When Quinn Hughes signed his six-year contract extension with the Vancouver Canucks on October 3, seven days after team’s first pre-season game, fans expected to see one of two versions of the defenceman in the 2021–22 season.
Brock Boeser was the Canucks’ best offensive player during 2021’s shortened and reimagined 56-game NHL season. He led the team in points, goals — both on the power play and at even strength — and shots. When fellow top-liner Elias Pettersson was kept out of the lineup due to injury, Boeser, alongside JT Miller, picked…
It wasn’t a picture-perfect year for 29-year-old Tanner Pearson, who finished the season prematurely with an upper-body injury back in April. The Kitchener, Ontario native recorded his best season to date in his second year in Vancouver during the shortened 2019-20 season. Two years later, the former Stanley Cup Champion is egging his way closer…
Moves will be made this offseason. This may already seem like a given considering the Vancouver Canucks have missed the playoffs for six out of the last seven seasons; however, the bigger elephant in the room is still the team’s lack of cap space. Vancouver’s projected cap space extends itself into the negative column…
You didn’t need to watch the end-of-season availability session between general manager Patrik Allvin and president Jim Rutherford to hear through the grapevine that a contract extension for head coach Bruce Boudreau is not yet in the making. Heck, even media members themselves were quick to ask clarifying questions. The revelation caught many people by…
This year might not have been all glitz and glamour for the Vancouver Canucks, but it sure was one heck of a ride. That being said, should this year be deemed a success? Obviously not, as the club didn’t make the playoffs for the second straight year, and for the fifth time in seven years. But…
When Canucks fans look back at the Jim Benning era, not a lot of successful blockbuster trades come to mind, except for one. Backtrack to June of 2019 when the NHL draft was taking place in Vancouver, Benning & CO. acquired Tampa Bay forward JT Miller in exchange for goalie prospect Marek Mazanec, Vancouver’s third-round…
A deal made one day before the March 21st NHL trade deadline — combined with a trio of losses in previous days — had Canucks fans anticipating that management wouldn’t wait until the end of the season to cut a few threads loose. Although that wasn’t necessarily the case, the first moves made by the…
Vancouver Canucks head coach Bruce Boudreau recently voiced his appreciation for the player development of Vancouver’s AHL team, the Abbotsford Canucks, and more specifically, their players, who have logged some minutes for the big club during their final stretch of regular-season games. The Canucks have had a few AHL players slot into their lineup quite…
The Vancouver Canucks squared off for the second straight game against the Vegas Golden Knights in four days, with the opportunity for a little bit more than payback on the line. Coming into tonight‘s game, the Canucks had yet to beat the Knights in regulation in the regular season in the team’s short five-year history….
The defencemen who came home. Kyle Burroughs and Brad Hunt were two of many Canucks offseason free agency signings heading into the 2021-22 year. The pair put pen to paper after playing limited time for both of their respective clubs last year— the Colorado Avalanche and the Minnesota Wild. Burroughs notched a two-way, two-year…
The Vancouver Canucks kicked off their four-game eastern swing in the big apple against a well-worked New York Rangers squad who has seen action three times in four nights When these two met last at Rogers Arena in November, it took three periods for Vancouver to draw even after surrendering two power play goals in…
