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Canucks winger Mason Raymond signs with Swedish club
Nugent-Hopkins steals show for Team Canada
RUSSIA — Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, the hero of the game, walked out of Team Canada’s locker room and over to the mixed zone, wearing a black cape. Typically, Nugent-Hopkins is a modest sort who isn’t completely comfortable being singled out for [...]
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Jannik Hansen off to Finnish Elite League
Canuck right winger Jannik Hansen has joined Finnish Elite League team Tappara, which is based in Tampere. He is expected to make his debut on Thursday. Tappara is currently in 11th spot in the 14-team league so obviously it can use the help. The announcement, on Tappara’s website, looked like this (via Google translator): “Tappara acquired another NHL player. Danish Vancouver Canuck Jannik Hansen…comes to Tampere today.” Hansen told CKWX radio that it was just a matter of getting in some game action. Tappara will cover his insurance. “It’s a good league and I get a chance to play some hockey, that’s what it’s all about,” Hansen told the radio station. Hansen, 26, was scheduled to make $1.35 million with the Canucks this season. He had 16 goals and 39 points in 2011-12 and was plus-18.
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Vancouver Canucks’ Aaron Volpatti has eyes on European teams
VANCOUVER - Aaron Volpatti was close Tuesday to signing a deal to play in Europe, but with apparent progress being made on the NHL labour front the Vancouver Canuck winger says he may delay things for a few days.
"Things are sounding a little bit more positive and it seems like they may be making some sort of headway, so I may hold off a little bit," Volpatti said late Tuesday afternoon from his Vernon home.
Earlier Tuesday, Volpatti's agent, Peter Cooney, said he hoped to have his client signed with a European team by the end of the week.
"It has not happened as of today, but it probably will happen sooner rather than later," Cooney said. "We have three irons in the fire and our decision will be based on finding the right fit. We'd like to get something done hopefully this week. We'll just keep working on it until we get the right situation."
Cooney would not identify where...
Canucks, Alex Burrows start talks on contract extension
VANCOUVER — As they patiently await an answer from Shane Doan, the Vancouver Canucks have begun preliminary talks aimed at signing winger Alex Burrows to a contract extension.
Assistant general manager Laurence Gilman confirmed Friday that he has had recent discussions with Burrows' agent, Paul Corbeil.
"We have had preliminary discussions about extending Alex's contract," Gilman said. "But beyond that it's not our policy to discuss ongoing negotiations."
Burrows is set to enter the final year of a four-year contract that pays him $2 million a season.
He has proved to be a bargain at that price. Playing mainly with the Sedin twins, Burrows has had four straight seasons of 25 or more goals. He scored 28 goals and had 52 points for the Canucks last season. The 31-year-old had his best season in 2009-10 when he had 35 goals and 67 points, both career highs.
"Alex is an important player on our team, both on the ice and in our dressing room,"...
Canucks re-sign Dale Weise, avoiding Friday arbitration hearing
Winger Dale Weise got his one-way contract, agreeing Wednesday to a one-year deal with the Vancouver Canucks and avoiding an arbitration hearing scheduled for Friday.
Weise will make $615,000 next season. He had turned down a qualifying offer from the team of $665,000, but that offer was a two-way deal that included a minor-league salary of $85,000.
Weise played 68 games with the Canucks last season, registering four goals, eight points and 81 penalty minutes.
He'll compete for a fourth-line spot again at training camp in September.
"We expect that he will battle to play on the bottom end of our forward roster," assistant general manager Laurence Gilman said. "Whether he is there or not is going to be entirely up to him."
Weise's settlement means the Canucks will not be going to arbitration with any of their players this summer. Earlier this month, fellow winger Mason Raymond avoided arbitration by agreeing to take a small salary cut with a one-year $2.275-million deal.
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Shane Doan to Canucks, or Detroit, or Pittsburgh… winger creates NHL buzz
The Canucks have more than a passing interest in pursuing free agent forward Shane Doan.
Unfortunately for them, they're not alone.
Eleven teams are said to be making a push for the 35-year-old, chasing his skill, edge and that laundry list of intangibles. But in making the media rounds Monday, Doan's agent, Terry Bross, told reporters only 2-3 teams would warrant serious interest. He said location, management, players and Cup chances will all be factors.,
The Canucks got in line early, putting in a personal call to Doan on July 1, to express their interest. The feeling was mutual Doan told them, which would logically put the Canucks among those 2-3 teams. The sides touched base again on Monday, Doan's personalized start to free agency when his agent, Bross, officially started taking calls.
And you can understand it from both sides. The Canucks need to go all-in now to try to win a Stanley Cup. Doan is the type of player...
Canucks want Coyotes winger Shane Doan, but so do 11 other teams
The Canucks have more than a passing interest in pursuing free agent forward Shane Doan.
Unfortunately for them, they're not alone.
Eleven teams are said to be making a push for the 35-year-old, chasing his skill, edge and that laundry list of intangibles. But in making the media rounds Monday, Doan's agent, Terry Bross, told reporters only 2-3 teams would warrant serious interest. He said location, management, players and Cup chances will all be factors.,
The Canucks got in line early, putting in a personal call to Doan on July 1, to express their interest. The feeling was mutual Doan told them, which would logically put the Canucks among those 2-3 teams. The sides touched base again on Monday, Doan's personalized start to free agency when his agent, Bross, officially started taking calls.
And you can understand it from both sides. The Canucks need to go all-in now to try to win a Stanley Cup. Doan is the type of player...
Glass turns down Canucks’ offer, signs with Penguins
Toughness and grit were paying big-time on Sunday, as some NHL clubs topped up on sandpaper while others replaced players of that ilk who walked away in free agency.
Fourth-liner Brandon Prust, 28, made the biggest splash as the opening of the free agency window began at 9 a.m. PDT. The big, tough winger scored a four-year deal with Montreal that will pay him an average of $2.5 million – after finishing a deal with the New York Rangers where he earned $800,000.
The Canucks attempted to bring back former grit winger Tanner Glass in an effort of their own to upgrade their bottom six, but fell short when he signed a two-year deal with Pittsburgh worth an average of $1.1 million per season.
Glas had always talked about how much he loved playing in Vancouver in two seasons here before the Canucks let him go in free agency a year ago to Winnipeg.
He thought hard about taking the Vancouver offer,...
Vancouver Canucks gamble on late bloomers in 2012 NHL draft
PITTSBURGH – The Vancouver Canucks gambled on a classic late-bloomer Saturday morning, but not the one right under their noses.
With the 58th pick of the National Hockey League entry draft, the Canucks selected Rimouski Oceanic left winger Alexandre Mallet, one spot before the Phoenix Coyotes claimed Vancouver Giants' left winger Jordan Martinook.
It was a recurring theme for the Canucks, whose final four picks were all players overlooked in their first year of draft eligibility. Three of them are headed to U.S. colleges, giving the players and the Canucks additional development time.
“They're late-bloomers, but we know what we're getting,” Canuck general manager Mike Gillis said after netting five prospects, including Friday first-rounder Brendan Gaunce, at hockey's annual talent lottery. “We're trying to get players who are ready [for professional hockey] and if they're not ready. . . are going to college.”
The Canucks' pick included sixth-rounder Wesley Myron, a 19-year-old high-scoring winger from the Victoria Grizzlies who is the first...
Canucks’ Volpatti back for a year at $600,000
The Canucks' fourth line began to get crowded on Friday with the signing of physical winger Aaron Volpatti to a one-year contract.
Volpatti, 27, took pay cut from his previous deal with Vancouver, when he was a college free agent with other teams interested. He'll make $600,000 US in the NHL and $105,000 in the minors, as opposed to his expiring deal that paid $625,000/$200,000.
In the second half of an NHL season and playoffs where size and physicality ruled, the Canucks opted to bring back the 6-foot-1, 215-pound Volpatti – whose first full NHL season was ended in early December by a decision to have surgery on a shoulder injury he'd suffered three weeks prior. After he'd attempted to play with the injury, an MRI showed Volpatti had a labrum tear so a procedure was done right away to repair it.
“He's a big, physical winger who's a nice blend of size and aggression and nicely complements our group of...
Canucks re-sign winger Aaron Volpatti
The Vancouver Canucks have re-signed winger Aaron Volpatti to a one-year contract.
Volpatti's contract is a two-way deal that pays him $600,000 at the NHL level and $105,000 in the minors. Last year he made $625,000 with the Canucks and $200,000 in the minors.
The 27-year-old Revelstoke native scored one goal and picked up 37 penalty minutes in 23 games with the Canucks last season.
Volpatti's season was cut short when he underwent shoulder surgery in December to repair a torn left labrum.
Volpatti was signed as a free agent in March 2010 after completing his collegiate career at Brown University.
In 38 NHL games, all with Vancouver, Volpatti has recorded three points (2-1-3), 97 hits and 53 penalty minutes.
Volpatti was set to become an unrestricted free agent on July 1.
...Vladimir Krutov, Ex-Soviet superstar, Canucks winger, dies in Moscow hospital
Former Vancouver Canuck Vladimir Krutov, a two-time Olympic and five-time World Champion and one of the finest players ever to come out of the Soviet Union, died Wednesday in Moscow. He was 52.
Krutov, 52, fell ill on Sunday and was taken to hospital where doctors found internal bleeding in the stomach area, a condition known at gastrorrhagia. The website reported that Dmitry Shaposhnikov, CEO of an organization called "Hockey Legends," said Krutov's condition was poor. The report said Krutov was in a drug-induced coma.
Krutov's wife, Nina, told the Sovietski Sport newspaper that her husband “began to feel sick” on Sunday and asked her to call an ambulance.
Krutov and fellow Russian Igor Larionov joined the Canucks for the 1989-90 season and, while Larionov quickly made the adjustment to NHL hockey and North American life, Krutov did not. He reported out of shape, scored 11 goals in 61 games and was cut the following season when he again did not...
Henrik Samuelsson following in father Ulf’s footsteps into NHL
Henrik Samuelsson was suspended four times in his first abbreviated WHL season and the infractions for the big Edmonton Oil Kings winger ranged from a crosscheck to the face, a low-bridge hit, kneeing and charging.
Sounds a lot like his father, the infamous Ulf Samuelsson, who’s remembered for a knee-on-knee hit that shortened the NHL career of Cam Neely and for being knocked unconscious by a Tie Domi cheap shot that cost the agitator an eight-game suspension. The elder Samuelsson is also remembered as a two-time Stanley Cup champion and his son is being remembered for a memorable Memorial Cup performance that’s elevating his stock for the draft next month in Pittsburgh that’s considered wide open.
Samuelsson also projects as powerful centre, so it’s not a stretch to suggest the Vancouver Canucks should have interest in a versatile player who has tempered his tenaciousness and greatly improved his skill level since joining the WHL champions after Christmas from MoDo juniors...