After the first game of the season, Travis Green wasn’t afraid to shake up the Vancouver Canucks bottom six and give them a new look. He scratched Loui Eriksson for the second time in Eriksson’s Canucks tenure, and slotted Adam Gaudette into the third line center spot, moving Brandon Sutter to the wing on the Canucks’ shutdown line, alongside Jay Beagle and Tim Schaller.
After a second loss, this time a shutout loss at the hands of the Calgary Flames, it appears as though Green isn’t wasting time in trying to get his top six going, as this team oh so desperately needs them to.