Agent: For a lot of hockey reasons, might be better for Eriksson to play somewhere else

The rumoured desire of the Canucks moving Loui Eriksson has been at the forefront of the news cycle over the last week and this morning JP Barry, who is Loui Eriksson’s agent, was on Sportsnet 650.

Needless to say, the rumours are going to kick into high gear after his comments

With both parties having a desire for a fresh start, it now becomes a matter of when the Canucks deal Eriksson and what the deal ends up being. In fact, it appears that Loui Eriksson’s camp will be actively involved in making this happen:

This shouldn’t come as a shock, Eriksson just hasn’t fit with the team since signing his contract as a free agent. He was originally signed to help the Sedin twins in their finals years but it just never clicked. He then never seemed to click anywhere else and thus saw his role diminish leading to a healthy scratch later last season. With the Canucks turning towards their youth, it was hard to envision where Eriksson would fit which is likely what has the Eriksson camp motivated to get a trade done.

Eriksson does currently have a full no-trade clause.

Normally, a buy-out might be the next option but given the structure of his deal, there is zero reasons to do so:

The Canucks would only save about $450,000 in cap hit for the next two years and then $2.5M in the final year of his deal. Given that, the trade will be the best way to rectify this and the main reason why the Eriksson for Milan Lucic deal has been making the rounds in the rumour mills.

Ultimately, the organization will have to find something that makes sense before pulling the trigger but it appears that we are heading down the road of something getting done.

The full interview can be found here: