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Fitzpatrick is on the verge of signing a one-year contract with the Vancouver Canucks and only needs to pass a physical. This would be the 31-year-old defenseman's fifth NHL team. |
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Fitzpatrick has nine goals and 18 assists for 27 points with 144 penalty minutes in 210 career games with the Montreal Canadiens, St. Louis Blues, Nashville Predators and Buffalo Sabres. He had four goals and five assists for the Sabres with a minus-18 rating and 50 penalty minutes in 56 games in 2005-06. |
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The Canucks re-signed Bieksa on Thursday. |
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Bieksa played 39 games in Vancouver as a rookie last season after being recalled in mid-December, recording six assists and 77 penalty minutes while averaging just over 16 minutes of ice time with the Canucks. |
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The Canucks re-signed Bouck on Thursday. |
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Bouck, obtained in a 2001 trade with Phoenix, had a goal and an assist in 12 games with the Canucks after missing most of last season with a groin injury. |
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Weinrich announced his retirement from pro hockey Friday. The Vancouver Canucks defenseman played 17 seasons in the NHL and decided to take a minor league coaching position with the AHL Portland Pirates. Weinrich would be joining a coaching staff headed by Kevin Dineen, who ended his glorious NHL career in 2002-03 before being named the AHL's outstanding coach in his first season behind a bench in 2005-06. |
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Weinrich split last season with the St. Louis Blues and Vancouver, recording one goal and 16 assists in 75 games. In 17 seasons with the New Jersey Devils, Hartford Whalers, Chicago Blackhawks, Montreal Canadiens, Boston Bruins, Philadelphia Flyers, Blues and Canucks, the 39-year-old had 70 goals, 318 assists and 825 penalty minutes in 1,157 contests. |
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Weinrich announced his retirement from pro hockey Friday. The Vancouver Canucks defenseman played 17 seasons in the NHL and decided to take a minor league coaching position with the AHL Portland Pirates. Weinrich would be joining a coaching staff headed by Kevin Dineen, who ended his glorious NHL career in 2002-03 before being named the AHL's outstanding coach in his first season behind a bench in 2005-06. |
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Weinrich split last season with the St. Louis Blues and Vancouver, recording one goal and 16 assists in 75 games. In 17 seasons with the New Jersey Devils, Hartford Whalers, Chicago Blackhawks, Montreal Canadiens, Boston Bruins, Philadelphia Flyers, Blues and Canucks, the 39-year-old had 70 goals, 318 assists and 825 penalty minutes in 1,157 contests. |
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Tremblay signed a one-year contract with the Vancouver Canucks on Friday. The free-agent defenseman, who will earn $450,000, played for the Mannheim Eagles of the German Hockey League last season. |
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Tremblay has 37 goals and 85 assists with 166 penalty minutes in 378 career NHL games with Toronto and Atlanta. He had two goals and eight assists in 38 games for the Thrashers during the 2003-04 season, his last in the NHL. |
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Bulis signed a one-year, $1.3 million contract with the Vancouver Canucks on Tuesday. The free-agent forward recorded a career-best 20 goals for the Canadiens last season and equaled his highest single-season point total with 40. |
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Bulis is expected to play on one of Vancouver's top two lines. The 28-year-old Bulis has 84 goals and 138 assists in 473 career games over eight seasons. |
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The Canucks signed Chouinard to a two-year, $2.2 million deal on Thursday. Chouinard was drafted 32nd overall by the Winnipeg Jets in the 1995 NHL entry draft |
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The 29-year-old had a career-high 14 goals and 16 assists in 74 games with the Minnesota Wild last season. Chouinard has 74 career points (35 goals) and 113 penalty minutes in 278 games with Minnesota and Anaheim. |
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The Canucks acquired Pyatt from the Buffalo Sabres on Friday in exchange for a fourth-round pick in the 2007 draft. He was originally selected by the New York Islanders eighth overall in the 1999 draft, but spent one year with the Islanders before playing the last four NHL seasons in Buffalo. |
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Pyatt recorded six goals and six assists in 41 regular-season games last year, but missed 27 games with a broken wrist and another five with a mild concussion. The native of Thunder Bay, Ontario, added five assists in 14 playoff games for the Sabres last season. In 308 career NHL games, he has 42 goals and 98 points. |
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Sedin, along with twin brother Henrik, was re-signed to a three-year contract by Vancouver on Friday. The 25-year-old left wing set career-highs with 22 goals, 49 assists and 71 points. He also was part of Sweden's gold medal-winning team at the Olympics. |
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In 397 NHL games, he has 83 goals and 139 assists. |
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Sedin, along with twin brother Daniel, was re-signed to a three-year contract by Vancouver on Friday. Both brothers set career-highs in points this season. The 25-year-old Henrik, a center, had a career-high 18 goals, 57 assists and 75 points. |
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He has recorded 62 goals and 159 assists in 400 career NHL games. |
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Less than a week after he was traded to Vancouver, Luongo worked out a $27 million, four-year deal with the Canucks on Thursday. The goalie, who was acquired from Florida in a five-player deal that sent Todd Bertuzzi to the Panthers, was 35-30-9 last season with a 2.97 goals-against average and .914 save percentage. |
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The 27-year-old Luongo is generally considered among the elite NHL goaltenders, and has a 2.72 goals-against average in 341 career games. The move to Vancouver could help him reach the playoffs for the first time. |
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Florida traded Luongo to Vancouver on Friday in a five-player deal that also sent Todd Bertuzzi to the Panthers. Luongo was surprised by the trade after thinking he had worked out a long-term contract with Florida. "I'm really sad because I didn't think this was going to happen," the 27-year-old goaltender said Saturday. "We made great strides yesterday. I thought we were going to get something long term. I was surprised this whole deal went down." |
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Luongo, who spent five seasons in Florida, went 35-30-9 with a 2.97 goals-against average and .914 save percentage last season. |
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Florida traded Krajicek to Vancouver on Friday in a five-player deal that also sent goaltender Roberto Luongo to the Canucks. Krajicek, the Panthers 24th overall pick in 2001, had two goals and 14 assists in 67 games last season. |
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Krajicek has three goals and 20 assists in 90 career games. |
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Carter scored a power-play goal with 6.1 seconds left in the Canucks' 2-1 victory over the Minnesota Wild on Wednesday. The win moved Vancouver into a tie with Anaheim for sixth place in the Western Conference. |
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Carter's goal was his 30th of the season, marking the first time he's reached that plateau in his nine-year career. His previous high was 28 with Edmonton in 2001-02. The 31-year-old Vancouver winger has 188 goals and 202 assists in 602 games. |
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After going 21 games without a goal, Burrows scored three goals in the Canucks' 7-4 win over the Kings on Monday night for his first career hat trick. |
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Burrows has seven goals and four assists through 34 games of his rookie season. |
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Naslund had two assists in Vancouver's 7-4 win over Los Angeles on Monday, giving him the 700th point of his career. |
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Naslund has 71 points this season with 41 assists. The 12-year veteran had a career-high 104 points in the 2002-03 season. |
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Sedin earned two assists in the Canucks' 4-2 loss to the Dallas Stars on Monday to increase his point-scoring streak to five games. He has three goals and five assists in his last five games and has moved ahead of Markus Naslund for the scoring lead on the team. |
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Henrik Sedin has registered career highs with 17 goals, 48 assists and 65 points in 66 games this season. |
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Naslund was held without a goal for the fourth consecutive game in the Canucks' 2-1 loss to the Dallas Stars on Saturday. The all-star left wing has not scored since a 3-1 loss to the Nashville Predators on March 2. |
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Naslund leads the Canucks with 28 goals and 64 points in 64 games this season. He has scored seven goals and 22 points in his last 27 games, after scoring 21 goals and 42 points in his first 37 contests. |
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The Minnesota Wild have traded Mitchell and a 2007 draft pick to the Dallas Stars for defensemen Martin Skoula and Shawn Belle. Mitchell, in 64 games with the Wild this season, has two goals, eight points and a plus-15 rating. He was playing in his fourth full season with Minnesota. |