Prior to the Vancouver Canucks Veteran camp in Penticton, the NHL’s youngest and most notable up-and-comers will be on display September 12-16, 2010.
The Young Stars tournament will be an 8 game round robin tournament, featuring some blue chip talent from the Vancouver Canucks, Calgary Flames, San Jose Sharks, Anaheim Ducks and Edmonton Oilers.  Dan Ashton, Mayor of Penticton, spoke to the upcoming event.  ”When we built our events centre, part of our vision was to have the Canucks come and utilize it as a training facility… now to have  five NHL teams come to Penticton for five days… this is [...]

During an interview with Ben Kuzma and Jason Botchford (from The Province) on Team 1040 radio, Barry MacDonald spoke about Mike Gillis’ cap room situation, and the Vancouver Canucks need to move Kevin Bieksa, soon.
With the somewhat surprising additions of Dan Hamhuis and Keith Ballard to the Vancouver defensive core, Kevin Bieksa looks to have played his last game as a Canuck.  After losing in the second round to the cup-winning Blackhawks, the situation wasn’t as transparent.  Everyone knew changes were on the way, and probably to the defensive structure, but initially Bieksa was only one of a few names [...]

In the same offseason that Commissioner Gary Bettman receives a pay hike to $7.23 M per, Willie Mitchell will receive less money because of Bettman’s indifference.
It’s not easy being a Vancouver Canuck defenseman these days.  In the 2009/10 season, the Canucks lost the most man games for blueliners.  The competition arising from those stifling injuries is intense, with Keith Ballard and  Dan Hamhuis being brought into the ranks.  Willie Mitchell was hit from behind January 15th by Evgeni Malkin, and missed the remaining 48 regular season games, as well as two rounds of the playoffs, due to being concussed.   [...]

Every year, the NHL witnesses an influx of talent, some of which will never play in the big leagues, destined to toil on the farm club.  Others still will occasionally get called up to fill the odd gap or hole in the main lineup, but never truly make their mark as an NHL’er.  Finally, though, there are those young men who aspire to greatness, catch the probing eyes of scouts and team management, and play regularly at the highest level on earth.  This season, the Vancouver Canucks have a selection at 25th overall, with the hopes that the young man [...]

During a recent interview, Canucks General Manager Mike Gillis announced that he is happy with the state of his defense corps, which he had better be: The Free Agent market has already lost one big player.
During a recent interview with TSN, Gillis spoke to the Canucks 25th overall draft pick, and the potential for the team to move the pick, to address their lack of a 2nd and 3rd round pick.  The picks were spent previously in acquiring Steve Bernier and Andrew Alberts.
But the most interesting part of the interview was regarding the Canucks situation on defense, which I alluded [...]

With Willie Mitchell’s uncertain status within the Canucks organization, it’s imperative the Vancouver Canucks make a play to obtain Dan Hamhuis during Unrestricted Free Agency.
It was an extremely cold January day, back in Quesnel, BC in 2000.  A friend of mine from work asked if I wanted to make the trip to Prince George that night to watch the Cougars play the Kamloops Blazers.  There was certainly some trepidation on my part; it’s a 250 km round trip to the Prince George Multiplex (since renamed CN Centre), and it was to drop to -30 C overnight.   But Kelly had [...]

Is it just me… or did the sweeping of the San Jose Sharks and the quick 2-0 series lead by the Chicago Blackhawks help ease the pain of the Canucks 2nd round playoff exit?
Now before I get any Phlyer fans jumping on my back about the Finals not being decided yet, I just want to reiterate that Chicago’s momentum through the last six games is quite noteworthy.  Though none of the Hawks would admit it, I’m sure they breathed a sigh of relief that they were able to topple the Canucks and their gold-medal winning goaltender.  As difficult as it [...]

In a poll conducted Tuesday by Team 1040 Radio, 40 per cent of Vancouver Canucks fans polled said they would give up sex for a year if the team won the Stanley Cup.
The poll was a crossover from a recent English poll that suggested that 12 per cent of soccer fans would give up sex for a year if the Three Lions won the World Cup.  Neither of the polls indicated the percentages as broken down by gender, but I assume it’s safe to say that the majority would be male.  Regardless, the number is quite impressive when you think [...]