After only his rookie season, few doubted Elias Pettersson would become a longtime NHL superstar. Wayne Gretzky said after Pettersson’s first year in the NHL that his raw hockey IQ and playmaking ability reminded him of himself and Sidney Crosby.
Team: Oshawa Generals | Age: 18 | Position: C | Height: 6’7″ | Weight: 235 lbs | Shoots: Right | Drafted: Second round, 33rd overall, 2026 | Mid-season rank: N/A The Canucks added a big man down the middle of the ice at the start of the second round in this year’s draft.
When he suited up for Canada at Wednesday night’s World Junior Summer Showcase against Sweden, Braeden Cootes wasn’t just the top centre on Team Canada’s depth chart.
Vancouver Canucks fans went wild when Macklin Celebrini and Connor Bedard both signed five-year extensions that set them up for unrestricted free agency in their mid-20s.
The Vancouver Canucks have announced that they’ve agreed to a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the City of Vancouver to explore the development of a new hockey facility and additional amenities.
The NHL has had an interesting new millennium. It was a league sans a salary cap when the 2000s started… and then the owners locked the players out for an entire season.
The Vancouver Canucks announced on Thursday morning that they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the city of Vancouver to explore the development of a new hockey development facility with the Britannia Community Services Centre.
Vancouver Canucks prospects Braeden Cootes and Caleb Malhotra made their debuts at the 2026 World Junior Summer Showcase on Wednesday as Team Canada opened
Team: Niagara IceDogs (OHL) | Age: 20 | Position: Centre/Right Wing | Height: 6’1″ | Weight: 192 lbs | Shoots: Right | Drafted: Fourth round, 125th overall (2024) | Previous rank: 5 Few prospects, if any, in the Vancouver Canucks’ system improved their stock more during the 2025–26 season than Riley Patterson.
Vancouver-born and longtime Canucks fan Macklin Celebrini just got paid. On Wednesday morning, news broke that the San Jose Sharks had inked their 20-year-old superstar centre to a five-year contract extension worth $18.8 million annually.
The NHL salary cap has been going through a growth spurt lately. After the cap ceiling had been frozen at $81.5 million for three straight years from 2019-20 through to 2021-22, the league exited the ‘flat cap era’ with a modest increase to $82.5 million as of 2022-23.
Braeden Cootes and Caleb Malhotra arrived at Canada’s World Junior Summer Showcase from different starting points. One is returning to the national program with tournament experience, a bronze medal, and an appetite for a larger role this time around.
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.
The Vancouver Canucks are coming off a really rough season. One of the worst in franchise history. Unfortunately, while the Canucks didn’t and don’t have a good roster, part of the reason for the horrible results was major underperformance and missed time from key pieces.
Three former Vancouver Canucks are still looking for places to play next season with six weeks to go before National Hockey League training camps open. Winger Evander Kane, along with defencemen Derek Forbort and Pierre-Olivier Joseph, are all unrestricted free agents and have been on the open market since July 1st.
Canucks broadcasts will be available on two different platforms for the next 12 years, as Prime Video and Sportsnet announced a new partnership to sublicense NHL national broadcast rights in Canada until 2038.
The trade that brought Linus Karlsson to the Vancouver Canucks is pretty straightforward and has proven to be a solid transaction for the hockey club. In February 2019, the Canucks acquired the now 26-year-old right-winger from San Jose in a one-for-one swap for Jonathan Dahlen.
The Vancouver Canucks did not draft Brooks Rogowski 33rd overall because they thought they were getting the next flashy offensive star. They chose him because he offered something that is becoming increasingly valuable in the NHL — size, versatility, and the ability to impact the game in different ways.
Team: Orebro HK Jr. | Age: 18 | Position: LW | Height: 6’1″ | Weight: 183 lbs | Shoots: Left | Drafted: Second round, 41st overall, 2026 | Mid-season rank: N/A The Canucks’ recent additions to their prospect pipeline have been heavily focused on adding centres and defencemen.
The Vancouver Canucks are in an interesting spot right now. They are not starting from scratch, but they are also not simply trying to repeat what they have done over the past few seasons.
We’ve hit the point in the offseason at which we’re fewer than two months from seeing the Vancouver Canucks hit the ice again. As of now, however, the exact shape of the team and their lineup is a little uncertain.
Brooks Rogowski has wasted little time introducing himself to USA Hockey’s World Junior decision-makers. The Vancouver Canucks prospect has scored in consecutive games for USA Blue at the World Junior Summer Showcase, collecting two goals and an assist in victories over Sweden and Finland.
Welcome back to Memorabilia Monday! Today, we take a journey through the history of Vancouver Canucks team calendars! For over half a century, the start of a new Canucks season could be marked by the arrival of the official team calendar, chock-full of photos and game schedules found at your local pharmacy.
The Vancouver Canucks might not score as many goals these days as they have in years past. But they do have goals these days, and that’s probably more important in the long run.
The Vancouver Canucks are entering what feels like an important season. After taking a step backward, the organization is entering a transition period.
The Vancouver Canucks entered the offseason with enough salary-cap space, but their biggest concern may not be staying under the NHL’s cap limit. Instead, the team reportedly has to decide how much money ownership wants to spend on the roster in the future.
Every fan base has a prospect who totally changes the mood. For the Vancouver Canucks, that guy was Quinn Hughes. He went from “maybe he’s the future” to becoming one of the league’s best defencemen and the Canucks’ captain.