Tyler Myers

And don't forget, this lineup plays behind a solid defensive core.

Moreau Heiskanen and Thomas Harley give them mobility, while Tyler Myers and ESA Lindell provide size.

That balance allows the top line to take risks.

Before we move on to the depth chart battles, I want to take a quick breath.

Philip Hedo.

He's also got Tyler Myers.

He's got Morgan Rielly.

He's got David Pastrnak.

It was by no means Connor Garland's pièce de résistance, but Connor Garland is still today a better winger than a number of the wingers the Vancouver Canucks are going to employ.

Last year, they had Tyler Myers and Marcus Pettersson.

And again, both of them struggled last year, but were established National Hockey League defensemen.

And last year, they did wind up getting 20 games, and mostly good ones, out of Thatcher Demko.

But, you know, the rest, like, you know, Elias Pettersson had a terrible year.

Can he get back to sort of the promise that we saw the season before? Um, that would be big.

Jimmy Leksiak is a giant defenseman, and it's actually funny that, that he is so giant that it, from time to time, I kept, like, on the ice yesterday, I kept thinking, "Why is Tyler Myers holding a left-handed stick?" But he's obviously not, right?

Mm.

I'm just excited to get going again." Um, I think that's the more important thing is that you don't have a disgruntled asset and in fact, you have a guy who not only wants to be part of the solution and wants to help your organization out, but more than anything, isn't gonna be a vibe killer in the locker room, right? And look, the vibes are high every year at training camp.

We were looking at tweets from last year, the year from hell, where, uh, Brock Boeser and Tyler Myers are talking about, "Oh yeah, the vibes are really high this year.

Vibes are really high." It's easy to have high vibes when everyone's coming off vacation and everybody's coming into a new season.

It's easy to have that.