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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
Wild GM Bill Guerin said 'we're in a window now' and 'you can't trade your way out of problems' five days after a Game 5 collapse. Then Kapr...
By Mike Johnson · 11 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
Five NHL head coaches sit on hot seats heading into June 2026 with one official vacancy across the league and Bruce Cassidy waiting for the...
By Mike Johnson · 10 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
The Vancouver Canucks GM search just narrowed to eight named candidates. Bill Scott is the frontrunner. Shane Doan is the wild card. Don Tay...
By Mike Johnson · 10 min read
The 2026 NHL Awards finalist class is the most lock-heavy in five years. Editorial picks for Hart, Norris, and Calder, with the runner-up ca...
By Mike Johnson · 9 min read
Free agency opens noon ET July 1, 2026 with the largest cap leap of the cap era. Live tracker, top UFAs, cap-space leaders, and the Frenzy P...
By Mike Johnson · 9 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
Steve Yzerman publicly admitted Detroit needs better players after a tenth straight missed playoff. J.T. Compher's 10-team no-trade list, Al...
By Mike Johnson · 9 min read
Devils trade targets 2026: Boeser ($7.25M) + DeBrusk ($5.5M) from Canucks. Inside The Double-NMC Play and the 23-goal drift gap separating p...
By Mike Johnson · 14 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
On July 1 the NHL salary cap rises from $95.5M to $104M. $272M of fresh money hits the league. Here are the 5 clear winners and 5 clear lose...
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
Morgan Rielly trade 2026 decision: $30M commitment + full NMC through 2029-30 = The NMC Anchor. Why the new Leafs GM has to call Rielly firs...
By Mike Johnson · 12 min read