Mikael Samuelsson celebrates after scoring the game-winning goal in overtime against the Chicago Blackhawks in Game 2 of their NHL Western Conference Final hockey series in Detroit, Michigan, May 19, 2009.
REUTERS/Mark Blinch
VANCOUVER (Reuters) - The Vancouver Canucks beefed up their offense by signing Swedish right winger Mikael Samuelsson on a three-year deal on Friday.
Free agent Samuelsson, 32, has spent the last four seasons with the Detroit Red Wings, winning the Stanley Cup in 2008 and reaching the finals again this year.
A member of Sweden's gold-medal-winning team at the 2006 Turin Olympics, he has registered 86 goals and 208 points in 466 NHL games.
Samuelsson, whose move was announced on the team's website (canucks.nhl.com), joins compatriots Daniel and Henrik Sedin in Vancouver, the identical twins having agreed matching five-year contracts to stay with the Canucks earlier this week.
(Writing by Mark Lamport-Stokes in Los Angeles; Editing by Sonia Oxley)
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