Over the past few seasons, the Canucks’ lack of forward depth left the team with few options when it came to line juggling. The club needed to deploy players on certain lines to avoid matchup problems, and the top six were often left cleaning up the mess left by the third and fourth units. Fortunately,…
Read More →He has been a part of our prospect rankings for a while now, and this year, Jonah Gadjovich needs to take another step towards becoming an NHL-calibre player. After scoring 15 goals in 19 AHL games, Gadjovich earned himself a taste of the NHL near the end of the 2020-21 season. That game did not…
Read More →There isn’t a whole lot going on around the National Hockey League right now. Does that stop a select few people from commenting “slow news day?” on hockey blogs all across the web in late August? Not a chance. That being said, this time of year often brings on a whole bunch of smaller news…
Read More →Arriving in the ninth position on our CanucksArmy prospect rankings is Finnish defender Joni Jurmo who was selected in the third round of the 2020 NHL Entry Draft. Height: 6’4” Weight: 198 lbs Age: 19 Position: D Handedness: L 2021-22 Team: Jokerit (Liiga), With limited draft capital over the past two years, there has been…
Read More →Welcome back to WWYDW, the only hockey column on the internet with a prize in every box. Speaking of prizes, or rather sur-prizes, any given NHL season is bound to be full of them, and the 2021/22 season will surely be no different. So, what surprises are in store for the Vancouver Canucks? Sometimes, surprises…
Read More →We kick off the top-10 with the only pure centre on our list. Throughout the earlier rankings, we have talked about how important this coming season is for each player’s development. Now we land on a player whose coming season will be the most showcased outside of the NHL crowd that features Vasily Podkolzin and…
Read More →As you read these words, we’re less than 24 hours away from September and a mere three weeks out from the Vancouver Canucks’ 2021 training camp, and — assuming they haven’t inked deals in the space between the typing and the publishing of these words (in which case, you’re welcome) — Elias Pettersson and Quinn…
Read More →We are back with another Monday mailbag article and wow, it’s been a slow news cycle for the Vancouver Canucks. Overseas prospects are beginning to crank up their seasons with tournaments and friendly games as the SHL, KHL, Liiga and other European leagues get set for their regular season openers. The Canucks still have not…
Read More →The Canucks targetted high upside throughout the 2021 NHL Entry Draft and went fishing in the Swedish J20 pool to find their potential diamonds in the rough. That’s where they found a 6’1″ smooth-skating defenceman who was playing alongside Simon Edvinsson (The 6th overall pick of the 2021 draft) and shows potential in all three…
Read More →The Vancouver Canucks and good goaltending have gone hand-in-hand for essentially the last 15 seasons. There have been blips every now and then but it’s become something that can almost be expected and relied on for both the team and fans as Vancouver just casually cycles through elite goalies. It will have to remain good,…
Read More →We’re already three prospects deep into our annual CanucksArmy Prospect Rankings, and we’re not slowing down until the list is complete. If this were a British or Australian blog, one might say we’re turning the dog days of summer into the sprog days of summer, because we’ve got a bevy of young would-be Canucks to…
Read More →For the first time in a while, the 2021/22 NHL season is shaping up to be a full, 82-game schedule — and then some. It’s an Olympic year, after all, and the 2022 Games seem on track to include the first NHL participation since the 2014 tournament. NHL teams have been sending out — and…
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