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NHL Notebook: Connor closing in on extension with Jets, Silovs blanks Miller on NHL opening night 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!   After 112 days of no hockey – and even more torturous, 174 days of no Canucks hockey – tonight was the official start of the 2025-26…

NHL Notebook: Connor closing in on extension with Jets, Silovs blanks Miller on NHL opening night

‘We owe it to Braeden’: Canucks GM Allvin on Cootes cracking NHL roster It’s a day after the NHL roster deadline, and the 18-year-old Braeden Cootes is still on the Vancouver Canucks roster.   On Tuesday, Cootes skated in between Evander Kane and Jonathan Lekkerimäki at Canucks practice. After the session, Canucks General Manager Patrik Allvin met with the media following practice to discuss what he’s seen from…

‘We owe it to Braeden’: Canucks GM Allvin on Cootes cracking NHL roster

Abbotsford Canucks sign Nick Poisson to one-year AHL deal The Abbotsford Canucks continue to work through their respective training camp ahead of the 2025-26 season opener on Friday, October 10th.   Despite being released from his tryout with the team earlier in the week, Abbotsford’s General Manager Ryan Johnson has announced that the team has officially signed Nick Poisson to a one-year AHL contract….

Abbotsford Canucks sign Nick Poisson to one-year AHL deal

Scenes from practice: Mancini and Forbort back with Canucks two days before season opener The Vancouver Canucks skated for about 50 minutes on Tuesday morning at Rogers Arena as the team prepares for its 2025-26 opener on Thursday against Calgary.   What we saw Tuesday #Canucks practice lines DeBrusk. EP40. Boeser.Bains. Chytil. Garland.Kane. Cootes. Lekkerimäki.O’Connor. Räty. Sherwood.Karlsson. Hughes. Hronek.MP29. Myers. Forbort. EP25. Mancini. Absent: Blueger @Sportsnet650 pic.twitter.com/aegkDPqiNi — Brendan…

Scenes from practice: Mancini and Forbort back with Canucks two days before season opener

Canucks: Patrik Allvin offers injury updates on Teddy Blueger and PO Joseph Vancouver Canucks general manager Patrik Allvin met with the media on Tuesday as his club practiced on the ice at Rogers Arena. As expected, the Canucks’ GM offered injury updates on forward Teddy Blueger and defenceman PO Joseph. Blueger was hurt during the Canucks’ final preseason game against the Edmonton Oilers on Friday night. The…

Canucks: Patrik Allvin offers injury updates on Teddy Blueger and PO Joseph

Friedman: Canucks continuing search for a centre as NHL season kicks off The search for a centreman continues for the Vancouver Canucks. In his latest edition of 32 Thoughts column published Tuesday, Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman reports that the Canucks are one to watch as they continue to search for a centre: 13. Other things to watch once the phones start to buzz: Vancouver continuing its search for…

Friedman: Canucks continuing search for a centre as NHL season kicks off

Canucks place Pierre-Olivier Joseph on injured reserve We haven’t even started the new season, and injuries are afoot.   On Tuesday, Vancouver Canucks General Manager Patrik Allvin announced that the team has placed defenceman Pierre-Olivier Joseph on injured reserve. The move is retroactive to September 30, meaning Joseph will be eligible to return to the lineup whenever he’s ready to go. According…

Canucks place Pierre-Olivier Joseph on injured reserve

Blackfish: NCAA opening weekend, CHL in full force and youngster impress in Vancouver Welcome back to Blackfish: our weekly Vancouver Canucks Prospect Report. It’s here, and it’s beautiful. After months of speculation, development camps, and preseason glimpses, the 2025-26 hockey season has officially arrived. As of this week, every league will be in motion, every lineup spot will have meaning, and the storylines we’ve been tracking all summer…

Blackfish: NCAA opening weekend, CHL in full force and youngster impress in Vancouver

Ex-Canucks goalie Arturs Silovs named Penguins’ opening night starter vs. Rangers Ex-Vancouver Canucks goaltender Arturs Silovs looks set to make his Pittsburgh Penguins debut on Tuesday night, as he was the first goaltender off the ice at today’s morning skate in New York.   🥅: Arturs Silovs (PIT) 🅿️ was the first goalie off the ice at the Penguins' morning skate. It looks like he'll make…

Ex-Canucks goalie Arturs Silovs named Penguins’ opening night starter vs. Rangers

Comparing the Canucks’ 2025-26 opening night roster to 2024-25 There’s no denying it. Last season was a disappointment for the Vancouver Canucks. After winning the Pacific Division and going on an exciting playoff run in 2023-24, expectations were high for the 2024-25 Canucks. Unfortunately, the follow-up act was a dysfunctional nightmare, and the Canucks were right back to being a painfully mediocre team on…

Comparing the Canucks’ 2025-26 opening night roster to 2024-25

Report: Canucks calling up defenceman Victor Mancini Just one day after submitting their 2025-26 opening night roster, the Vancouver Canucks are reportedly already making changes.   According to Donnie & Dhali’s Rick Dhaliwal, defenceman Victor Mancini is getting called up to Vancouver. Sounds like D Victor Mancini is getting called up by the #Canucks. — Rick Dhaliwal (@DhaliwalSports) October 7, 2025 The…

Report: Canucks calling up defenceman Victor Mancini

Why Filip Chytil might just be the most important Canucks forward this season November 19, 2024.​   That was the day the Vancouver Canucks announced J.T. Miller would be taking an indefinite leave of absence from the team just over a month into the regular season. The response from fans immediately was confusion. Once the smoke cleared, it brought up a litany of questions about the team’s future….

Why Filip Chytil might just be the most important Canucks forward this season

NHL Network ranks Canucks’ Quinn Hughes 10th on top players list Leading up to the official start of the 2025-26 regular season, the NHL Network released its top 50 players right now list, and the Vancouver Canucks captain was given a top-10 ranking. NHL Network ranked Quinn Hughes as the 10th-best player in the NHL right now. Quinn Hughes kicks off the Top 10 on NHL…

NHL Network ranks Canucks’ Quinn Hughes 10th on top players list

Canucks announce 2025-26 opening night roster; Cootes to make NHL debut The Vancouver Canucks announced their 2025-26 opening night roster ahead of October 6’s roster deadline.   Here is the club’s opening night roster: Forwards: Arshdeep Bains, Teddy Blueger, Brock Boeser, Filip Chytil, Braeden Cootes, Jake DeBrusk, Conor Garland, Evander Kane, Linus Karlsson, Jonathan Lekkerimäki, Drew O’Connor, Elias Pettersson, Aatu Räty, and Kiefer Sherwood. Defencemen: Derek…

Canucks announce 2025-26 opening night roster; Cootes to make NHL debut

NHL Notebook: McDavid signs two-year, $12.5 million AAV extension with Oilers ahead of season opener 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! After a lot of speculation around the NHL about whether the best player in the world would extend with the Edmonton Oilers, we have our answer on…

NHL Notebook: McDavid signs two-year, $12.5 million AAV extension with Oilers ahead of season opener

With the final cuts complete, who now makes the Canucks’ opening night lineup? A full 59 players entered Vancouver Canucks Training Camp 2025. And following 35 cuts made at various stages of camp, just 24 remain on the team’s official opening day roster as of October 6, 2025.   The Canucks made young RDs Tom Willander and Victor Mancini their final two cuts, bringing their active roster to…

With the final cuts complete, who now makes the Canucks’ opening night lineup?

JPat’s Monday Mailbag: Canucks player predictions for the 2025-26 season It is just about go time. We’ve all made it through the offseason, through training camp and through six exhibition games, too. Only a few more sleeps now until the Vancouver Canucks start playing for keeps. We thought we’d mix things up a little in the days leading up to the first real puck drop…

JPat’s Monday Mailbag: Canucks player predictions for the 2025-26 season

How the sooner-than-expected arrival of the NHL’s ‘papering’ rules will affect the Canucks The new NHL CBA giveth, and the new NHL CBA taketh away.   Throughout the offseason, we’ve covered the implications of the latest Collective Bargaining Agreement signed between the NHL and the NHLPA, and especially the implications of its staggered rollout. Along the way, there have been some major potential advantages doled out to the…

How the sooner-than-expected arrival of the NHL’s ‘papering’ rules will affect the Canucks

Scenes from practice: Blueger absent as Canucks skate for final time before Monday’s roster dealdline With the set-up for Monday’s NBA preseason game taking over Rogers Arena, the Vancouver Canucks skated at UBC on Sunday morning. It was the team’s final on-ice session before the season-opening roster had to be set at 2pm PT on Monday afternoon.   What we saw The Canucks had 20 skaters and two goaltenders on…

Scenes from practice: Blueger absent as Canucks skate for final time before Monday’s roster dealdline

Canucks cut defencemen Victor Mancini and Tom Willander ahead of roster deadline The Vancouver Canucks have cut defencemen Victor Mancini and Tom Willander ahead of the NHL’s Monday 2 PM PST roster deadline. General manager Patrik Allvin made the announcement following Sunday’s practice out at UBC.   General Manager Patrik Allvin announced today that D Victor Mancini and D Tom Willander have been assigned to Abbotsford (AHL)….

Canucks cut defencemen Victor Mancini and Tom Willander ahead of roster deadline

Analyzing the Canucks’ cap situation heading into NHL roster finalization With the final roster due on Monday, October 6th, it’s time to look at the Vancouver Canucks‘ salary cap situation heading into the season. There are several camp battles and trade rumours that could change the Canucks’ salary heading into their season opener on Thursday, October 9th, against the Calgary Flames. The maximum roster size…

Analyzing the Canucks’ cap situation heading into NHL roster finalization

Canucks assign Max Sasson to Abbotsford The Canucks are another cut closer to their opening night roster after announcing that forward Max Sasson has been assigned to the Abbotsford Canucks. The 25-year-old centre is waiver-exempt and is free to join the AHL team immediately. Sasson played in three preseason games for the Canucks over the last two weeks, picking up a…

Canucks assign Max Sasson to Abbotsford

What are the betting markets saying about the 2025-26 Canucks? The Vancouver Canucks have their final dress rehearsal tonight against the Edmonton Oilers before kicking off their season in less than a week against the Calgary Flames.   While there are still many questions to be answered regarding the Canucks’ roster and who will make the opening night lineup, the betting market appears to have…

What are the betting markets saying about the 2025-26 Canucks?

JPat: 5 under the radar observations from a successful Canucks preseason You know by now that Braeden Cootes, Jonathan Lekkerimäki, and Victor Mancini all had terrific preseasons for the Vancouver Canucks. You also know that Quinn Hughes looks like he’s in midseason form in the first week of October. You’ve heard about the good vibes, the turning of the page from last season’s dysfunction, the new…

JPat: 5 under the radar observations from a successful Canucks preseason

Canucks’ Nils Åman clears waivers, assigned to AHL Abbotsford along with G Nikita Tolopilo On Saturday, forward Nils Åman cleared waivers, with the Vancouver Canucks sending the 25-year-old down to its American Hockey League affiliate, the Abbotsford Canucks. Goaltender Nikita Tolopilo was also assigned to the AHL. It comes after a relatively strong start to the preseason for Åman. The Avesta, Sweden native potted a goal in the Canucks’…

Canucks’ Nils Åman clears waivers, assigned to AHL Abbotsford along with G Nikita Tolopilo

The Statsies: Pettersson takes on McDavid and Draisaitl matchup duty in Canucks’ win A winning end to the meaningless games. Vancouver Whitecaps forward Thomas Müller showed up at Rogers Arena to watch the Canucks preseason game against the Oilers 🤩 pic.twitter.com/izpxtCXVUj — Sportsnet (@Sportsnet) October 4, 2025 The Vancouver Canucks topped the Edmonton Oilers by a 3-2 overtime scoreline. With the final cuts to the roster looming, quite…

The Statsies: Pettersson takes on McDavid and Draisaitl matchup duty in Canucks’ win

Instant Reaction: Lekkerimäki scores twice to help Canucks defeat Oilers 3-2 in overtime Welcome back to Instant Reaction, the series here at CanucksArmy where we give you our instant reaction to tonight’s Vancouver Canucks game and ask our readers to do the same in the comments section below!  Mercifully, the final preseason game came and went with the Vancouver Canucks rolling out a lineup that looked as close to “opening night” calibre…

Instant Reaction: Lekkerimäki scores twice to help Canucks defeat Oilers 3-2 in overtime

‘It will be a little strange’: Kane talks facing ex-Oilers teammates in Canucks’ final pre-season game Friday night will be a reunion of sorts for Evander Kane. Kane and his new Canucks teammates are set to face his former team, the Edmonton Oilers, in their preseason finale. Kane is 34 and coming off a 2024-25 where he missed the entire regular season recovering from knee surgery, but returned to play in…

‘It will be a little strange’: Kane talks facing ex-Oilers teammates in Canucks’ final pre-season game

Scenes from morning skate: Bains gets top six shot as Canucks and Oilers close out preseason It’s the last chance to leave a positive impression on the coaching staff as the Vancouver Canucks host the Edmonton Oilers in the final game of the NHL pre-season for both teams. Face off is set for 7pm at Rogers Arena.   What we saw believe this to be #Canucks line-up tonight vs Oilers. DeBrusk-EP40-BoeserBains-Chytil-GarlandKane-Cootes-LekkerimakiO’Connor-Blueger-Sherwood(Raty-Sasson-Karlsson)…

Scenes from morning skate: Bains gets top six shot as Canucks and Oilers close out preseason

Canucks place forward Nils Åman on waivers The Canucks have placed centre Nils Åman on NHL waivers for the purposes of assigning him to Abbotsford in the AHL, general manager Patrik Allvin announced Friday morning. Åman, 25, is on the last season of a two-year contract that carries an $825,000 cap hit, and will be a restricted free agent in the summer….

Canucks place forward Nils Åman on waivers