Canucks lose another player to free agency as Toffoli signs in Montreal
Posted October 12, 2020 11:55 am.
Last Updated October 13, 2020 8:46 am.
VANCOUVER — The Vancouver Canucks have lost another player from last season’s playoff team to unrestricted free agency.
Tyler Toffoli signed a four-year deal with the Montreal Canadians for $17 million, or $4.25 annually, on Monday.
Toffoli, 28, split last season between the Los Angeles Kings and Vancouver Canucks, scoring 24 goals and 44 points. He added four points in seven playoff games for the Canucks.
A member of the 2014 Stanley Cup champion Kings, Toffoli has 145 goals and 300 points in 525 games over eight seasons.
The #Canucks forward is heading east after signing with the Habs. @NEWS1130 https://t.co/tcuycAYFb8
— Adam Forsythe (@adamforsythe) October 12, 2020
The signing is the latest loss for a Canucks team that advanced to the Western Conference semi-finals during the playoffs, played with a revised format after a pause due to COVID-19.
First, goalie Jacob Markstrom signed for six years at $6 million a season with the Calgary Flames on Friday.
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Defenseman Chris Tanev followed Markstrom to Calgary on the weekend, signing a four-year, $18-million contract after spending a decade in Vancouver.
Tanev had 20 points in 69 games this past regular season while playing on the team’s top penalty-killing unit. He also scored the series-clinching goal in overtime to eliminate the Minnesota Wild in the play-in round of the playoffs.
Defenseman and Richmond native Troy Stetcher also agreed on a two-year deal with the Detroit Red Wings on Saturday. Stetcher had 17 points in 69 games during the regular season, and added two goals in the playoffs, including an emotional game-winning goal to defeat the St. Louis Blues 5-2 to take the opener of their best-of-seven NHL playoff series.
After the goal, Stecher pointed to the sky afterward to acknowledge his father, Peter, who passed away on Father’s Day due to complications from diabetes.
Canucks back-up goaltender Louis Domingue also signed with the Flames on the weekend for one year at $700,000. In 17 appearances last year, 16 of which came as a member of the New Jersey Devils and one with the Vancouver Canucks, Domingue had a 3-9 record, 3.81 goals-against average and .882 save percentage.
