With the dog days of the off-season upon us, we at Canucks Army are starting a thought exercise looking at two scenarios and trying to decide which is more likely to occur next season. We’ll lay the scenarios out, offer an explanation of our thoughts and then leave the comments section wide open for discussion ..read more

Now, before we begin, we ask for a little extra patience from our readership. We are deep into the desert days of summer, with only the occasional Daniel Sprong-sized oases of hockey content available to sate our endless appetite.   It’s a time of year when we at CanucksArmy give ourselves extra permission to get ..read more

Welcome back to CanucksArmy’s top 20 Vancouver Canucks prospect rankings.   We’re in our top 10, and today, we bring you a true draft gem who’s been defying the odds since he was selected. Kirill Kudryavtsev Team: Soo Greyhounds | Age: 20 | Position: Defence | Height: 6’0″ | Weight: 201 lbs | Shoots: Left ..read more

Plymouth, Michigan, will host the 2024 World Junior Summer Showcase this weekend, featuring some of the top U20 talents worldwide. The event initially included four Vancouver Canucks prospects: Tom Willander (Sweden), Melvin Fernström (Sweden), Anthony Romani (Canada), and Sawyer Mynio (Canada).   However, in a recent tweet from Tre Kronor (translated through Google), it was ..read more

Welcome back to the rebranded Around the League, now the NHL Notebook — the column here at CanucksArmy where we deliver news and notes from around the National Hockey League, oftentimes through a Vancouver Canucks-tinted lens! Man, is it October yet? While soaking up the sun on the beach or by the pool is nice ..read more

Retired former Vancouver Canucks skaters Ryan Kesler and Michael Del Zotto were among the nine players who took part in the inaugural NHL Broadcast Training Camp last week.   The collection of current and retired players attended the event at the NHL offices in Manhattan on July 17, which included “modules geared toward game preparation ..read more

Be sure to check out the latest odds with online sportsbook Betway. Welcome back to CanucksArmy’s top 20 Vancouver Canucks prospect rankings. Today we focus on a Kamloops, BC, native who lit up the Western Hockey League scoresheet in his first year as a drafted prospect. Sawyer Mynio Team: Seattle Thunderbirds | Age: 19 | Position: Defence ..read more

Just 24 hours after signing defenceman Layton Ahac to a one-year AHL deal, the Abbotsford Canucks announced the signing of 26-year-old Carsen Twarynski to a one-year AHL contract.   ROSTER ADDITION ALERT ? Abbotsford Canucks General Manager, Ryan Johnson, announced today that the club has signed forward Carsen Twarynski to a one-year AHL contract. More details: https://t.co/deWv0AMfNR pic.twitter.com/wKfLxG64NU — Abbotsford Canucks (@abbycanucks) July 24, 2024 The Calgary native, drafted 82nd overall by the Philadelphia Flyers in 2016, has carved out a long-standing AHL career spanning ..read more

With the dog days of the off-season upon us, we at Canucks Army have started a thought exercise series looking at two scenarios and trying to decide which is more likely to occur next season. We’ll lay the scenarios out, offer an explanation of our thoughts and then leave the comments section wide open for discussion and debate. It’s quite possible neither scenario is actually achieved. It’s also plausible that both come to fruition. We don’t have a crystal ball, so we’re looking at probabilities here. In the second edition of the series, we are asking which is more likely – Brock Boeser scori ..read more

Yesterday marked the three-year anniversary of one of the most controversial trades in Vancouver Canucks history. Needing to save his career, Canucks General Manager Jim Benning decided to right his wrongs at the expense of the club’s future.   In a pure desperation move, Benning attached Vancouver’s first-round pick in 2021 (Dylan Guenther, ninth-overall), a second-round pick in 2022 (Hunter Haight, 47th-overall) and a seventh-round pick in 2023 (Yegor Rimashevskiy, 203rd-overall) to get out from three of the bad contracts he signed: Loui Eriksson ($6 million), Jay Beagle ($3 million) a ..read more