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The Vancouver Canucks don’t play a game until early October, so this isn’t a problem quite yet. But given the way their roster is currently constructed, the hockey club seems to be lacking capable, competent penalty killing forwards. Four of the top eight busiest penalty killing forwards on last year’s roster no longer play for…
It’s officially the NHL offseason. The dust has settled on free agency, but we still absolutely have some interesting storylines to follow. There are the offer sheets, particularly Philadelphia’s mega-offer sheet to Anaheim Ducks centre Leo Carlsson and whether or not the Ducks will match it this week, or take the draft picks and lose…
On Monday’s episode of 32 Thoughts: The Podcast, NHL insider Elliotte Friedman didn’t have any updates on Connor Bedard’s recent […] The post Insider Speaks On Bedard’s Contract Status Following Carlsson Offer Sheet appeared first on Chicago Hockey Now .
Be sure to check out PuckPedia.com for all your NHL salary cap needs! The wild and woolly 2026 NHL offseason is nowhere near done yet. But it does seem to have reached a bit of a lull as the league awaits the results and consequences of the Leo Carlsson offer sheet, and that makes for…
It feels like the Vancouver Canucks have done the bulk of their heavy offseason lifting. And, as expected, it really wasn’t all that heavy. Oh, there may be a signing or two still to come and it’s always possible trade winds will blow. But as the roster building slows down for the remainder of summer,…
The Vancouver Canucks were busy on July 1, not only in the free agent market, but in the trade market, too. In total, they signed five players: Paul Cotter, Jamie…
Here’s an odd thing: the Vancouver Canucks have gone two full seasons without a right-shot centre in their lineup, with one very brief exception. Last season, all of the Canucks’ centres were sinister in the classic sense: they all shot left-handed. Elias Pettersson, Filip Chytil, Marco Rossi, Teddy Blueger, Max Sasson, Aatu Räty, and…
It’s not often that a player falls far enough in the 2026 NHL Draft for a selection to immediately feel like a home run. Yet when Adam Novotný was still available at 24th overall, that was the sentiment among those familiar with his game. Whether it ultimately becomes one of the steals of the…
There’s a certain rhythm to NHL offseason building when you look at it closely enough. The contending teams don’t always swing for the fences in July. More often than not,…
The Vancouver Canucks unveiled the jersey numbers for four of their new players on Saturday afternoon. Naturally, we thought it most appropriate to ask, who were the last Canucks to wear their numbers? Brendan Gallagher – Number 7 Although technically not a free agent signing, Brendan Gallagher had to pick a new number when the…
On Friday, former Vancouver Canucks centre Teddy Blueger met with Toronto media after signing a two-year contract worth $2.5 million annually with the Maple Leafs in NHL free agency earlier this week. Blueger spent the past three seasons with the Canucks after signing a one-year deal with the club ahead of the 2023-24 season, and…
The Carolina Hurricanes have a big decision to make on rookie RFA defenseman Alexander Nikishin. Do they sign him to the massive contract he's looking for, or deal him? For now, they have made him available to other teams . The big Russian blueliner is not eligible for an offer sheet, but the Stanley Cup champs are willing to listen to trade offers. There are a number of teams that have been linked to the 6'3" rearguard, like the NY Rangers and the Vancouver Canucks, but another team wit...
There are two ways to look at the Vancouver Canucks right now, and they don’t exactly line up neatly. On one hand, this is a team coming off a brutally…
We’re still a long way off from the start of the 2026-27 season – more than three months, as of this writing – but the majority of the happenings in the 2026 offseason have already happened. The 2026 NHL Entry Draft is in the books. The first few days, and first couple hundred signings, of…
The Edmonton Oilers are looking to add more offense to their lineup and could look to acquire it through a trade.Heavy.com has a trade idea that sees the Oilers acquiring Jake DeBrusk from the Vancouver Canucks in a three-player deal to bolster their offense.Oilers acquire: Jake DeBrusk Canucks acquire: Mattias Janmark Spencer Stastney The Oilers […] The post Trade Idea Sees Oilers Acquiring $38.5M Scoring Winger From Rival appeared first on HEAVY .
Aleksei Medvedev is still only 18 years old, but he’s grown significantly as an athlete since being drafted by the Vancouver Canucks last year. And he’s found real positive life lessons in a season with the London Knights that pushed him to his limits. Talking to CanucksArmy on the opening day of development camp in…
The Vancouver Canucks might want to think twice about trading two veteran wingers, even with the team going through a rebuild. The post Canucks Might Want to Think Twice about Trading Veteran Wingers appeared first on HEAVY .
It was a busier July 1st than most expected it would be for the Vancouver Canucks. As expected, they made their depth signings, added some veteran leadership, but the real savvy move and what ultimately has everyone looking favourably on Ryan Johnson’s work on July 1st, 2026 is the Marcus Pettersson trade, and the…
With July 1st now come and gone, the first two days of frenzy of NHL free agency have wrapped up. The Vancouver Canucks elected to pass on making any big splashes with UFA’s or trades, but they made a handful of moves to position themselves in the midst of their current rebuild. Vancouver played…
The Vancouver Canucks made nine selections last week in the 2026 NHL Draft. Seven of those picks were used to bolster their forward group, adding one defenceman and goaltender as well. Coming into this year’s draft, the biggest need in the Canucks prospect pool was the centre position. Though they used their first-round pick…
The Vancouver Canucks are not making a splash so much as they are stitching together roles, habits, and redundancies. In their latest set of moves, they have made it pretty…
Let’s just come right out and say it. The Vancouver Canucks have not always been well-managed over the past decade or so. And if there’s been a particular weakness of the last two managerial regimes, led by the Jims Benning and Rutherford, it’s been asset management. The Canucks faithful are all too familiar with…
The past eight days may have been the busiest of young Caleb Malhotra’s life. Since being selected third overall by the Vancouver Canucks in last Friday’s National Hockey League draft, Malhotra has flown cross-continent, gone whitewater rafting, spent time helping out at a food bank, heard presentations from members of the Canucks front office, and…
The Vancouver Canucks could find an interesting trade partner for veteran goaltender Thatcher Demko this offseason. The post Canucks Might Find Interesting Trade Partner for Demko appeared first on HEAVY .
It stands to reason that two of the three Vancouver Canucks first-rounders in attendance were among the best players in Thursday’s end-of-summer development camp scrimmages at Rogers Forum in Abbotsford. Braeden Cootes was by far the best player on the ice while Adam Novotný separated himself from the pack, as well. Cootes, the club’s…