“I was very fortunate when I was a free agent last summer to talk to as many teams as I did. It’s an awesome process when, for the first time in your career you’re hearing that you’re a good player. These guys like you, yeah, you’re this, you’re perfect, like wow! You haven’t heard that ever. From the Canucks standpoint, I think they were going through things with [Nikita Zadorov]. I think, at the time, there were some certain decisions they were making up front with forwards.
