Welcome to the third and final installment of my 2021-22 point projection for every Canucks player who will make regular appearances in the lineup. Before starting this series, I had anticipated that I would just predict stats for whoever makes the club’s final 23-man roster. However, with the number of injuries that have occurred since,…
The 2021-22 NHL season is just a week away, which marks the start of a new era for the Canucks. The club underwent major overhauls, and following Elias Pettersson’s new bridge deal, now has a definitive three-year window to compete. However, many questions still surround this roster, and there are three storylines in particular that…
Welcome back to part two of my 2021-22 point projection for every Vancouver Canucks skater who makes the final 23-man roster for opening night. I made predictions for the team’s top nine forwards in part one, and today we will look at the five blueliners who are locks on the backend plus the two projected…
Welcome to the first installment of a three-part series where I will project point totals for every Canucks player who makes the opening night roster. Today, I will focus on the nine forwards that most people expect to make the team. We will be listing players by their overall point total from highest to lowest….
Over the past few seasons, the Canucks’ lack of forward depth left the team with few options when it came to line juggling. The club needed to deploy players on certain lines to avoid matchup problems, and the top six were often left cleaning up the mess left by the third and fourth units. Fortunately,…
Dump and chase. Three words that Canucks fans are all too familiar with and might have come to despise over the past few years. It’s the system that the club has mostly used in the Travis Green era, to varying levels of success. This forecheck-heavy style might’ve been well-suited to an older group, but that…
Originally, this article was supposed to cover three contracts, but news broke that Jason Dickinson signed a three-year deal with an AAV of $2.65 million just moments before I started writing. Thanks for spoiling the fun, Benning. Jokes aside, Dickinson’s new contract makes it easier to predict how much cap space the Canucks have left…
Jim Benning promised Canucks fans an aggressive offseason, and boy, did we ever get one. Over the span of 48 hours, he bought out Braden Holtby, traded exiled Nate Schmidt to Winnipeg, and signed over a dozen players in free agency. And that doesn’t even include pulling off one of the most complicated trades in the…
Just when you thought that Jim Benning had run out of time again, the Vancouver Canucks GM pulled a rabbit out of his hat by trading a 2021 3rd round pick in exchange for Dallas Stars centre Jason Dickinson. The initial response from the fanbase has been overwhelmingly positive, and rightfully so. Dickinson is a…
The Vancouver Canucks will have $10.875 million committed to Antoine Roussel, Jay Beagle, and Loui “elite AHLer” Eriksson for the 2021-22 season. That’s over 13% of the cap tied to two replacement level forwards and another who’ll potentially star for the Fraser Valley Voodoos. And it doesn’t even include Jake Virtanen’s $2.55 million deal, which…
One of the most important questions for the Vancouver Canucks heading into next season is where J.T. Miller will play in the lineup. The 28-year-old got an extended look at centre after Elias Pettersson suffered a season-ending injury, which made many fans wonder if he should be the team’s 3C instead of a top-line winger….
Welcome back to another edition of Exploiting the Expa—oh wait, that’s Stephan Roget’s line, not mine. In my defence, Stephan has been listing so many players for the Canucks to target that I’ve started to think like him. With that said, we’re not going to worry about the Expansion Draft and focus instead on any…
