VANCOUVER – January 1st, 2022
Happy New Year Everyone!!
The Vancouver Canucks play their first game of the year, a must win game tonight against the Seattle Kraken at the Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle, WA. The Canucks are expected to dress the same lineup as they used in their 2-1 shootout loss at the Los Angeles Kings on Thursday. Brad Hunt is likely the only scratch tonight, none of the three players have come off the Covid protocol list yet and Travis Hamonic hasn’t returned from his injury.
The Canucks next home game on January 5th vs the NY Islanders is postponed to a later date due to the capacity limits set in place by the BC government. The league wants to make the most revenue they can from each game this season and having no fans in the buildings is not good for that.
An additional 9 more games in Canada were postponed due to Capacity limits putting the total to 91 league wide games being postponed and set to be played later in the season.
Today being the New Year, the NHL is having their annual Winter Classic tonight at Target Field in Minneapolis, between the Minnesota Wild and ST. Louis Blues. It’s officially been ruled the coldest outdoor game in League history with the temperature dropping to -6 degrees at puck drop. According to the NHL the wind chill was in the negative 20’s.