Jack Rathbone has chance to follow in Quinn Hughes' footsteps, and thanks to the Canucks' relationship with Rathbone, they managed to secure his signature. (by imacSportsnet)
VANCOUVER – There was a problem Wednesday with the Zoom video calls involvingWe mean a problem beyond a format that exposes reporters’ inarticulate long-windedness, prohibits any genuine conversation and often makes interview subjects look like hostages awaiting ransoms, unsure if they will be paid.The order was wrong. It should have been Hughes before Rathbone. Because that is the order these gifted blue-liners will arrive in Vancouver.
Based on his 69-game body of work this season, Hughes may already be the greatest defenceman in Canucks history. And after the franchise waited 50 years for him, it would be naïve to think someone nearly as good is about to follow him through the door. Pettersson won the award last year over St. Louis Blues goaltender Jordan Binnington, while Canucks winger Brock Boeser was a runner-up to New York Islander Mathew Barzal in 2018.
He may be stuck behind Hughes on the depth chart forever, and he will have to leave his Boston area home for the first time and move across the continent. But Rathbone still chose to sign with the Canucks, taking advantage of a brief window in the NHL’s new Collective Bargaining Agreement to burn a year off his entry-level contract, when he could have forced unrestricted free agency next summer and chosen where to play.
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