There are a little over 10 games left for the Canucks before their NHL regular season journey is over, and their playoff picture is either firmed or erased. It’s going to come down to the wire for Vancouver and while they have Quinn Hughes back, their netminder in Kevin Lankinen is doing his job exceptionally well and Elias Pettersson is trending up, the Canucks now need their depth pieces to...

With just 17 games left to go this season, the Canucks are currently sitting one position out of the second wildcard spot. Leaving them with their work cut out for them if they want to punch their ticket to the Stanley Cup playoffs. Let’s explore what the Canucks need to do over their final games to make this home stretch count. Key Personnel Performances Of the remaining 17 games there...

One minute you’re studying line deployment for the Young Stars Weekend in Penticton and then you look up from your phone and it’s March. On the verge of a wild card spot and a still too be determined post season birth, the Canucks are now 75% through this NHL season. Throughout the year I made a point of checking this teams pulse every 20 games to get a sense of...

It is no secret that the Canucks are still looking to make some trades. Are they going to trade players away, or are they going to bring some in? Maybe a little of both? We don’t really know, but we will know by mid-day Friday. Here are my officially un-official rankings on who is most likely to be traded based simply on ~vibes~. Most Likely To Be Moved Elias Pettersson:...

In late September, as I set up my auto-draft preferences for one of the (far too many) fantasy leagues that I’m in, I felt compelled to do something that I had never done before. After re-ranking the players that I was most interested in drafting, I then looked to the other side of the screen, to consider if there were any players that I didn’t want to draft. After moving...

As much as she’d like to deny it, over the years that we have been together, my wife has taken more of an interest in the general goings-on surrounding the Vancouver Canucks. She is still not a die-hard fan by any means. But as her eyes have become more routinely drawn to the screen, because of a fight or my reaction to a given play, I’ve gained more opportunities to...

Mere moments after I submitted an article ranking the Canucks players most likely to be traded for editing, Rutherford and Allvin rendered that article obsolete. Why? Because they traded JT Miller to the New York Rangers. The Canucks traded JT Miller, Erik Brannstrom, and Jackson Dorrington to New York (no salary retention).   The Rangers sent Filip Chytil, Victor Mancini, and a top-13 protected first-round pick to Vancouver. Victor Mancini...

Demko has now played just over ten games so far this season, with his 11th outing of the season being Tuesday night’s 3-2 loss to the Buffalo Sabres at home. While Demko’s sample size is small and was interrupted by a minor back injury, there is now at least a double-digit amount of games that #35 can be initially judged for. What can be determined from Demko’s play so far,...

I don’t believe there is a sane Canucks fan alive that would say that their excitement for this team is higher than it was this time last year, or even at the start of the season. Back in October, the Canucks were entering what looked to be their second consecutive season of being serious contenders, after coming off of what was their first meaningful playoff effort since the 2012-13 season....

The Elias Pettersson and J.T. Miller topic feels at this point both feels, old hat and something that we still don’t know enough about. What is clear, as much as both Miller and Pettersson have danced around the topic when directly asked in interviews, is that not everything is rosy with their relationship. Elias Pettersson on any potential rift with J.T. Miller: "I don't know why people are still trying...