Benning: Edler declined to waive no-trade. MORE:
The Vancouver Canucks got calls about defenceman Alex Edler leading up to the trade deadline, general manager Jim Benning said Monday. The 32-year-old will be an unrestricted free agent on July 1.
"If he would have wanted to waive his no-trade to go to one of those teams, we would have tried to figure out a deal for him. That, obviously, didn't happen," he said."Alex has been a great player for us for a long time," he said."We'd like to continue for him to be part of our team, part of our group. And we're going to keep working towards trying to figure something out there.
The draft is set to be held in Vancouver in June and the team doesn't want to trade away future potential for short-term fixes.
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