In an attempt to ice the best team they can, the Vancouver Canucks opted to sign professional tryout winger Jack Skille to a roster spot that would have been occupied by Emerson Etem otherwise. As a result, the Canucks placed Etem on waivers to reassign him to the Utica Comets. That project didn’t work out, as Etem was claimed off waivers by the Anaheim Ducks.
As the Canucks are attempting a “rebuild on the fly”, losing Etem for nothing is the peak of several questionable moves.
First, the club had a chance to claim 24-year-old winger Teemu Pulkkinen off waivers.