Vancouver Canucks News and Rumors
The Stanchies: Quinn Hughes’ first intermission message sparks Canucks’ comeback vs. Blue Jackets
Friday night, those of us who were snubbed on TaySway tickets were stuck watching the Canucks play hockey on home ice. If you have been following this team this season, you know that the odds are, it’s going to suck. But before the Canucks even fai
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Published: 8 months ago
If you could go back in time and change a Canucks draft pick, who would it be?
Like most NHL teams, the Vancouver Canucks have had their fair share of misses at the draft. But which one is the greatest miss of all? That’s the question we’re going to try to answer today. We want to dive further into this exercise. Don’t
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Published: 1 week ago
Top 50 Canucks players of all time: #33 – Patrik Sundstrom
Join us this summer as we count down the top 50 Vancouver Canucks players of all time! #33: Patrik Sundstrom With their ninth-round pick (175th overall) in the 1980 NHL Draft, the Vancouver Canucks selected Patrik Sundstrom. Talk about a player comi
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Published: 1 week ago
Canucks: Busting the myth of Elias Pettersson piling up points against weak opposition
Objectively speaking, Elias Pettersson has not played as well recently as he has in the past. Beyond that, fans of the Vancouver Canucks have ample subjective reasoning to critique Pettersson’s recent play, or even to have lost faith in him as a pl
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Published: 1 week ago
Matthew Tkachuk’s Decision, Pettersson Wants Revenge & More NHL Rumours
In today’s NHL rumour rundown, the Florida Panthers’ star player, Matthew Tkachuk, is still undecided about his offseason surgery. Elsewhere, Elias Pettersson (the forward) is looking for a big season…
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Published: 1 week ago
Goals and expectations for Canucks’ Derek Forbort in 2025-26
In many ways, Derek Forbort exceeded all expectations already in 2024-25. The Vancouver Canucks signed two veteran UFA defenders in the summer of 2024. They gave one, Vincent Desharnais, a two-year commitment at $2 million per season. The other, D
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Published: 2 weeks ago
A closer look at the Los Angeles Kings: Canucks Pacific Previews
In today’s National Hockey League, the biggest hurdle to a playoff spot is besting the seven teams in your own division. The Vancouver Canucks’ rivals in the Pacific Division, each at different points in their team’s evolution, will try to keep
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Published: 2 weeks ago
Elias Pettersson Vows to Lead the Canucks Reset: Can He Do It?
Last year didn’t go as planned for either Elias Pettersson or the Vancouver Canucks. This season, Pettersson will be looking to make things right. The Canucks’ 2024–25 season ended the…
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Published: 2 weeks ago
Top 50 Canucks players of all time: #34 – Doug Lidster
Join us this summer as we count down the top 50 Vancouver Canucks players of all time! #34: Doug Lidster When it comes to great defencemen who have played in Vancouver, Doug Lidster is a bit of a forgotten hero. His 10 seasons as a Canuck were sandw
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Published: 2 weeks ago
Canucks: 11 years later, how does Thatcher Demko stack up against the rest of the 2014 draft class?
Welcome back to the next instalment of our NHL Draft lookbacks here at CanucksArmy. So far this offseason, we’ve looked at Brock Boeser (10 years later), Quinn Hughes (7 years later), Nils Höglander (6 years later) and Elias Pettersson (8 years la
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Published: 2 weeks ago
Canucks News & Rumours: Pettersson Wants ‘Revenge’, Kravtsov Returns & Bjorck Shines
In this edition of Vancouver Canucks News & Rumours, Vitali Kravtsov has returned to North America on a one-year deal after spending the last two seasons in the Kontinental Hockey…
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Published: 2 weeks ago
The Canucks really need to shoot the puck more next season
Great news for the guy who yells “Shooooooot!” every time the Vancouver Canucks touch the puck on home ice. For once, he might actually be on to something. Now, it would be a gross oversimplification to say that the struggles of the 2024-25 Ca
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Published: 2 weeks ago
Canucks: Elias Pettersson wants 'revenge'
"I'm just really hungry to have a good season." — Elias Pettersson said this week
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Published: 2 weeks ago