150 Gal Cube Overflow removal

[b_james]

Have a 150 gal Marineland Cube tank with a stock corner overflow. The overflow has 2 holes (1" i believe). My question is this, would there be any risk removing the plastic overflow partition and use the bottom holes to directly plum my canister filter. The reason for doing this is I am running canister filters and want to reduce the chance of air getting suced into the filters.