Source sports.yahoo.com. | 15 hrs ago.
Rick Tocchet barely had a chance to get accustomed to the Pacific time zone when the newly hired Canucks coach wondered what exactly he had just gotten himself into in late January 2023. Four days and two games into his tenure, Tocchet recalled the feeling of dread he experienced standing on a Vancouver street corner at 3 a.m. after the team returned home from Seattle following a 6-1 loss, in which the coach referred to the Canucks being “soft.” “I felt like I got hit by a bus,” Tocchet told The Associated Press this week.
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Fans of the Vancouver Canucks have been blessed to have a series of world-class talents calling their games on television and the radio. It started right from day one, with Bernie Pascall on television and Jim Robson on the radio, then continued with the likes of Jim Hughson and Brendan Batchelor. Since 1998, John “Shorty” Shorthouse has been calling Canucks games for either the radio or television — 25 seasons of doing play-by-play for the Canucks.
Source sports.yahoo.com. | 23 hrs ago.
It's been nine long years since the Vancouver Canucks have played an NHL playoff game at Rogers Arena and fans are ready to see this season's Pacific Division champions take on the Nashville Predators. The round one matchup was announced Wednesday with the first game scheduled for Sunday at Rogers Arena.
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The Winnipeg Jets have sure picked a great time to match their longest win streak in franchise history. Despite scratching more than a third of their normal lineup, the Jets secured their eighth win in a row to close out the regular season by beating the Vancouver Canucks 4-2 Thursday night. Nikita Chibrikov scored the game-winning goal to break a two-two deadlock midway through the third period in his NHL debut and Brad Lambert had an assist in his first game. The Jets matched their franchise record for wins in a season from 2017-2018 with their 52nd victory in front of a sellout crowd.
Source sports.yahoo.com. | 1 day ago.
Vasily Podkolzin started the season in the AHL with the Abbotsford Canucks; he ended the season with a two-year contract extension with the Vancouver Canucks. The Canucks' first-round pick in 2019 — tenth overall — was in the final year of his entry-level contract that paid $925,000 per year at the NHL level. It's a one-way deal, meaning he will get paid the same amount whether he's in the NHL or the AHL next season. It's a similar extension to that of Nils Höglander after he, like Podkolzin, spent the majority of the 2022-23 season in the AHL rebuilding his game.
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NHL awards season is in full swing, and several Vancouver Canucks are being mentioned as top candidates. Quinn Hughes is the leading candidate to win the Norris Trophy, Rick Tocchet is leading the Jack Adams discussion… and Conor Garland is getting support on social media for the Selke Trophy. The Selke Trophy is awarded annually to the best defensive forward in the NHL. Mathematician and popular hockey account @IneffectiveMath started the discussion earlier this week when he posted his hypothetical Selke ballot.
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Vasily Podkolzin signed a two-year contract with the Vancouver Canucks on Thursday. Financial terms were not disclosed. The 22-year-old forward has two assists in 18 regular-season games with the Canucks this season; he has played in 18 of their past 19 games after beginning the season with Abbotsford of the American Hockey League, where he had 28 points (15 goals, 13 assists) in 44 games. "We are happy with how hard Vasily has worked on his game to try and become a more consistent player," Canucks general manager Patrik Allvin said.
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The Canucks clinched the Pacific Division title with their win on Tuesday and the team wants to keep rolling ahead of the opening round of the playoffs. Head Coach Rick Tocchet had his team practice on Wednesday and wanted the players to stay fresh but is yet to decide if players will be rested in the final game of the season. The Jets are one of the six teams in the league with 50 or more wins this season, they have locked down the second spot in the Central Division and know that they will be facing the Colorado Avalanche in game one. Throughout the season, the Jets have thrived on good goaltending and depth scoring.
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LAST GAME PLAYED – APR. 16/24: VAN 4 vs CGY 1 Tyler Myers opened scoring for the game with a shorthanded goal at 12:00 in the first period…Teddy Blueger and Elias Lindholm were credited with the assists…Nils Höglander scored the GWG at 13:28 in the first period…Elias Pettersson and Ilya Mikheyev were awarded the assists…Dakota Joshua netted his 18th goal of the season at 1:58 in the second period…Conor Garland and Myers assisted the goal…Calgary answered back with a goal in the third period…J.T. Miller extended the lead and concluded scoring for the game with a goal at 15:02 in the third period…Pius Suter recorded the lone helper… Miller extended his point streak to 11-games (4-10-14)…Myers (1-4-5)
Source sports.yahoo.com. | 2 days ago.
The Vancouver Canucks are heading back to the playoffs for the first time since 2020 and the first time since 2015 if you discount the COVID-affected bubble playoffs. For many Canucks, next week will mark their first-ever playoff game. It will be the first in front of a raucous home Vancouver crowd for every single player on this roster. The prospect of playing in front of a lively Rogers Arena has many of the Canucks excited.
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Vancouver Canucks defenceman Filip Hronek might have yet to play in the playoffs in his career, but that hasn't stopped him from chirping like someone who's been there many times before. Facing off against divisional rivals in the Calgary Flames for the penultimate game of both teams' seasons, Hronek was caught by a mic between the benches firing off a rather nasty dig at his opponents. Hronek was pretty accurate that it hasn't exactly been a season to remember in Calgary. With one game left on their schedule, the Flames currently sit 18 points out of a playoff spot, having picked up just 79 points through 81 games.
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The Vancouver Canucks have won their division for the first time in more than a decade. “It's cool,” said forward J.T. Miller. The Canucks (50-22-9) clinched the title Tuesday when they defeated the visiting Calgary Flames 4-1. It's the first time Vancouver has finished atop its division since 2013 when the team went 48-26-15 to finish first in the Northwest.
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BOTTOM LINE: The Winnipeg Jets host the Vancouver Canucks after Kyle Connor's two-goal game against the Seattle Kraken in the Jets' 4-3 win. Winnipeg has a 51-24-6 record overall and a 26-11-3 record on its home ice.
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The hosts carried a 2-0 lead into the first intermission, scoring goals 1:28 apart to break the ice. While short-handed, the Canucks opened the scoring when defenceman Tyler Myers found space down the right wing before snapping a shot low to Markstrom's blocker side. Nils Hoglander extended the lead with 6:32 remaining in the stanza, converting on a cross-crease pass from linemate Elias Pettersson for his 24th goal of the campaign. The Flames had chances to solve Demko, too, notably an Andrei Kuzmenko snapper that cranked off Demko's post on a Calgary powerplay.
Source sports.yahoo.com. | 3 days ago.
Is this the year that John Shorthouse gets to call a Vancouver Canucks playoff game on Hockey Night in Canada? Shorthouse has called countless Canucks playoff games on the radio with TSN 1040 and CKNW before that. Shorthouse was involved in Sportsnet's playoff coverage last season alongside John Garrett, but of course, the Canucks weren't playing.
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The 2023-24 season has been a magical one for the Vancouver Canucks. The Canucks have subscribed to their coach's non-negotiables, playing a more structured style that has allowed them to win games with team defence as well as offence. Tocchet is in line for the Jack Adams Award, given annually to the NHL's best coach. Speaking of awards, the Canucks tracked many of the big NHL trophies throughout the season, and, at this point, it will be awfully disappointing if Quinn Hughes doesn't win the Norris and join Tocchet amongst the league's honourees.
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LAST GAME PLAYED – APR. 13/24: VAN 3 at EDM 1 Sam Lafferty opened scoring for the game with his 13th goal of the season at 19:44 in the first period…Nikita Zadorov and J.T. Miller were credited with the assists…Pius Suter scored the GWG at 11:00 in the second period…Tyler Myers recorded the lone helper…Edmonton scored a goal…Dakota Joshua extended the lead with an empty net goal at 18:13 in the final frame…Elias Lindolm and Conor Garland were awarded the assists…Miller extended his point streak to 10-games (3-10-13)…Myers (0-3-3) and Garland (3-1-4) extended their point streaks to three-games…Garland led the team in shots (7)…Vasily Podkolzin led the team in hits (7)…Casey DeSmith faced 33 shots
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Most Canadians believe the Leafs and Oilers have a better shot at the Cup than the Canucks, according to a new poll. Perhaps it comes as no surprise, of all the Canadian teams vying for Lord Stanley's Cup, most British Columbians believe the Vancouver Canucks have the greatest shot at winning it all. When the Angus Reid Institute asked Canadians which team they believed was most likely to prevail, hockey fans were largely divided between the Toronto Maple Leafs (21 per cent) and the Edmonton Oilers (20 per cent).
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Named to the 2024 NHL All-Star Game, Hughes leads the Canucks in average ice time (24:43). Hughes is the 11th defenseman in NHL history to have at least 90 points in a season and has nine games with at least three assists this season, something only two others at the position have done in a single season: Bobby Orr (four times) and Ray Bourque (1993-94). "Obviously it's really cool," Hughes said. Hughes, named captain prior to the season, leads Vancouver in power-play ice time per game (3:56) and has helped them rank 10th on the power play (22.7 percent).
Source sports.yahoo.com. | 4 days ago.
With the end of the regular season in sight, award talk is ramping up across the NHL. Vancouver Canucks captain Quinn Hughes has been the centre of discussion for some as he wraps up a historic year. The 24-year-old has 91 points in 80 games, a new record for Canucks defencemen, passing the mark he set last season. Sportsnet'sElliotte Friedman recently supported the player's candidacy for the Norris Trophy as the NHL's best defenceman.
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Brendan Morrison was comfortable speaking into a microphone during his Vancouver Canucks playing days, so this seems like a natural progression. The well-spoken 48-year-old former pro hockey player has started a YouTube channel just in time for the Stanley Cup Playoffs. It's Morrison's first foray into the sports media business, though he was already an established YouTuber covering his other passion, fishing. “I'm going to be pouring all of my hockey knowledge into this channel and sharing with you some tips, tutorials, analysis, hot takes, and some epic guests,” Morrison said in his first video.
Source sports.yahoo.com. | 4 days ago.
It has yet to be determined who the Vancouver Canucks will play in the first round of the 2024 Stanley Cup Playoffs but we might have a hint of when it will begin. The playoffs are slated to begin on Saturday, April 20, but that doesn't mean every playoff series will start on that day. With the Canucks only finishing their regular season on Thursday, April 18, that would mean just one day off between games, which wouldn't exactly be a fair and just reward for earning home-ice advantage. Instead, according to Sportsnet's Elliotte Friedman on the 32 Thoughts podcast, they're likely to start much later.
Source sports.yahoo.com. | 4 days ago.
BOTTOM LINE: The Calgary Flames visit the Vancouver Canucks after Nazem Kadri's two-goal game against the Arizona Coyotes in the Flames' 6-5 win. Vancouver is 49-22-9 overall and 16-9-0 against the Pacific Division.
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To mark the conclusion of the 2023-24 regular season, NHL.com is running its fifth and final installment of the Trophy Tracker series this week. Today, we look at the race for the Jack Adams Award, given annually to the top coach in the NHL as selected in a vote by the NHL Broadcasters' Association. Rick Tocchet is the favorite to win the Jack Adams Award, and the Vancouver Canucks coach led the Trophy Tracker series from the first quarter to the end of the season. It's easy to deduce why Tocchet received 62 voting points and 10 for first place by a panel of 15 NHL.com voters, commanding leads over Andrew Brunette of the Nashville Predators (30 votes, one for first) and Kris Knoblauch of the Edmonton Oilers (21).
Source sports.yahoo.com. | 5 days ago.
The Vancouver Canucks by all accounts, despite their struggles since the All-Star Break, have had a phenomenal season so far. There's really no contest who wins the best defenceman award, it's Quinn Hughes. The recently-minted Canucks captain has not let the pressure of the “C” weigh him down, rather it's fueled him to push this team to new heights. Hughes is already the greatest defenceman in Canucks history, and by the time he retires, his numbers likely won't be touched for a long time – maybe ever.
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