After it looked like Vancouver was set to take a step back by sort of punting with the J.T. Miller trade, it flipped the Rangers’ first-rounder and picked up exactly what the team needed: another top-four defender who can play significant minutes and take some of the pressure off Quinn Hughes.

The Canucks agreed with defenseman Marcus Pettersson on a six-year contract extension worth $33 million on Wednesday, just days after Pettersson arrived from Pittsburgh in a trade.