Vancouver Canucks News and Rumors
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: 3 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: 3 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: 3 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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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: 3 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: 3 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: 3 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: 3 weeks ago
Goals and expectations for Canucks veteran Tyler Myers in 2025-26
Entering the second year of a three-year contract extension signed last summer, 35-year-old Tyler Myers is very much in the twilight of his long and successful National Hockey League career. But given the way the Vancouver Canucks defence is construc
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Published: 3 weeks ago
A closer look at the Edmonton Oilers: 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: 4 weeks ago
Kevin Woodley on why Demko could have a big year, camp battles, and more: Canucks Conversation
On Wednesday’s episode of Canucks Conversation, David Quadrelli was joined by Kevin Woodley of InGoal Magazine to discuss Thatcher Demko’s outlook for the 2024–25 season and some of the most intriguing forward battles expected at Canucks traini
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Published: 4 weeks ago
The Canucks need to gain at least 10 points to make 2026 playoffs, so how many times have they done that before?
The Vancouver Canucks did not make it to the Stanley Cup Playoffs in 2025. Not even close, in the end. They finished the 2024-25 campaign with 81 points, and they would have needed 90 to push past the St. Louis Blues and Minnesota Wild into one of th
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