The NHL’s holiday roster freeze – the first of two major freezes during the 2025-26 regular season – is now upon us. But ahead of this little miniature deadline, a few notable trades went down, and they established a rather high market for forwards.
The Vancouver Canucks (15-17-3) are aiming to head into their holiday break on a five-game win streak when they face Rick Tocchet’s Philadelphia Flyers (17-10-7) at Xfinity Mobile Arena.
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The Ottawa Senators general manager, Steve Staios, has made it pretty clear what he’s looking for. The Senators need help up front — not another finesse project, not a long-term lottery ticket, but a forward who can actually play playoff-style hockey.
The Vancouver Canucks and Philadelphia Flyers are trending in opposite directions heading into Monday's matchup in Philadelphia. The Canucks are aiming to complete a perfect 5-0-0 road trip, while the Flyers are seeking to avoid a sixth loss in seven games.
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.
For a decade, the Vancouver Canucks were a leaky boat that stubbornly refused to sink. Despite back-to-back seasons near the bottom of the NHL standings in 2016 and 2017, and the loss of core contributors like Bo Horvat and J.T.
Hockey moves fast, and sometimes you don’t see the consequences at the time. Brock Boeser’s seven-year contract with the Vancouver Canucks made sense when he signed it.
The Vancouver Canucks have done a very odd thing since they traded away their captain, Quinn Hughes, and admitted they’re entering a rebuild: they’ve gone on a four-game winning streak to climb out of last place in the NHL.
Taking care of business on the road. The Vancouver Canucks battled hard to take a 5-4 shootout win against the Boston Bruins. At the tail end of a road trip, on the second half of a back-to-back, one might be forgiven for not tuning in, for thinking that the Canucks would probably have their legs give out from under them.
Canada and Sweden wrapped up their two-game preliminary set in Ontario on Saturday, inching closer to their final roster decisions for the 2026 World Junior Championship.
Liam Ohgren scored the only shootout goal in the seventh round after tallying a goal and an assist in regulation, lifting the visiting Vancouver Canucks to a come-from-behind, 5-4 win over the Boston Bruins on Saturday night.
Kiefer Sherwood delivered a strong message after leading the Vancouver Canucks to a 4-1 win over the New York Islanders on Friday night. Sherwood scored a hat trick, his second of the season, as Vancouver earned its third straight road win.
The Vancouver Canucks wrapped up a perfect trip through the New York area on Friday night, beating the New York Islanders 4–1 for their third straight win.
If you watched the interview of Thatcher Demko after the Vancouver Canucks’ 4-0 win over the New York Islanders, you probably caught the same vibe I did.
Kiefer Sherwood registered his third career hat trick Friday night, when the Vancouver Canucks continued their surge following the Quinn Hughes trade by beating the New York Islanders, 4-1, in Elmont, N.Y.
Not known to all fans of the league, the NHL's 2025-26 roster freeze will go into place at midnight on Dec. 20. From that point on, no players can be moved until it is lifted on Dec.
The Vancouver Canucks aren’t just making headlines for trading a superstar; there’s still plenty happening beneath the surface. Young players and newcomers are starting to show what they can do, depth forwards are finding their footing, and veterans are reminding everyone they still have something to give.
The Canucks have waived forward Arshdeep Bains, according to Rick Dhaliwal of CHEK and The Athletic. He’ll be reassigned to AHL Abbotsford tomorrow if he clears.
For a player of this caliber to get traded at this stage of their career, it is probably a good sign that something has gone terribly wrong with the franchise.