With the series tied 1-1 and Games 3 and 4 to be played in hostile territory, the Vancouver Canucks may have to rely on a player who wasn’t on the roster at the start of the season.
The Vancouver Canucks are in a series. Not that the 1-1 series score after two games is a huge surprise, with the Nashville Predators being one of the hottest teams in the NHL down the stretch.
The Vancouver Canucks started their first round series against the Nashville Predators with a bang when Pius Suter and Dakota Joshua scored goals 12 seconds apart to turn a 2-1 deficit into a 3-2 lead and eventual 4-2 win.
Going 0/6 on the power play at any point through two games is not the best look. But that’s the case for the Vancouver Canucks through two games in the playoffs, unable to strike on what was the 12th-best power play in the regular season.
Hockey expert Nicholas Martin of the Action Netwok shares a prediction for Friday's NHL playoff game between the Vancouver Canucks and Nashville Predators.
Okay, so Elias Pettersson hasn’t been… himself. Yeah. The Swedish star centre inked his eight-year, $92.8 million contract extension on March 3, 2024, in the midst of his third consecutive 30-goal season, following up the 102-point campaign last year with an 89-point performance this time around.
There is potentially good news on the Thatcher Demko injury front. Canucks insider Rick Dhaliwal is reporting that the goaltender could be in line for a possible comeback before the end of Round 2 of the NHL, assuming the Canucks are able to get past the Nashville Predators.
Goaltending controversies are nothing new in the Vancouver hockey market. Goaltending crises? Those are a little rarer, and it’s the latter that we have on our hand early on in Round One of the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
The Vancouver Canucks find themselves in a challenging position despite splitting the first two games of their Round 1 Stanley Cup Playoffs series against the Nashville Predators.
With the Vancouver Canucks and Nashville Predators tied one game each in their Western Conference first-round playoff series, the biggest issue is the absence of Vancouver's No.
No, it’s not time to panic just yet, but we still don’t know exactly when we can expect to see Thatcher Demko return for the Vancouver Canucks this season.
In this edition of the Vancouver Canucks News & Rumors, Thatcher Demko is injured and Casey DeSmith steps in for the club. Additionally, Elias Pettersson struggles in Game 2 as the Nashville Predators tie the first-round matchup at 1-1.
Good news, everyone! The advanced and underlying statistics state that the Vancouver Canucks were the better team in Game 2 of Round One of the Stanley Cup Playoffs!
The Vancouver Canucks dropped game 2 to the Nashville Predators 4-1 and while a lot of blame has been pointed to Elias Pettersson and Casey DeSmith, the blame runs much deeper for the Canucks.
The Vancouver Canucks need their best players to be at their best if they hope to get out of the first-round of the 2024 Stanley Cup Playoffs — and that’s especially true without the services of star goaltender Thatcher Demko.
The Predators beat the Vancouver Canucks 4-1 on Tuesday night at the Rogers Centre in Vancouver to tie the Western Conference first-round playoff series at 1-1.
With the Canucks trailing 1-0 and trying to score the equalizer on the power play, Pettersson was set up for a wide-open look with a yawning net sitting in front of him. Then this happened.
Dakota Joshua and Pius Suter celebrated the Vancouver Canucks first home playoff game in nine years in a special way.
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