Vancouver Canucks forward David Booth may not be "very likely" to be the target of a compliance buyout this June, but he's certainly a high-profile fringe candidate.

Booth managed nine goals and 19 points this past season, but suffered through a 32-game goalless streak, battled injury, and was occasionally a healthy scratch. That's been par for the course for the underachieving power-forward, who has struggled mightily to fill the net and stay healthy during his three seasons in Vancouver.

Booth has one-year and $4.25 million remaining on his contract, so he doesn't exactly pose a long-term threat to Vancouver's salary cap situation. Still, it wouldn't be a huge surprise if the team elected to terminate his contract and remove the cap-hit from their books later this month.

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On Monday, as the buyout period opened, there was nothing doing on the Booth buyout front. The American-born forward was not placed on $125 dollar unconditional waivers, and his camp has heard nothing about a prospective buyout yet.

"I haven’t heard anything from Vancouver (today)," Booth's agent and former NHL goaltender Mike Liut told the Vancouver Province's Jim Jamieson on Monday. "I called [Canucks GM Jim Benning] a couple of weeks ago and spoke with him about David then. That was before before the club’s meetings and he was still getting up to speed on things. I asked him to give me a heads-up if they came to a decision."

NHL teams have until June 30, which is after the 2014 NHL entry draft, to exercise an ordinary course or compliance buyout on a standard player contract.

For the Canucks, a team that still has a big name player to trade this offseason in Ryan Kesler and waited until the last minute to buyout Keith Ballard a year ago (even desperately placing the underachieving defender on normal waivers before succumbing to the inevitable), it would make sense that a potential Booth buyout would be delayed until later in the month.