Articles tagged with Vancouver Canucks
Vancouver fired head coach Adam Foote on May 19, 2026 after a 25-49-8 season. Manny Malhotra leads the candidate list. The Voice Mandate exp...
By Mike Johnson · 9 min read
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