He’s one of the Vancouver Canucks’ top prospects and showed flashes of excellence in his rookie season in North America. Unfortunately, those flashes weren’t enough to let Danila Klimovich play under the bright lights of AHL playoff hockey. As the Canucks’ second-highest ranked prospect, Klimovich clearly has potential. He finished his first AHL season with…
After a week that saw the Stanley Cup Playoffs crank up and the Abbotsford Canucks’ playoffs shut down, we are back at it with another Monday mailbag here at CanucksArmy! With all of the Canucks hockey being wrapped up for the summer, it’s time to look into the offseason and begin to examine what the…
The Abbotsford Canucks were swept in the first round of the AHL playoffs after going on an impressive 29-11-2 run over their final 42 games of the regular season. When you looked at the Canucks and Bakersfield Condors’ lineups, the Canucks were favoured in the series and they were simply outworked and outplayed by Bakersfield….
Vasily Podkolzin is an NHL player. He is also a 20-year-old, on his entry-level contract with an NHL team that missed the playoffs and has the ability to send him to the AHL without worrying about waivers. This is where we are at with Vasily Podkolzin. He joined the Abbotsford Canucks in California on Saturday…
For the final time, Bruce Boudreau met with the media to discuss the 2021-22 season, his future with the Vancouver Canucks, and what is going to happen to the belt. Boudreau came to a team that was in the dumpster and made them competitive all the way up until the final couple of games in…
The season has reached its conclusion and is being wrapped up with end-of-season media availabilities and reflection on the year that was. Here at CanucksArmy, there is no downtime. We will continue to roll through the summer with our articles, which include the Monday Mailbag. There’s plenty of draft talk, trade chatter, and roster discussion…
Well, here we are. For one final time in the 2021-22 season, let’s talk about a Vancouver Canucks game. The storyline of any importance going into the game was J.T. Miller reaching 100 points on the season. Miller came into the night with 98 points through 79 games. His consistent offence was good enough to…
For the first time in his life, Vasily Podkolzin spoke to the media in English and his skills with the local language were nothing short of impressive. The 20-year-old rookie winger wanted to speak to the media and looked like he had been talking to them all season long. Podkolzin had the room laughing out…
Conor Garland has not had a good six weeks of hockey. He is without a goal in his past 17 games and only has six assists over that timeframe. Even with this horrendous slump, Garland has been one of the Canucks’ best offensive contributors at five-on-five. The future of Garland in Vancouver is surely in…
The Canucks have a dozen games to go and evaluations continue to take place for the NHL team while the AHL club rolls their way towards the playoffs. It’s almost time to start looking at the draft and what the Canucks can do in the offseason to make this a retool instead of a rebuild….
With a 3-1 win over the Laval Rocket on Sunday night, the Abbotsford Canucks officially punched their ticket into the AHL playoffs. The Canucks are currently 32-21-6 on the season and have been one of the AHL’s hottest teams in 2022. We will be seeing playoff hockey for the team in the valley but we…
The Abbotsford Canucks continue to add depth to their lineup with the signing of the University of Connecticut left-winger Marc Gatcomb. After four years at UConn, the 6’2″ winger is moving on to professional hockey. Gatcomb had eight goals and 13 assists in 36 games with the Huskies this season. He played on their first…
