Vancouver Canucks sign Vilmer Alriksson to 3-year, entry-level contract

The Vancouver Canucks person signed guardant Vilmer Alriksson to a three-year, entry-level contract, the NHL nine announced Sunday

The 19-year-old from Stockholm, Sweden, had 17 goals and 16 assists successful 67 games with the Ontario Hockey League’s Guelph Storm past season.

Before joining the Storm, Alriksson played 43 games successful Sweden for Djurgardens Jr., wherever helium had 21 points (12 goals, 9 assists) and 22 punishment minutes.

The six-foot-six, 234-pound guardant was primitively selected by Vancouver successful the 4th round, 107th overall, astatine the 2023 NHL draft.

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Alriksson made an contiguous interaction with the Canucks this pre-season, throwing a large deed connected Seattle’s Logan Morrison past warring seasoned John Hayden successful a 3-1 triumph implicit the Kraken connected Tuesday.

Canucks wide manager Patrik Allvin said Alriksson has had a beardown grooming campy with the Canucks.

“We truly similar his size, skating quality and skillset and we volition proceed to show his advancement and enactment with him this twelvemonth to assistance Vilmer get acceptable to instrumentality different measurement guardant successful his hockey career,” Allvin said successful a release.