Much has been made about Vancouver Canucks prospect Nikita Tryamkin’s ability — or lack thereof — to come over and be an effective defenceman at the NHL level; but the big friendly giant has had a good start over in Russia after not being able to sign with Vancouver. Tryamkin scored an empty net goal…
Read More →Welcome back to another edition of Throwback Thursday!
Read More →“There are always going to be bumps and bruises and you just keep going through it,” Troy Stecher’s late father, Peter Stecher, wrote in an unsent letter expressing his love, pride, and advice for his son, who was still a rookie with the Vancouver Canucks at the time of it’s writing. “My brother and I…
Read More →No COVID-19 tests conducted in the NHL’s bubble have come back positive, the NHL says.
Read More →Folks, we are very pleased to welcome you to the first Playoff Edition of our weekly What Do You Think Thursday column in more than five years. (Actually, this author is pretty sure that the WDYTT, or the WWYDW that preceded it, weren’t around in 2015, which would make this the first ever Playoff Edition….
Read More →The good: After five long years, the Vancouver Canucks are back in the Stanley Cup Playoffs and won their first game against the St. Louis Blues by a score of 5-2. The bad: They are playing the best regular-season team in the Western Conference — who also happen to be defending Stanley Cup Champions —…
Read More →The St. Louis Blues score at a higher rate on the powerplay than the Vancouver Canucks do and that’s a scary thought. The Canucks have one of the deadliest powerplays in the NHL. They scored 56 goals in 69 games this season, and the Blues were just behind them with 50 goals in 71 games….
Read More →It’s August 12, 2020, and we are right on the cusp of witnessing the Vancouver Canucks take on the defending champion St. Louis Blues in the first round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs, live from Rogers Place in Edmonton. Just count the improbabilities in that single sentence alone. In a year defined by unpredictability, it’s…
Read More →THE INTRO Well now, isn’t this a surprise? The Canucks are in the real NHL playoffs for the first time in five long years. There isn’t a single player from the 2015 Flames team on the current Blues roster so this series has a chance to be less disappointing than that one did. Quinn Hughes…
Read More →The Vancouver Canucks played great against the St. Louis Blues this season, but Quinn Hughes did not. During the season, the Canucks won two games and lost one in overtime against the Blues. Quinn Hughes on the other hand, wasn’t his regular amazing self against St. Louis this season. He finished the season with a…
Read More →by OddsShark (@OddsShark) – Sponsored Post The Vancouver Canucks are 3-0 over their last three games after bouncing back from a Game 1 loss to the Minnesota Wild to win their qualifying round best-of-five series in four games. The Canucks hope to stay hot as they take on the St. Louis Blues in Game 1…
Read More →The Vancouver Canucks reassembled Megazord The Lotto Line against the Minnesota Wild and saw great success and they will live and die through the same formula against the St. Louis Blues. The Lotto Line is back baby! Elias Pettersson, JT Miller and Brock Boeser are playing together once again and everything feels good for the…
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