You are not dreaming.
After months of speculation and a meeting last week with the Canucks of which we told our readers that we had good vibes, Andrei Kuzmenko has opted to sign with the Vancouver Canucks.
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The highly coveted KHL free agent finished second in the league standings last season and aroused the interest of almost every NHL club.
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He met with several clubs and ended his visits to NHL cities last week with a visit to Vancouver a day after being in Edmonton.
This was not the first in-person meeting between Kuzmenko and the Canucks, as Donnie and Dhali’s Rick Dhaliwal reported that general manager Patrik Allvin and head coach Bruce Boudreau also met with the Russian winger in Michigan. last week.
Canucks GM Patrik Allvin has a long-standing relationship with Kuzmenko’s agent, and Milstein spoke on the Canucks Conversation podcast about how Allvin has seen and recorded Kuzmenko for the past nine years.
We’ve seen Kuzmenko’s production steadily increase over his last seven seasons in the KHL and he’s ready to make the leap to the NHL. It’s not just about scoring with Kuzmenko, we liked the engine he has and how he does a great job creating attack quickly from creating losses in the neutral zone. There is no guarantee that he will come and be a star in the NHL, but he has the intangibles and stats that make us believe he should definitely be an NHL caliber player.
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Kuzmenko’s contract with the Canucks will be a one-year ELC, and full contract details will be available soon.
We are recording an emergency episode of the Canucks talk podcast and will be releasing it this afternoon!
More to come.
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