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Broken records and championship droughts: Inside a busy weekend of Vancouver sports
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Lachlan Irvine
Nov 8, 2026, 19:00 ESTUpdated: Nov 8, 2026, 18:50 EST
It’s been a very busy weekend in Vancouver sports. Hockey, football, and soccer have all taken centre stage, and the results have been a mixed bag.
The biggest 1-2 punch of the weekend was the pair of losses by Vancouver teams in Edmonton on Saturday night. The Canucks losing to the Edmonton Oilers 4-2 was a result most people were prepared for. The BC Lions losing the CFL Western Final to the Edmonton Elks 28-16 at Commonwealth Stadium earlier in the afternoon was a tougher pill to swallow. And that’s if you were even able to watch either game: wind storms around the Lower Mainland on Saturday night left plenty of people without power.
The Leos have been a constant in the Western Division playoffs, but haven’t broken through to the Grey Cup since 2011. Finding the right pieces to surround quarterback Nathan Rourke with has been an ongoing struggle. Now their title drought has reached 15 years, the second-longest active streak in the CFL. Even in a nine-team league, it ain’t easy to win.
Elsewhere, the Abbotsford Canucks saw their eight-game winning streak come to an end after being shut out by the Ontario Reign 3-0 at Rogers Forum. But that just speaks to the quality of the team’s play through the first month of the season. Ty Mueller and Trey Fix-Wolansky have been leading the way offensively. And the return of Braeden Cootes from injury hasn’t hurt, either.

Better Days

This weekend hasn’t been all bad news for local sports.
The Vancouver Whitecaps finished off the MLS regular season with a 2-0 win over the Montreal Impact, tying a bow on a terrific campaign that saw them finish first in the Western Conference. The Caps will have home-field advantage throughout the MLS playoffs, and will face the winner of the West Wild Card match — either the Seattle Sounders or Real Salt Lake — in the opening round. With the Whitecaps’ future in Vancouver still up in the air, there’s never been a better time to go catch a game and show your support.
The Vancouver Giants pulled off a stunning 10-3 drubbing of the Moose Jaw Warriors Saturday night, splitting a weekend series to maintain second place in the WHL’s Western Conference. It’s the first 10-spot the Giants have put up in a hockey game in two years, led by a hat trick from Blake Chorney and two goals by Joe Iginla.
And Sunday morning at the IIHF Women’s World Hockey Championships in Denmark, KK Harvey, the US phenom selected first overall by the Vancouver Goldeneyes in June’s PWHL Draft, broke the American all-time record for points by a defender at the tournament. Her two assists in a 5-0 USA win over Germany put her at 44 points in 36 tournament games, surpassing Angela Reggiero’s previous mark of 43 in 50 games. At just 24 years old, it certainly won’t be the last record Harvey breaks.
There’s little doubt that Harvey is going to be a superstar in Vancouver, and fans will get their first glimpses of her in a Goldeneyes uniform when training camp kicks off November 18. DFO Vancouver/CanucksArmy.com readers can also look forward to a season of PWHL coverage here through an upcoming weekly Goldeneyes column. More details on that will be released in the future.

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