Swedish right wing Samuelsson joins Canucks

VANCOUVER (Reuters) - The Vancouver Canucks beefed up their offense by signing Swedish right winger Mikael Samuelsson on a three-year contract, the team said 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 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.

In other moves on the third day of free agent signing, the New York Rangers agreed terms with forward Tyler Arnason and the Stanley Cup champion Pittsburgh Penguins retained Ukrainian forward Ruslan Fedotenko on a one-year contract.

Arnason, 30, joins the Rangers from the Colorado Avalanche where he posted five goals and 17 assists last season for 22 points.

Fedotenko joined the Penguins as a free agent 12 months ago and registered 16 goals and 39 points for the team last season.

The 30-year-old won the Stanley Cup in 2004 with the Tampa Bay Lightning before adding a second with the Penguins.

(Writing by Mark Lamport-Stokes in Los Angeles; Editing by Sonia Oxley and Greg Stutchbury)