Vancouver Canucks sign Guillaume Brisebois to two-year extension

The Vancouver Canucks have signed defenseman Guillaume Brisebois to a two-year deal with a $775,000 AAV.

Brisebois has one assist in nine games with the Canucks this season. He has spent the majority of the season with the AHL’s Abbotsford Canucks, with the defensive-minded blueline putting up just one goal and six points in 36 games. The 25-year-old has spent his entire NHL career with Vancouver since going 66th overall in 2015, recording just one assist in 19 games over four seasons.

Brisebois has spent the major of his pro career in the AHL, scoring 14 times and adding 46 assists for 60 points over 241 games.

The deal gives the Canucks some cheap defensive depth for the short term. Quinn Hughes, Tyler Myers, Oliver Ekman-Larsson and Filip Hronek are the three other defensemen currently in the lineup signed past this season. Noah Juulsen, Ethan Bear and Travis Dermott are set to become an RFAs, while Christian Wolanin and Kyle Burroughs are pending UFAs.

The Canucks currently sit sixth in the Western Conference wild-card race, 17 points behind Colorado for the final spot. The team looks destined to battle for Connor Bedard, but still have four teams sitting below them in the west and another two in the east.