The Vancouver Canucks are paying Oliver Ekman-Larsson a hefty sum to join another team.Vancouver plans to buy out the highly paid defenseman, his agent Kevin Epp told CHEK's Rick Dhaliwal. Ekman-Larsson will become an unrestricted free agent as a result.Epp said the Canucks informed him of the decis...
Heard it in a reddit comment (yeah still using both) that this makes it easier to negotiate other upcoming defencemen contracts. So there’s a plus at least?
I really thought they were going to wait a year or two.