Tickets for the 2022 Young Stars Tournament — featuring prospects from the Edmonton Oilers, Calgary Flames, Winnipeg Jets, and your Vancouver Canucks — go on sale Friday, August 11th at 10 AM, the Canucks, along with the City of Penticton, announced today. The six-game round-robin tournament kicks off on Friday, September 16th with the Jets…
Welcome back to Around the Pacific — a series in which we examine news from around the Pacific Division through a Canucks-tinted lens. Folks, we’ve got news. That’s right, it’s the middle of August, and we have NHL news that affects your Vancouver Canucks quite a bit. After injuries ultimately derailed their chances at qualifying for…
Canucks fans love Quinn Hughes. He is perhaps one of the most talented defencemen in Canucks history after only just three full seasons of play. From smooth edgework, dazzling passes, and incredible offensive instincts, Hughes is well on his way to being a centrepiece number one defenceman. He isn’t perfect though. JFreshHockey recently released some…
Projected 2023 No. 1 pick and North Vancouver product Connor Bedard wasted little time in scoring for Team Canada at the 2022 IIHF Men’s World Junior Championship.
Welcome back to Around the Pacific — a series in which we examine news from around the Pacific Division through a Canucks-tinted lens. The Calgary Flames have taken their fans — and hockey fans in general, really — on a bit of an emotional rollercoaster this offseason. There was that sweet moment for opposing fanbases, and at…
Vancouver Canucks top prospect Jonathan Lekkerimäki got on the board for Team Sweden in Monday’s 2022 IIHF World Junior Championship tune-up game against Team Canada.
We’d be doing a disservice if we didn’t write this article for our readers. Earlier this offseason — on May 17th, to be exact — we took the leap of faith and outlined seven predictions for the Vancouver Canucks’ offseason. And while they’re not done yet, we thought it’d be appropriate to revisit those predictions…
When Quinn Hughes signed his six-year contract extension with the Vancouver Canucks on October 3, seven days after team’s first pre-season game, fans expected to see one of two versions of the defenceman in the 2021–22 season.
Brock Boeser was the Canucks’ best offensive player during 2021’s shortened and reimagined 56-game NHL season. He led the team in points, goals — both on the power play and at even strength — and shots. When fellow top-liner Elias Pettersson was kept out of the lineup due to injury, Boeser, alongside JT Miller, picked…
It wasn’t a picture-perfect year for 29-year-old Tanner Pearson, who finished the season prematurely with an upper-body injury back in April. The Kitchener, Ontario native recorded his best season to date in his second year in Vancouver during the shortened 2019-20 season. Two years later, the former Stanley Cup Champion is egging his way closer…
Moves will be made this offseason. This may already seem like a given considering the Vancouver Canucks have missed the playoffs for six out of the last seven seasons; however, the bigger elephant in the room is still the team’s lack of cap space. Vancouver’s projected cap space extends itself into the negative column…
You didn’t need to watch the end-of-season availability session between general manager Patrik Allvin and president Jim Rutherford to hear through the grapevine that a contract extension for head coach Bruce Boudreau is not yet in the making. Heck, even media members themselves were quick to ask clarifying questions. The revelation caught many people by…
