NHL Rumors: Are the Vancouver Canucks interested in bringing back Elias Lindholm?

Donnie & Dhali: Elliotte Friedman on the Donnie and Dhali show talking about the Vancouver Canucks and pending UFAs and RFAs, but especially Elias Lindholm.

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Dhaliwal: “Elliotte, boy-oh-boy, the Canucks got a lot of free stuff. Up to nine are UFAs or RFAs. Which ones do you expect to happen and which ones will be tough contracts to do in your eyes?

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Friedman: “I would say, you know Rick, I’ve actually been thinking about this a lot this morning. Me, I think this, I think they’re going to run into some guys that you don’t think you expect to be able to keep you and that doesn’t mean they’re going to be able to keep you.

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I would expect them to talk to (Elias) Lindholm and just say, ‘What does this look like? Give us a reasonable ballpark of what I can take.’ You know, I think they know exactly what (Nikita) Zadorov wants.

You know, I think they, I think there’s, I think they’re going to try to make a choice. And I don’t know if Lindholm will happen. I’d bet it’s almost impossible. But if you were to ask me this morning, who is the best forward the Canucks would try to re-sign? I would say maybe he is. So I think what they’re going to do is at least they’re going to ask and say, ‘look, what are we supposed to do here?’

And another thing that Jim Rutherford and Patrik Allvin taught us is to expect the unexpected. You know, it’s easy to say ‘We can’t do this. We will not do this.’ How many times in the last year have we looked at the Canucks and said ‘they can’t do something’ and Allvin and Rutherford, try something different or do something different.

And that never means to me, they will be able to do different things. but I have learned to expect in this matter, in this group of Canucks front office, they will try to do things differently.

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So I think they will try to do some things that we didn’t expect. To save other players. I’m not saying they will succeed but I think they will try. And I think they will try to keep Lindholm, I just, I don’t know if it will happen. “