\u201cI have a lot of respect for obviously Hank and Danny. Manny [Malhotra], too, was one of my coaches when I was in Vancouver. [Ryan Johnson] helped recruit me out of North Dakota. So, I\u2019m familiar with all those guys and couldn\u2019t have more respect for them.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, obviously, that\u2019d be an opportunity I\u2019d be pretty excited about if it got to that point.\u201d<\/p>\n
Troy Stecher spent the first four years of his NHL career with the Canucks. (Anne-Marie Sorvin\/Imagn Images)<\/p>\n By all accounts, Stecher\u2019s time in Toronto last season was a success. After being claimed off waivers from the Edmonton Oilers, the veteran defenceman stepped into the Leafs\u2019 lineup and held his own in a top-four role. He had the third-best shot attempt differential among regular Leafs defencemen, trailing only Oliver Ekman-Larsson and Morgan Rielly.<\/p>\n He\u2019s continued to prove that, despite being undersized, the 5-foot-10, 185-pound defenceman can still play.<\/p>\n Not only that, but his Canucks fandom hasn\u2019t seemed to dissipate.<\/p>\n \u201cEven from afar, watching the whole process, you\u2019re kind of hopeful that it would happen,\u201d Stecher said when asked about the Canucks new management regime.<\/p>\n \u201cI think at the end of the day, you just want people that care about your program in charge, and I think that\u2019s what the Vancouver Canucks have right now is four men that really deeply care about the organization.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThey\u2019re in great hands.\u201d<\/p>\n A reunion between Stecher and the Canucks could make sense. The Canucks need another defenceman on the right side<\/a> who can push Victor Mancini for NHL minutes, considering that the youngster didn\u2019t really force himself into the lineup last year.<\/p>\n Vancouver could also use a positive, veteran leader<\/a> in the locker room. And, based on how glowingly Maple Leafs players<\/a> and coaches<\/a> spoke about him last season, Stecher still has that in spades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He was the one who got away. Even though he never turned into a star, former Vancouver Canucks…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":726442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-726441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=726441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/726442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"troy](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/troy-stecher-canucks-2019.jpg\"\/ "\\"\\"")
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