Vancouver Canucks Free Agents: Evaluating RFA Defenseman

Last week in my continuing off-season investigation into the Canucks’ free-agency goals, I started things off by bidding a fond farewell to depth center Brad Richardson. This week I’m going to switch my sights and look at the logjam of Restricted Free Agents that the Canucks have on defense, at both the NHL and AHL level.

First off, just as I expressed desire to move on from UFA Shawn Matthias earlier in the season, right before he priced himself out of the Canucks’ range with a bunch of goals, I also already wrote about how it would be wise to lock Yannick Weber up, as his underlying numbers were predicting the exact kind of break out he had, finishing the year with a career high 11 goals.…