Vancouver Canucks: A look at the Left-Handed Defence depth chart

Josh Teves

Josh Teves was signed late this season to help out the Canucks’ blue line depth along with fellow college free agent defenceman Brogan Rafferty. Since Teves was in his fourth year at Princeton University, he is now a restricted free agent and must be signed this summer.

General manager Jim Benning made it a priority to improve the Canucks’ blue line, and said that he would look at signing NCAA free agents to do it. There may be more coming this offseason, but since making those comments, Benning has gone out and acquired Teves and Rafferty.

Teves was only able to get into one game, which just isn’t a big enough sample size to tell how much of a difference maker he will be if he’s given another chance. With Rafferty, management wanted to get as much of a look as possible at him, but with Teves, they were unable to get him into more than just the one game.

Teves will likely come into camp trying to somehow make the team, but will most likely spend the majority of next season with the Utica Comets if he is re-signed by the Canucks.

Evan McEneny

Evan McEneny is a bit older now, and at 24, soon to be 25, it is looking like McEneny will spent the rest of, if not the majority of his career in the AHL. McEneny made his NHL debut in 2017, where he appeared in just one game.

He is a useful player for the Utica Comets blue line, but likely won’t see much time in a Canucks uniform any time soon.