The Rundown: The Edmonton Oilers and the Vancouver Canucks did battle again, and both teams came into tonight’s game only 2 points out of a playoff spot in the middle of January. The Canucks kept up their efforts in defying all expectations, while Connor McDavid and the Oilers looked to right the ship against…
The Rundown Tonight, the Vancouver Canucks finally returned home after the city played host to the IIHF World Junior Hockey Championship. After a brutal schedule to begin the year, tonight was the first game of a 6 game home-stand, and their first opponent was the Arizona Coyotes. Elias Pettersson remained out of the lineup, as…
The Rundown The Vancouver Canucks played their first game of 2019 just like a majority of the first half of their season, on the road. Their opponent tonight was the worst team in the NHL, the Ottawa Senators, who the Canucks made a trade with earlier in the afternoon. After the Canucks were shut out…
The Rundown The Vancouver Canucks had been on a bit of a roll as they got ready to face the Philadelphia Flyers tonight. The Canucks’ record in the past 4 games was 3-0-1, and they looked to build on that against a team with 3 straight losses on their road trip. Jakob Markstrom got the…
The Rundown The Vancouver Canucks came into tonight’s game against the Columbus Blue Jackets on a 2 game win streak. Fun fact, the team had scored the first goal in their previous 5 games, and the boys looked to do that again to get in front of a Columbus team with lots of firepower. Jakob…
The Rundown The Vancouver Canucks have struggled the past month and a bit… The team came into tonight’s game against the Western Conference’s best team, the Nashville Predators, with 1 win in their last 13 games. Nikolay Goldobin saw his name inserted back in the lineup after being a healthy scratch a couple of nights…
The Rundown After a pretty rough offensive showing last game against the NHL’s cellar dwellers, the Vancouver Canucks hosted the Vegas Golden Knights who had been on a bit of an upswing since their defenseman Nate Schmidt returned to their lineup. The Knights were going to be a tough task for a Canucks team that…
The Rundown The Vancouver Canucks got some great news before their game tonight versus the Los Angeles Kings. Brock Boeser was deemed healthy enough to play. With Boeser in the lineup, the Canucks looked to take advantage versus a Kings team fresh off a rebound win of their own in their last game. Willie Desjardins…
The Rundown The Vancouver Canucks packed their bags and flew down south to start their first California road trip of the season. Tonight, the Canucks would go against one of the few teams with more man games lost than them, the Anaheim Ducks. Vancouver saw Anders Nilsson return to the team off of IR, but…
The Rundown The Vancouver Canucks arrived in Minnesota tonight for the last game of their second 6 game road trip of the season. The team had gone 1-2-2 over the past 5 games and wanted to try and win their last game to feel good before they head back home. In their way, the Wild…
The Rundown After losing 3 of their last 4 games (granted 2 of them in overtime), the Canucks came into Brooklyn on the second game of a back to back with a goal to right the ship. The New York Islanders would be a tough task; with Barry Trotz at the helm of this Islanders…
The Rundown The Vancouver Canucks entered the big apple with points in all 3 of their previous 3 games on the road trip. However, overtime losses against the Detroit Red Wings and Buffalo Sabres were both winnable games that slipped away from the team in the final frame before they ultimately fell in a shootout….
