Articles tagged with Vancouver Canucks
Elliotte Friedman reported May 11 that the Vancouver Canucks have offered Daniel and Henrik Sedin senior front office roles. The twins are p...
By Mike Johnson · 11 min read
Friedman confirmed Vancouver opened the Sherwood trade talks by asking for Igor Chernyshov. Mike Grier said no. Inside the Untouchable Thres...
By Mike Johnson · 10 min read
Tankathon ranks the 2026 NHL Mock Draft algorithmically. We rank it editorially: McKenna alone in Tier 1, Stenberg and Verhoeff fighting for...
By Mike Johnson · 11 min read
Tuesday, May 5 decides the 2026 NHL Draft order. Vancouver carries a 25.5% pre-lottery ceiling and a guaranteed top-three floor; Chicago sit...
By Mike Johnson · 9 min read
Gavin McKenna's $700K Penn State NIL deal is the most lucrative in college hockey history. Inside The NIL Kickoff, his 51-point freshman sea...
By Mike Johnson · 12 min read
From zero trade offers to three UFA destinations: Pittsburgh, Detroit, Edmonton. Inside The Specialist's Premium for Teddy Blueger's 2026 fr...
By Mike Johnson · 12 min read
Canucks trade candidates 2026: Patrik Allvin's The Peak-Valley Pivot. Hoglander ($3M, 2 goals, valley) and O'Connor ($2.5M, 17 goals, peakin...
By Mike Johnson · 13 min read
Friedman says Vancouver may pause the GM search until May 5. The math is brutal: 18.5% McKenna, guaranteed top-3, five candidates, three lis...
By Mike Johnson · 12 min read
Canucks added Shane Doan to their 2026 GM search — but not as the next GM. Per Elliotte Friedman, Doan is being auditioned as part of a grou...
By Mike Johnson · 9 min read
Vancouver finished dead last with 58 points. After trading Quinn Hughes, three more UFAs (Kane, Forbort, Blueger) are walking. The $8.93M te...
By Mike Johnson · 11 min read
Jets need a top-six winger. Canucks want to move DeBrusk. But his full NMC until 2027 blocks this. The Ehlers Vacuum framework + 25% probabi...
By Mike Johnson · 10 min read
Elias Pettersson's full no-movement clause on a $92.8M contract makes him untradeable. Three teams tried. None succeeded. The Decade Veto ex...
By Mike Johnson · 11 min read
Jim Rutherford admitted the $112.25M in Boeser, Garland, and Demko extensions were partly Hughes retention bait. Hughes left anyway. Inside...
By Mike Johnson · 11 min read
Patrik Allvin fired after Canucks historic last-place finish. Jim Rutherford, who hired Allvin in 2021, now conducts the GM search himself -...
By Mike Johnson · 9 min read
Nils Hoglander scored 24 goals in 2023-24, then two in 2025-26. His 5.7% shooting hides a 52.80% expected goals percentage that says he stil...
By Mike Johnson · 10 min read
Elliotte Friedman reports the Canucks will sit down with Pettersson this offseason for a real conversation about his future. With 51 points...
By Mike Johnson · 9 min read
The Boeser trade question lingers after Brock Boeser survived the March 6 deadline despite interest from the Bruins and Islanders. With a $7...
By Mike Johnson · 6 min read