« Après une excellente saison avec les Bruins de Boston en 2015/2016, Loui Eriksson a décroché un contrat de rêve avec les Canucks de Vancouver – De nombreuses années difficiles sur la glace ont commencé. C’est ce que le nouveau joueur de Frölunda raconte au Göteborgs-Posten, lorsqu’il revient sur ses 1 050 matchs dans la LNH. À Vancouver, il a été pendant des périodes chahuté. Loui dit qu’il est difficile de repenser à ces années, quand il avait l’impression que personne n’était de son côté. – Ça m’a beaucoup coûté. Il y avait tellement de pression sur moi sous tous les angles et puis ça devient difficile de jouer aussi. Après quelques saisons de temps de jeu limité, les Coyotes de l’Arizona l’ont récupéré. Il a ainsi terminé sa carrière dans la LNH avec une saison complète – et a réalisé son rêve de jouer plus de 1 000 matchs dans la meilleure ligue de hockey au monde ». https://omni.se/a/3EpwWd
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The guy was a great defensive forward but he refused to work harder after landing his big contract the dude just floated around doing the bear minimum so yeah ppl were going to be mad and pissed off when you are being paid to be a elite two way player who can score 25 or more goals.
He sweats more thinking about his time here than his time playing here.
He can blame whatever external factors, but he just did not live up to that contract in any way.
This is why i don’t like Free Agency. That particular year (2016) was absolutely devastating:
Milan Lucic, 7 yrs, $42M
Kyle Okposo, 7 yrs, $42M
Andrew Ladd, 7 yrs, $38.5M
Loui Eriksson, 6 yrs, $36M
Frans Nielsen, 6 yrs, $31.25M
David Backes, 5 yrs, $30M
Darren Helm, 5 yrs, $19.25M
Troy Brouwer, 4 yrs, $18M
Cry me a 6 million dollar per year river. Jesus.
Maybe if he tried a little harder a little more often he’d have been a little better liked.
Crying into his fist fulls of cash
Lool he should’ve accepted the fact that he needed to step up his play and owned it in the media. Instead he was silent all 6 years and played with no spark. Was our highest paid forward and most experienced player at some points… most other players of his pedigree would’ve shown more leadership. Don’t feel bad for loui lol
He literally made zero plays that made me go wow ‘that’s a 30 goal scorer’ he was flat from day one. His most memorable goal was on himself.
simple, if you dont want that pressure from everyone just dont take 6 mi/year
Could take 2mi and everyone would be ok with his time here
I still remember that time he beat out an icing call and the fans lost their minds, that’s how low the bar was at the end.
Wild that all 3 ex-Canucks from this trade are NHL UFAs…
Dump and change on a 3-2. Will always be my favourite Louie memory