For the third straight year, we are conducting a late-summer thought exercise. Over the next week, we will present a pair of options for the upcoming Vancouver Canucks season and ask you which is more likely to occur.
Welcome to a new series here at CanucksArmy, where over the month of August we’ll ask a new question each day about the Vancouver Canucks. We’re calling it “31 days, 31 questions”.
The career path of Victor Mancini is really a wild one. He started in the USHL before heading to the Swedish Junior ranks for his 17-year-old season in 2019-20, an unusual move for an American-born prospect.
The Vancouver Canucks are rebuilding. That part’s pretty obvious at this point. But this isn’t one of those rebuilds where you look at the roster and wonder if there’s anyone worth building around.
It seems all but guaranteed that the long-term legacy of the front office led by Jim Rutherford and Patrik Allvin will be a mixed one. On the one hand, Rutherford and Allvin did not succeed at the job they set out to do, which was to turn the Vancouver Canucks into a competitive team.
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.
Welcome to a new series here at CanucksArmy, where over the month of August we’ll ask a new question each day about the Vancouver Canucks. We’re calling it “31 days, 31 questions”.
On Thursday, the Pittsburgh Penguins announced four players/team executives/contributors for its Hall of Fame class of 2026, which included a current member of the Vancouver Canucks staff.
After flipping Marcus Pettersson on free agency day, the Vancouver Canucks didn’t have many experienced defencemen options on the roster heading into 2026-27.
There is something refreshing about what the Vancouver Canucks are doing right now. It isn't that the team is suddenly good. It isn't that Ryan Johnson has already proved he will be a great general manager.
There is something different about the Vancouver Canucks right now. It isn’t that the team is suddenly good. It isn’t that Ryan Johnson and the Sedins have already proved they can build a Stanley Cup contender.
It’s kind of funny we haven’t heard more about the Vancouver Canucks goaltending situation this season, especially given the history of this franchise and its frequent experience of crease-related controversies.
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.
There is something about Aatu Räty that makes me wonder if the Vancouver Canucks have been asking the wrong question. The easy question is: How many points is Räty going to score this season?
Welcome to a new series here at CanucksArmy, where over the month of August we’ll ask a new question each day about the Vancouver Canucks. We’re calling it “31 days, 31 questions”.
For the third straight year, we are conducting a late-summer thought exercise. Over the next week, we will present a pair of options and ask you which is more likely to occur this coming season.
It was officially ratings week for EA Sports NHL 27. On Monday, they announced that Connor McDavid would be the first player in the franchise to be given a 99 rating.
There is a funny thing about goaltending in the NHL. One year, you're the guy who looks like he might have solved a problem. The next year, you're wondering whether the problem was ever really solved in the first place.
Many critics have questioned the Vancouver Canucks‘ player development department in recent years, but Max Sasson has emerged as one of its biggest success stories.
The Vancouver Canucks have found a new home on the airwaves. According to both Daily Hive and The Province, the team’s games will be carried on KiSS Throwbacks (104.9 FM) for the 2026-27 season.
Just over a month after Rogers shuttered Sportsnet 650 from the radio airways, Vancouver Canucks radio broadcasts have reportedly found a new home for next season.
Welcome to a new series here at CanucksArmy, where over the month of August we’ll ask a new question each day about the Vancouver Canucks. We’re calling it “31 days, 31 questions”.
There are a couple of Vancouver Canucks players who could make next season rather interesting, and neither one necessarily needs to become a star for that to happen.
On Wednesday morning, The Athletic’s Corey Pronman released his rankings of the best U23 NHL players and prospects. The list featured five Vancouver Canucks: two current blueliners and three prospects from their 2026 draft class.
If you think that the Vancouver Canucks are going to have some elite scorers on their squad in 2026-27, you should temper your expectations. They are likely to be one of the lowest-scoring clubs next season, even with new head coach Manny Malhotra bringing his more player-oriented approach to the organization.
It has been a rough couple of years on the health front for Canucks goaltender Thatcher Demko. He has managed to play in just 43 games over that stretch, meaning Vancouver hasn’t had their top netminder available too often.