Every year, there are a handful of players who fall through the cracks on day one of the NHL Entry Draft. The Vancouver Canucks will make their first selection at ninth overall on day one of the draft and will then shift their to which player they can select with their second-round pick. Every team…
When it comes to bounce-back potential, Antoine Roussel is a prime candidate for the 2021-22 season. He is not likely to be worth the three million dollars that he will be paid next season but his contributions on the penalty kill while being an effective fourth-line player does carry some weight. On the contrary, his…
As of today, the Vancouver Canucks’ top prospect is no longer a teenager. Vasily Podkolzin turned 20 years old and is set to come to Vancouver this fall to try his hand at the NHL. Since it’s Podkolzin’s 20th birthday, let’s get to know him a bit better and check out 20 reasons to be…
There are a lot of options for the Vancouver Canucks with the 41st overall pick in the draft and I wasn’t quite done with the 13 prospects that I wrote about on Tuesday. So, without further ado, here are seven more prospects — all over six feet tall — that the Canucks might draft with…
In this Back To/The Future series, Chris Faber and Stephan Roget are making a collaborative effort to learn from the mistakes of the Vancouver Canucks’ recent past and offer solutions to salvage their immediate future — you know, just like Marty McFly did that one time. Each weekly Roget Reverse/Future Faber two-parter will start out…
After showing some offensive potential in the 2019-20 season, Zack MacEwen took a step back in 2021. The Big Fella was a physical force on the ice and played a role for the Canucks but finished the year with only one goal and one assist on the season in 34 games played. His highlight of…
Over the past week, there has been a lot of discussion about the Canucks trading with the Buffalo Sabres for Sam Reinhart. The Canucks have a plethora of holes in their lineup and Reinhart helps fill one of those holes in the top-nine forward group. The problem is, this offseason isn’t the right time for…
Last year’s offseason saw the Vancouver Canucks sign fourth-liner Jayce Hawryluk to a one-year, $800,000 contract. He came in and played 30 games in the Canucks’ bottom-six this past season. Hawryluk is a good skating energy guy who does a fine job of forechecking in a fourth-line role. He wasn’t anything special this past season…
Whoever the Vancouver Canucks select with their first-round pick will immediately become the top prospect in their pipeline. Jack Rathbone and Vasily Podkolzin are both going to be NHL players next year, and Nils Höglander made the jump last year. On top of that, whoever the Canucks draft with their second-round pick will instantly become…
In this Back To/The Future series, Chris Faber and Stephan Roget are making a collaborative effort to learn from the mistakes of the Vancouver Canucks’ recent past and offer solutions to salvage their immediate future — you know, just like Marty McFly did that one time. Each weekly Roget Reverse/Future Faber two-parter will start out with a…
After signing a three-year, $10,099,998 contract in the summer of 2018 at the age of 25, Sven Baertschi appeared to be a key cog in the rebuild of the Vancouver Canucks. He was a young winger that Jim Benning traded a second-round pick for and his offensive game began to thrive when he was given…
The Canucks took a flyer on Dmitri Zlodeyev when they selected him in the sixth round of the 2020 NHL Entry Draft. The now 19-year-old centre had an up and down season over in Russia. He scored at a great pace in the Russian minor leagues, putting up seven goals in 19 games while also…
