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The Day For The Vancouver Canucks

07/01/2017 at 7:23pm EDT

from Ian MacIntyre of Sportsnet,

It says something about how bad the Vancouver Canucks have been lately that their best day in a long time was the first day of free agency. General manager Jim Benning added five players Saturday for a total of $22 million, exactly one year after throwing $36 million at a single winger who scored 11 goals last season.

In forwards Sam Gagner and Alex Burmistrov, defencemen Michael Del Zotto and Patrick Wiercioch, and goalie Anders Nilsson, Benning is going to get far more value out of this free agency than he did after signing Loui Eriksson to that mammoth six-year deal last July.

Importantly, none of the five unrestricted free agents acquired on Canada Day has strings attached. None has trade restrictions. So Benning not only increased the Canucks’ depth, he increased his assets, which will seem more valuable at the next trade deadline.

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