The Canucks' deadline transactions illustrated the fluidity of team-building and how quickly an NHL organization will move on from players not long ago considered semi-essential. (imacSportsnet)
Elias Pettersson ’s line last fall. Quinn Hughes, the outstanding defensive dynamo from the University of Michigan, could help the Canucks if he makes the jump to the NHL directly from college hockey in March. But Benning admitted Monday the defence requires more than just the arrival of Hughes and another good prospect, Olli Juolevi . “That’s something we’re going to look at in the summertime, to make some improvements on the back end,” he said.
Edler refused, and no one will know if the Canucks would actually have traded their top defenceman before Monday’s deadline. But with holes on the blue line, Benning must now re-sign Edler. Losing him for nothing to another team on July 1 would be a huge setback. “We told him the teams that have called on him…. If he would have waived his no-trade to go to one of those teams, we’d have tried to figure out a deal for him,” Benning explained.
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