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Ekman-Larsson didn’t see the buyout coming. “Look, we loved living in Vancouver and I loved playing for the Canucks,” Ekman-Larsson said. “So it was disappointing.

Ekman-Larsson will likely never be the offensive conduit he once was in Arizona, where he averaged 24:38 of ice time and 16.5 goals per season from 2013-19.

The Vancouver Canucks took the dramatic step of buying out the four remaining seasons of Oliver Ekman-Larsson’s contract when the NHL’s first buyout window opened this past Friday. It was a ...