On Wednesday night, the Vancouver Canucks hosted the Montreal Canadiens for their home opener. It was a dandy of a game as the teams went down to the wire before finally deciding a winner in the shootout on a Bo Horvat wrist shot. After three AHL seasons and 142 games with the Utica Comets, it…
Coming off of two losses, the Vancouver Canucks wrapped up their four-game road trip with their second game against Jacob Markstrom and the Calgary Flames. This game had two sides: the first period which was all Canucks, and the Flames’ domination the rest of the way as the Canucks lost their third game in a…
The Vancouver Canucks defence has been fine but some tweaks could make it even better. The Canucks shored up their defence core by adding veteran Travis Hamonic to the group just hours before training camp kicked off. With the addition of Hamonic, it has opened up plenty of options for the six-man unit each night….
It’s pretty wild to think that just one week ago, the Canucks were still in training camp. It seems like so much has happened since then! I’m covering for David Quadrelli this week, so let’s just get right into it! Here’s what the wonderful people of Canucks Twitter asked this week. Is there any point in…
It’s not a surprise to see everyone talking about Nils Hoglander right now. The young Swedish winger who turned 20-years-old during his 14-day quarantine in December has secured a spot in the Canucks’ top-six forward group. He’s the first topic in each conversation about the Canucks, whether it’s on sports talk radio, Canucks related podcasts,…
The Vancouver Canucks travelled into Calgary to take on the Flames on the first Hockey Night in Canada of 2021. They ran into their former friend turned foe Jacob Markstrom and he was ready for them. Markstrom recorded his first win in a Flames jersey with a 32-save shutout. All three of Calgary’s goals came…
Coming off of a 5-3 victory just one night prior, the Vancouver Canucks were back in action against the Edmonton Oilers once again. There are some games where Connor McDavid just takes over. Thursday night was one of those games as he scored a hat trick and led the Oilers to a 5-2 victory. Despite…
After 131 days away, the Vancouver Canucks are back and they took it to their opponents with a big 5-3 win. They begin the adjusted 2021 regular season with back-to-back games in Edmonton against the Oilers, and made good on the first of those games. The Canucks have had quite a few storylines over the…
The Vancouver Canucks took to the ice on Tuesday morning for their final day of training camp, but were missing a couple of bodies as both J.T. Miller and Jordie Benn didn’t participate in the morning skate. The team will travel to Edmonton this afternoon and face off against the Edmonton Oilers in their season…
Vasily Podkolzin’s KHL season may be over with SKA St.Petersburg. After returning from the World Junior Championships, Podkolzin found himself out of SKA’s lineup on Sunday night in a massive rivalry game against CSKA. Some believe it was due to quarantining or just not being ready from the WJC, but two of his U20 teammates,…
Coming off a strong playoff performance, Bo Horvat is set up to try and captain this Vancouver Canucks team right back to the dance. Last season Bo Horvat was named captain just before the season began. He proudly donned the “C” in the home opener of the season last year and had been an excellent…
The Vancouver Canucks were back on the ice Tuesday morning to continue on with their 2021 training camp. The split squads’ schedules were swapped as we saw “Group B” take to the ice at 10:30. First Group The first group at Tuesday skate had: Baertschi, Bailey, Chatfield, Demko, Eliot, Gaudette, Hawryluk, Hoglander, Horvat, Hughes, Juolevi,…
