Quick rehash, Jason Dickinson cost the Canucks a 2024 2nd to dump while returning Riley Stillman. God bless Riley Stillman and how the org tried to hype him up as a guy with some upside, but he was ultimately a depth guy pressed into 3rd pair duties. This trade freed up $1.3M for the Canucks immediately in the 2022-23 season, while allowing his full $2.65M to be used the following season.

With this Mikheyev deal tonight, it cost the Canucks a 2027 2nd Rounder to clear out $4,037,500 of Mikheyev's cap hit for both the 2024-25 and 2025-26 season to be reallocated. As well, depending on where you anticipate the Canucks and Hawks to end up in the standings, best case scenario of the Canucks being good plus the Hawks still being bad means this is roughly a drop of 40 Draft picks from the Canucks original draft position.

I'm not trying to argue a point here but mainly to illustrate how far we've come in 2 seasons time. When we got rid of Dickinson, it gave the Canucks the opportunity to run a roster that would have exactly cost the maximum salary cap hit of $82.5M that season. Getting rid of Mikheyev tonight lets the Canucks use that money as they want on somebody else to improve their team.