Calgary Flames and Vancouver Canucks traded.
Elias Lindholm trades Calgary for Vancouver. AOP / USA TODAY SPORTS
In the ice hockey NHL, a big trade was concluded early Thursday morning Finnish time.
The Calgary Flames sold their center Elias Lindholm to the Vancouver Canucks. Vancouver gave a Russian striker in return Andrei Kuzmenko and the Finnish promise Joni Jurmon and American by Hunter Brzustewicz player rights.
In addition, the Flames will get a first-round booking turn in the trade for the booking event to be held next summer. Calgary also received a conditional fourth-round draft pick for the same occasion.
Swedish center Lindholm, 29, has scored 9+23=32 power points in 49 regular season games this season. In his most effective season, he scored more than 80 points, while in the second season he scored 42+40=82 in 82 regular season games. He scored more than 60 points last season as well.
The Carolina Hurricanes booked Lindholm in the fifth round of the reserve in the summer of 2013. The Gävle GIK graduate will debut in the NHL right away in the upcoming 2013-2014 season.
Lindholm played for the Hurricanes for five seasons before being sold to Calgary in a big trade in the summer of 2018. In the same deal, the defender moved to the Flames by Noah Hanif. Dougie Hamilton and the player rights went in the other direction to Adam Foxwho are currently among the NHL’s star defensemen.
Lindholm’s contract expires next summer. His salary per season is $4.8 million.
Another big name in the trade is Kuzmenko, 27. The forward, who is playing in his second season in the NHL, made an impression in his rookie season when he scored 39+35=74 power points in 81 regular season games last season. Before his NHL career, Kuzmenko played several seasons in the KHL and represented Moscow TsSKA and St. Petersburg SKA there.
Kuzmenko’s contract expires in the summer of 2025. He will earn $5.5 million this season.
The Flames and Canucks already made a trade earlier this season when Calgary sent Russian defenseman Nikita Zadorov to Vancouver.
The rights to the Finnish promise changed hands
Joni Jurmo started this season in Ilves. Mikko Lieri / All Over Press
In connection with the deal, a familiar Finnish name appeared, as the player rights of Joni Jurmo, 21, who plays in the SM league, will be owned by the Flames from now on.
The Canucks booked Jurmo in the third round of the summer 2020 booking event. Jurmo, operating as a defender, moved to Ilves in Tampere for this season, but after the role was reduced, he moved to Kouvola’s KooKoo in a trade.
Jurmo has played 35 regular season matches this season with 1+3. Jurmo started his SM league career at JYP in Jyväskylä in the 2021–2021 season. He left the Jyväskylä team after that season and moved to Mikkeli and Jukurien’s shirt for the last season.
Jurmo is a familiar sight from the Finnish junior national teams and won World Cup silver with the Young Lions in August 2021.