Goaltender Kevin Lankinen remained perfect in shootouts this season as the Vancouver Canucks defeated the host Seattle Kraken 3-2 on Monday night. Liam Ohgren was the only player to score in the shootout, putting a wrist shot between the pads of Seattle's Joey Daccord on the final attempt in the third round.
On Monday, Dec. 29, the Seattle Kraken hosted the Vancouver Canucks for their first matchup of the 2025-26 season. The last time they met was in the preseason on Sept.
Almost immediately, the Canucks gave up a breakaway against, as Kaapo Kakko snuck in behind the Canucks’ defence after Tyler Myers dove in to retrieve his stick and Zeev Buium didn’t realize his partner wasn’t there anymore.
Day four at the 2026 World Junior Championship delivered plenty of action, and Vancouver Canucks prospects were involved at both ends of the schedule. The day opened with Wilson Björck drawing into the lineup for Sweden, marking his World Junior debut in a matchup against Pool A’s bottom-ranked Germany.
Vancouver Canucks 2025 fifth-round NHL Draft pick Gabriel Chiarot is on the move in the Ontario Hockey League. And boy, did he bring back a significant return.
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.
Tonight, the Vancouver Canucks face a test of depth, resilience, and patience against the Seattle Kraken. The last-place team comes in with a surprising lineup twist: top-six winger Jake DeBrusk is expected to be a healthy scratch.
The Vancouver Canucks have sent a message to one of their highest-paid players, as Jake DeBrusk will be a healthy scratch for Monday night’s divisional clash in Seattle with the Kraken.
The Vancouver Canucks no longer have one of the best defencemen in the NHL patrolling their blue line. While that would usually spell doom for most teams, the Canucks appear set to weather that storm with their solid stable of young defencemen now led by 20-year-olds Zeev Buium and Tom Willander.
The 2026 World Junior Championship has been a mixed bag from a Vancouver Canucks perspective. Despite dressing in two games, Braeden Cootes has seen minimal usage for Team Canada.
Vancouver coach Adam Foote suddenly has an excess of forwards, as the Canucks have gotten some players back to full strength and added others via the Quinn Hughes trade more than two weeks ago.
The Vancouver Canucks have fallen back to earth after a four-game winning streak and now sit in the basement of the NHL standings again. They have dropped their last two games to the Philadelphia Flyers and San Jose Sharks – outscored 11-5 in the process – and have the best odds of selecting first overall in the 2026 Draft.
Elias Pettersson made his long-awaited return to the Vancouver Canucks lineup on Saturday night after missing eight games with an upper-body injury. Not
The Canucks will get some much-welcomed help down the middle tonight against San Jose. Speaking with reporters after practice today (Twitter link), center Elias Pettersson confirmed that he will make his return to the lineup.
The Vancouver Canucks have to embrace the rebuilding process. There's no other way for the franchise to go after moving on from their best player and captain, Quinn Hughes.
I spent part of this morning doing what I usually do before sitting down to write — reading around, listening carefully, trying to figure out what other people think the story is before deciding whether I agree with it.