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This is always one of the best mailbags to write each year because it’s the final one for the month of August. After this, it’s all gas, no brakes to the start of hockey season. Alexei Medvedev’s London Knights are playing in Victoria on Friday and Saturday. A week later, the Canucks prospects face Seattle’s…
Welcome to a new series here at CanucksArmy, where over the month of August we’ll ask a new question each day about the Vancouver Canucks. We’re calling it “31 days, 31 questions”. Today, we’re examining if it truly is make-or-break territory for Jonathan Lekkerimäki. Jonathan Lekkerimäki has reached the point in his development where patience…
The Vancouver Canucks have a big decision to make on Zeev Buium. At 20 years old, the defenceman has one year left on his entry-level contract and can sign an extension now. Vancouver would probably prefer to get a deal done before he has a chance to raise his price, but Buium may have other…
It’s been a tough go for Filip Chytil since he was acquired from the New York Rangers in a package for J.T. Miller. He’s only played 27 games in a…
In today’s NHL rumour rundown, we start off by looking at Elias Pettersson and how the Vancouver Canucks are trying to bring him back to his old form. Next, the…
The Vancouver Canucks have spent the last little while making it pretty clear that the old version of the team is gone. Some of the players who were supposed to…
Every NHL team has players it would rather forget. The Vancouver Canucks have quite a few of them. Some names earned that distinction through one crushing playoff moment, while others spent years piling up goals, getting under the Canucks’ skin, or standing directly between Vancouver and a Stanley Cup. This list is reserved for…
As August winds down, the 2026-27 NHL season is quickly approaching for the Edmonton Oilers. The team’s first preseason game will be on September 19, followed by its official season opener on September 29 when they host the Vancouver Canucks at Rogers Place. As we head into training camp and the start of the season,…
Cale Makar’s new deal is certainly going to change things around the NHL. What does it mean for Quinn Hughes’ […] The post Deen’s Daily: Fallout of Makar’s New Deal; What Happens With Minnesota and Quinn Hughes appeared first on Colorado Hockey Now .
We are only a couple weeks away from training camp, and soon everyone will be returning to Vancouver to prepare for the 2026-27 season. The Vancouver Canucks have some new…
The Pacific Division in 2026-27 is a top-heavy division made up of two groups: the Haves and the Have-Nots. The gap between the best and worst has never been larger, and the Vancouver Canucks sit firmly at the bottom. Seven teams stand in their way on the path back to contention, and we’re going to…
As they embark on their rebuild, the Vancouver Canucks have to be willing to carve a path for any and all young players who show promise. The likes of Zeev Buium, Tom Willander and Aatu Räty are expected to feature prominently in the Canucks lineup this season, while Jonathan Lekkerimäki, if fully recovered from season-ending…
For the first time in a long time, the Vancouver Canucks have a clear organizational vision of where they’re headed, or at least where they’d like to be headed. The rebuild is on, and every decision, more or less, has been and will be tilted in that direction. But even within the seemingly clear…
The Vancouver Canucks are heading into a season in which there are plenty of questions about what this team can become. The roster has changed, the expectations have changed, and…
The NHL season is fast approaching, and that means NHL fantasy drafts are right around the corner for all you fantasy players out there. Over the last few days, Daily Faceoff has been releasing its top fantasy rankings. Four Daily Faceoff members, including Daily Faceoff Managing Editor Matt Larkin, Daily Faceoff Managing Fantasy Editor…
NHL.com is providing in-depth prospect analysis for each of its 32 teams from Aug. 1-Sept. 1. Today, the top five prospects for the Vancouver Canucks, according to NHL.com.
The hockey world has been waiting for the elite defenseman market to be completely reset all summer. We got a hint of what was to come when the Chicago Blackhawks extended Bowen Byram for eight years at $12.5 million AAV, the highest at the position. But Cale Makar and Quinn Hughes were going to be...
Welcome back to NHL Notebook — the series here at CanucksArmy where we deliver you news and notes from around the National Hockey League — oftentimes through a Vancouver Canucks-tinted lens! Well, we teased it yesterday, and it was made official today. Makar inks mega extension with the Avalanche On Friday afternoon, the Colorado Avalanche released a…
Brock Boeser has been a Vancouver Canuck for 10 years now. But as a pending UFA, his time in Vancouver seemed to be coming to an end entering last summer, until the two sides surprisingly re-upped on the first day of free agency on a seven-year extension with a $7.25M AAV. Now, however, after just Year 1 of the seven-year deal, and the Canucks in all-out rebuild, the rumors could pick up again. TSN analyst Travis Yost has done some serious digging into the analytics and writes that...
For the third straight year, we are conducting a late-summer thought exercise. This is the final article in a five-piece series where we present a pair of options and ask you which is more likely to occur. Without the benefit of a crystal ball, of course, it’s impossible to know how things will go for…
Welcome to a new series here at CanucksArmy, where over the month of August we’ll ask a new question each day about the Vancouver Canucks. We’re calling it “31 days, 31 questions”. Today, we’re examining how much familiarity will matter for new Canucks head coach Manny Malhotra. We here at CanucksArmy have covered our “goals…
Those reading the tea leaves have long predicted that another round of NHL expansion is forthcoming, and that was a fairly easy prediction to make when said tea leaves read “$2 billion expansion fees.” That’s almost too much money to leave on the table, and it seems that the NHL will not, in fact, be…
With the 2026-27 NHL season weeks away, the Vancouver Canucks are committed to the rebuild, as they attempt to climb back to contention. When speaking about Brock Boeser, NHL analyst Travis Yost has stated that Vancouver should trade him to gain more assets. “Boeser is 29, coveted around the league, and playing on a team […] The post NHL rumors: Canucks should trade Brock Boeser, says analyst appeared first on ClutchPoints .
Rebuilding an NHL team comes with a funny problem: sometimes the players you trust the most are exactly the players you need to protect. Filip Hronek will likely be one…
It may have taken 10 years for this outcome to occur, but Filip Hronek is looking like the biggest value of the entire 2016 NHL Draft class – whether it was the Vancouver Canucks who drafted him or not. Unfortunately, this wasn’t a great draft for your Canucks. At fifth overall, they selected one…