The Vancouver Canucks (1-0) play their first home game of the new National Hockey League season tonight, hosting the Edmonton Oilers (0-0-1) at Rogers Arena. The game begins at 7 pm PT.   It’s a rematch of Tuesday’s thrilling 6-5 Canucks victory in Edmonton. What we saw #Canucks this morning DeBrusk-EP40-Lekkerimäki Öhgren-Rossi-BoeserO’Connor-Sasson-KarlssonBains-Cotter-Gallagher Buium-HronekOleksiak-WillanderDPetey-Schenn — Jeff Paterson (@patersonjeff)…

With a crowd of a couple of thousand on hand for an open practice as part of the club’s Fan Fest, the Vancouver Canucks took to the ice at Rogers Arena on Friday afternoon. After assigning Braeden Cootes to Abbotsford and placing Filip Chytil on injured reserve, the Canucks had 13 forwards, eight defencemen and…

The Vancouver Canucks (0-2) play their first home preseason game tonight, hosting a young Edmonton Oilers squad (2-0) at Rogers Arena. Opening faceoff is set for 6 pm PT.   It’s also the launch of the Canucks’ three-day fan fest to close out the exhibition schedule. Players will walk a blue carpet outside the rink upon…

A shoutout to everyone in Penticton who stopped the Daily Faceoff Vancouver crew during Vancouver Canucks training camp and mentioned how much they enjoy the content we produce. We heard from many fans at South Okanagan Events Centre who said they were regular readers and consumers of West Coast Conversation and Rink Wide Vancouver. We…

The first day of any National Hockey League training camp always offers up plenty to digest. And that was certainly the case on Thursday as the Vancouver Canucks opened their 2026 camp at the South Okanagan Events Centre in Penticton. Here are eight takeaways from the first day of the new hockey season. Manny Malhotra…

Hey folks, Quads here with some exciting news! We’re very pleased to announce that Mike Halford and Jason Brough have joined The Nation Network! Halford and Brough will stream live Monday through Friday from 7-9 AM PT on the Daily Faceoff Vancouver YouTube channel and across all of our social channels. It will also be…

Training camp is almost here, and so is a fresh crop of players who are losing waiver-exempt status.

Call it a significant late-summer free-agent acquisition. The Nation Network is pleased to announce that former Sportsnet 650 on-air personality Jamie Dodd will be jumping into the post-game space this season. Dodd will serve as the co-host on Rink Wide Vancouver’s post-game livestreams for the majority of Vancouver Canucks games, starting with a preseason contest…

The prospects showcase has come and gone, and there’s likely only one more captain’s skate before the Vancouver Canucks open training camp in Penticton on Thursday. And that’s when we’ll truly start to get some answers about the way new head coach Manny Malhotra is thinking about the roster he has inherited. But some of…

In each of his previous three training camps in the Vancouver Canucks organization, Max Sasson has done his best to make a mark at centre ice. But as last season unfolded, the 26-year-old was shifted to left wing and seemed to find his footing. Sasson scored 13 goals in 66 National Hockey League games –…

As Vancouver Canucks players return to the ice at Rogers Arena ahead of the rapidly approaching National Hockey League season, the roles and responsibilities of the team’s new coaching staff have been unveiled.   In an article on the Canucks website, new head coach Manny Malhotra revealed the portfolios he has assigned to assistant coaches…

This is always one of the best mailbags to write each year because it’s the final one for the month of August. After this, it’s all gas, no brakes to the start of hockey season. Alexei Medvedev’s London Knights are playing in Victoria on Friday and Saturday. A week later, the Canucks prospects face Seattle’s…

After a one-week absence, the Monday mailbag returns. By this time next month, the Vancouver Canucks will have conducted training camp and will already be halfway through their four-game National Hockey League preseason. So we’re certainly getting closer to hockey season. And when the team hits the ice, we’ll start to get some answers about…

It’s August, and while it’s a long weekend for most, the work never stops here at CanucksArmy. That’s the beauty of this website and the community it serves. You have questions, and those don’t stop just because it’s a long weekend in the middle of summer. Perhaps one day the BC in BC Day will…

As much-needed rain fell in parts of the province over the weekend, it sort of felt like hockey season for a moment. Of course, it’s not hockey season yet. But every day that goes by is another day closer to the start of Vancouver Canucks training camp. And with news this week that the team…

Even in a rebuild when the pressure isn’t nearly as high as it will be when the Vancouver Canucks are competitive again, there will still be a handful of players feeling the heat to perform next season. That’s simply the nature of the beast in professional sports. And so here is a look at four…

We learned on Wednesday that the Vancouver Canucks would open their 2026-27 National Hockey League regular season with a home and home set against the Edmonton Oilers. On Thursday, we learned the rest of the story as the league released full 84-game schedules for all 32 teams.    Any analysis of a full schedule has…

Welcome to another summer edition of the Monday Mailbag. Keep the questions coming throughout the offseason, and we’ll do our best to answer some of them on a weekly basis through the remainder of July and into August, too. The remaining weeks of the offseason will provide us all ample opportunity to assess what the…

The draft has come and gone, the frenzied portion of free agency is (for the most part) over, and we’ve reached that point of the off-season when National Hockey League general managers will try to get in a little downtime over what’s left of their summers. While the Vancouver Canucks may entertain trade offers on…

It feels like the Vancouver Canucks have done the bulk of their heavy offseason lifting. And, as expected, it really wasn’t all that heavy. Oh, there may be a signing or two still to come and it’s always possible trade winds will blow. But as the roster building slows down for the remainder of summer,…

Bigger, faster, stronger. Those were clearly the qualities the Vancouver Canucks valued in the nine prospects they added to their stable in the National Hockey League draft over the weekend. Those same attributes are necessary for the people who process the mail here at CanucksArmy.   With the draft in the rear-view mirror and development…