Another week, another mailbag. It’s the week where we could see the first domino fall in what is expected to be a busy offseason for the Vancouver Canucks. So let’s see what you wonderful people asked this week. Can the Canucks trade Sutter? — diaper filled piss baby (@789012any) September 27, 2020 It’s an age-old…
Read More →Wait, CanucksArmy is still doing playoff reviews? You bet we are. There are a few more coming out and I’m making my playoff review debut with defenceman Oscar Fantenberg. The Canucks signed Fantenberg with the idea that he would compete to be on the bottom pairing and would potentially bring some offence to a defence…
Read More →A lesson learned: Tweet at your favourite athlete, they’ll respond if they’re a beauty like Petey. On Thursday around 10:00 PM, I was in bed scrolling down #HockeyTwitter, which was relatively dead due to it being an off-day from the 2020 Stanley Cup Finals between the Tampa Bay Lightning and Dallas Stars. I just recently…
Read More →The Canucks’ prospects are getting more and more ice time and Nils Höglander is taking advantage of every second he’s given. Höglander played in his second game of the SHL regular season on Saturday. He was slotted in to play on the top line and received powerplay time on the second unit as well. He…
Read More →The leadership that Bo Horvat has brought in his first year as team captain has showcased why he was a no-brainer to be named the 14th captain in Vancouver Canucks history. The Canucks have had great captains over their 50-year history, and although a few may be somewhat questionable, the majority of these players were…
Read More →Vasili Podkolzin is fighting through the noise during a COVID-19 impacted season for SKA St.Petersburg. Literally, fighting. That’s right, Podkolzin dropped the gloves early on in his game on Friday against Ak Bars Kazan. He was roughing it up with 23-year-old Nikita Dynyak on the boards who seemed to grab a hold of him and…
Read More →It’s been a quiet but busy week in Canuckland. Free agency is just a couple weeks away and their is a lot of news from overseas as well. Let’s get into the wild week that was. COVID-19 concerns in the K There have been a handful of COVID-19 outbreaks in the KHL this past week….
Read More →Welcome back to another edition of Throwback Thursday!
Read More →In all the hubbub of the most exciting Canucks season in nearly a decade, we just plain forgot to keep up with our Jim Benning Five-Year Rewind, but we’re here to make up for lost time with a gigantic catchup edition. If you’re new to this irregular column, or can’t remember what it’s all about…
Read More →Welcome back to WDYTT, the only hockey column on the internet that hands out more awards than it receives. And speaking of awards, all the regular-season NHL Awards have now been doled out, and the Vancouver Canucks went home empty-handed, despite a handful of close calls. Quinn Hughes finished second in Calder Trophy voting, trailing…
Read More →Wednesday’s lineup looked very different for SKA St.Petersburg. SKA was missing five of their top eight scoring forwards and it turned out to be because of a large amount of the SKA organization contracting the COVID-19 virus. The coaching staff was not present for the game and that meant that family of the owner would…
Read More →Can you smell it? It’s the familiar aroma of NHL free agency, only this year, it’s joined by the classic sweet and musky smell of leaf piles, pumpkin spice everything, and for a while there, smoke too. That damn smoke. Also unique to this year’s free agency: it marks the first year of the NHL’s…
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