Burns and Olesz dealt to SJ after teams latest struggles

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Well after rampant speculation Brent Burns and Rostislav Olesz are on their way down the West Coast to SJ. In return the Canucks got defensive players in Todd Marchant and Mike Rathje.

GM Shepherd said "it is definately tough to lose a Brent Burns but this team was struggling on the PP and PK and we needed to fix that immediately."

In Marchant they get a shutdown player who can play with John Madden to shut down the PK and teams top lines when needed. In Rathje they get a big bruising dmen who don't mind toss his weight around.

Hopefully this will get the team moving in the right direction.