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a blog dedicated to nhl player alexander edler • former teams: canucks, kings • currently: retired

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@sgagner89: Cotswolds 🇬🇧

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https://theprovince.com/sports/hockey/nhl/vancouver-canucks/friend-alex-edler-might-fit-development-coach

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via sgagner89 instagram story (Apr. 21, 2026)

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@LAKings: Some familiar faces in the house for Kopi’s last regular season home game 🖤

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via muskokahockey instagram (Jan. 8, 2026)

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@sgagner89: ✌🏼 2025. You were a good one!

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Dec. 14, 2025

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Dec. 14, 2025

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via Sam Gagner’s Instagram story (Dec. 14, 2025)

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Dec. 14, 2025

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“He was the Canucks.” 🥺

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Oct. 13, 2025

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via Kevin Bieksa’s instagram story (July 31, 2025)

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@sportsnetmurph: 🦅

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“He’s such a great person and another guy that was a tremendous leader when I was a young guy. I’m sure I’ll be hearing from him at some point, not only about [the Canucks most points by a defenceman record] but just about catching up.”

Quinn Hughes about Alex Edler (Apr. 16, 2025)

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“I think that just speaks to his cleverness, smartness, being able to stick around for so long, because you're never going to be the same player the first day you enter and when you leave. So he realized that, ‘Okay, I'm not putting up 40, 50 points anymore playing on the first power play like he did for some years. I need to do something else if I want to stay in this league.’

And yeah, like you mentioned, he developed into one of those shot-blocking defensive penalty killing defensemen instead of more on the offensive sides, which we saw early on. So again, that just speaks to the ability to adapt in order to get a longevity here. So definitely he evolved maybe a couple of times.

He wasn't the smooth puck moving, power play quarterbacking defenseman the first couple of years either. He developed into that and then he kind of went back to the safe, steady Eddy as we knew him towards the end of his career. And again, recognizing when it was time to switch, so kudos to him.”

Jannik Hansen on Alex Edler (Oct 11, 2024)

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“He was imposing. He had a sneaky mean streak to him that you would never expect from him. He laid thunderous hit, these cold shoulders that guys didn't expect. You could see the frame he had, but he had a calmness to him. But then again, when he laid into these physical checks, yeah, you were nothing short of a, ‘good thing it wasn't me’ kind of thing that got run over there.”

Jannik Hansen on Alex Edler (Oct 11, 2024)