Hailing from Abbotsford, BC, Jake Virtanen is a player who many Vancouver Canucks simply love to root for. As you may have heard, fans have made a tradition of shotgunning beers after Virtanen scores a goal, with the intent to cheer Virtanen all the way onto his road to 20 goals. When Covid-19 halted the…
Jordan Binnington hasn’t looked like a Stanley Cup Champion this postseason. One might even dare to say he looks nervous. After backstopping the St. Louis Blues to a Stanley Cup Finals victory over the Boston Bruins last year, Binnington has yet to find his stride during the NHL’s return to play. Binnington has lost all…
Tyler Myers was having the best game to date of his 2020 postseason Friday night against the St. Louis Blues. He was moving the puck well, exhibited good gap control, and was positively affecting his team all night long. Then he went down awkwardly into the boards — headfirst, to boot. He was able to…
Another week, another mailbag. But this wasn’t just any week, this was a week in which the Canucks won their first postseason series since 2011. Sure you can make the case that their series against the Wild technically wasn’t playoffs, but it looked and felt like a playoff series, that’s for sure. Regardless, we’ve got…
The Vancouver Canucks (as you may have heard) are playoff-bound after defeating the Minnesota Wild in the fourth game of their best of five play in series Friday night. Chris Tanev played the hero with the OT winner, and Canuck nation was riding high well into the weekend, and now the Canucks know who they’ll…
Yes, Olli Juolevi played extremely sheltered minutes in his NHL debut last night against the Minnesota Wild, and yes, his shifts can be summed up as a whole lot of nothing, but it’s been a long timing coming for the Vancouver Canucks’ 2016 first round pick, who they took with the fifth overall selection. He’s…
He’s not in the Edmonton bubble, but the Vancouver Canucks’ public address announcer is making the best of an extremely strange situation. Since March — when the NHL suspended its season — Al Murdoch has been brightening people’s days with his personalized goal announcements. He opened up his direct messages on both Instagram and Twitter,…
Less than 24 hours before the Vancouver Canucks get set to take on the Minnesota Wild in game three of their play in series, the Canucks got hit with some bad news. Forward Micheal Ferland is leaving the Edmonton bubble due to an undisclosed injury, per Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman. TSN 1040’s Rick Dhaliwal added that…
Another week, another mailbag. Typically I put out the mailbag tweet on Fridays and prepare it over the weekend and have it ready to go first thing Monday mornings, but with last night’s game, I decided to do a late-night mailbag and just finished it! With that, let’s see what you wonderful people asked this…
Coming into the second training camp of the 2019-20 season, Olli Juolevi was a player many pegged as being somebody who would benefit from the extra practice, but likely wouldn’t be asked to travel with the team to the Edmonton bubble as part of their playoff roster, similar to Kole Lind. Through the first few…
The NHL might just be able to pull this off. As teams arrive in the Edmonton and Toronto bubbles, the NHL announced this morning that there were no new cases of Covid-19 among their players. Here is the statement the league put out on their Public Relations Twitter account: NHL statement on COVID-19 testing results:…
The Vancouver Canucks officially have a legitimate geographical rival, and their name is the Seattle Kraken. Full logo set pic.twitter.com/Emq6oKvzOV — Tyler Horsfall (@TheFlopFish) July 23, 2020 Seattle was set to announce their team name a few months back but decided to delay the announcement thanks to Covid-19 and the NHL suspending play. They released…
