We are getting down to the end of the prospects rankings and with that, we are also nearing the top. The Canucks took a late-round swing on the offensive high school defenceman back in the fourth round of the 2017 NHL Entry Draft. That draft is beginning to look like Jim Benning’s best as he…
After one of the biggest feel-good wins of the season, the Vancouver Canucks took to the ice on Tuesday night to face the Toronto Maple Leafs once again. The Canucks got a couple of bodies back in the lineup with Nate Schmidt, Olli Juolevi, Jake Virtanen, and Matthew Highmore drawing in for Tuesday’s tilt. Thatcher…
It’s been another tough week in Canuckland but we saw the Vancouver Canucks back on the ice this past Sunday. It’s time for another Monday mailbag. I’m covering for David Quadrelli this week as he was in attendance for the return game on Sunday. Let’s just get right into it and see what the great…
Coming in at number three on my list is winger sort of turned centre, Kole Lind. Lind is the perfect example of long-term development and is now just one final step away from the NHL as he currently sits on the Canucks’ Taxi Squad. He has spent part of four seasons with the Utica Comets…
The point of doing these prospects rankings was to get a feel for how the 2020-21 season has affected the Vancouver Canucks’ prospects and then to rank them from what we have seen over the past six months. Goaltender Mikey DiPietro has not played in one game over the past six months. In fact, it’s…
As we move through my top-10 Canucks prospects list, we get to the player whose play this season has risen his stock more than any other prospect. It’s time to talk about the beast that is Jonah Gadjovich. The 22-year-old winger finished last year with 13 goals and four assists in 38 AHL games with…
Another day, another top-notch playoff performance from the Vancouver Canucks’ top prospect. SKA lost their first three games of the KHL’s Western Conference finals. Since then they have won two games to make the series interesting. They have won the past two games on the back of Vasily Podkolzin. In their two wins, SKA has…
Coming in at number six in my Vancouver Canucks prospects rankings is right-shot defenceman Jett Woo. The most fun name of the top-10 is all business on the ice and plays a defensive-minded game with an above-average physical game while possessing good skating and puck-moving abilities. Woo was drafted 37th overall in the 2018 NHL…
“This is a huge opportunity for me. I’ve been waiting for this for the past few years. Just going through all these growing pains early in my career, it built up to this, this opportunity.” This is what Kole Lind said when asked about getting the chance to be a part of the Vancouver Canucks’…
Vancouver Canucks General Manager Jim Benning was joined by team physician Dr. Jim Bovard in a media availability on Friday morning. The first 25 minutes were intended to be questions about COVID-19 and how it has affected the Canucks organization and what the plan is moving forward. Dr. Bovard took a majority of the questions…
Moving along with the top-10 of our Canucks prospect rankings, we arrive at the big goal-scoring winger Aidan McDonough. The 21-year-old 2019 seventh-round pick took a big leap this season at Northeastern University. He lost his Hobey Baker finalist linemate Tyler Madden and was relied upon to be the offensive driver on his line while…
On the brink of elimination, Vasily Podkolzin stepped up big for his KHL team. After playing just three minutes in SKA’s last game that saw them lose their third consecutive game in the KHL Western Conference Finals, Podkolzin came into Thursday’s game with one goal in mind: keeping his team’s playoff hopes alive. Podkolzin didn’t…
