On July 1st, 2018, Antoine Roussel signed his four-year, $12 million deal with the Vancouver Canucks. At that time, Bo Horvat likely wasn’t thinking that Roussel would be the best winger he would ever play with.
Fast-forward 17 months later, and Horvat might now be asking himself, “is Roussel the best linemate I’ll ever have?”
This is obviously a bit of an oversimplification. Horvat did spend the majority of the 2017-18 season with Brock Boeser when he was a Calder finalist. However since the 2018-19 campaign, Roussel has easily had the most chemistry with the Canucks captain.