Blue Jackets give Canucks 2017 2nd-round pick as Tortorella compensation

The Columbus Blue Jackets and Vancouver Canucks have tied up a loose end.

Columbus will send this year's second-round pick - No. 55 overall - to Vancouver as compensation for hiring Tortorella in October 2015, the Blue Jackets announced Wednesday.

The Blue Jackets had to cough up either this year's pick or a second-rounder in 2018 as a condition for hiring the former Canucks bench boss.

The practice of offering compensatory picks for coaches and executives from other teams was eliminated Jan. 1, 2016.