Confirmed with Link: Canucks sign F Daniel Sprong to 1-Year Deal ($975K)

[AlainVigneaultsGum]

 

[geebster]

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They are more than friends. You heard it here first.

 

[Jerry the great]

They are more than friends. You heard it here first.

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[cc]

It's good that sprong is a buddy with EP. It suggests there shouldn't be any character or locker room concerns with him

I'm a little concerned that EP on a potential line with Sprong and Debrusk, he will try to set them up to score too often rather than just ripping the puck in himself. I hope to see him be more selfish and shoot much more than he did last season

 

[AlainVigneaultsGum]

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They play DnD together.

 

[carjackmalone]

Sprong has a way to high opinion of himself as a player ,he has turned down multiple call ups to the Dutch national team because he thinks it will ruin his eligibility to play for Team Canada

He is not getting a call up to Canada

 

[MS]

Sprong has a way to high opinion of himself as a player ,he has turned down multiple call ups to the Dutch national team because he thinks it will ruin his eligibility to play for Team Canada

He is not getting a call up to Canada

He might have a shot as one of our goalies given the state of things there.

 

[RobertKron]

Sprong has a way to high opinion of himself as a player ,he has turned down multiple call ups to the Dutch national team because he thinks it will ruin his eligibility to play for Team Canada

He is not getting a call up to Canada

Spengler.

 

[AlainVigneaultsGum]

He might have a shot as one of our goalies given the state of things there.

Lmao

 

[VanJack]

I don't know how Allvin does it, year after year ago. Last July 1st, Pius Suter mystifyingly remained on the UFA board for more than a month, before the Canucks pounced and signed him to a 'value contract'.

This July 1st it was Daniel Sprong, who languished on the UFA board long after free agent frenzy. And the Canucks signed him to a one-year, $950,000 contract that now rates as one of the top-10 'value contracts' in the entire league.

Obviously other teams weren't entire sold on him. But you'd think that with NHL teams desperate for scoring help, a guy who's a threat to hit the 20-goal mark, even in limited minutes, would be in far greater demand.

But I guess sometimes it just happens--that a player simply falls through the cracks. And the Canucks grabbed a guy who's maybe a bit of 'risk', but the potential 'reward' is high. And one year at only a couple of hundred grand over the league minimum, is 'found money'.