I’m a new Dad as of the beginning of October, so I am still getting used to the new schedule that a baby imposes on ones life. While there are many things that I can now no longer do on the regular, I can, in theory, still do one thing that I enjoy, which is write about the Canucks… in theory. However, as I mentioned, new Dad, getting used to … Read More
Nils Höglander, a Critical Season Once He Returns
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
Canucks After Free Agency, Why Do I Feel Hopeful?
After the dust settled on NHL Free Agency, the Canucks retained not only Brock Boeser, but also extended Thatcher Demko and Conor Garland. They may have lost Noah Juulsen, Pius Suter and, most recently, Dakota Joshua, but they have retained key pieces that give this team its identity for the better. With big components of this Canucks team staying the same, and the fact that this season ended so poorly … Read More
What the Vancouver Canucks Free Agency Plan Should Be
With the Abbotsford Canucks impressive triumph over the entire AHL now firmly cemented in history, the next big ticket item on the Canucks’ organizational calendar is Free Agency on July 1st. This year the Vancouver Canucks are not looking to add a few pieces around the edges of a system that works. The Canucks are instead likely to lose one or more well established NHL players and face the decision … 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
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
A Quarter Through the Season, How Are the Canucks Doing Compared to the Rest of the West?
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 … 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
Conor Garland Shines In Modest Canucks Start to Season.
The Canucks haven’t seemed to fall off a cliff yet in what is their sophomore season of being a good team again. However, Vancouver has not come out swinging quite as strongly as they did to start last season either. Last year, while American Thanksgiving was fast approaching, and 15 games played, the Canucks were 4th in the league and second-best in the conference only bested by the league-leading Golden … Read More