It’s easy to say the Vancouver Canucks haven’t played well, given the schedule and eight straight losses. But that doesn’t tell the whole story. Over their last five losses, the Canucks have actually done an admirable job of staying in these games through the first 40 minutes.
The Vancouver Canucks and the visiting Detroit Red Wings will each be looking for a 60-minute effort coming off a frustrating loss when they face off Thursday night.
After signing an eight-year, $75.04 million extension in early September, Vancouver Canucks defenceman Zeev Buium has had a slow start. Through 11 games this season, the nifty defenceman has just two assists and eight shots on goal in 20:38 minutes of average ice time.
Mired in an eight-game winless skid and in search of answers, the Vancouver Canucks showed a number of new looks at practice on Wednesday morning at Rogers Arena.
People love a good mid-round draft pick that pans out, and in the NHL you used to see those fairly often, but that’s obviously partially luck. If the Red Wings thought Nicklas Lidstrom was going to become a top-five defenseman in history, they wouldn’t have waited until the 53rd pick to take him.
We’re still not quite a month into the 2026-27 NHL season, and so it might seem a little too early to be talking about the Vancouver Canucks selling off players.
Some losses tell you a team is completely out of its depth; others leave you wondering how things went wrong again. The Vancouver Canucks‘ 6-3 loss to the Carolina Hurricanes on Tuesday night falls into the second category.
Jake DeBrusk of the Vancouver Canucks was mentioned on Chris Johnston’s latest trade board, and in the summary of his situation, the NHL insider hinted that DeBrusk might be motivated to work with Vancouver on a trade this season.
The losses are piling up for the Vancouver Canucks to begin the 2026-27 season, and it’s starting to get to the players in the locker room. With last night’s 6-3 loss to the defending Stanley Cup Champion Carolina Hurricanes, the Canucks find themselves in the midst of an eight-game losing streak.
DeBrusk – EP40 – Karlsson Cotter – Chytil – Boeser Öhgren – O’Connor – Lekkerimäki Bains – Sasson – Gallagher EP25 – Hronek Oleksiak – Willander Buium – Schenn The game began with the Canucks immediately having to defend, and struggling to break the puck out against the Hurricanes’ forecheck.
People will talk about the “Mount Rushmore” for a franchise, which is to say the four people, usually four players, that most define the franchise. Not always the four-best players, but the four that evoke the essence of the franchise.
Tonight, the Vancouver Canucks play their 11th game of the season as they host the Carolina Hurricanes. Plenty of ink has been spilled already about the Canucks’ first 10 games of the season here at canucksarmy.com/Daily Faceoff Vancouver.
The Vancouver Canucks (2-7-1) open a three-game homestand when they host the Stanley Cup champion Carolina Hurricanes (7-2-1) at Rogers Arena. Opening faceoff is scheduled for 7 pm PT.
Sometimes a team finds an answer where it wasn't looking. The Vancouver Canucks have had enough problems this season without adding another goaltending debate, but Leevi Meriläinen is giving them something to think about.
After struggling to find consistent ice time to begin the 2026-27 season, the Vancouver Canucks placed Aatu Räty on NHL waivers. The day after Räty cleared waivers, the Canucks had found him a new home, sending him to the Toronto Maple Leafs in exchange for forwards Jacob Quillan and Brandon Buhr.
The Vancouver Canucks could use a little good news right about now. After a six-game road trip that left them searching for answers, the team returned to Rogers Arena on Monday for its first home practice in almost two weeks.
Prior to this season, the Vancouver Canucks’ senior-most Elias Pettersson had been struggling for so long that it’ll take a lot more than ten good games to convince most people that he’s truly bounced back.
Every prospect has nights when everything goes right. The puck finds the net, passes connect, and the box score looks wonderful. The harder question is what happens when the good nights stop coming.
The Vancouver Canucks may be mired in a seven-game losing streak, but their prospects, particularly the trio of Adam Novotny, Braeden Cootes and Anthony Romani, continue to provide hope for the future with their play this season so far.
Elias Pettersson’s name continues to pop up in trade speculation and has for the past couple of seasons. Off to a point-per-game start, this season will likely be no different.
As expected, the Vancouver Canucks announced they’ve activated center Filip Chytil from injured reserve. The oft-injured forward began the season on Vancouver’s injured reserve due to a shoulder injury.
Vancouver Canucks center Filip Chytil is slated to make his 2026-27 season debut Thursday after missing the first eight games while recovering from a shoulder injury.
The Vancouver Canucks are days away from activating forward Filip Chytil (muscular shoulder strain) from the injured reserve. To activate Chytil, the Canucks needed to create roster space and made a peculiar roster move to do so.