Vancouver Canucks prospect Lukas Jasek has signed in Finland, according to multiple reports. Selected in the sixth round of the 2015 NHL Entry Draft by the Canucks, the winger-turned-centre is coming off of his best professional season. Trusted with top six minutes in Utica with the Comets, Jasek potted four goals and added 19 assists…
Read More →In this Back To/The Future series, Chris Faber and Stephan Roget are making a collaborative effort to learn from the mistakes of the Vancouver Canucks’ recent past and offer solutions to salvage their immediate future — you know, just like Marty McFly did that one time. Each weekly Roget Reverse/Future Faber two-parter will start out with a…
Read More →In this Back To/The Future series, Chris Faber and Stephan Roget are making a collaborative effort to learn from the mistakes of the Vancouver Canucks’ recent past and offer solutions to salvage their immediate future — you know, just like Marty McFly did that one time. Each weekly Roget Reverse/Future Faber two-parter will start out…
Read More →After signing a three-year, $10,099,998 contract in the summer of 2018 at the age of 25, Sven Baertschi appeared to be a key cog in the rebuild of the Vancouver Canucks. He was a young winger that Jim Benning traded a second-round pick for and his offensive game began to thrive when he was given…
Read More →Welcome back to WDYTT, the only hockey column on the internet that never left BC in the first place. As you read these words, the 2021 Stanley Cup Playoffs are still in full swing, but the Vancouver Canucks have already moved on to an offseason full of uncertainty. RFA extensions, coaching contracts, and expansion protection…
Read More →For months, Vancouver Canucks’ owner Francesco Aquilini’s Twitter mentions were filled with fans begging for the organization to re-sign goaltending coach Ian Clark. It wasn’t until Thatcher Demko publicly joined that crowd that things really started to pick up, it seems. “Clarkie is, he’s unbelievable. I mean, I owe probably just about everything to him,”…
Read More →Vancouver Canucks general manager Jim Benning announced today that the club has added Brad Shaw as an assistant coach and Kyle Gustafson as assistant/special assignment coach. Additionally, assistant coaches Nolan Baumgartner, Jason King, goaltending coach Ian Clark, and video coach Darryl Seward, were all signed to contract extensions. The club also announced that they have…
Read More →Tyler Graovac played 14 games for the Vancouver Canucks in 2021. Eleven of those games came in the month of May when the Canucks were slogging through a spring schedule that was as backloaded as it was meaningless. Graovac was deployed like a third-line centre, averaging just a shade over 10 minutes a night, with…
Read More →The Canucks took a flyer on Dmitri Zlodeyev when they selected him in the sixth round of the 2020 NHL Entry Draft. The now 19-year-old centre had an up and down season over in Russia. He scored at a great pace in the Russian minor leagues, putting up seven goals in 19 games while also…
Read More →This isn’t going to be a long one, because today, we are going to give a year in review of the six-million dollar man, Loui Eriksson. Eriksson played in seven games this season. In his 57 minutes of five-on-five ice time, the Vancouver Canucks were unable to score a goal. Eriksson’s Corsi for in those…
Read More →Seth Jones, a pending UFA after the 2021/22 season, recently informed the Columbus Blue Jackets that he would not be extending his contract, and that he’d seek a departure from Ohio via free agency or, ideally, a trade in the interim. The Vancouver Canucks, meanwhile, are on the lookout for a right-handed defenceman capable of…
Read More →The yet-to-be-named AHL affiliate of the Vancouver Canucks will play a 68-game season in the league’s Pacific Division.
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