That's good for Vancouver, not sure about Minny.
But further complicates Vancity moving out salary.

Clearly you have no idea how good Middleton is!

I mean Minnesota isn't trading a cheap top 4 d for a 3rd round pick. He's not available either

To clarify with what others have wrote, MIN declines because we traded our bridge goalie (Kahkonen) + a '22 5th for him -- which was an overpayment at the time (circa 2022 TDL) -- because that's how badly we needed size in our D core. To this day, he's our only defensemen with size. He's also our only physical defensemen that can play top 4 minutes (after losing Dumba). So in all, he's not available because he addresses a need of ours and cannot be replaced by anyone currently on our roster/system.