The 2023 NHL trade deadline is still over a month away, but the New York Islanders have made quite the splash.
On Monday, the Vancouver Canucks traded forward Bo Horvat to the Islanders in a pretty surprising afternoon deal. The move comes just over a week after the Canucks fired Bruce Boudreau and brought in Rick Tocchet as their new head coach. This teardown of the Canucks has been coming for some time, as Horvat was one of the major pieces on the trade block in Vancouver as the trade deadline approaches.
Let’s break down the NHL’s biggest trade of the 2022-23 season thus far, shall we?