The Vancouver Canucks are in a slump and it’s not a pretty sight. The Halford and Brough show put it best on Monday morning. “If you never watched the Canucks in the 80s, this is what it was like. It was embarrassing; they got blown out a lot.” Speaking of the 80s, Dr. Saul Miller,…
Vancity meets The Six. The Toronto Maple Leafs — who the Vancouver Canucks will face off against nine times this season — have the top spot in the North Division all but officially clinched. Here's @Sportsnet's Canadian division winner predictions: https://t.co/fEZRHlSt5w pic.twitter.com/Q0Wp132lB0 — luke fox (@lukefoxjukebox) January 12, 2021 After three consecutive first-round exits, the…
Superman has kryptonite, and the Vancouver Canucks have the Winnipeg Jets. The Jets arrived in the Edmonton bubble with hopes of avenging last season’s early exit at the hands of the eventual Stanley Cup champion St. Louis Blues and return to the Western Conference final. Well, they didn’t make it past the play-in round and…
In the blink of an eye, the Vancouver Canucks have already played 17% of the NHL season. Leading the league in games played, the Canucks have already had three sets of back to backs. With a gruelling early schedule without a proper training camp and preseason, struggles were bound to happen. Struggles such as special…
Remember growing up, how your parents would tell you that you’re so special? Well, that’s not the case for the Vancouver Canucks penalty kill. The Canucks special teams, in general, haven’t been special at all to begin this season. They’ve gone 0-15 on the power play and are a dismal 66.7% penalty kill. Only four…
Entering his seventh season in the league and second as team captain, Bo Horvat is poised to have a breakout season, and it’s safe to say Bo knows hockey. On pace to break his regular-season point total at the start of the last campaign, Horvat finished the pandemic shortened season with 53 points in 69…
Le bleu et rouge affronteront les Canucks de Vancouver neuf fois cette saison. Ok, thanks, google translate; that will be all the French for today. For those like me who had trouble with French in school, that translates to “the blue and red will play the Vancouver Canucks nine times this season.” The Montreal Canadiens…
The Calgary Canucks — I mean Flames — went fishing in Vancouver’s backyard this offseason, and why wouldn’t they? We have excellent seafood and apparently hockey players too. The Flames have overhauled their goaltending and added other pieces along the way. After beating the Winnipeg Jets in the play-in round, the Flames bubble was burst…
The city of Edmonton hosted the Stanley Cup Playoffs last season, but the Oilers were nowhere to be found. Roughly five months after they were eliminated in the play-in round by the Chicago Blackhawks, the Edmonton Oilers will host the Vancouver Canucks on January 13th to kick-off two games on back-to-back nights. The Canucks and…
The Vancouver Canucks will play the Ottawa Senators nine times this season. March 11th of 2020 was the last time the Senators hit the ice in what turned out to be an unforgettable season, a season that saw them finish 30th in the league. This year, the Senators will have familiar names returning and will…
Wooop! Wooop! If you watched the Canucks’ second-round series against the Vegas Golden Knights in last year’s postseason, you may have heard a voice making an unusual sound. It turns out it was Nate Schmidt, and frankly, that’s all you may know of him. He’s a defenceman who says wooop, but there’s so much more…
“That young lad is a defenceman?” Yes, Mr. Gretzky, that is correct. Quinn Hughes burst onto the scene like a car in cruise control last season. The effortlessly electrifying, smooth-skating defenceman wasn’t phased by anything in his first full NHL season and came just short of winning the Calder Trophy. What was impressive for the…
