Breaking: UFA Daniel Sprong Chooses New NHL Home

As the top remaining unrestricted free agent, Daniel Sprong's next move was on many teams' radars. Now, Sprong has agreed to a very team-friendly deal with the Vancouver Canucks.

It’s a 1 year deal for Daniel Sprong in Vancouver
— Rick Dhaliwal (@DhaliwalSports) July 20, 2024

It's a one-year contract, at a huge bargain rate of $975,000. He's coming off a $2 million one-year deal in Detroit, and AFP Analytics had projected him after the season as being able to pull in an AAV of over $4 million.

We reported on Friday that the Canucks had "high interest" in Sprong, and they've obviously worked hard over the past 24 hours at getting a deal done.

Sprong had broken through the past two seasons as a very underrated complementary scorer in the bottom six, posting 39 goals over that time, with 89 combined points, first with the Seattle Kraken in 2022-23 (21 goals) and then with the Detroit Red Wings this past season (18 goals). His 5-on-5 scoring-per-60-minutes over the past two seasons was surpassed by only 10 other players in the NHL. Sprong played just 12 minutes per night in accumulating those numbers.

Steal. Absolute steal. I’m with @JeffMarek on this; I don’t understand why there isn’t more love for Daniel Sprong. All he does is seem to score. https://t.co/EE0XT4EG7E
— Dustin Forbes (@dforbes91) July 20, 2024

All Daniel Sprong does is play like 2 minutes a game, lose his hair, and score goals. It's actually nuts. #LGRW https://t.co/opu94eZz0J pic.twitter.com/bZ8VytIrtL
— JFresh (@JFreshHockey) January 21, 2024

The 27-year-old has a bullet of a shot, and may even find his way into the top-six with the Canucks after his recent success.