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EDMONTON – There really isn’t a chicken-or-egg conundrum about what may be the rebirth of Elias Pettersson as an impactful player. He doesn’t...
If the Vancouver Canucks weren’t already beaten when they stepped off the bus before their game in Winnipeg, they ensured themselves their...
VANCOUVER — Asked about the opportunity he is getting with the Vancouver Canucks, Jacob Quillan said: “This is everything.” A scoring star in...
VANCOUVER — In the National Hockey League, Rome never gets built in a day, although the Vegas Golden Knights managed it in one season. But for...
VANCOUVER – Nobody promised wins. But the Vancouver Canucks are finally starting to deliver on the effort and competitiveness they pledged as a...
VANCOUVER — The last time Leevi Merilainen had the stage to himself, the goalie stepped through a trap door and fell all the way back to the minors....
The Vancouver Canucks were following their first win in 11 games with their best game of the National Hockey League season. Then, suddenly, they...
SEATTLE — Relationships are complicated. Except for the relationship between Brady Tkachuk and the Ottawa Senators’ fan base, which was focused in...
VANCOUVER — For a city that can feel like the wettest place on Earth sometimes — typically only every November through February — Vancouver once...
VANCOUVER — The evening before training camp opened, general manager Ryan Johnson gathered the Vancouver Canucks’ staff and players for a dinner...
VANCOUVER – Nic Deslauriers has hurt a lot of opponents in the National Hockey League. Just not often with his stick. The 35-year-old heavyweight...
It wasn’t so much a road trip as a six-game educational tour that the Vancouver Canucks finished Saturday in Tampa. They discovered how much they...
The great injustice in the Vancouver Canucks’ 3-2 overtime loss Thursday to the Florida Panthers is that goalie Leevi Merilainen deserved a win....
ELMONT, N.Y. — From the moment he arrived with the Vancouver Canucks, Zeev Buium said his plan was to write his own story and not try to be another...
NEW YORK – Neighbours and off-season training partners in Oulu, Finland, Aatu Raty said he’s not sure he scored even one goal this summer on Leevi...
NEW YORK — This is just seven games for the Vancouver Canucks. The Anaheim Ducks’ rebuild took seven years. Everyone knew it could look like this....
NEWARK, N.J. — There is a stark reality about the talent disparity the Vancouver Canucks face near the start of their rebuild. But not having the...
It’s not the end of the road trip the Vancouver Canucks need, but the end of Murderer’s Row. Not only have the Canucks been one of the busier...
VANCOUVER – Anyone who bet the Vancouver Canucks to be 2-2 — four games in six nights, three of them against projected Stanley Cup contenders —...
VANCOUVER – If you are wondering what to make of the Vancouver Canucks after Thursday’s 9-7 carnival-ride loss to the Edmonton Oilers, you are not...
EDMONTON – Hey, this rebuilding stuff isn’t as bad as people say. You can score five goals against a Stanley Cup contender, then blow a three-goal...
EDMONTON — Manny Malhotra can be forgiven for not remembering much about his first National Hockey League game as a player, because it followed the...
VANCOUVER – Eleven years since he was drafted by the Vancouver Canucks, and after a series of serious injuries and seven contracts with the...
VANCOUVER – Three hours and 58 minutes into their pre-season schedule, the Vancouver Canucks took their first lead on Saturday. Two minutes later,...
VANCOUVER — They may have lost the draft lottery, but the Vancouver Canucks are winning the waiver wire. Thank goodness the National Hockey League...
VANCOUVER — In a 2-1 preseason loss to the Edmonton Oilers’ reserves, it was difficult to tell which Vancouver Canucks players took a step forward...
To understand the Vancouver Canucks’ pre-season game Tuesday, understand this: the Calgary Flames dressed a lineup in which every skater is...
PENTICTON – When he was drafted 15th overall by the Vancouver Canucks four years ago, Jonathan Lekkerimaki immediately became the biggest fish in a...
PENTICTON, B.C. – The ping of Liam Ohgren’s bar-down goal during the Vancouver Canucks’ scrimmage on Saturday was not the first time the...
PENTICTON — The patience the Vancouver Canucks are preaching for Zeev Buium obviously did not apply to the defenceman’s contract. Having witnessed...
PENTICTON, B.C. — We knew Manny Malhotra could yell and coach. We didn’t know he could still fly. At the end of an energetic opening day of...
VANCOUVER – More than seven months since undergoing major surgery on his hips, Thatcher Demko isn’t yet ready to play for the Vancouver Canucks....
VANCOUVER — Three training camps, three coaches. The Vancouver Canucks’ upheaval over the last two years is reflected by the staggering volume of...
VANCOUVER — The word of the day Monday for Elias Pettersson was "excited." And not just to play golf in the Vancouver Canucks' annual...
ABBOTSFORD, B.C. – As a player who quit baseball to focus on hockey only 2 ½ years ago, Vancouver Canucks draft pick Brooks Rogowski understands...
VANCOUVER — Jake DeBrusk went to eight weddings this summer. The funeral felt like last season. As the Vancouver Canucks collapsed on themselves and...
VANCOUVER – For a 32nd-place team whose prospects of winning anything but another draft-lottery spot this season are dim, the Vancouver Canucks have...
VANCOUVER — For those prone to intense bouts of sticker shock, stop following the transaction tickers for professional sports. Your cardiologist...
VANCOUVER — In about the time the World Cup of soccer has been on, new Vancouver Canucks general manager Ryan Johnson hired a head coach, hired an...
ABBOTSFORD, B.C. — When Braeden Cootes deftly sifted through Caleb Malhotra’s forecheck to start a solo rush that ended with a spectacular...
VANCOUVER – Somewhere there’s a 13-year-old minor-hockey player who could be the return in the Vancouver Canucks’ trade Wednesday of Marcus...
“I do want to slowly chip away. I think by even small changes, you add a different energy and an excitement.” – Canucks general manager Ryan...
VANCOUVER — Only eight times in National Hockey League history has a father coached his son, but this will not be the first time Manny Malhotra...
VANCOUVER — In a week when another American star on a Canadian team orchestrated his trade back to the United States, Vancouver Canucks general...
VANCOUVER — Amazing but true: over a period of five entry drafts, from 2020 until 2024, the Vancouver Canucks picked three times in the top 70. In...
VANCOUVER — Accustomed to coaching gifted identical twins, Willie Desjardins was still astonished at something he saw from the Ruck brothers early...
VANCOUVER — He is too young to remember being there, but Ryan Lin has photographic evidence from the 2011 Stanley Cup Final of his early devotion to...
VANCOUVER – When he appeared for the start of Canada’s practice Monday at the World Cup, Stephen Eustaquio was wearing a training belt to monitor...
VANCOUVER — To reach Powell River from Vancouver by car requires ferries across Howe Sound and Jervis Inlet and, if the traveller is lucky, about...
VANCOUVER — Canada opened this World Cup without its two best players. Alphonso Davies was injured. But Jonathan David went missing during...