The Vancouver Canucks have re-signed defenceman Tyler Myers to a three-year contract price $3 million common annual worth (AAV). It was virtually a foregone conclusion that he was going to return to Vancouver, and now it’s official as he took a large low cost from his earlier contract the place he was paid $6 million AAV.
Myers is coming off his best season with the Canucks, recording 5 targets and 29 factors in 77 video games together with a plus-16 within the plus/minus column. He performed a stable defensive sport below head coach Rick Tocchet and averted the unhealthy penalties and errors that plagued him below earlier coaches Travis Inexperienced and Bruce Boudreau.
Myers was typically a whipping boy for Canucks followers and analysts, typically dubbed the “Chaos Giraffe” for his gaffs defensively. Beneath Tocchet and defence coach Adam Foote, he cleaned that a part of his sport up and have become a key a part of the defence corps. He was even a part of a shutdown pairing tasked with limiting Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl within the playoffs. Hopefully, he might be that sort of two-way defenceman all through his new contract. Clearly, common supervisor Patrik Allvin values his presence and desires him part of his roster for the foreseeable future.
“Tyler has been a valued member of our group and we’re very pleased to have him again with our workforce…He brings a singular skillset to the ice and is a key member of our management group. Tyler is an enormous, robust, bodily defenceman who matches in properly on our backend.”
Allvin Will get One other Free Agent Signed
Allvin has been a busy man over the past week or so. He re-signed restricted free agent (RFA) Filip Hronek to a long-term contract, then signed pending unrestricted free agent Teddy Blueger to a two-year deal, traded Ilya Mikheyev and Sam Lafferty’s rights to the Chicago Blackhawks, re-signed Dakota Joshua to a four-year contract, and eventually Myers to this three-year pact. He’ll now set his sights on Nikita Zadorov, and doubtlessly Elias Lindholm (though that appears to be extra unlikely by the day). He additionally has cash to spend in free company to go after the likes of Jake Guentzel or Tyler Toffoli. Evidently, it ought to be an fascinating finish of June and starting of July for Canucks followers.
