Thatcher Demko was born on December 8, 1995, in San Diego, California. In 2011-12, Demko played for the U.S. National U17 Team. In three games, he posted a 1.29 goals-against average and a .940 save percentage.
Later this afternoon, the Vancouver Canucks will face the Pittsburgh Penguins in a matinee match. The spotlight will mostly be on No. 87, but most fans will be excited to welcome back fan favourite Arturs Silovs to Rogers Arena.
There’s no longer any question about where the Vancouver Canucks are as a franchise. The team sits dead last in the NHL standings by a wide margin. In December, they traded away their best player in defenseman Quinn Hughes for young players and a draft pick.
Injuries continue to be a major issue for the Vancouver Canucks, and once again, the focus is on goaltender Thatcher Demko. The team has been without its No.
All the trade talk lately around Vancouver’s defence has been loud, especially after Quinn Hughes got shipped off to Minnesota in December. Fans are asking who’s going to hold this blue line together now—and honestly, the answer is pretty simple: Filip Hronek.
There's more to hockey than scoring goals and stopping pucks. For some players, putting up points came second to their main task: angering their opponents.
Following Friday night’s 5-4 loss to the New Jersey Devils, the Vancouver Canucks were back on the ice at UBC for practice. Evander Kane and Tom Willander were absent from practice.
With the Vancouver Canucks officially in a rebuild, the rumour mill will be churning every day with new speculation on who president Jim Rutherford and general manager (GM) Patrik Allvin will trade next.
We’re just a few short weeks away from the February Olympic break. With roughly 30 games remaining on the NHL schedule, the runway to cover ground is shrinking by the day.
Friday night at Rogers Arena was one of those games that felt closer than it really was. The Vancouver Canucks pushed, chased, and made it interesting late, but they spent too much of the night climbing uphill.
As the Vancouver Canucks continue to navigate the trajectory of their rebuild, speculation surrounding who will stay and who could be moved ahead of the NHL trade deadline has been unavoidable.
The Vancouver Canucks have fully committed to the rebuild after trading franchise cornerstone Quinn Hughes and subsequently losing 14 of 20 games to fall to dead last in National Hockey League standings.
The ethical tank continues. The Vancouver Canucks put a bit of a scare into the New Jersey Devils, nearly coming back in a 5-4 loss. It was a pretty fun watch, all things considered, and despite being relatively low-event on the stat sheet, there was plenty of drama and goals to be found.
A couple of adjustments with the Vancouver Canucks‘ personnel between the pipes. On Saturday, general manager Patrik Allvin announced that the team has called up goaltender Nikita Tolopilo from its American Hockey League affiliate, the Abbotsford Canucks, on an emergency basis.
Agent Allan Walsh isn’t shy about taking to social media to defend his clients. One of the players he defends the most out of anyone is Filip Hronek, who finds himself in trade rumors recently with the Vancouver Canucks heading toward a rebuild.
According to Kevin Weekes, Evander Kane is likely to be traded by the Vancouver Canucks. One of the many members of the team the Canucks are taking trade calls on, Kane is a player most expect to be moved ahead of the trade deadline.
The Vancouver Canucks are getting a top-six center back into their lineup. Head coach Adam Foote revealed that Filip Chytil will return for Friday’s home game against the New Jersey Devils.
After an 11-game losing streak, it didn’t take much to wake the building up. When the Vancouver Canucks held on to beat the Washington Capitals—Alex Ovechkin and all—there was suddenly energy at Rogers Arena again.
For a franchise in transition, Elias Pettersson sits at a strange crossroads. Trade talk swirls, speculation mounts, and yet the reality of his contract—a no-movement clause with full control over his future—anchors him firmly in Vancouver unless he sees a reason to move.
According to Jeff Paterson of Canucks Army, the Vancouver Canucks are expected to activate forward Filip Chytil for tomorrow’s contest against the New Jersey Devils.