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Derek Forbort lands on Adam Foote’s summer watch list as the Vancouver Canucks head toward a reset around the edges of this roster.
This isn’t about one player taking the fall. It’s about a team that needs to clear out some support pieces and open room for a different mix next season.
Patrik Allvin and Foote have a few calls to make, but three names stand out fast when you look at who feels least secure in the organization right now.
Forbort still feels like the easiest one to circle. He looks more like a short-term blue-line patch than a piece you carry into the next version of this team.
When a club needs more pace and cleaner puck movement on the back end, veteran placeholders usually become the first names pushed out.
That’s where Forbort fits for me.
Nils Aman belongs in the same conversation. He’s still in the organization, but his place feels thin, and that matters when a front office starts reworking the bottom six.
He doesn’t look locked into next season’s lineup picture. He looks like the kind of player who could be passed by quicker, harder options once camp rolls around.
Pierre-Olivier Joseph is the real roster name to watch
Pierre-Olivier Joseph is the corrected name here, and he makes more sense than Carson Soucy ever did for this version of the article.
He’s in the Canucks organization now, and he feels far from untouchable.
Joseph is the kind of defender a team can move on from without changing its core. If Vancouver wants a different look on the blue line, he’s an obvious pressure point.
That’s really the theme with all three names. Forbort, Aman, and Joseph aren’t franchise pillars, and none of them feels essential to what Foote may want opening night.
Summer roster work gets blunt fast. Teams keep the players they trust, and they cut loose the ones who look replaceable the minute bigger changes start.
For Vancouver, these three feel like the clearest bets to be gone by next season, whether that comes through trades, camp cuts, or quiet exits off the depth chart.
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