Canucks: Arturs Silovs' future is cloudier than ever
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How strong his radar signal is a tough question. In the playoffs the past two years, both NHL and AHL, plus his brilliant performance for Latvia at the 2023 World Championships, he has shown himself to be a big-game performer. He still has issues in his game, such as tracking long shots, so there are doubts about how much more he can be.
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And in Vancouver, he's clearly back to being No. 3 again, now that Demko has signed a contract extension. The plan in goal, for the near future anyway, is to have Demko and Lankinen sharing the Canucks' crease, leaving Silovs sitting behind a logjam.
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In a sport where shooters are ascendant, there are a great many goalies who have shown themselves to be good, but not great. Given how he struggled in the 2024-25 regular season, whatever enthusiasm he has re-energized around himself will still be somewhat muted.
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Goalies with a longer NHL CV than his, like Vitek Vanacek or Kaapo Kähkönen, draw only mid-round draft picks in trade — or like Kähkönen simply move on waivers — so Silovs' trade value likely isn't huge.
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Whatever value in trade Silovs might have will be at its maximum coming out of training camp. Another team may have a need for a goalie because of an injury and won't want to wait to see what other goalies might be exposed on waivers. Don't forget that last year's initial No. 3 goalie in Vancouver, Jiri Patera, was claimed by the Boston Bruins on Oct. 2 but was then reclaimed on waivers by the Canucks five days later. Injury limited Patera to just seven games with Abbotsford last season.
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He wasn't the only goalie claimed on waivers last season. James Reimer and Kähkönen both found new teams through waivers. Both, though, had longer NHL track records than Silovs.
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