Confirmed with Link: Canucks sign Andrei Kuzmenko

[RutherPlan]

II wonder if Tryamkin wants to come back now

 

[Tomatoes11]

Sweet. My only worry is that he pulls a Panarin and we miss out on bedard. He can pull a panarin or kaprisov next year.

Chances are he’s nothing remotely close to Panarin but that would be sweet.

 

[Cornwallace]

Jimothy Benning could never

 

[Yultron]

Yesssssss!! This is outstanding news. Great job Alvin . So far I’m Alvin is off to a great start as general manager .

 

[Jyrki21]

He wore 96 in St. Petersburg too I see... was he just a big Bure fan? Did that play a role?

 

[wonton15]

II wonder if Tryamkin wants to come back now

Don't know if I'd even take him back at this point.

 

[JumpierPegasus]

Honestly even if he doesn't pan out (I think he will be a decent 2nd liner) this is just a nice change from the previous management. The effort the front office went to, the amount of individuals involved who stepped up and went out of their way to make Kuz want to come to Vancouver the most is so important. It's a great start for this management group that there is a plan and a concerted effort to act out that plan

Bruce is so clutch too, went so far out to chat with Kuz and obviously won him over

 

[BenningHurtsMySoul]

Jimbo would have drove 6 hours in the wrong direction.

"Um, well...ya know...GPS wasn't working and...um...ya know."

 

[BenningHurtsMySoul]

Sweet. My only worry is that he pulls a Panarin and we miss out on bedard. He can pull a panarin or kaprisov next year.

Chances are he’s nothing remotely close to Panarin but that would be sweet.

We're not close to being bad enough for Bedard even without Kuz.

 

[StreetHawk]

Was Detroit one of the final 5? LA, Edm, Van and from the agent Fla. what other reason would there be for him to be in Michigan.

 

[m9]

Good stuff. No idea how he will fit over here but it's nice to win on one of these kind of things for once.

 

[Vector]

Was Detroit one of the final 5? LA, Edm, Van and from the agent Fla. what other reason would there be for him to be in Michigan.

That seems to be the implication for him to be in Michigan but I haven't heard anyone outright report that.

 

[Kryten]

Super stoked about this. Welcome to the show Kuz. Excited to see #96 again

 

[Peen]

Organization NHL LW chart is now: Miller, Pearson, Kuzmenko, Hoglander.

Probably nice for them to have at least one certainty pencilled into their top nine left side going into the draft because I don’t see any of the previous three as guarantees to be back next season.

 

[AwesomeInTheory]

Wow, gifted. Such a gift. The Canucks were gifted this player. Gift gift gift...

...is what I'm assuming the usual suspects are going on about, ya?

 

[Vector]

 

[TheOtherGM]

Jimbo would have drove 6 hours in the wrong direction

Well done.

 

[StickShift]

Was Detroit one of the final 5? LA, Edm, Van and from the agent Fla. what other reason would there be for him to be in Michigan.

His North American agent Dan Milstein is based in Ann Arbor. He was at their offices.

 

[Blueangel1891]

Cya Boeser

 

[Pastor Of Muppetz]

Well , thats pretty cool...After months of being fairly inactive on the player transaction front, the GM (and Boudreau) comes through with a free agent signing...Good on him.

This is actually groundbreaking for the Canucks,.. having a Russian player choose Vancouver over a US destination ...(the team had an embargo on them 9 years ago).

The last prime aged impact player the Canucks signed was Hamhuis.

 

[Daniel Gee]

Did a breakdown of Kuzmenko's game, what's translatable and what's not. A lot of video in the piece (watched 15ish games from this past season).

How good Kuzmenko can be and why the Canucks are after him | Offside

The Vancouver Canucks are in hot pursuit of Andrei Kuzmenko, a 26-year-old Russian free agent out of the KHL.

dailyhive.com

 

[flyfysher]

Congrats Canucks fans!

 

[Soups On]

Let's goooo.

f*** you Edmonton

 

[MS]

Wow, excellent news. Did not expect this to happen and great work by the management group to win a bidding war against seemingly more attractive destinations.

 

[Pastor Of Muppetz]

II wonder if Tryamkin wants to come back now

From what I'm hearing..his last season was pretty meh...