Report: Canucks rookie admits he let the team down last season.

It was a great start to the season for Canucks rookie Linden Vey but it was an equally disappointing second half to the year, and the post season may have been worst of all. Vey ended up being a healthy scratch in almost every single playoff game, but he doesn't blame the team for not giving him a chance, if anything Vey seems to think he may have let down the team, and the healthy scratches may have been a wake up call, a mistake he clearly does not intend to repeat next season.

"Sitting out, I already had a lot of time to look at where things went wrong. I was really honest. My preparation last summer wasn’t what it needed to be."

Vey believes his talent carried him through the lower ranks of the hockey world, and may have instilled some bad habits in him.

“I’ve always been a fairly skilled guy wherever I’ve played. I could afford to take nights off in other leagues and maybe still put up numbers,” Vey admitted.

So now he's heading into what he himself calls "the biggest summer of my life" and he's putting in the work to make sure he lives up to expectations, both those of the team and his own.

“I’ve already worked the hardest I ever have in a summer,” Vey said. “In every league I’ve played in, I made a big jump in my second season. I’m not so much worried about the points, but I want to get my game to the point where I’m a factor. Last season, I wasn't the same player that got me to the NHL.”