Harsh Poonia

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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Harsh Poonia

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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