The Rundown The Chicago Blackhawks hosting the Vancouver Canucks in late March without any playoff implications for either side — it’s been a while! No Brock Boeser, no Jonathan Toews or Corey Crawford, and not a lot of happiness on either bench. However, there’s still some meaning in these games for young players and journeymen…
Tonight’s game was a big one in tank nation as it had massive implications on the draft lottery. Before the game, the Vancouver Canucks were up by six points on the Arizona Coyotes. Without further delay, let’s dive into this cellar dweller Sunday night special in Arizona! At the 10:23 mark of the first period,…
It’s only been three games in my dataset since the deadline, but a lot has changed. Canucks head coach Travis Green formed a new top line, plugging in the newly acquired Brandon Leipsic to play with the best two forwards this organization has to offer in Bo Horvat and Brock Boeser. The line was performing…
The Rundown It was an interesting day in Canucks Land with no shortage of rumours, speculation and lineup changes to sift through heading into the trade deadline. It started this afternoon with Travis Green discussing the team’s mentality heading into the deadline followed by briefly addressing the issues that have been keeping Ben Hutton out…
The Rundown Tanev out for at least a week, Granlund potentially out for a month, Goldobin “travel issues” keeping him out of the lineup, but Boeser is back! Did The Flow help snap the four-game losing streak, or did the Canucks season continue to spiral out of control? Let’s see if the Canucks could take…
Canucks Army is talking about Ben Hutton again, big surprise? Well, if it weren’t for painful deployment decisions courtesy Canucks head coach Travis Green, I wouldn’t have to do this! No matter how you evaluate players, or which direction you want the team to be going, or how you want assets managed, there is no…
In the final game of the 2018 World Junior Championship, two hockey powerhouse nations would battle for gold with Sweden matched up against Canada for the first time in the tournament. It was a win-win for Canucks nation as the game matched up a potential future franchise player in Elias Pettersson against the promising Jonah…
A hyped semi-final game took place today with team Sweden taking on team USA. Games like these are ideal measuring sticks for player evaluation as both teams are loaded with talent and playing at maximum intensity with a chance to play for gold on the line. Today would match up the top prospect for the…
The quarterfinals for the World Junior Championships kicked off with a match between the Czech Republic and the heavily favoured Finland squad. In a game that was seemingly a pre-determined Finnish victory, it would take a young, Czech goalie having the game of his life to buck the narrative, and that’s exactly what San Jose…
New Years Eve brought up the intriguing match-up in game 18 of the tournament, Finland versus the United States. This one’s been circled on my calendar for a while now for a list of reasons, being: Olli Juolevi Kailer Yamamoto Quinn Hughes Kristian Vesalainen Casey Mittelstadt This game was loaded with developing star power and…
The third game of day five of the World Junior Championship matched up Finland Vs. Slovakia. It’s been well documented that Finland has been struggling to score goals with only six scored early in the tournament, did that change today? Lets take a look. First period The first period was uneventful. Slovakia was trapping…
The Friday matinee Buffalo Blizzard Bowl between Canada and the United States. A game that will be remembered for plenty of reasons; for me, all the wrongs ones. The game was a spectacle, no doubt, but at the expense of player safety for many teams prized possessions and at the expense of the game of…
