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Why Richard Seeley is excellent choice to oversee Canucks' AHL squad

Why Richard Seeley is excellent choice to oversee Canucks' AHL squad

VANCOUVER — To reach Powell River from Vancouver by car requires ferries across Howe Sound and Jervis Inlet and, if the traveller is lucky, about...

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Snapping David's slump critical for Canada with Davies still out

Snapping David's slump critical for Canada with Davies still out

VANCOUVER — Canada opened this World Cup without its two best players. Alphonso Davies was injured. But Jonathan David went missing during...

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Ali Ahmed symbolic of Canada's search for next breakthrough

Ali Ahmed symbolic of Canada's search for next breakthrough

VANCOUVER — Much has changed for Ali Ahmed since he last practised on the billiard-table smooth grass of the Vancouver Whitecaps’ training...

15.06.2026 6

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MacIntyre: Gallagher to Canucks makes sense but isn't a guarantee

MacIntyre: Gallagher to Canucks makes sense but isn't a guarantee

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...

09.06.2026 8

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Malhotra’s full-circle return to Canucks transcends friendship: 'It's their vision'

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...

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Malhotra has earned Canucks' trust by coaching through highs and lows

VANCOUVER — It wasn’t the championship season in the minors that convinced Vancouver Canucks general manager Ryan Johnson he had the right coach...

02.06.2026 10

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'We believe in the plan': Henrik Sedin says Canucks locked in on rebuild

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...

27.05.2026 10

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Canucks' coaching search begins, with Malhotra as clear early favourite

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:...

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Five off-season priorities for new Canucks management group

VANCOUVER — It took 28 days from the time Jim Rutherford fired Patrik Allvin just before the Vancouver Canucks’ final game for both executives to...

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Canucks do the right thing by hiring Johnson, Sedins

VANCOUVER – After exhausting all other options, the Vancouver Canucks finally did the right thing in hiring Ryan Johnson as their general manager...

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Kulak plays unlikely hero as Avalanche advance to Western Conference Final

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...

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Avalanche look to close out series with focus, pressure in Game 5

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...

13.05.2026 20

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With 'more room to shine,' Avalanche's Necas showing off playoff evolution

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...

12.05.2026 20

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'Relentless' Avalanche lean on depth in momentum-shifting Game 4 win

ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Colorado Avalanche flexed. But what was most impressive about their display of muscle on Monday against the Minnesota Wild is...

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Avalanche eyeing adjustments for Game 4 in bid to keep series edge

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Four games, four starting goalies. Colorado Avalanche coach Jared Bednar and Minnesota Wild boss John Hynes warned us when this...

11.05.2026 20

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Pressure falls on Avalanche as they aim to purge playoff ghosts

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...

10.05.2026 20

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Wild prove they can compete with Avalanche in dominant Game 3 win

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...

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Wild turn back to Wallstedt hoping to slow surging Avalanche

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...

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'He goes 110 per cent': Wild's Hughes taking game to another level in playoffs

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...

08.05.2026 10

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Long journey to starter's crease paying off for Avalanche's Scott Wedgewood

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...

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Canucks president Jim Rutherford explains why he's stepping down now

Press briefings for a lot of Vancouver Canucks senior managers over the years have been must-see theatre. Imposing and authoritative, Pat Quinn once...

06.05.2026 20

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Avalanche imposing will on Wild to take 2-0 series lead

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...

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Despite Canucks' appalling luck, highest pick since Sedins still promising

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...

05.05.2026 10

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Goalie carousel turning in Wild-Avalanche series after Game 1 scoring fest

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...

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Wild confident reality check will spark response: 'React the right way'

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...

04.05.2026 20

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'Probably a one-off': Avalanche take Game 1 after high-scoring duel with Wild

DENVER — It was a heavyweight clash without heavyweight hockey. The Colorado Avalanche and Minnesota Wild, Stanley Cup contenders who are rarely...

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Notebook: Avalanche prepare for heavyweight Round 2 series vs. Wild

DENVER – For the Colorado Avalanche, tonight is when the hard part begins. Sure, the National Hockey League’s best team dusted the Los Angeles...

03.05.2026 30

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What are realistic expectations for Pettersson after major scoring slide?

VANCOUVER – Shortly before this season began, Elias Pettersson finished another one of those interviews in which he says almost nothing. He was...

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'A delightful human': John Garrett was one of a kind

VANCOUVER — In his working life with John Garrett, play-by-play announcer John Shorthouse remembers exactly two times that his broadcast partner...

28.04.2026 30

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For better or worse, Ryan Johnson's standing with Canucks likely changing

VANCOUVER — Ryan Johnson’s unmistakable aura is decency. Nobody who speaks to him for 15 minutes about anything leaves the conversation without a...

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Rehabbing Demko motivated to help Canucks turn corner

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...

20.04.2026 20

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Rutherford says Canucks ‘should be OK’ as GM job opens, duties shift

VANCOUVER – Authority, like water, flows downward. In the history of the National Hockey League, a general manager has never fired a president. ...

17.04.2026 20

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Canucks' demise punctuated by one last humiliation against Oilers

EDMONTON — Two years ago, the Vancouver Canucks won 50 games. Thursday, they finished the 2025-26 season with 25 wins — and 49 regulation losses....

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Canucks continue strong final week by completing sweep of California teams

VANCOUVER – At the end of their nightmare, the Vancouver Canucks had a California dream. Jake DeBrusk guided in an overtime setup from Elias...

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Takeaways: Canucks play spoiler in California back-to-back

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...

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Takeaways: Canucks find some of joy in rally-filled shootout win

After enduring months of misery, the Vancouver Canucks finally found some joy Saturday by inflicting a little pain on others as they rallied three...

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Canucks Takeaways: Stronger effort still results in loss to Kings

Out of the National Hockey League playoff race for months, the Vancouver Canucks continue to be formidable “spoilers.” On Thursday, they spoiled...

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Overmatched Canucks stifled by Golden Knights: 'They play a heavy game'

VANCOUVER — If John Tortorella’s team was always this good in Vancouver, he’d still be coaching the Canucks. The Vegas Golden Knights improved...

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'Perfect storm': Canucks' Jake DeBrusk unhappy with five-on-five production

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...

06.04.2026 20

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Defence, goaltending not up to par as Canucks keep bleeding goals

VANCOUVER — In their win-of-the-season Wednesday against the Colorado Avalanche, the Vancouver Canucks proved they could succeed while allowing six...

05.04.2026 30

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Takeaways: Wild's Quinn Hughes subdued in first game against Canucks

In the first game he ever played against the Vancouver Canucks, Quinn Hughes was understated. Nearly four months since his trade to the Minnesota...

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Canucks rise up to stun league-leading Avalanche

In a disastrous season no one anticipated, the Vancouver Canucks stunned everyone again on Wednesday by beating the Colorado Avalanche 8-6 in Denver...

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Canucks Takeaways: Edge, urgency not enough to stop Tortorella's Golden Knights

The Vegas Golden Knights’ coaching change fired up the Vancouver Canucks. With one-time Vancouver coach John Tortorella standing behind the...

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Canucks takeaways: Hoglander busts slump in loss to Flames

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...

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Canucks failing at baseline goal to be competitive

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,...

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Canucks' Hoglander motivated to finish challenging season strong

VANCOUVER – Nils Hoglander’s season peaked in training camp. We know, you could pretty much say that about the Vancouver Canucks team. But for...

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What can last-place Canucks learn from Ducks' rebuild?

VANCOUVER — Wistful excitement in imagining the Vancouver Canucks as the next Anaheim Ducks is tempered by the time — seven years — it has taken...

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Ducks' Gudas returns from suspension: 'I feel terrible'

VANCOUVER — And for the sixth game, Radko Gudas returns from suspension. But it will still be months before Auston Matthews plays or practises....

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Canucks put forth another woeful effort on home ice

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...

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Linus Karlsson maintaining Game 7 intensity amid Canucks' lost season

VANCOUVER — The Vancouver Canucks aren’t getting any playoff games this spring, but Linus Karlsson has been playing them all season. When the...

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