A local boy coming home to help turn his boyhood team around. What a great story, surely Hollywood was going to snatch up the rights for the movie. General manager Jim Benning’s first-ever draft pick was a local kid from Abbotsford. Listed at 6 feet 208lbs entering the draft, Jake Virtanen had an edge to…
The start of the end of the 2019-2020 NHL season has officially begun. When the world stopped due to Covid-19, so did the NHL. Players, coaches, management and fans have been dealing with watching reruns of old games on TV (we get it the Canucks lost in game seven to the flames in 2004), but…
Judd Brackett is no longer with the Canucks. Now that the dust has settled a bit, let’s examine some potential suitors already within the organization who could be named the Canucks’ next Director of Amateur Scouting. Jim Benning Yes, Jim Benning, who comes from a scouting background, could theoretically take on the duties of the…
Tyler Motte has had to deal with a lot this past season. Not only does he share his first name with two players the Canucks added in the past year, he also has been struck with the injury bug, which forced him to suit up in half of the games. Coming off a career year…
With the 2019-20 season now completed, Quinn Hughes has officially won the rookie scoring race. For the third straight year, the Canucks will have a rookie in the Calder Memorial Trophy conversation — runner up Brock Boeser and reigning winner Elias Pettersson the previous years. In his first full year in the show, Hughes registered…
Today we shift our focus to Lucas Raymond’s world junior teammate Alexander Holtz who is coming in at number eight in our 2020 draft rankings. Date of birth: January 23, 2002 Nation: Sweden Position: Right wing Shoots: R Height: 6’0″ / 182 cm Weight: 183 lbs / 83 kg Like soccer icon and countrymen Zlatan…
The NHL is a growing league and the World Cup of Hockey is a great way to promote its product by having the eyes of the world watching the best players playing and competing for their country. Now, it should occur every four years since it exposes the game to a wider audience, in the…
Date of birth: January 15th, 2002 Nation: Germany Position: Centre/Left wing Shoots: L Height: 6’0″ / 184 cm Weight: 187 lbs / 85 kg Tim Stutzle played in the highest league in Germany this season, the Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL), and was ranked number one among all European skaters. Despite not even being able to…
Having recently turned 34 years old, it’s almost hard to believe that Alexander Edler entered his 13th year donning a Canucks sweater this season. Drafted in the third round in the 2004 NHL Entry Draft, Edler is considered one of, if not the best defenceman the franchise has seen, and he holds the record for…
Brock Boeser has had a difficult few years to start his NHL career, both on and off the ice. Yet to play a full 82 game season, Boeser dealt with another injury scare in 2019-20. He played in each of the first 56 games of the season and was on pace to play a full…
