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Canucks close to inking Sweden's Fabian Brunnstrom
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Saturday, April 12, 2008 | 11:30 PM ET
By Scott Morrison
It appears the Vancouver Canucks are the winners of the Fabian Brunnstrom sweepstakes.
No fewer than 20 NHL teams expressed interest in the 23-year-old Swedish winger, who went undrafted and played the past season in the Swedish Elite League with Farjestad.
As reported on Hockey Night in Canada on Saturday, Brunnstrom had a short list of five or six and further reduced that to one: the Canucks, whose general manager, Dave Nonis, did a good job of selling the youngster on the team and the city.
Now the Canucks have to finalize contract details with agent J.P. Barry over the next week.
Among the finalists for his services were the Detroit Red Wings, Toronto Maple Leafs, Philadelphia Flyers and Anaheim Ducks. The opportunity to be a top-six forward in Vancouver and potentially play with the Sedin twins is believed to have help with his decision.
Brunnstrom is a speedy and skilled winger, who is now 23, and a classic late bloomer.
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Comments (10)
Rikki Rylowe
Kelowna
The Nucks are just as bad as the Leafs. At least the Leafs have a few cups under their belt.
Posted April 23, 2008 12:34 PM
BW
ON
As a Leafs fan I'd like to thank the Canucks brass for firing Nonis and essentially losing Brunnstrom in the process. Why not wait until the Brunnstom deal goes through to fire the guy?? What a dumb move.
Posted April 21, 2008 07:28 AM
Nervous Canuck
Surrey
Will this deal still go through even though Dave Nonis has been fired or has the carpet fallen underneath the Canucks because of the firing?
Posted April 15, 2008 09:11 PM
Beefbegone
You guys are a bunch of twats! Don't you realize that this is a good thing!!??
Sure we would have another swede, but atleast if he doesn't pan out for us we can get something good for him.
Posted April 15, 2008 05:36 AM
Daniel
Langley
He's 6'1" and 203 lbs. I think it's a bit early to call him soft...
Posted April 14, 2008 07:49 PM
Double_AA
Vancouver
At 6'1" - 200lbs I don't think we got softer!
Plus, after two years of signing guys like Chouinard, Green, Bulis, Cowan, Isbister, Fitzpatrick etc. this is a refreshing change and hopefully just a small start for things to come.
And everyone knows that we'd all be kicking and screaming if Brunnstrom went to Detroit or Anaheim and we'd probably call for Nonis' head again because he "couldn't make it happen".
Posted April 14, 2008 06:23 PM
cody bown
at least he's not a 4th line grinder.
Posted April 13, 2008 10:42 AM
W Sutherland
Will Brunnnstrom's skill ever show in the Vignault system? Skilled offensive players find it hard to excel in the defensive system that Vignault runs.
Watch a disciplined team like the Wild play the Canucks and it is easy to see why the Canucks missed the playoffs, but then, to hear Vignault tell it, the good guys didn't bring their "A" game to the rink.
All the Canucks need is a Coach who has an "A" game - Jacque Lemaire sure does!
Posted April 13, 2008 10:10 AM
Ex-Pat Canuck fan
Oilberta
Is this the Canucks or Team Sweden? Vancouver
won't win anything with the Sedins as their go-to guys.They should package them for some
leadership,grit and personality,players who step up at crunch time
Posted April 13, 2008 09:58 AM
Greger
Vancouver
Great...
My team just got softer.
Posted April 13, 2008 02:46 AM