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Goals and expectations for Canucks’ second pair anchor, Marcus Pettersson in 2025-2026 The 2025-26 season will be Marcus Pettersson’s first full season with the Vancouver Canucks. It also marks the beginning of the six-year, $5.5M contract he signed with the organization.   Eschewing a chance at free agency, Pettersson and the Canucks agreed to an extension shortly after being acquired from the Pittsburgh Penguins as, ultimately, the…

Goals and expectations for Canucks’ second pair anchor, Marcus Pettersson in 2025-2026

Top 10 Canucks fights of all time: #10 – Scott Walker vs. Dody Wood Welcome to our top 10 Vancouver Canucks fights of all time. With our friends from HockeyFights.com, our 10th Canucks fight of all time is the fight between Scott Walker and Dody Wood.   Earlier in the summer, we covered our top 5 Vancouver Canucks fights of the 2024-2025 season. You can rewatch all of these…

Top 10 Canucks fights of all time: #10 – Scott Walker vs. Dody Wood

Top 50 Canucks of all time: #31 – Richard Brodeur Join us this summer as we count down the top 50 Vancouver Canucks players of all time! Coming in at 31 is Richard Brodeur.  You simply can’t talk about Canucks teams of the ’80s without mentioning Richard Brodeur. The man known as “King Richard” rightfully comes in at number 31 on our list of the top…

Top 50 Canucks of all time: #31 – Richard Brodeur

JPat’s Monday Mailbag: What’s the most anticipated Canucks game next season? Congratulations. You’ve made it through another week of the off-season and are now seven days closer to the start of the new hockey season. We’re now less than a month away from the annual Jake Milford golf tournament (September 8th) which is the unofficial start to every Vancouver Canucks season. So we’re getting there. In…

JPat’s Monday Mailbag: What’s the most anticipated Canucks game next season?

Reliving the Canucks’ moves from the 2020 offseason, 5 years later It is never the most fun activity to look back on some offseason departures that most Vancouver Canucks fans probably didn’t agree with at the time. But now, five years later, let’s relive some of those 2020 offseason decisions.   After what was a difficult four-year playoff-less stretch of Canucks hockey, General Manager Jim Benning…

Reliving the Canucks’ moves from the 2020 offseason, 5 years later

A closer look at the Vegas Golden Knights: Canucks Pacific Previews In today’s National Hockey League, the biggest hurdle to a playoff spot is besting the seven teams in your own division. The Vancouver Canucks’ rivals in the Pacific Division, each at different points in their team’s evolution, will try to keep Vancouver out of the postseason party. And the only way to best your competition…

A closer look at the Vegas Golden Knights: Canucks Pacific Previews

Top 10 Canucks fights of all time: Honourable Mention – Rick Rypien vs. Hal Gill

Top 50 Canucks players of all time: #32 – Brendan Morrison Join us this summer as we count down the top 50 Vancouver Canucks players of all time! #32: Brendan Morrison As one era ends, another begins. And that’s exactly what happened when the Canucks traded away Alex Mogilny and received Brendan Morrison in return. Now, Morrison was the third string alongside Markus Naslund and Todd Bertuzzi,…

Top 50 Canucks players of all time: #32 – Brendan Morrison

Goals and expectations for Canucks captain Quinn Hughes in 2025-26 Within reason, it almost feels impossible to set the bar too high for Quinn Hughes heading into the 2025-26 National Hockey League season.   Establish a target for the Vancouver Canucks captain, and there is every reason to believe he’ll nail it. All he’s done throughout his six full NHL seasons is prove there are…

Goals and expectations for Canucks captain Quinn Hughes in 2025-26

If you could go back in time and change a Canucks draft pick, who would it be? Like most NHL teams, the Vancouver Canucks have had their fair share of misses at the draft. But which one is the greatest miss of all? That’s the question we’re going to try to answer today.   We want to dive further into this exercise. Don’t just give us a name and say, “this player…

If you could go back in time and change a Canucks draft pick, who would it be?

Top 50 Canucks players of all time: #33 – Patrik Sundstrom Join us this summer as we count down the top 50 Vancouver Canucks players of all time! #33: Patrik Sundstrom With their ninth-round pick (175th overall) in the 1980 NHL Draft, the Vancouver Canucks selected Patrik Sundstrom. Talk about a player coming a long way in a short period of time.  In just his second National…

Top 50 Canucks players of all time: #33 – Patrik Sundstrom

Canucks: Busting the myth of Elias Pettersson piling up points against weak opposition Objectively speaking, Elias Pettersson has not played as well recently as he has in the past. Beyond that, fans of the Vancouver Canucks have ample subjective reasoning to critique Pettersson’s recent play, or even to have lost faith in him as a player. But even when some criticism is warranted, there’s a clear difference between…

Canucks: Busting the myth of Elias Pettersson piling up points against weak opposition

Goals and expectations for Canucks’ Derek Forbort in 2025-26 In many ways, Derek Forbort exceeded all expectations already in 2024-25.   The Vancouver Canucks signed two veteran UFA defenders in the summer of 2024. They gave one, Vincent Desharnais, a two-year commitment at $2 million per season. The other, Derek Forbort, got just one year at $1.5 million. A year later, however, it’s Forbort…

Goals and expectations for Canucks’ Derek Forbort in 2025-26

A closer look at the Los Angeles Kings: Canucks Pacific Previews In today’s National Hockey League, the biggest hurdle to a playoff spot is besting the seven teams in your own division. The Vancouver Canucks’ rivals in the Pacific Division, each at different points in their team’s evolution, will try to keep Vancouver out of the postseason party. And the only way to best your competition…

A closer look at the Los Angeles Kings: Canucks Pacific Previews

Top 50 Canucks players of all time: #34 – Doug Lidster Join us this summer as we count down the top 50 Vancouver Canucks players of all time! #34: Doug Lidster When it comes to great defencemen who have played in Vancouver, Doug Lidster is a bit of a forgotten hero. His 10 seasons as a Canuck were sandwiched between two Stanley Cup Final appearances that he…

Top 50 Canucks players of all time: #34 – Doug Lidster

Canucks: 11 years later, how does Thatcher Demko stack up against the rest of the 2014 draft class? Welcome back to the next instalment of our NHL Draft lookbacks here at CanucksArmy. So far this offseason, we’ve looked at Brock Boeser (10 years later), Quinn Hughes (7 years later), Nils Höglander (6 years later) and Elias Pettersson (8 years later), and are more than open to suggestions of who else we should tackle!…

Canucks: 11 years later, how does Thatcher Demko stack up against the rest of the 2014 draft class?

The Canucks really need to shoot the puck more next season Great news for the guy who yells “Shooooooot!” every time the Vancouver Canucks touch the puck on home ice.   For once, he might actually be on to something. Now, it would be a gross oversimplification to say that the struggles of the 2024-25 Canucks were all down to a lack of shooting. Just as…

The Canucks really need to shoot the puck more next season

Goals and expectations for Canucks veteran Tyler Myers in 2025-26 Entering the second year of a three-year contract extension signed last summer, 35-year-old Tyler Myers is very much in the twilight of his long and successful National Hockey League career. But given the way the Vancouver Canucks defence is constructed, the veteran defenceman remains a central figure on the team’s blueline.   As things stand…

Goals and expectations for Canucks veteran Tyler Myers in 2025-26

A closer look at the Edmonton Oilers: Canucks Pacific Previews In today’s National Hockey League, the biggest hurdle to a playoff spot is besting the seven teams in your own division. The Vancouver Canucks’ rivals in the Pacific Division, each at different points in their team’s evolution, will try to keep Vancouver out of the postseason party. And the only way to best your competition…

A closer look at the Edmonton Oilers: Canucks Pacific Previews

Kevin Woodley on why Demko could have a big year, camp battles, and more: Canucks Conversation On Wednesday’s episode of Canucks Conversation, David Quadrelli was joined by Kevin Woodley of InGoal Magazine to discuss Thatcher Demko’s outlook for the 2024–25 season and some of the most intriguing forward battles expected at Canucks training camp.   Woodley explained why, based on Demko’s history, this coming year has the potential to be one…

Kevin Woodley on why Demko could have a big year, camp battles, and more: Canucks Conversation

The Canucks need to gain at least 10 points to make 2026 playoffs, so how many times have they done that before? The Vancouver Canucks did not make it to the Stanley Cup Playoffs in 2025. Not even close, in the end. They finished the 2024-25 campaign with 81 points, and they would have needed 90 to push past the St. Louis Blues and Minnesota Wild into one of the Western Conference Wild Card spots.   Moving…

The Canucks need to gain at least 10 points to make 2026 playoffs, so how many times have they done that before?

Which Canucks will be at the 2026 Winter Olympics? NHL players will have an opportunity to represent their nation as they will finally be allowed to participate in the 2026 Winter Olympics.   The IIHF announced earlier in the summer that six players were named to all 12 of the participating countries’ preliminary rosters: Canada: Sidney Crosby, Nathan MacKinnon, Cale Makar, Connor McDavid, Brayden Point,…

Which Canucks will be at the 2026 Winter Olympics?

Top 50 Canucks players of all time: #35 Dan Hamhuis Join us this summer as we count down the top 50 Vancouver Canucks players of all time! #35: Dan Hamhuis Sometimes, it’s just nice to be chosen. After years of dreaming about BC-born stars like Joe Sakic and Paul Kariya coming home, many fans of the Vancouver Canucks set their sights on one of the top…

Top 50 Canucks players of all time: #35 Dan Hamhuis

WDYTT: Who is the most overrated Canuck of all time? Welcome to WDYTT, the only hockey column on the internet with a negative budget.   Speaking of negativity, it’s something that we in the Canucks-related media get accused of pretty often. But for many of us, it can actually be quite difficult to think pessimistically about a team we all at least started as fans…

WDYTT: Who is the most overrated Canuck of all time?

Ex-Canucks defenceman Brady Keeper retires amid lingering issues from leg surgery Former Abbotsford Canucks defenceman Brady Keeper has announced his retirement, according to a post from his Instagram account on Wednesday.   Keeper stated that his reason for retirement was due to lingering issues from a surgery to repair the tibia and fibula in his left leg during his time in the Vancouver Canucks organization. The…

Ex-Canucks defenceman Brady Keeper retires amid lingering issues from leg surgery

A closer look at the Calgary Flames: Canucks Pacific Previews In today’s National Hockey League, the biggest hurdle to a playoff spot is besting the seven teams in your own division. The Vancouver Canucks’ rivals in the Pacific Division, each at different points in their team’s evolution, will try to keep Vancouver out of the postseason party. And the only way to best your competition…

A closer look at the Calgary Flames: Canucks Pacific Previews

Canucks’ Pettersson says there’s no injury holding him back during offseason training While we don’t know what kind of form Elias Pettersson will be in for the 2025-26 season, we now know that he’ll at least be healthy.   The Vancouver Canucks center spoke with the NHL Sverige’s Peter Ekholm on Wednesday about his offseason, and how he feels heading into the season. And thankfully for the…

Canucks’ Pettersson says there’s no injury holding him back during offseason training

An updated look at the Canucks’ forward depth post-Kravtsov signing On Tuesday, the Vancouver Canucks signed Vitali Kravtsov to a one-year, two-way deal with an NHL cap hit of $750,000. In doing so, the Canucks added another competitor to what should be a fierce training camp battle for final roster spots. And of course, they also added to their overall forward depth in the process….

An updated look at the Canucks’ forward depth post-Kravtsov signing

Top 50 Canucks players of all time: #36 – Petri Skriko Join us this summer as we count down the top 50 Vancouver Canucks players of all time! #36: Peter Skriko Petri Skriko was the very first Finnish player to ever put on a Vancouver Canucks jersey, and boy, did he shine offensively. Drafted in the eighth round (157th overall) in the 1981 NHL Entry draft, Skriko…

Top 50 Canucks players of all time: #36 – Petri Skriko

What does the recent history of KHL signings say about Vitaly Kravtsov’s chances of a successful Canucks comeback? Just when the summer was getting a little too quiet, the Vancouver Canucks broke the silence and announced the signing of a player most thought was never coming back.   Vitaly Kravtsov, the former ninth overall selection and former brief Canuck by way of trade with the New York Rangers, had left the Vancouver organization…

What does the recent history of KHL signings say about Vitaly Kravtsov’s chances of a successful Canucks comeback?