{"id":22770,"date":"2019-06-30T23:38:52","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T03:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=22770"},"modified":"2019-06-30T23:39:09","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T03:39:09","slug":"montreal-canadiens-trade-jordie-benn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2019\/06\/30\/montreal-canadiens-trade-jordie-benn\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Vancouver Canucks  to Sign Jordie Benn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/canucks\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vancouver Canucks<\/a> have reportedly signed defenceman\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/bennjo01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jordie Benn<\/a><\/strong>. Benn was signed alongside fellow defenceman <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/myersty01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tyler Myers<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Elliotte reporting the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Canucks?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Canucks<\/a> are likely to sign UFA D Tyler Myers and Jordie Benn when free agency officially opens up tomorrow morning. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LS2seabYX5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/LS2seabYX5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sportsnet 650 (@Sportsnet650) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sportsnet650\/status\/1145529506762899456?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 1, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/bennjo01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jordie Benn<\/a> Signed by Canucks<\/h1>\n<h2>Key Players<\/h2>\n<p>In Benn, the Canucks get a versatile defenseman\u00a0who has a lot of NHL experience. He scored five goals and 17 assists for 22 points in 81 games this season. This was enough to earn Benn a spot on our <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2019\/06\/27\/nhl-free-agent-defencemen\/\" target=\"_self\">top-10 UFA defensemen rankings<\/a> for this off-season, where he ranked fifth. This past year, Benn also added 39 minutes in penalties. His possession numbers come in at a 53.4 percent Corsi\u00a0with a relative Corsi of -1.1.<\/p>\n<p>Over his nine-year NHL career, Benn has played for the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/nhl-teams\/stars\/\" target=\"_self\">Dallas Stars<\/a><i>\u00a0<\/i>and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/canadiens\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Montreal Canadiens<\/a>. He has put up 22 goals and 88 assists for 110 career points in 473<i>\u00a0<\/i>career games. Benn, the brother of Stars captain <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/bennja01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jamie Benn<\/a><\/strong>, was originally\u00a0undrafted but signed with the Dallas Stars in 2010. He spent a season with the Texas\u00a0Stars of the AHL before making it to the NHL.<\/p>\n<h2>What This Means for the Future<\/h2>\n<p>Jordie Benn is a versatile defenseman able to play both sides, with a left-handed shot. He has a lot of experience in the NHL and will bring a veteran sense of leadership to the blueline of Vancouver.\u00a0He\u2019s a veteran stay-at-home defender with grit, skill, and knowledge of the game. Benn is a very consistent penalty killer as well. He is a solid third defensive pairing player that can play\u00a0second pairing minutes in case of injury and brings determination\u00a0on every shift he plays.<\/p>\n<p>Benn and Myers are both great additions to the Canucks defensive core. Myers ranked second in our UFA defensemen rankings. The 6&#8217;8&#8243; tower of a defenceman has played with the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/jets\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Winnipeg Jets<\/a> since the 2014-15 season. Last year he tallied 31 points in 80 games, bringing his career totals to 265 points in 635 games. These totals have come over an 11-year career, that&#8217;s seen the 29-year-old Myers split time between the Jets and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/sabres\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Buffalo Sabres<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vancouver Canucks have reportedly signed defenceman\u00a0Jordie Benn. Benn was signed alongside fellow defenceman Tyler Myers. Elliotte reporting the #Canucks are likely to sign UFA D Tyler Myers and Jordie Benn when free agency officially opens up tomorrow morning. https:\/\/t.co\/LS2seabYX5 &mdash; Sportsnet 650 (@Sportsnet650) July 1, 2019 Jordie Benn Signed by Canucks Key Players In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2380,"featured_media":11242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34,26],"tags":[37,1302,38,662,158],"class_list":["post-22770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-canucks","tag-hockey","tag-jordie-benn","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-free-agency","tag-vancouver-canucks"],"modified_by":"Gabriel Foley","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2380"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}