Bob McKenzie was on Vancouver’s TSN 1040 on Tuesday morning.

On how people are wondering what’s next for the Canucks following the Erik Gudbranson-Jared McCann trade, and how active he thinks the Canucks will be this off-season to improve the team, judging by that move:

“I think they’ll be active. Just do the math. They acquired a 24-year-old defenseman who they believe is a critical building block in their top 4 on the blueline, and they gave up a 19 going on 20-year-old prospect, as well as a very noteworthy second round pick – 33rd overall. To say nothing of the fourth-round pick, although they get the fifth.

“So that kind of philosophy suggests to you they want to get better quicker. And not crazily to the point where – when you talk about a 24-year-old defenseman like Erik Gudbranson, he’s not old. they’re not running out and grabbing a 30-year-old at the expense of a youth movement. They still believe that they’ve got a youth movement going on here, but it would suggest to me that there might be a little accelerated timeline here, and that if the opportunity exists to get other players that are in that age bracket, to give up younger players, that that might be something that they would consider doing.

“So I would suspect they’ll want to continue to be active, and continue to build their blueline, and try and find some insulation beyond the Sedins up front, and obviously that brass can move forward some of that with the pick that they got.”

Source: TSN 1040/Transcript: Nichols

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