The Saturday night second half of CBC’s HNIC (hockey night in Canada) opened with a bang as the Vancouver Canucks stirred their home crowd from anticipating to boisterous.

After a demoralizing loss to the San Jose Sharks, where the Edmonton Oilers grabbed an early lead, only to lose 5-4 in a shootout, the rested Canucks were [...]

During a night with numerous subplots, it was Roberto Luongo stealing the limelight with  a 31 save performance, including a highlight reel breakaway stop.
For the first time in three attempts, the Vancouver Canucks made a team that played the night previous pay for having tired legs.  They were unsuccessful with Detroit and Chicago in this [...]

Chicag-O-ed (shih-caw-gohd): To be defeated by an organization or team from Chicago, not having scored any goals; devoid of offensive output.
Last spring, the Vancouver Canucks found themselves knee-deep in trouble with big names from Chicago in their second round series with the Blackhawks.  Jonathan Toews, Patrick Kane, Nikolai Khabibulin, Brent Seabrook, Duncan Keith, the list [...]

After falling behind a pair of powerplay goals, the Vancouver Canucks shook the week old rust off, roaring back in the third period versus the Avalanche.
To be frank, there wasn’t much to like about the Canucks’ 1st period, turning over the puck regularly in the neutral zone, and being outraced to multiple loose pucks.   The [...]

With the Vancouver Canucks currently awaiting their home and home rematch with the Colorado Avalanche on Friday, perhaps we’ll catch a breath and review the top 10 players by grade.

10)   Michael Grabner, C+
The Villach, Austria native had a head of steam behind him before he went down with an unfortunate broken ankle suffered in [...]

On a night in Denver, Colorado when a possible white out loomed over the city, the Vancouver Canucks descended early, blanketing the Avalanche 8-2.
Henrik ‘Hank’ Sedin lead the way for the Canucks, netting his first ever hat trick.  A parade of other players got in on the scoring, including Matthieu Schneider, Tanner Glass, Jannik Hansen, [...]

As a recent comment post by ‘CB’ pointed out, the Vancouver Canucks have a difficult time defeating the Detroit Red Wings, especially at the Joe Louis arena.  Thursday night was no exception.
Though Vancouver doesn’t play as often in Detroit as other Western conference teams, they are still without a regulation win there in three years.   [...]

After defeating the St. Louis Blues four games to nothing in front of their own crowd in Missouri during the 2009 Playoffs, the Vancouver Canucks were served a dish of humility Tuesday.
Andrew Raycroft got the start in goal and was 4-1 and had a 1.60 GAA (goals against average) coming into the contest.  “Obviously it [...]