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
Milestones the Canucks Need To Hit Before 2025
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 … 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
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
Canucks Best Predators in Six Games, Round 1 Series Recap
Despite only allowing Nashville two wins, and at one point being up 3-1 over the Predators in the series it still never looked easy for the Canucks. Game one was decisive, game three was a narrow win and game four really should have gone Nashville’s way right up until the very end. Then of course game six was really anyone’s game until the dying minutes. However, the past is the … Read More
How the Canucks Can Adjust Their Approach for Game 3
Things started to look bleak for the Canucks Tuesday morning when news broke that Thatcher Demko was injured and would miss game two, if not the rest of round one as well. Following that, Tyler Myers was a late scratch for what we would find out later was a bad case of the flu. The Canucks went on to lose 4-1 against the predators with only 18 shots on net, … Read More
The Pettersson Extention, How the Canucks Got Here and Where They Go
Christmas came early for Canucks fans… very early. Just as recently as last month, it looked like star forward Elias Pettersson’s next contract would not be resolved until the off-season. Whether that contract would or would not be with the Canucks seemed to be up in the air as well. However, all of that anticipated anxiety was wiped off of Canucks’ fans calendars last week. On March 2nd, Pettersson and … Read More