The Vancouver Canucks blue line was a major weakness during their four-year playoff drought, which stretched from 2015-16 to 2018-19, and it prompted the front office to make sweeping in the offseason.
For starters, the team knew they’d have can’t-miss prospect Quinn Hughes anchoring the blue line here in 2019-20. General manager Jim Benning then signed Tyler Myers to a five-year deal worth $30 million, Jordie Benn to a two-year, $4 million pact and Oscar Fantenberg for one year.
Benning also moved on from Derrick Pouliot and Ben Hutton, who departed in free agency after frustrating tenures on the west coast.