Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: the Vancouver Canucks are currently in possession of two NHL goaltenders, one an established veteran in their prime acquired from Florida and the other a young up-and-comer developed within the franchise, and both are capable of being starters. It’s a set of circumstances that presents a team…
It’s no secret that the weakest link on this current edition of the Vancouver Canucks is their fourth line. As a unit, the Canucks’ bottom-three forwards have been getting buried at five-on-five – something that the team has been able to hide for much of the season, but that becomes painfully obvious in situations like…
The Vancouver Canucks just responded to two disastrous Florida defeats with back-to-back matinee victories over Buffalo and Minnesota – so what better time for CanucksArmy’s resident optimist, Stephan Roget, to pop in and take over the Monday Mailbag for a week? According to the analyticians, where will Noox finish season? Must be a big enough…
The Warmup Last Saturday, the Vancouver Canucks won their seventh game in a row against the New York Rangers and were pacing to soon overtake those teams ahead of them in the Pacific Division standings. A week and two games later, the outlook is now significantly less optimistic. That’s a natural result of two downright…
At the outset of the 2019/20 season, it was seen as a foregone conclusion by many that this campaign would be Chris Tanev’s last with the Vancouver Canucks. That was more-or-less the consensus when we asked this same question earlier this year. Now that we’ve crossed the halfway mark of the season, however, the situation…
It’s been a minute since our last edition of the Jim Benning Five-Year Rewind, so we’ll start by explaining the premise of this little project. The 2019/20 season marks GM Jim Benning’s sixth with the Vancouver Canucks, and that allows us the benefit of five full years of retrospection on the earliest moves of his…
We’re a bit late for a December Report Card, but given that the Vancouver Canucks have completed their 41st game of 2019/20 – and thus reached the halfway point of he season – it makes more sense to evaluate each member of the team’s performance thus far. As of this writing, the Canucks hold a…
Folks, the year 2020 is upon us, and with the dawning of a new decade comes perhaps the dawning of yet another crease controversy in Vancouver – and, at the very least, a series of difficult netminding decisions. As a pending unrestricted free agent, Jacob Markstrom can be offered a new contract at any point…
For the Vancouver Canucks, the 2010s officially came to an end as of Sunday’s win against the Calgary Flames. With that victory, the Canucks closed out the decade – the fifth of their existence – with a record of 388-304-93, good enough for 16th overall leaguewide. Those ten seasons saw five years in the playoffs…
Earlier this week, we asked you to submit some New Year’s Resolutions for the Vancouver Canucks. Unfortunately, we also asked you do that on December 25, and as such responses were predictably limited. WWYDW: New Year’s Resolutions For The Vancouver Canucks But fear not! The staff at CanucksArmy have put in the research – consulting…
It may be the holidays, but we here at CanucksArmy are still hard at work in our nonexistent workshop to bring you all the reader-generated content you can stuff in your stocking! Last week, we asked you to give out some gifts to the cast and crew of the 2019/20 Vancouver Canucks, and the results…
Jake Virtanen: Top-Six Forward? This article was originally going to be titled something along the lines of “Is There Any Reason To Believe Jake Virtanen Isn’t A Top-Six Forward?” And while that ended up hewing a little too closely to our own Chris Faber’s excellent work from last week, it’s still an argument that’s worthy…
