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VANCOUVER — When Jannik Hansen was pulled from the lineup right before the Canucks hit the ice against Detroit, he knew something was brewing.
Hansen, the subject of intense trade speculation, was forced to watch his teammates play two periods of a 3-2 overtime loss on Tuesday to the Red Wings before being informed he was now a member of the San Jose Sharks.
Vancouver, which dealt veteran Alex Burrows on Monday to the Ottawa Senators, is sending Hansen to the Sharks in exchange for left winger Nikolay Goldobin and a conditional fourth-round pick in 2017.
“It was a lot of waiting around. I wasn’t told anything,” Hansen said of the mid-game trade. “I was sitting around for the first and second period still waiting for something, then (general manager Jim Benning) called and let me know I was being traded. It’s a lot of unknowns that you have zero control over.”