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The Vancouver Canucks’ best free-agent move was also their quietest.

It’s not often in Vancouver someone slips under the radar who is 27, 6-4 and, when he played, among the top players at his position in the National Hockey League.

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But here we are and Anders Nilsson is about to make things pretty interesting — and possibly complicated — again in net.

At the very least, Nilsson is wonderful competition to help push the presumed next one, Jacob Markstrom. The two goalies with remarkably similar resumes and upside.

At most, Nilsson will have the job by January. Of course, the new coach has to be open to a shift in power like that. The last one sure wasn’t.

In hindsight, one of the most perplexing decisions of the Willie Desjardins’ era was his unwillingness to let nature take its course, allowing Ryan Miller to pass the torch to Markstrom.

Instead, Miller was the entrenched starter and Markstrom never moved past unproven backup status in two full seasons under Desjardins.