Canucks ink defenceman Jalen Chatfield to new deal

The Canucks look to have locked up their defence corps for 2019-20, though they do still have some space to sign another. The Vancouver Canucks now have just one unsigned restricted free agent on the books as the team announced Wednesday it had re-signed defenceman Jalen Chatfield to a one-year contract. Chatfield, who has yet to make his NHL debut despite spending much of the 2019-20 season as the team’s seventh defenceman, will carry a cap hit of $700,000 if he’s on the Canucks’ roster in 2020-21. He won’t make that salary, of course, since the collective bargaining agreement between the league and the players’ association, agreed to this summer, defers 10 per cent of his salary and then places a further 20 per cent of his reduced salary into escrow.

He’s in the mix with Jordie Benn, Olli Juolevi, Jack Rathbone and Brogan Rafferty to win playing time on the Canucks’ third pair.

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