Big, strong, has an active stick, a mean streak and a strong slap shot. Seems pretty good, doesn’t it? What if I told you that the Canucks could get their hands on this player for nothing but a contract. They don’t have to give up any draft picks or trade any of their own players….
January will be the Canucks’ biggest test this season. More specifically, the Canucks have multiple games in the month of January against some of the best teams in the league. Two games against the Florida Panthers, games against the Carolina Hurricanes, Tampa Bay Lightning, along with Pacific Division matchups against the Calgary Flames and Edmonton…
Christmas came late this year with the Canucks returning to action on Wednesday and coming right back with another game on Thursday night. After a come from behind, overtime win against the Anaheim Ducks, the Vancouver Canucks rolled into Crypto.com Arena to stake their seven-game win streak against the diamond-handed Los Angeles Kings. Justin Dowling…
Not even a two week break could stop the Boudreau Boost. Fresh off their 2-1 overtime victory over the Anaheim Ducks last night, the Canucks will look for their eighth straight win in Los Angeles tonight against the Kings. And if you ask the players and coaches, they’ll tell you the momentum of winning six…
Fresh off a thrilling overtime victory over the Anaheim Ducks on Wednesday night, the Vancouver Canucks have been hit with some bad news. Forward Justin Dowling has been added to the NHL’s COVID-19 protocol, the club announced Thursday afternoon. Prior to puck drop yesterday, the Canucks placed forwards Brock Boeser and Phil Di Giuseppe into…
Welcome back to the final edition of WDYTT 2021, the only hockey column on the internet that doesn’t break itself into two halves like the NHL season. Speaking of the end of the year, it’s here. Unless you’re reading this article really late, you’re currently experiencing the final days of 2021 (and hopefully some Vancouver…
Though it’d only been 13 days, it felt like an eternity since the Vancouver Canucks took the ice for an NHL game. On Wednesday night, the Canucks were back in action as they rolled into Anaheim to face the Ducks. They were without their hottest scorer as Brock Boeser entered the NHL’s COVID protocol on…
With COVID-19 continuing to cause major issues for the NHL, on Sunday the league announced they’d be bringing back a few of the safety protocols from the pandemic shortened 2021 season, most notably, the return of taxi squads. And while last year’s taxi squad experiment proved to be a real struggle for the Canucks, there’s…
The Vancouver Canucks have placed two players and a support staff member in COVID-19 protocols, the club announced Wednesday.
When Jim Rutherford was introduced as the Vancouver Canucks’ president, one area he wanted to focus on to improve the team was searching for college free agents who can come in as 23/24-year-olds and immediately contribute at the NHL or AHL level. There is once again a large crop of highly-touted NCAA free agents coming…
Many words were used to describe the Vancouver Canucks’ power play during the early stages of the season. Abysmal, dreadful, horrendous, ineffective — the list goes on — but one word stuck out most of all. The Canucks power play was stagnant. It had little to no movement or flow, and rarely looked like a threat…
We may end up seeing Tucker Poolman as a healthy scratch not even halfway through the first year of a four-year, 10 million dollar contract. Early in his Canucks career, it’s safe to say that Poolman has not come as advertised. At the time of the signing, Jim Benning said, “losing Chris Tanev hurt us,”…
