With their sixth-round pick in this year’s draft, the Vancouver Canucks went with a Russian centre who is captaining an MHL team over in Russia’s major junior league. That young man is Dmitri Zlodeyev, a 5’11” centre who makes the sport of hockey look like a lot of fun. There’s a certain way that Zlodeyev…
The Vancouver Canucks selected a high school player with their fourth round selection of the 2020 NHL Entry Draft. After selecting a big Finnish defenceman with their first pick of the draft in round number three, they chose to draft another player with size in Jackson Kunz. Kunz is a 6’3″ winger out of North…
The Canucks did not have a first or second round pick in this year’s draft but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t get excited about the players that they did draft. If you haven’t read about the Canucks’ first pick, Joni Jarmo, you can do so here. Here’s who they selected in rounds four and five….
The Vancouver Canucks do not have a pick in the first or second round heading into the 2020 NHL Entry Draft, but that doesn’t mean they can’t come away with a top prospect. I wanted to look into three different defencemen who they could target with their third round pick. I’ve decided to add one…
Vancouver Canucks general manager Jim Benning met with the media for just under 30 minutes on Monday morning and he said a whole lot of nothing. A few of the tidbits that came out were regarding how they will be approaching the upcoming NHL draft and what’s the latest on their UFAs. The one thing…
After a quiet weekend of whispered rumours and a couple of minor moves, the Vancouver Canucks now look forward to the NHL draft and free agency, both of which take place this week. There’s going to be news, there’s going to be action and there’s going to be disappointment when Jim Benning can’t move Loui…
We are back with another look back at the week that was in Canuckland. Once again, there has not been a ton of news but there have been some prominent media members throwing the Canucks name into the hat on some trade sweepstakes. Let’s get right into it. O E-L Yes, the Canucks have been…
With added ice time has come added pressure for Vasili Podkolzin to contribute offensively in the KHL. On Wednesday he did that in a big way as his team SKA won 6-4. Podkolzin had two assists on the day, one primary and one secondary. He skated well on Wednesday, getting 15:01 of ice time on…
Wait, CanucksArmy is still doing playoff reviews? You bet we are. There are a few more coming out and I’m making my playoff review debut with defenceman Oscar Fantenberg. The Canucks signed Fantenberg with the idea that he would compete to be on the bottom pairing and would potentially bring some offence to a defence…
The Canucks’ prospects are getting more and more ice time and Nils Höglander is taking advantage of every second he’s given. Höglander played in his second game of the SHL regular season on Saturday. He was slotted in to play on the top line and received powerplay time on the second unit as well. He…
Vasili Podkolzin is fighting through the noise during a COVID-19 impacted season for SKA St.Petersburg. Literally, fighting. That’s right, Podkolzin dropped the gloves early on in his game on Friday against Ak Bars Kazan. He was roughing it up with 23-year-old Nikita Dynyak on the boards who seemed to grab a hold of him and…
It’s been a quiet but busy week in Canuckland. Free agency is just a couple weeks away and their is a lot of news from overseas as well. Let’s get into the wild week that was. COVID-19 concerns in the K There have been a handful of COVID-19 outbreaks in the KHL this past week….
