The star defenceman had a brutal 2022\u002D23, mainly because of a broken foot. Can he recover his game for 2023\u002D24?
And you have to believe it was draining mentally as well.
When you’re a player who has been one of the league’s best defencemen, grinding through a season where you can’t play anything close to what you think you’re capable of is immensely difficult. He accepted a trade to Vancouver because he wanted to play in a hockey market and because, from afar, he thought the Canucks were on to something with the likes of Elias Pettersson, Quinn Hughes and Thatcher Demko.How the future looks: Can he get healthy again?When the season got going, he wasn’t able to compete. At all. He couldn’t defend the rush. He struggled to defend in the zone. He looked like he was skating in cement at times.
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