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...

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...

What does a good end to 2024 look like for the Vancouver Canucks? That is a hard question to answer given all the unpredictable things that this team has gone through to start the season. For starters The Canucks are only just seeing both J.T. Miller and Thatcher Demko re-entered the fold for the team. With key players elsewhere in the line-up only now just getting into form and some...

Thatcher Demko returned to the Canucks crease for the first time since last season. Canucks watched with severe anxiety every time Demko pushed across the crease or sprawled out for a big save fearing a re-injury. The last time Demko returned from an injury, he only played one game and was shut down until Tuesday night. So how did he do in his return? Let’s take a look using the...

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...

The Canucks have played 21 games so far this year, which puts them over the 25% completion threshold for the 20242-25 NHL season. The Canucks have a 11-7-3 record placing them at 3rd in the Pacific, 6th in their conference and 11th across the league, at the time of this article going out of Wednesday evening. The big picture is that the Canucks have done well considering the significant personnel...