The Vancouver Canucks finally have something to smile about. After 10 straight losses, they rallied from a three-goal deficit in the third period Tuesday night to beat the Anaheim Ducks 6-5 in overtime.
The Vancouver Canucks are 11 games into the 2026-27 NHL regular season, and fans and analysts alike have been divided over their special teams. On the
The Vancouver Canucks have gotten off to a difficult start to the season, and their struggles have extended to the top of their defence corps. Filip Hronek and Zeev Buium have surprisingly been among Vancouver’s least effective defencemen by the underlying numbers through the team’s first eight games.
Can you name every winner of the Hart Trophy, which honors the most valuable player in the NHL, since 1983?
In today’s NHL rumour rundown, we start off with the Florida Panthers, who tried to acquire goaltender Connor Hellebuyck from the Winnipeg Jets. Next, the Boston Bruins were exploring the trade market and looked to be prepared to acquire Filip Hronek from the Vancouver Canucks.
People love a good mid-round draft pick that pans out, and in the NHL you used to see those fairly often, but that’s obviously partially luck. If the Red Wings thought Nicklas Lidstrom was going to become a top-five defenseman in history, they wouldn’t have waited until the 53rd pick to take him.
Boston could’ve added a big-name defenseman to their blue line over the summer. In the Bruins’ first episode of season 14 of Behind the B, it was depicted during the free agency segment of the show (12-minute mark) that the front office was compiling a potential trade package with the Vancouver Canucks.
Now that’s what we call insider info. The latest episode of the Boston Bruins’ Behind the B docuseries provided some behind-the-scenes footage of their summer activities, including at the 2026 NHL Entry Draft and during the Free Agent Frenzy that followed.
While the Vancouver Canucks are in the midst of a full-scale rebuild, they didn’t make too many changes to the core of their roster this offseason. Elias Pettersson, Brock Boeser and Jake DeBrusk all are still around up front, while Filip Hronek remains on the back end.
SURREY, BC — Vancouver Canucks players have already been back in town for a while now, and as you’ve seen on this site, there have already been plenty of quotes to chew on over the past few weeks.
Filip Hronek is set to be one of the oldest players on the Vancouver Canucks this season, but the 28-year-old veteran defenseman isn’t jumping ship on
Zeev Buium’s recent eight-year contract extension makes him the most important figure in the Vancouver Canucks’ ongoing rebuild, at least for the time being.
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 in one of those stretches where the roster isn’t quite what it was, but it isn’t quite what it will become, either. There has been plenty of talk about the rebuild, young players coming into the organization, and which veterans might still be around when the Canucks are ready to compete again.
Filip Hronek loves Vancouver. While the Canucks were in a full teardown last season, tying their 1998-99 squad at a .354 points%, third-lowest in team history, there was some mid-season speculation regarding whether their Czechian top-pair defender would want out of such a dire situation.
Rebuilding an NHL team comes with a funny problem: sometimes the players you trust the most are exactly the players you need to protect. Filip Hronek will likely be one of those players for the Vancouver Canucks this season.
It may have taken 10 years for this outcome to occur, but Filip Hronek is looking like the biggest value of the entire 2016 NHL Draft class – whether it was the Vancouver Canucks who drafted him or not.
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.” Today, on August 10th, we will explore whether Filip Hronek is ready to become the Canucks’ next captain.
The Vancouver Canucks have already begun reworking their roster for the upcoming season and made a major move by trading Marcus Pettersson to the New York Rangers.
There was a time, not that long ago, when the Vancouver Canucks appeared to have some of the best centre ice depth in the National Hockey League. With
Sekeres and Price: Jeff Paterson talking about Vancouver Canucks defenseman Filip Hronek, and how his trade value isn’t going to decrease over the next year or two, so it’s okay that he wants to stick around for a bit.
The Vancouver Canucks are at an interesting point in their organization. There is still plenty of uncertainty around what the next version of this team will look like, but one thing is becoming clear.
The Vancouver Canucks feel like a team standing at one of those familiar crossroads again. The difference this time is that there’s at least a sense that the organization knows it is at a crossroads.
Agent Allan Walsh isn’t shy about taking to social media to defend his clients. One of the players he defends the most out of anyone is Filip Hronek, who finds himself in trade rumors recently with the Vancouver Canucks heading toward a rebuild.
As the Vancouver Canucks consider all possibilities to help reshape their club and build a future Stanley Cup contender, one name that has emerged as a potential key trade candidate is defenseman Filip Hronek.
Could Filip Hronek be on his way out of Vancouver?
The 27-year-old is coming off his most successful season in the NHL.
The Canucks have signed defenseman Filip Hronek to a maximum eight-year contract extension, shares the team. The deal will carry an annual cap hit of $7.25M, for a total value of $58M.
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