As the Vancouver Canucks embark on a final mini road trip before the Olympic break, they will be doing without two of their top-nine forwards. Ahead of
Right now, young players’ ice time is a pretty hot-button topic in Vancouver Canucks land. That’s mostly because on Saturday night against the Toronto Maple Leafs, Jonathan Lekkerimäki scored a beauty of a goal, showing off his patented quick release and elite-level shot in the process.
With the Olympic break approaching, the trade deadline is about a month away. Where does each team stand, and what moves should they be looking to make?
The Vancouver Canucks (18-31-6) open a quick two-game road trip that will lead them to the Olympic break when they visit the Utah Mammoth (28-23-4). Game time from the Delta Center in Salt Lake City is 6:30 pm PT. The Canucks have their mothers with them on this road trip that will wrap up in Las Vegas on Wednesday.
The Vancouver Canucks head into Utah tonight to face the Mammoth, a team that has been a thorn in their side since moving to the Beehive State. Vancouver is winless against Utah, including a 4–1 home loss in December, and they’ll need their top players to lead the charge if they want to break that streak.
There's more to hockey than scoring goals and stopping pucks. For some players, putting up points came second to their main task: angering their opponents.
The Departures terminal at YVR is going to have to get a little busier eventually. Whether it happens in the next couple of days, before the Olympic Roster Freeze, or whether it happens in the two weeks between that and the Trade Deadline, it is all but certain that more Canucks are about to be traded.
The Vancouver Canucks only have two more games until the Olympic break, when six of their players will head to Italy to compete for their countries. They just wrapped up a long eight-game homestand where they picked up only five of a possible 16 points, and still sit last in the league with 42.
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Every trade deadline has its themes, and this year’s early pattern is starting to reveal itself. Two names keep popping up for entirely different reasons: Marc-André Fleury and Evander Kane.
There was something missing from the back half of the third period and overtime of the Vancouver Canucks‘ game against the Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday: Jonathan Lekkerimäki.
The Vancouver Canucks played the final 15 minutes without the player who opened the scoring on the night, Jonathan Lekkerimäki. Canucks Head Coach Adam Foote was asked postgame about his decision to sit the young Swede for the back of the third period and overtime: “It’s more of the defensive side of it,” Foote explained.
At least they tried. The Vancouver Canucks couldn’t quite manage to hang onto their slim lead, dropping a 3-2 shootout loss to the Toronto Maple Leafs.
Earlier in the week, we highlighted an impending issue in the crease of the Vancouver Canucks, with Nikita Tolopilo due to run out of waiver-exempt time as of this summer, and with both Thatcher Demko and Kevin Lankinen still under long-term contract.
The Abbotsford Canucks and Bakersfield Condors were back at it Saturday night in the second game of a back-to-back. Friday night’s game went to the Condors 7-2.
Starting Lineup First Period I had a bad feeling that Canucks fans were in for another “We weren’t ready to go at puck drop” kind of game when Elias Pettersson, Evander Kane, and Jake DeBrusk spent the game’s opening shift falling over inside the d-zone against Auston Matthews, Max Domi, and Bobby McCann.
As the trade deadline approaches, the Vancouver Canucks continue to generate plenty of speculation — but it sounds like several key players aren’t going anywhere.
The Vancouver Canucks finally stopped the bleeding with that 2–0 win over the Anaheim Ducks, but it didn’t exactly feel like a huge turning point. It was more like a team catching its breath after being underwater a little too long.
Does any player have a wider range of outcomes over the next decade than Elias Pettersson? He’s worn so many different faces across his eight NHL seasons to date as a Vancouver Canuck.
Nikita Tolopilo made 32 saves in his seventh NHL start to lead the Vancouver Canucks to a 2-0 win against the visiting Anaheim Ducks on Thursday night.
The Vancouver Canucks have officially turned the page and shifted their focus toward a full rebuild. With the organization ready to commit to that direction, Evander Kane has quickly become one of the more obvious trade candidates to watch.