I think Danton Heinen is the sleeper steal of free agency for the Canucks. DeBrusk may play great with Pettersson, but Heinen is an 18 goal scorer basically as a 3rd line forward. I know everyone wants to see Joshua back with Blueger and Garland, but Heinen could wrestle a winger spot on the 3rd line. Or he could end up on the 2nd line with Pettersson and bump Suter down from line 1. Suddenly there are some pretty interesting versatile winger options for the Canucks. They may not all land, but the likelihood they will is pretty good. I don't know if you want to mess with the Joshua 3rd line, at least initially, and Heinen is not a 4th line player. Not with 18 goals. If you can make Heinen-Pettersson-DeBrusk work, that could be a really effective line. Both wingers can skate and are hard working players who will battle for pucks.

Big Z benefitted alot from Foote's tutelage and Tocchet's system. Myers' turn around could also be attributed to this. I think we'll see Desharais and Forbert thrive as well.

If I’m making the forward lines today- Debrusk Petterson Hoglander Boeser Miller Heinen Joshua Bluegar Garland Sherwood Suter Di Giuseppe

Harm is pretty good... you guys are ok, too haha 😂

Love the Sherwood pickup cant wait to watch him pound the teams dmen LFG

You guys are gonna love desharnais

The point about now wanting Heinen in your top 6 is wild. Even Rodriguez played top 6 minutes with the panthers and got 39 points. Heinen played middle 6 minutes with drastically worse centre men than Florida and put up 36 points and more goals. A case could be made that he is possible top 6 rotation material

Who will dish the puck in Nashville? Well i think of Stamkos purely as a shooter, but is he not listed as a center? If he plays just on the right they will need more help.

I am certain that I'm not the only one to notice a trend that the Canuck's 'brass' (ownership & coaching staff) put together what appears to be a solid teams made up of very capable players which often respond well during any given season...followed by off seasons of dismantling what they have built. Rinse and repeat. Wondering what the core players feel about having to build from the foundation every year. I can imagine that it puts a lot of pressure on them to constantly establish 'chemistry' with new players over and over again...sometimes many times within one season. JV.

" If we can't get Guetzel, we can replace him in the aggregate. "

It just floors me that the brass lets Z walk. This type of D men are hard to come by, and he marked all the boxes and fit rite in the Canucks dressing room and deserved to get paid.

Heinen will push 25g on the Miller line. Debrusk will push 30g with Pettersson. I expect Sherwood to contribute at least 10 playing alongside Suter. Neither Guentzel or a combo of Lindholm/Mikheyev/Lafferty wouldn't have been able to match that.

Need a strong on the draw right handed center man

These are building blocks, good selection

Guentzel at $9mil/season means we lose Brock, and we sign 6 fringe guys at $1mil/season for 1yr and hope they all over-deliver, or slot them much higher in the lineup which is always a bad idea...

Dishin- magician 😂

I honestly didn't like what Nashville did. They will be competitive for a few years but that team will fall off quickly.

Cant count on Soucy being the 3rd line puck mover till he shows he can stay healthy more than 50% of the season for the Canucks.Split the top line and you are still short one.

They are in ltir, Solovs puts them over.

Frankie clearly knows nothing about Kiefer Sherwood