran Swede underwent an MRI to identify a knee injury suffered in Saturday’s game against the Boston Bruins.
Benning had to act quickly with the deadline clock ticking and managed to pull off a trade, sending AHL goalie Zane McIntyre to the New Jersey Devils for journeyman goaltender Louis Domingue, providing some much-needed insurance in the crease in the wake of this news.