The Vancouver Canucks lineup has taken another hit. News emerged on Sunday morning that Canucks forward Elias Pettersson has been placed on injured reserve.
The Vancouver Canucks placed Elias Pettersson on injured reserve on Sunday and activated fellow forward Marco Rossi from IR. The move to injured reserve is retroactive to Dec.
A couple of roster moves will put one of the newest members of the Vancouver Canucks in action. General manager Patrik Allvin announced that forward Elias Pettersson has been placed on injured reserve with an upper-body injury, while the team has activated fellow center Marco Rossi from IR.
The Vancouver Canucks announced this morning that center Marco Rossi has been activated off of injured reserve. In a corresponding move, the club placed center Elias Pettersson on IR, retroactive to Dec.
The Quinn Hughes trade will go down as probably the most significant in Vancouver Canucks history. The post-mortems have already begun, and the dissection of this deal will continue for decades to come.
NHL head coaches have to hire good assistants. They have to set an overarching philosophy, juggle lineup configurations, and do the kind of “man management” that is impossible to track statistically.
The Vancouver Canucks will play their first game since trading captain Quinn Hughes when they face the New Jersey Devils on Sunday afternoon in Newark, N.J.
The whirlwind around the Vancouver Canucks will continue into Sunday’s game against the New Jersey Devils. Vancouver will be without their star winger Elias Pettersson, but could return Marco Rossi back from injury, per Thomas Drance of The Athletic.
It’s been a turbulent 24 hours in Vancouver since the news broke Friday night that Canucks’ franchise cornerstone and team captain Quinn Hughes was traded to the Minnesota Wild.
The shoe finally dropped on Friday night, as the hockey world was shocked to see the news, not just that Quinn Hughes had been traded, but that he was headed to the Minnesota Wild.
While he may not be the centrepiece of the trade, Marco Rossi is the centre piece the Vancouver Canucks have been looking for since the summer. The Canucks had reported interest in the Austrian centreman in the summer.
The morning after the Vancouver Canucks traded their captain and franchise defenceman, Quinn Hughes, to the Minnesota Wild, GM Bill Guerin met with the media to discuss the franchise-altering move.
A notable prospect has hit the wire. On Saturday, the Vancouver Canucks placed forward Lukas Reichel on waivers, making him available to the other 31 teams in the NHL.
Maybe in the end, it will all work out for the Vancouver Canucks. Admittedly, that’s a very large maybe. And honestly, it’s too damn hard to think about
For a player of this caliber to get traded at this stage of their career, it is probably a good sign that something has gone terribly wrong with the franchise.