Les Canucks de Vancouver ont signé Jonathan Lekkerimäki
General Manager Patrik Allvin announced today that the #Canucks have signed forward Jonathan Lekkerimäki to a three-year, entry-level contract.
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— Vancouver Canucks (@Canucks) May 6, 2023
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This makes no sense. He’s a draft bust. Why sign him?
Hopefully the strong end of the year continues. He always had a higher ceiling regardless of how this year went
Second coming of Elias Pettersson, after the defenseman Elias Pettersson.
Elite talent, here we go!
He may come to camp, but I think it’s expected he’ll spend another year in Sweden and have the first year slide, right?
Another year of pro in Sweden and then over to Van.
I really hope the Canucks get a solid dman in the draft this year, if not Bedard haha
That’s a W
Glad to see him on board! Will be interested to see which SHL team he ends up playing for. Would be great to see him with Färjestad so that he could play with Forsell
People were talking about him being loaned back to Sweden if his team was promoted, did that happen? What’s the outlook for him right now for next season?
I love how these things always leak a few days before – and the media pretends that it was just a rumour, when in fact, they were told exactly what was happening by the team…
its an 8×8 right?
We’re becoming Swedish House Mafia
I really do wish our Swedes would play over here and get used to American hockey
I don’t follow the SHL but I to compare him to Noah Ostlund who was taken right after Lekkerimaki in the first round. They both play on the same team. Ostlund had a better regular season; however, he put up 5 points in 12 games compared to Lekkerimaki’s 15 points in 15 games in the post season.
Seems to have rebounded hard after whatever ailments he was dealing with and is clearly a gamer when games matter most. Hard to hate on that.