I don;t understand how anybody could say definitively that the Canucks are "close to turning it around".
They have some nice young pieces like Boeser, Horvat and likely Pettersson.
But their 2nd and 3rd leading scorers were the 36 year old Sedin's who just retired. Their 5th leading scorer was a 33 year old Vanek who they traded away at the deadline and only played 61 games for them.
Pettersson and Gaudette will have to be the 2nd coming of Forsberg and Sakic for the team to turn anything around anytime soon.
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