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Originally Posted by Aarongavey
Canucks defence sucks, that is there problem. They have made zero improvements to their backend.
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Last year the Canucks lost Elder for 12 games, Tanev for 40 games, Gudbrandson for 29 games and Stetcher for 14 games.
The Flames lost Brodie for a game and Hamonic for 9 games.
On the Flames everyone had to look after their own jobs to do and no one was asked to play a bigger role than they could handle.
Myers coming off a 20+ minutes game on a solid playoff team replaces Gudbrandson and Jordie Benn is a pretty solid 18+ minute guy for Montreal the last 2 years. Hughes / Fantenberg as 6/7 is pretty darn solid seeing as Fantenberg was higher up in the Flames hierarchy and the guy that moved him down to #7 in the playoffs Valamki is missing this year.
adding Myers, Benn, Fantenberg and Hughes is not zero improvements. Might not be the best contracts or a long term solution but they will be significantly improved over last year even if they have the same level of injuries.