SUNRISE, Fla. — Jacob Markstrom was once considered a better goalie than Eddie Lack. The Vancouver Canucks are gambling mightily that he will be again.
The National Hockey League team traded their backup Lack, one of the franchise’s most popular players, to the Carolina Hurricanes this morning for a third-round pick in today’s entry draft and a seventh-rounder next year.
The Canucks used their new pick to fill a gap in their draft batting order and chose Quebec League defenceman Guillaume Brisebois.
Canuck general manager Jim Benning took the modest return for Lack over whatever he could have gotten for Markstrom, who after an outstanding season in the American League will get another chance at NHL duty next season as Ryan Miller’s backup in Vancouver.