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…
However you and yours celebrate the holidays, there’s a good chance that it will involve hockey and gift-giving, and so we’re combining those two things for this week’s edition of What Would You Do Wednesday? The whole team gets four days off, as good a gift as any for an overworked organization, but after a…
What began with the long overdue removal of Don Cherry from television has kicked off a reckoning in the sport of hockey that’s also been a long time coming. The secret is out, the genie’s free from the bottle, and the word is firmly on the street – hockey has a culture problem, and there’s…
If one were pressed to identify the chief controversy in what has been a largely positive season for the Vancouver Canucks, one would likely point at the plight of captain Bo Horvat and his ongoing search for consistent wingers. Horvat’s ever-rotating linemates have had a clear detrimental effect on the 24-year-old center’s performance – especially…
Brandon Sutter is due to return to the lineup within the next few games, but he’s coming back to a very different situation than the one he left. With 13 points in 20 games, Adam Gaudette has likely solidified himself on the third line for the foreseeable future – and he’s having a lot of…
