Televised Vancouver Canucks hockey is just a few weeks away. The Vancouver Canucks broadcast schedule for their 50th anniversary 2019-20 season has been released. Sportsnet issued a press release today detailing their plans for coverage this year. Sportsnet will once again be broadcasting all 82 games for the Canucks as the team’s regional rights holder….
The 40th-overall pick from this past June is tearing it up at the Under-20 Four Nations tournament that just finished in Russia this past weekend.
Ex-Canucks goaltender Eddie Lack is taking the next step in his career. The 31-year-old netminder announced on Twitter that he’s been playing through hip pain the last six years and his body isn’t allowing him to play professional hockey at this time. Lack announced that he’s taking a break from manning the crease and will…
As soon as the 40-year-old goaltender announced his retirement this off-season, there were people wondering when the Vancouver Canucks would be dedicating some time to honour the former franchise player.
The Vancouver Canucks made a splash on day two of the NHL draft when they traded a conditional first round pick to the Tampa Bay Lightning for forward JT Miller. That splash may have soaked Canucks fans at the time and probably still has more than a few people up in arms. The timeline that…
Travis Green talked about some of the most pressing issues surrounding the Canucks in his first interview since the NHL Draft in June. The Canucks head coach opened up to Sportsnet’s Ian MacIntyre about the Loui Eriksson situation, RFA Brock Boeser’s contract status and Vancouver’s offseason additions among other topics. Boeser remains unsigned with training…
Travis Green is in town for mid-summer coaching meetings and putting increasingly more thought into what his lineup may look like as the season approaches. Since it’s the middle of summer with a lack of news to report, we can have fun with that same exercise. There has already been a lot of speculation about…
On July 19, 2019—a day that will live in infamy for connoisseurs of hockey-related memes—the Edmonton Oilers traded Milan Lucic to the Calgary Flames for James Neal. In order to rid themselves of Lucic’s contract—widely considered to be among the worst in the league—the Oilers had to retain 12.5% and give up a conditional 3rd…
To recap, we’ve already spent time on The Jim Benning Five-Year Rewind rehashing—with the benefit of a half-decade’s hindsight—the first major moves of Benning’s tenure as GM of the Vancouver Canucks. In Issue #1 we tackled the Ryan Kesler deal, and after that we took on a trio of draft pick-related trades that included the…
It’s no secret that the Vancouver Canucks are extremely cap-strapped going into the 2019-20 season. In addition to lack of space, they have two forwards that still need new contracts before they even start training camp.
Last week, we took an optimistic look at which Vancouver Canucks might be due for an individual scoring increase in the 2019/20 season—and found the list to be rather lengthy. This week, we’re back to examine whether or not the Canucks as whole can be counted on to score more goals in 2019/20—because if they…
Micheal Ferland burst into the mainstream hockey consciousness early last season after scoring seven goals in his first 12 games with his new team after an offseason trade that sent him to Carolina.
