When the Vancouver Canucks went on an extended hiatus while COVID-19 tore through their roster, there were plenty who thought the season was effectively over. Even when the NHL announced a condensed return-to-play plan that would include 19 games across 32 nights, there were more folks talking about how it might affect the Canucks’ draft…
The Vancouver Canucks are back in action, but with 18 games to go in less than a month, the 2021 offseason is also right around the corner. With that in mind, some of us here at CanucksArmy have begun to preview a few of the many changes to come in what promises to be yet…
Before the Vancouver Canucks get back to game-action — for better or for worse, in sickness or in health — we’re taking one last opportunity to look ahead at one of many notable events to come in the offseason: the 2021 Seattle Kraken Expansion Draft. Now that the Trade Deadline has come to pass, and…
Welcome back to WDYTT, the only hockey column on the internet with a full no-movement clause, unless you count occasionally moving to Wednesdays. We’ve reached another point of interest in what has been an absolute pirate map of a 2021 season. Trade Deadline day has now come and gone, and the results were…well, actually, we’ll…
You almost certainly didn’t miss the Trade Deadline deal that sent Adam Gaudette to the Chicago Blackhawks, and you would have had a tough time escaping the immediate online backlash that followed. For those of us cursed with Vancouver Canucks fandom, this is nothing new. GM Jim Benning’s tenure has been controversial, to put it…
With our intrepid editor David Quadrelli already hard at work preparing for 19 CanucksArmy postgame recaps in 31 days, Stephan Roget is here again to dip into the Monday Mailbag and fish out some compelling answers. Do you think JB really believes what he says? Real question. — Ry G (@ridinryan44) April 11, 2021 First…
In case you missed the news that is currently firestorming across Canucks Twitter, GM Jim Benning (with some reportedly stern oversight from Francesco Aquilini) signed the 28-year-old Tanner Pearson to a three-year contract extension with an average salary of $3.25 million. Tanner Pearson deal is at $3.25 million over 3 years. It's backloaded, and includes…
Hello, and welcome back to WDYTT, not the only hockey column on the internet to realize this isn’t the time for casual wordplay. In fact, with the health and safety of the Vancouver Canucks the only reasonable hockey-related priority worth talking about right now, we’re going to shift things in an entirely different direction —…
Murphy’s Law supposedly holds that anything that can go wrong will go wrong. If that’s the case, then the Vancouver Canucks are currently experiencing Murphy’s Season (and, no, we’re not talking about Dan). Whether it be the season’s late start, its middling results, or the current viral crisis that has rendered all on-ice concerns secondary,…
In case you missed it — and let’s be real here, you didn’t — Thatcher Demko signed a five-year extension on Wednesday that will pay him an average of $5 million per season and carry him from 2021/22 through the end of the 2025/26 season. In doing so, Demko got paid, picking up a raise…
Hello, and welcome back to WWYDW, the only hockey column on the internet to ever have the phrase “Clobberin’ time!” removed from their headline by an editor. If there’s one creepy-crawly that won’t be biting the Vancouver Canucks in 2021, it’s the playoff bug. Two blowout losses to the Winnipeg Jets have made it clear…
Last week, this very author hopped on their keyboard to extol the virtues of Travis Boyd, who at the time had just been claimed off waivers by the Vancouver Canucks from the Toronto Maple Leafs. Since then, a mandatory quarantine has kept Boyd off the ice. Which, on the one hand, means that everything we…
