The Vancouver Canucks have long been missing a solid right-shot defenceman. It’s a positional hole that has been at the top of fans’ minds and no doubt the top of management’s minds for quite some time now. Well, last week the Canucks finally did something about that hole in their roster by acquiring right-shot defenceman Ethan Bear from the Carolina Hurricanes in exchange for a 5th-round pick in 2023. A...

Nothing makes you appreciate two back-to-back wins like seven consecutive losses. The Canucks’ season has been a mixed bag so far, to say the least. On the plus side, Elias Pettersson has been playing at a high level.  Unfortunately, there have been a few key injuries like Brock Boeser and Quinn Hughes keeping this team from icing their ideal roster, and Thatcher Demko has been playing uncharacteristically. This is not...

On Tuesday, prior to the game in Columbus, the Canucks made it clear that Conor Garland would be a healthy scratch. He returned to the lineup on Thursday in Minnesota, while Nils Höglander tagged out and sat in the press box. Both of these lineup choices were met with criticism and head-scratching. If Garland and Höglander can be scratched, why can’t J.T. Miller? When Garland was scratched before the Columbus...

It’s only five games into this 82 game season and if games were years and the Canucks were a person, they would barely be old enough to form memories yet. This lens makes it seem irrational to worry and crazy to panic, so can someone please explain why that still feels like the logical emotion to have, even this early in the 2022-23 campaign? It’s hard to believe that considering...

On Thursday the Vancouver Canucks announced that fan favourite defenceman, Kevin Bieksa, will sign a one-day contract with the club to officially retire as a Vancouver Canuck. Bieksa had not played for Vancouver since 2014-15 when he was traded to the Anaheim Ducks.  “I am both honoured and grateful to officially end my NHL career as a Vancouver Canuck,” Bieksa said in a statement to the media. “It was a...

The Canucks begin their 2022-23 campaign tonight against the Edmonton Oilers, one of the only two teams kind enough to allow the Canucks to walk away with a victory in the pre-season. If Vancouver’s pre-season record of 2-6 is any indication of how the Canucks will perform in their first run of regular season games, then the bar hasn’t been set too high for the team. However, the pre-season is...

Two years ago, Nils Höglander was looked at as one of the budding stars for the Canucks moving forward. Fast forward to this year’s training camp and he’s starting on an AHL line. He found himself on the outside looking in, leaving both fans and media to discuss whether he could crack the Canucks opening night lineup. Höglander had a strong rookie year, putting up 27 points in a Covid-shortened...

We’re nearly halfway through the Canucks’ pre-season, and the regular season is now just around the corner. Still, the Canucks have four pre-season games left to play, and their initial outings haven’t exactly been great. This is when it’s important to remember that pre-season is a learning experience for the whole organization. Not all the heavy hitters are in place or playing on their battle-tested lines. So of course results...

It started as an annual tradition that we at StadiumChinatown.ca would predict the forward lines and defensive pairings for the season based on who we think would play well together, and how things have looked at Canucks training camp. But a curveball knuckle puck was thrown our way this year.  As per Bruce Boudreau, the lines and defensive pairings seen at the start of camp are likely to  start the...

It is September, JT Miller has signed a new contract and it’s now time for us to get excited about the prospect of another year of Canucks hockey. There were a fair amount of changes the Canucks made early this summer. They signed Curtis Lazar to shore up the fourth-line centre role, brought in Ilya Mikheyev to add to their winger depth and landed Andrei Kuzmenko, a highly coveted Russian...