Welcome back to another exciting edition of What Do You Think Thursday — the only hockey column on the internet that doesn’t just value your opinion, but craves it! If all goes as planned over the next month — and, just to be clear, all is absolutely not going as planned as of this writing…
Hockey fans, make your peace with a flat salary cap. It is coming and, when it arrives, it’s going to be sticking around for a while. Some stuff to look forward to in modified CBA: Flat salary cap (unless changed, numbers were $81.5M next two years, $82.5M in 2022-23); cap on escrow (starting at 20…
Welcome back to another episode of What Do You Think Thursday. Before you even opened up CanucksArmy today, you probably already knew exactly what debate we’d be tackling today. In case you missed it — and thus saved yourself a week of intense dialogue about what exactly merits a “true fan” — the NHL Draft…
Over the last couple of weeks, we’ve taken looks at the UFA market for both Chris Tanev and Jacob Markstrom in an attempt to determine which teams the Vancouver Canucks could be competing with when they try to sign them — if they make it all the way to unrestricted free agency, that is. Now,…
The 2020 NHL Draft Lottery just occurred, and the news is out — the Vancouver Canucks now have a 12.5% chance of drafting first overall. Kinda. Sorta. The eight “mystery” placeholders in the lottery had first draw odds ranging between 6% and 1%, and one of them managed to win — but we don’t know…
Welcome back to What Do You Think Thursday. The NHL has already made it clear that its eight pending play-in series, now scheduled to start July 30, DO NOT count as true Stanley Cup Playoff games — something that has already led to plenty of confusion and consternation. So I'm told the NHL still hasn't decided…
If you joined us last week for the first installment in this miniature series, you’ll know that we identified at least 13 other NHL clubs who could be in the market for a right-handed defender like Chris Tanev this offseason — an exercise in emotional turmoil if ever there was one. And we’re afraid that…
If this were an ordinary NHL season, the Vancouver Canucks would be scant days away from losing exclusive negotiating rights with their pending unrestricted free agents. Typically, the UFA “interview” period opens up a week before July 1, and from there on out free agents are, well, free to talk to other organizations and start…
Hello, and welcome back to another exciting edition of What Do You Think Thursdays! Debate is the lifeblood of online hockey punditry, but we like debate even more than most here at this particular column. And if you’ve been paying attention to the mediasphere of late — specifically, our sister podcast Canucks Conversation, hosted by…
We now know that the play-in series between the Vancouver Canucks and the Minnesota Wild won’t kick off until August at the earliest, which seems like a long way away — but not so long that we at CanucksArmy aren’t already getting ready. If you’ve been keeping up with our Preparing for the Wild series,…
Welcome back to another edition of WWYDW…or not. We’re actually going to be switching up the schedule moving forward, with some of these “audience response” columns moving to Thursday, which means that the old title no longer applies. So, instead, how about we welcome you back to another edition of What Do You Think Thursday?…
It might not happen until August at the earliest, but the Vancouver Canucks are going to take on the Minnesota Wild in a play-in series at some point in the near-ish future. The winner will move on to the first round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs, and the loser will move on to the Draft…
