If there's one player hoping for a redo this season, it could very well be Vancouver Canucks forward Linden Vey.

The 24-year-old is coming off his first full NHL season, and though he came out flying at the beginning of the year, his production plummeted. He was made a healthy scratch toward the end of the season, including in five of the Canucks' six playoff games, but said the benching helped light a fire under him.

"I didn’t wish for us to be out, it wasn’t anything like that," Vey told TSN's Frank Seravalli. "I just knew that meant I would get the summer that I needed. Sitting out, I already had a lot of time to look at where things went wrong. I was really honest. My preparation last summer wasn’t what it needed to be."

Vey broke out with six goals and 12 points in 22 games last season, but finished with just 12 more points in the following 53 games. He admitted he was used to being able to take a night off here and there.

"I’ve always been a fairly skilled guy wherever I’ve played. I could afford to take nights off in other leagues and maybe still put up numbers,” Vey said. "In this league, you need to be willing to bring your ‘A’ game every night, or at least nine out of 10 nights. You look at our team in Vancouver; we bring it every day, in practice and in games. That’s why they’ve been able to be successful for so long.”

With the omission of Shawn Matthias - who was signed by the Toronto Maple Leafs - the Canucks now have a vacant third-line center position, which Vey will surely be setting his eyes on.