Vancouver Canucks: Don’t count out a return for Tyler Motte

The 2018-19 season is done now, and the Vancouver Canucks are going golfing for another summer. Tyler Motte cannot be counted out for a return in 2019-20.

When the Vancouver Canucks traded Thomas Vanek to the Columbus Blue Jackets at the 20178 NHL trade deadline, fans were quite rightly unhappy with the apparently meager return general manager Jim Benning secured.

While veteran forward Jussi Jokinen briefly shone with 10 points in 14 games in what was to be the final stretch of his NHL career, the real return was then-22 year-old forward Tyler Motte.

In another case of Canucks fans’ expectations setting an unfair bar for a player to reach, Tyler Motte was almost immediately panned by sections…