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Sign up. The Canucks Report newsletter: essential reading for hockey fans who eat, sleep, Canucks, repeat. Naslund, for starters, had to sue to be released from his agreement in Sweden and the courts eventually sided in his favour.
I came in filled with expectations of having a good rookie year. But it kind of went sideways early. Part of the problem was Naslund, as per the times, believed he had to beef up to play in the NHL.
He was initially put on a line with two Hall-of-Famers, Francis and Jagr, but struggled mightily on the ice. I was away from home for the first time and I felt isolated. He never did find himself in Pittsburgh. His second year Naslund got hurt and played just 14 NHL games.
I had my suitcase packed for a month, just ready to go. The first wave of rumours had him going to Edmonton or Dallas. When deadline day arrived, he had an afternoon dental appointment. Naslund, meanwhile, was prepared for a trade. Naslund arrived just as Quinn was moving back behind the bench to replace his longtime friend Rick Ley as the Canucks head coach. The fun, sort of, started in the off-season when they signed Mark Messier to a huge free-agent deal after they botched an attempt to bring Wayne Gretzky to Vancouver.
Messier was coming off an point season with the New York Rangers but he was also 36 and well into the back nine of his career. That became painfully obvious in Vancouver.
The Canucks would ultimately finish dead last in the Pacific with a team that included Messier, Bure, Mogilny, Linden, a young Mattias Ohlund and others. But that was just part of their story.
Keenan a longtime Messier ally, was then brought as coach. Keenan the coach, meanwhile, buried Naslund at the end of the bench and eventually made him a healthy scratch.
After adding three points in the playoffs, he announced his retirement from the NHL on May 4, , at age In the meantime, childhood friend Peter Forsberg was attempting a return to the NHL for the —10 season , playing with Modo and the Swedish national team for conditioning purposes.
The announcement crashed the Modo web server as a result of the heavy volume of people visiting the site. At the time of his return, Modo was last place in the Elitserien with 16 points in 19 games. He made his first international appearance for Sweden at the European Junior Championships, going pointless in six games. He made a significant improvement the following year at the tournament, however, with a goal and two-assist effort. In , he set a tournament record for most goals scored with 13, to go with 11 assists, in just seven games, [90] while playing on a line with Peter Forsberg.
However, he only appeared in one game for Sweden, as he was added to the team late in the tournament following the Vancouver Canucks ' elimination in the NHL playoffs. After going undefeated in the round-robin and heralded as gold-medal favourites, Sweden was upset by Belarus in the quarter-finals. He was added to the roster prior to the quarterfinals following the Canucks' first-round elimination to the Detroit Red Wings , [92] tallying 3 points in 3 games as he earned his second consecutive bronze medal.
During his tenure with the Canucks, the family resided in Vancouver during the season and returned to Sweden in the summer. Ice Hockey Wiki Explore. Players Teams Leagues Seasons Arenas.
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