The Vancouver Canucks have placed defenceman Ashton Sautner into the NHL’s COVID protocol, the club announced Wednesday morning. Sautner, 27, has appeared in 21 games with the Abbotsford Canucks this season, tallying two assists in the process. Once the NHL brought back taxi squads, Sautner was a bit of a no-brainer to be the one…
Read More →The final month of 2021 brought great change to the Vancouver Canucks organization. GM Jim Benning and AGM John Weisbrod were let go from the front office, as were coaches Travis Green and Nolan Baumgartner. In came Jim Rutherford, Bruce Boudreau, Scott Walker, and others, and the positive results have been both immediate and obvious….
Read More →It felt like an eternity since the Vancouver Canucks last played a hockey game — or maybe only nine days — but Vancouver was back on the road for the first game of their most important stretch of the season, taking on the league-leading Florida Panthers in Sunrise. Would the Canucks continue to defy all…
Read More →It’s no secret that the Canucks’ upcoming southeastern road trip will be one of their greatest tests of the season. The trip is littered with quality opponents, the first of which the Canucks will face off against tonight in the form of the 23-7-5 Florida Panthers. “I’d like to see how we do against teams…
Read More →With a handful of NCAA players already invited to play with Team USA at the upcoming Beijing Olympics, Aidan McDonough’s name has been thrown in the mix for the next wave of invites. The Canucks’ seventh-round pick in the 2019 NHL Entry Draft has worked his way up the ranks over his three years of…
Read More →The Canucks are heading out to discover who they are, in the same way that characters from so many summer movies do — with a road trip. Barring any extra delays — massive knock on wood — the Canucks are entering a stretch of games that will undoubtedly come to define their season; a five-game…
Read More →“It’s just frustrating,” said Vancouver Canucks forward Brock Boeser when discussing his lengthy and complicated quarantine after testing positive for COVID-19 back on December. Boeser, along with Phil Di Giuseppe and an unnamed Canucks staff member, were forced to quarantine in Anaheim, and Boeser hasn’t played a game since December 16th, when the Canucks beat…
Read More →Recently, we outlined how the San Jose Sharks have terminated the contract of forward Evander Kane after Kane reportedly travelled to Vancouver while positive for COVID-19. Kane has had all sorts of off-ice issues highlighted recently, including his partner making social media posts about his alleged gambling addiction and more. The Sharks cut bait with…
Read More →We were excited to talk about a couple of Vancouver Canucks games. Who’s hot, who’s not, and all that other fun stuff. Instead, we didn’t get a hockey game since our last mailbag and are back with some questions about trades, prospects, and other things surrounding this team. We appreciate the questions that we receive…
Read More →The Canucks’ ongoing search for quality right-side blueliners is an everyday topic of discussion in Vancouver, so when top-pairing RHD John Klingberg put himself on the trade market this past week, it drew plenty of attention. Rumours of a trade request started to swirl in Dallas earlier in the week, only to be more-or-less confirmed…
Read More →The San Jose Sharks are in the process of terminating Evander Kane’s contract after the player travelled to Vancouver while positive for COVID-19.
Read More →After over a month without AHL action at the Abbotsford Centre, the Abbotsford Canucks returned home to play four games in five nights. The visiting Bakersfield Condors are in town until Monday as the four-game series rolls on into the weekend. The series against the Edmonton Oilers’ farm team kicked off with games on Thursday…
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