Canucks deal Curtis Lazar to Devils for 2024 4th-round pick

The Vancouver Canucks dealt forward Curtis Lazar to the New Jersey Devils for a fourth-round pick at the 2024 draft on Friday.

Lazar had three goals and two assists in 45 games with the Canucks in 2022-23.

Selected by the Senators with the 17th overall pick in 2013, Lazar has registered 38 goals and 95 points in 449 regular-season games with Ottawa, Calgary, Buffalo, Boston and Vancouver.

He's added a goal and an assist in 24 playoff appearances.

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The Canucks signed the unrestricted free agent from Salmon Arm, B.C., to a three-year contract with an average annual value of $1 million US in July.

"[Lazar] brought a lot of great energy and a positive attitude to the rink every day," Canucks general manager Patrik Allvin said in a release. "We wish him the best of luck in New Jersey."

San Jose Sharks veteran centre Nick Bonino is on his way back to the Pittsburgh Penguins, according to multiple reports ahead of Friday's NHL trade deadline.

Per reports, Pittsburgh sent fifth- and seventh-round picks in the 2023 NHL Draft to San Jose in exchange for the 34-year-old native of Hartford, Conn. The Sharks flipped the fifth-round pick to a third team to broker the deal.

Selected by the Sharks in the sixth round of the 2007 NHL Draft, Bonino was traded to the Anaheim Ducks, with whom he played five seasons.

Bonino returned to the Sharks as a free agent in 2021 with a two-year, $4.1 million deal. He has 10 goals and nine assists in 59 games this season.

He has 353 points (158 goals, 195