Back in January, Jeff Marek at CBC noted that the frontrunners for Brunnstrom were Detroit, Toronto and Vancouver. A few days after that, Helene St. James in her Detroit Free Press blog commented, “I hear he’s already made up his mind about coming to Detroit.” (Interesting, although “I hear” doesn’t really say much about her sourcing. But maybe in Detroit, “I hear” is proper format for breaking news? Who knows. Wings fans/journalists = freakshow). :)

Meanwhile, Dreger’s guess (and let’s face it: if a deal is still 7-10 days away, he’s guessing about any detail JP Barry didn’t personally dictate to him on Saturday) is a deal of 2+ years for $2+ million per. Morrison’s guess was about 3 years.

You know, all of this would be sort of exciting if this weren’t the Vancouver Canucks of 2008 we were talking about. Has Dave Nonis even run this by his favorite coach yet?? I fear Alain Vigneault may have strenuous objections to any player that might fantasize about spending time in the offensive zone…

But while the excitement lasts, more on Brunnstrom can be found in a brief November 2007 profile in The Hockey News, plus video here and here.

Be sure to check it all out. I think it’s important that we all appreciate his exceptional skill level before Vancouver signs him and turns him into a $2 million traffic cone.

Update 12:30pm PT: George Malik at MLive has more on the Brunnstrom story.
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*photo from CBC.ca