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Elias Lindholm was traded to the Vancouver Canucks by the Calgary Flames for Andrei Kuzmenko on Wednesday.
Calgary also received Vancouver’s first-round pick and a conditional fourth-round pick in the 2024 NHL Draft, and defense prospects Hunter Brzustewicz and Joni Jurmo.
Lindholm scored 32 points (nine goals, 23 assists) in 49 games for the Flames this season, his sixth with Calgary. He will become Vancouver’s sixth player in the 2024 Honda (U.S.)/Rogers (Canada) NHL All-Star Game in Toronto on Saturday (3 p.m. ET; ABC, ESPN+, SN, CBC, TVAS), joining to forwards Brock Boeser. JT Miller and Elias Pettersson, defenseman Quinn Hughes and goalkeeper Thatcher Demko. It will be Lindholm’s first All-Star Game.
The 29-year-old center has 545 points (212 goals, 333 assists) in 792 regular-season games with the Flames and Carolina Hurricanes, and 17 points (eight goals, nine assists) in 27 Stanley Cup playoff games.
Lindholm, who can become an unrestricted free agent after this season, was selected by the Hurricanes with the No. 5 pick in the 2013 NHL Draft.
“Obviously I’ve been communicating with teams all year, but probably after Saturday morning I talked to Patrik and they made me an offer,” Calgary general manager Craig Conroy told NHL.com. “I think I talked to a lot of teams.” and it was more: ‘What are you looking for?’ and ‘What are you thinking about?’ conversations They threw me a real offer and I went back to all the other teams just to work and see where we were.
“(We) went back to Vancouver, added things. We went back and forth in the negotiation process, trying to reach further to see what agreement worked for both sides. Today we have probably reached the end. “I went back to talk to all the other teams and they put forward their best offers, and this deal made the most sense to me.”