Free agent forward Mikael Samuelsson signed a three-year contract with the Vancouver Canucks on Friday. "Obviously (the money) was the key, I shouldn't lie," Samuelsson said in a telephone conference call after signing the deal. Financial terms were not disclosed. The Swedish right wing spent the past four seasons in Detroit, winning the Stanley Cup in 2008 and falling one game short this year. The 32-year-old has 86 goals and 208 points in 466 career NHL games. Samuelsson was also part of... Read Full Story
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“I like to get into some scrums in front of the net. I try to play a little gritty. I’m not tough or anything like that, but I try to play hard, go to the net and shoot a lot of pucks and stay for rebounds.”
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The Detroit Red Wings are about to lose another of its free agents as Mikael Samuelsson is poised to sign elsewhere.
Sources tell Sportsnet that the Swedish winger is close to a deal with one of the six Canadian teams.
Samuelsson, 32, has played the past four seasons in Detroit, averaging $1.2 million in salary. In 2008-09 he appeared in 81... Read Full Story
The Detroit Red Wings lost their fourth unrestricted free agent on Friday as forward Mikael Samuelsson has signed a three-year contract with the Vancouver Canucks. Samuelsson joins Marian Hossa (Chicago), Tomas Kopecky (Chicago) and Ty Conklin (St. Louis) as former Red Wings this offseason. Financial figures for Samuelsson’s contract were not immediately available. Read Full Story
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Free agent forward Mikael Samuelsson signed a three-year contract with the Vancouver Canucks on Friday.
“Obviously (the money) was the key, I shouldn’t lie,” Samuelsson said in a telephone conference call after… Read Full Story
Former Red Wings forward Mikael Samuelsson has signed a three-year, $7.5 million free-agent contract with the Vancouver Canucks. He more than doubled his $1.2 million salary from last season, when he picked up 19 goals and 21 assists in 81…
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Whatever interest the Ducks had in Detroit’s Mikael Samuelsson was snowed under by a lot of money from Vancouver.
The Canucks signed winger Samuelsson, a true sniper, for $7.5 million over three years, on Friday night.
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