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Whether that is wise, or a miscalculation, depends entirely on how you believe winners are built.

If you’re chasing the bottom rung of the playoff ladder, and the Canucks will be, Loui Eriksson is a solid, slam dunk signing for the immediate future.

There may be some wingers in the league who could get more out of the Sedins in their final NHL years, but there aren’t many.

People will focus on his goal scoring, and that’s desperately needed by the Canucks. But, the truth is, the defensive play of the Sedins has sunk significantly in recent years and Eriksson’s play in the Canucks’ end may help the twins more than his shot.

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There are other teams Eriksson would be a better second-line fit with, but if his body holds up into his mid-30s, he has the potential to be one of Jim Benning’s best acquisitions as general manager of the Canucks.

The jury is out on Gudbranson. Although the Taylor Hall-for-Adam Larsson trade has re-framed the price the Canucks paid, the underlying data still indicates Gudbranson could be over his head in a top-four role without Brian Campbell as his pairing partner. We’ll see.

Either way, the Canucks are better today than they were when the season ended, and the pressure will be on head coach Willie Desjardins to keep this group in the playoff race.

Have the moves been enough to make up the 20 points they need to be a playoff team?

They still have far too many question marks in that lineup to answer that with a “yes.”

Can this blueline, which lacks puck movers, generate any offence at all? Will Sven Baertschi improve? Is Anton Rodin really an NHL player? Is there too much needed of Jake Virtanen, who right now is their only big hitter up front?