Evander Kane Traded to Canucks from Oilers After Run to 2025 Stanley Cup Final

Evander Kane is heading to his hometown Vancouver Canucks after four years with the Edmonton Oilers.

Kane announced the trade with a Wednesday morning social media post, in which he wrote it was "an honor to become part of an organization and team I grew up watching as a kid."

Kane, who will turn 34 in August, has one year and $5.125 million remaining on his contract.

The Canucks are taking on the entirety of that remaining salary, according to TSN's Pierre LeBrun. The Oilers received a fourth-round pick in exchange for Kane.

After missing the regular season due to injury, Kane scored six goals in 21 playoff games during Edmonton's run to a second straight Stanley Cup Final.

Kane played through a sports hernia for almost the entirety of 2023-24, which resulted in him undergoing surgery on two torn hip adductor muscles, two hernias and two torn lower abdominal muscles in September, per NHL.com's Derek Van Diest.

He later told EdmontonOilers.com's Cam Tait that those issues had limited him throughout his most recent regular season, during which he posted 24 goals and 20 assists for 44 points in 77 games.

Kane's recovery continued as he underwent arthroscopic knee surgery in January. The Oilers announced in early March that Kane would remain on long-term injured reserve for the remainder of the season, a move which the Daily Faceoff's Frank Seravalli recently reported is being investigated by the NHL.

The forward made his season debut on April 23, when he skated for just under 15 minutes during Game 2 of the Oilers' first-round series against the Los Angeles Kings.

He spent the postseason mostly skating on Adam Henrique's wing on the third line, which put up a strong performance during the Oilers' five-game second-round series against the Vegas Golden Knights.

Kane's playoffs were highlighted by both his playmaking—he recorded three assists in the Oilers' blowout Game 3 win over the Dallas Stars in the Western Conference Finals—and his penalties. He was ejected from two separate games of the Final for game misconduct penalties against the Florida Panthers.

Kane, who was drafted by the Atlanta Thrashers in 2009 and remained with the franchise after it moved to Winnipeg in 2011, played for the Buffalo Sabres and San Jose Sharks before joining the Oilers ahead of the 2021-22 campaign.

The Canucks, who missed the playoffs last season amid discord that reportedly plagued the locker room throughout the 2024-25 campaign, will hope Kane can both gel with his new teammates and remain healthy in order to help the team bounce back next fall.