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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