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VANCOUVER — To reach Powell River from Vancouver by car requires ferries across Howe Sound and Jervis Inlet and, if the traveller is lucky, about...
VANCOUVER — Canada opened this World Cup without its two best players. Alphonso Davies was injured. But Jonathan David went missing during...
VANCOUVER — Much has changed for Ali Ahmed since he last practised on the billiard-table smooth grass of the Vancouver Whitecaps’ training...
VANCOUVER — The Brendan Gallagher train is gaining steam. But it’s difficult to know at this stage who or how many are driving the locomotive and...
VANCOUVER — If you were watching U-15 boys lacrosse in Barrie, Ont., on Monday and thought you heard a joyful whoop unrelated to the game from the...
VANCOUVER — It wasn’t the championship season in the minors that convinced Vancouver Canucks general manager Ryan Johnson he had the right coach...
VANCOUVER — It wasn’t the prestige and lustre of the title that led Henrik and Daniel Sedin to become co-presidents of the Vancouver Canucks, but...
VANCOUVER — When Ryan Johnson needed to hire a minor-league coach for the Vancouver Canucks two years ago, he described his search process this way:...
VANCOUVER — It took 28 days from the time Jim Rutherford fired Patrik Allvin just before the Vancouver Canucks’ final game for both executives to...
VANCOUVER – After exhausting all other options, the Vancouver Canucks finally did the right thing in hiring Ryan Johnson as their general manager...
DENVER – Growing up in Stony Plain, west of Edmonton, Brett Kulak had a farm kid’s pragmatism about what might allow him to become a professional...
DENVER — The Colorado Avalanche have the series on their side, but not history. With a chance to advance halfway to the Stanley Cup with a win in...
DENVER — The evolution of Martin Necas as a playoff player could be seen in the Colorado Avalanche’s emphatic 5-2 win Monday against the Minnesota...
ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Colorado Avalanche flexed. But what was most impressive about their display of muscle on Monday against the Minnesota Wild is...
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Four games, four starting goalies. Colorado Avalanche coach Jared Bednar and Minnesota Wild boss John Hynes warned us when this...
ST. PAUL, Minn. – The Minnesota Wild are not the only team in this playoff series with ghosts. Their apparitions were just more obvious and easily...
ST. PAUL, Minn. – Despite a strange three-day break between games, it wasn’t the National Hockey League that delayed this playoff series. It was...
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Against a surging Colorado Avalanche, the Minnesota Wild are going to use their Wall. Wild coach John Hynes is going back to...
ST. PAUL, Minn. — There are two things Brock Faber didn’t know about Quinn Hughes until he started playing with him. “One, just how good he...
DENVER — The Stanley Cup weighs 35 pounds, but it’s not the weight of it that can crush you. If you play in the National Hockey League and get so...
Press briefings for a lot of Vancouver Canucks senior managers over the years have been must-see theatre. Imposing and authoritative, Pat Quinn once...
DENVER — When Nathan MacKinnon tracked Quinn Hughes in the third period Tuesday, then bowled him over when Hughes tried to cut back on him with the...
There really is no limit to the hockey gods’ cruelty when it comes to the Vancouver Canucks. Not only did the National Hockey League’s worst team...
DENVER — The Wall of St. Paul is coming down. At least for now. Minnesota Wild coach John Hynes is changing goalies for Game 2 of his team’s...
DENVER — For the first time, Kirill Kaprizov is trying to grow a playoff beard during the Stanley Cup tournament’s second round, and so far the...
DENVER — It was a heavyweight clash without heavyweight hockey. The Colorado Avalanche and Minnesota Wild, Stanley Cup contenders who are rarely...
DENVER – For the Colorado Avalanche, tonight is when the hard part begins. Sure, the National Hockey League’s best team dusted the Los Angeles...
VANCOUVER – Shortly before this season began, Elias Pettersson finished another one of those interviews in which he says almost nothing. He was...
VANCOUVER — In his working life with John Garrett, play-by-play announcer John Shorthouse remembers exactly two times that his broadcast partner...
VANCOUVER — Ryan Johnson’s unmistakable aura is decency. Nobody who speaks to him for 15 minutes about anything leaves the conversation without a...
VANCOUVER — The person who will have the greatest impact on the Vancouver Canucks next season is the general manager who has yet to be hired. The...
VANCOUVER – Authority, like water, flows downward. In the history of the National Hockey League, a general manager has never fired a president. ...
EDMONTON — Two years ago, the Vancouver Canucks won 50 games. Thursday, they finished the 2025-26 season with 25 wins — and 49 regulation losses....
VANCOUVER – At the end of their nightmare, the Vancouver Canucks had a California dream. Jake DeBrusk guided in an overtime setup from Elias...
In the final days of one of the longest seasons in Vancouver Canucks history, it’s like the players suddenly don’t want it to end. For the second...
After enduring months of misery, the Vancouver Canucks finally found some joy Saturday by inflicting a little pain on others as they rallied three...
Out of the National Hockey League playoff race for months, the Vancouver Canucks continue to be formidable “spoilers.” On Thursday, they spoiled...
VANCOUVER — If John Tortorella’s team was always this good in Vancouver, he’d still be coaching the Canucks. The Vegas Golden Knights improved...
VANCOUVER — The only road runner Jake DeBrusk knew when he was little was Wile E. Coyote’s cartoon nemesis. So it was for most hockey players born...
VANCOUVER — In their win-of-the-season Wednesday against the Colorado Avalanche, the Vancouver Canucks proved they could succeed while allowing six...
In the first game he ever played against the Vancouver Canucks, Quinn Hughes was understated. Nearly four months since his trade to the Minnesota...
In a disastrous season no one anticipated, the Vancouver Canucks stunned everyone again on Wednesday by beating the Colorado Avalanche 8-6 in Denver...
The Vegas Golden Knights’ coaching change fired up the Vancouver Canucks. With one-time Vancouver coach John Tortorella standing behind the...
If you’re going to lose by four goals to the fourth-worst team in the National Hockey League, you may as well have your fourth-liner bust a slump a...
VANCOUVER – When the Vancouver Canucks returned home three weeks ago, a distant last in the National Hockey League and with three wins in 25 games,...
VANCOUVER – Nils Hoglander’s season peaked in training camp. We know, you could pretty much say that about the Vancouver Canucks team. But for...
VANCOUVER — Wistful excitement in imagining the Vancouver Canucks as the next Anaheim Ducks is tempered by the time — seven years — it has taken...
VANCOUVER — And for the sixth game, Radko Gudas returns from suspension. But it will still be months before Auston Matthews plays or practises....
VANCOUVER — The first full day of spring bloomed brilliantly on the West Coast. The atmospheric river that drenched most of B.C. this week had...
VANCOUVER — The Vancouver Canucks aren’t getting any playoff games this spring, but Linus Karlsson has been playing them all season. When the...