VANCOUVER – March 5^th, 2022

The Vancouver Canucks beat the New York Islanders 4-3 on Thursday night in the new UBS arena, home of the islanders. The game was an intense one as action was back and forth, both teams had the lead at one point in the game but ultimately the Canucks came out on top with the victory.

With this win the Canucks put themselves back into the playoff race and keep their hopes alive still. If the Canucks can pull off a victory tonight against the Toronto Maple Leafs, in the Scotia Bank arena, that will put them one point back of a playoff spot.

Injury report – Defensemen Tucker Poolman, Kyle Burroughs and forward Jason Dickinson all remain on injured reserve (IR), but Burroughs season might be over due to his injury but is still unclear because he is pending further evaluation and could be placed on long term injured reserve (LTIR). As for the other two, a likely return is bound for at least Poolman as he has been out the longest and is the closest to getting healthy according to head coach Bruce Boudreau.

As of now there are still no new trade rumors, only the ones I have talked about previously and are circulating in the media.

In some positive news, but instead for the leafs, forward and Toronto native Wayne Simmonds will be playing his 1,000^th NHL game tonight at home when they take on the Canucks.

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Vancouver – March 1^st, 2022

The Vancouver Canucks started out their road trip this past weekend by going 1-1, winning against the New York Rangers 5-2 and then losing a must win game against the New Jersey devils 7-2 the following night. The Canucks next game will be played Thursday afternoon against the New York Islanders and the road trip will wrap up on Saturday night as the Canucks will play the Toronto maple Leafs on hockey night in Canada.

After this road trip concludes the Canucks return to Vancouver where they will play 7 straight home games in a span of 2 and a half weeks. Their opponents on that home stand will be very tough and this will ultimately decide their playoff hopes because the trade deadline is on March 21^st on Monday, the day after the Canucks homestand ends. These sets of games will decide if the Canucks are sellers or buyers on the deadline.

In injury news the Canucks will be without forward Jason Dickinson for the duration of the road trip as Dickinson did not travel with the team because he was injured during the last home game against the Calgary Flames. The Canucks will also be without Tucker Poolman still as there’s no timetable for his return yet. Other then that there’s no other injuries as well as no player on the Covid 19 list.

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VANCOUVER – February 23^rd,2022

As the trade deadline approaches us the trade rumors are starting to pick up as well. There’s a tone of chatter around many Vancouver Canucks players regarding potential trades out and a lot of talk about potential trades to bring new players in.

The Canucks have pretty much 3 untouchable players who can’t be traded. That list of players consists of star center Elias Pettersson, franchise defensemen Quinn Hughes and their number one goalie Thatcher Demko. Many hockey insiders would also consider Canucks captain Bo Horvat to be an untouchable as well, but they also think that only happens if the Canucks can come to terms with an extension with Horvat before then.

JT Miller along with Bo Horvat have expiring contracts at the end of next year and will become UFA’s and Brock Boeser has an expiring deal as well, but he will be an RFA. Miller has been the best Canucks forward the last 3 seasons he’s been here for and undoubtable would be looking for a raise from his current 5.25-million-dollar cap hit. Captain Bo would also be looking for a raise as he became the captain 2 years ago and has been on a steady uphill of development. Boeser though is an RFA, and the Canucks have more control over his future then the other 2, however, his qualifying offer is at 7.5 and would be making more money then both JT and Bo.

The Canucks still have a month to decide what there going to do and it all depends on how the contract situations play out for each player. The Canucks are also receiving calls on other players like Connor Garland and Luke Schenn and still are actively trying to move Jaroslav Halak’s contract.

After losing out on some key Re-signings for their UFA’s 2 years ago I doubt the front office of the Canucks will make the same mistake again and let either of Miller or Horvat walk for nothing.

The Canucks playoff hopes are pretty much done now with 30 games remaining in the season and for a playoff spot they will need to go better then 20 and 10 and with the very hard schedule remaining it will be very difficult.

The best thing this team can do is build for the future and trade away the assets that have value for them. President of hockey operations Jim Rutherford said the Canucks need to clear cap space to sign their key players so looking deeper into that we can assume he wants to keep the top players and move out some bad contracts within the bottom six. If that’s the case that Connor Garland is the most likely candidate to get traded because of his value and contract.

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VANCOUVER – February 22nd,2022

The Vancouver Canucks played their last makeup game of the “Olympic break” last night with a 5-2 win over the Seattle Kraken. It was a good game for the Canucks as everyone played exceptional from the top players down. Last Saturday was an embarrassing loss for the Canucks at the hands of the Anaheim Ducks so this Seattle game was a big one, a must win.

The Canucks wrap up a 3-game home stand on Thursday when they play the Calgary Flames. After this homestand they go on the road for 4 games when they go play the New Jersey Devils, New York Rangers and Islanders and finally the Toronto Maple Leafs. After that road trip however, the Canucks come back for a long 7 games at home over a 2-week period.

During a game against the Anaheim Ducks on Saturday night, February 19^th, defensemen Kyle Burroughs was injured on a hit from behind into the boards by a Ducks forward. Burroughs seemed to be favoring his rib area during the play and after the game it was leaked that Burroughs might have fractured or even broken a couple of his ribs. Burroughs was also seen wearing a shoulder brace the following day so there’s speculation within the media that it could be both a shoulder and rib injury which would most likely cost the defensemen the rest of this season.

In other positive news the Canucks returned to full capacity on their home games on Saturday against the Ducks and will continue to do so until further notice. Most of the Canucks remaining games will also be played at home.

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Vancouver: December 17th, 2021 – Big news in Vancouver as Rogers arena, the home of the Canucks, gets its capacity limits of fans reduced to only 50% with the increase of Covid cases and Omicron variant spreads in B.C. recently. Provincial Health Officer of British Columbia Dr Bonnie Henry announced these restrictions today for places holding more than 1000 people at a time, on Friday morning.

The Vancouver Canucks also announced Tyler Motte has tested positive for Covid 19 and is on the Covid 19 protocol list. The Canucks are up to 5 players on the list along with assistant coach Jason King. Canucks’ next game is at home against the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Maple Leafs just added 2 players to the Covid 19 protocol list themselves, they have no other players on the list. If further positive test results come back from either team on Saturday before the game, it could possibly be postponed.

With other more positive news, the Canucks grabbed their 6^th straight win under new head coach Bruce Boudreau. Boudreau is now tied for 2^nd all-time with 6 other coaches with the most consecutive wins to start a tenure with a new team. This comes as a huge surprise because of how poorly the Canucks were playing before the firings. The Maple Leafs are at top of their division and superstar Austin Matthews has been playing lights out as of recently so the next game will be a huge test for this resilient bunch from Vancouver. If the Canucks can grab another win Boudreau will tie the record of most wins by a coach to start a tenure with a team at 7.

During last night’s game with the San Jose Sharks, the Canucks had an injury on the backend as new call up Guillaume Brisebois was injured in the second period. This is the 3^rd game out of the 6 wins that the Canucks have gone down to 5 defensemen in just the 2^nd period, making this win streak that much more impressive.

The Canucks also made more front office moves, they announced Thursday evening that they have made Canucks legend Stan Smyl vice president of hockey operations, he will be working under Jim Rutherford, the president of hockey operations in day-to-day tasks. The general manager spot is still vacant as of now still and no time timetable on when there will be a new name announced.

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Vancouver: December 15^th, 2021 – The Vancouver Canucks grab their 5^th win in a row after cleaning the house of their coaching staff and replacing them with veteran coach Bruce Boudreau and Scott walker. They improve their season record to 13-15-2 with 28 points on the season as they continue to climb the standings and push for a playoff spot.

The game was a thriller comeback for the Canucks after they fell 3 nothing to the Columbus Blue Jackets, in just the first period. They began the comeback by scoring 1 goal in the second period and scored 2 more in the third period. But before the game ended the Canucks came away with both points as they scored the game winning goal in the very last minute of the game.

With 2 games remaining to go 500 on the season the Canucks go on the road to San Jose but that’s not without any complications because 5 players from the team were added to the Covid 19 positive list and possibly more to be added within the next day.

This could potentially mean postponing the game to another date. Due to the border restrictions and Christmas, no player would be wanting to self-isolate. They would ultimately miss Christmas with their families if they tested positive.

If the San Jose game gets postponed, the next game is against the Toronto Maple Leafs back in Vancouver, and I don’t foresee that game getting postponed because both teams are in Canada as of right now.

In other Canucks news, the Canucks have filled one of the vacant assistant general managers (GM) roles by hiring Derek Clancey today. They have now 2 more assistant GM role spots still left to fill and have no head GM as of right now. The new president of hockey operations Jim Rutherfurd said via zoom on Monday when he met with the media for the first time since being hired, he is going to take his time filling the GM position as he has 40 different candidates he is going to be or already has spoken with. He is giving this hiring a thorough look in finding the right person for the job.

Jim Benning, the previous GM was given 8 years to build a Championship team and has nothing but negative and poor results to show for, so Rutherfurd taking his time and doing his due diligence is key in picking the right person to anchor this team to once again reach and ultimately this time win the cup much less like the great 2011 team.

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