Try it out before the season. We're happy to support you on any issues you run into, but this is NOT something you want to have to figure out when you should be testing your robot design.
I have data on the performance of CAN using the Black Jaguar plugin at this thread:
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=86259
2CAN
should provide better performance, but I have not tested it.