This season was shaping up to be an important one for both the Canucks and Nils Höglander, yet sadly, Höglander will not be joining the team for at least 8-10 weeks now after sustaining a third-period ankle injury in last week’s pre-season contest against the Seattle Kraken. Once healthy, Höglander will be entering his sixth year playing for the Vancouver Canucks and will be three years removed from the 2022-23 … Read More
What Boeser Can Do for the Canucks
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 … Read More
I Just Don’t Know About Petey Anymore
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 … Read More
If It’s Pettersson or Miller, Pettersson Wins
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 … Read More
Pettersson Has Improved, but Progress Is Not Always Linear
Elias Pettersson started this 2024-25 campaign off slow to say the least. He continued this trend over from last season, a trend many fans hoped he would buck during the summer. But without any rash actions from the Canucks and by Pettersson just trying to focus on what matters, he has been able to ramp up his production slowly but surely. He isn’t bringing the house down with his numbers … Read More
Is It Time to Move On From Nils Höglander?
The Canucks on the whole have had a troubled but respectable start to the season. However not all Canucks players who have laced up for all 24 games have been instrumental in getting the team where they are in this campaign. Much ink has been spilt about Elias Pettersson and his ghostly presence through most of October and into November. However, Pettersson has stepped up over recent games, making larger … Read More
Absences and Injuries: A Recap of Vancouver’s Personnel Challenges So Far This Season
The Canucks have had to deal with a truly staggering amount of notable personnel curveballs already this season. Of the the names featured in this article, virtually all of them were vital to the fabric of what made this team successful last year, and will no doubt be vital to what gives this team legs during the rest of this campaign as well. Reviewing the big picture of what this … Read More
Nils Höglander’s Fifth Season as a Canuck, How Does He Fit In?
Nils Höglander is 23 years old, is turning 24 before the end of the calendar year, and the Swedish-born player is about to begin his 5th season as a Vancouver Canuck. This Canucks team has improved drastically since Höglander’s initial season with the team starting back in 2020. But now that the club has grown in a positive direction with and around Höglander, does he still have a place on … Read More
Demko and Boeser, the Status of Both High Profile Canucks Coming off of Injuries.
The Canucks had an undeniably strong season last year. The team’s appearance in the second round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs was beyond impressive, especially considering where they were just 12 months before that. During the 2022-23 campaign the Canucks finished in 22nd place across the NHL and three positions out from a final wild card spot. However, beyond just remembering the excitement of how far the Canucks got as … Read More
Arshdeep Bains Called-up Again, Expected Impact This Time Around
Arshdeep Bains was just called up from the Abbotsford Canucks for the second time this season. He has already played five games with the Canucks this year, with his NHL debut on February 20th. Bains was then sent back down to Abbotsford after the Canucks’ February 29th contest against the Colorado Avalanche. Other circumstances beyond Bains performance led to his original call-up and a subsequent second one. Nevertheless, he has … Read More