NHL Free Agency Underway: Surprises and Drama Unfold

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00:00what's your reaction to the start of free agency in the nhl quick cane update i can't confirm it

00:06obviously because it's just word on the street type of deal but word is he got sucker punched

00:11by a dj all right for whatever reason i don't know if they go back i don't know what the deal is

00:17but that's supposedly what happened that he got psyched like he was on a dance floor he got punched

00:23and he was held back from his own friends evander kane was from from doing anything back actually

00:30which is pretty yeah yeah which is pretty smart of him he was held back so just quickly with that

00:36that's from what i understand he got sucker punched by by a dj and a dj booth um as far as brock besser

00:42is concerned very surprising in a sense that the vancouver caducs offered brock besser

00:49an eight million dollar a year deal last year right like mid-season they said all right you're

00:54a free agent coming up here how's um how's 40 million sound for five years eight million dollars

01:00a year and he said well you know what let's see what happens and let's see how this plays out i'm

01:06going to test the market i personally thought that potentially was going to go home scott the

01:11minnesota wild never signed anybody though so i guess it was a stupid thought of mine

01:14but brock besser is from uh he's from the state of minnesota his father uh died last year he's very

01:23close with his family his mother's there alone so i was thinking you know what i think this is where

01:27he's going with this as far as vancouver i will say he is super popular scott in vancouver and now he's

01:34they want to build statue because he just stayed all right but he was already a very very popular player

01:39but you have to understand besser a lot of his goals came because of jt miller and he was close

01:46with jt miller and jt miller and pedersen got into it so they traded miller right and then besser kind

01:52of lost one of his best friends on the team and oh yeah the guy that set him up right so then besser's

01:58production went down and people like what's wrong with besser what's wrong with besser is jt miller's

02:03not doing all the dirty work on the ice now right so there was the canucks had a lot of drama rick

02:08talk it's gone now obviously but it seems as though they've really done a good job scott of

02:14clearing the air and something they've talked a lot about in this offseason do you want to be a

02:20canuck do you want to be a vancouver canuck right and brock besser just sent the message that yes i

02:26want to be a vancouver canuck for the rest of my career evander came from vancouver said yes i want to

02:31be a vancouver canuck jacob de brosk is from uh vancouver said i want to be a a vancouver canuck

02:39that's why they got their eye on barzell as well they're looking for like vancouver kids vancouver

02:44guys who grew up liking the canucks they want to have some pride with their organization but quite

02:50a surprise scott and brock besser let's be real he's a good player talking about a guy that can give

02:54you 30 goals right like it would have been a big deal if he signed anywhere else i know it'll be a

02:58struggle he stayed in vancouver but if he would have signed like with the lease people would have

03:02been like oh my god brock besser signed with the lease they they did a pretty nice job all things

03:06considering if you were to vancouver canucks i think in the offseason they just gave thatcher

03:10demko they extended him for three years which is a perfect length because he's always hurt but he's

03:16really good so let's take a gamble here three-year deal carter garland is back brock besser's back you

03:22bring in evander kane a lot of people think they had to steal a draft um on on friday night as well

03:28i mean they got the team they got the team captain of team canada and the youngest captain in the

03:33western hockey league canucks are on a little bit of a roll there ain't no stanley cup parade coming

03:38next summer scott but they look like a playoff team

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