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The Skate: A holding pattern More news and notes on the Vancouver Canucks after the 3-1 loss to the Calgary Flames on Thursday. Author of the article: Patrick Johnston Publishing date: Feb 12, 2021  •  February 12, 2021  •  10 minute read  •  VANCOUVER, BC - February 11, 2021 - Vancouver Canucks Jay Beagle and Calgary Flames Matthew Tkachuk mix it up during NHL action at Rogers Arena in Vancouver, BC, February 11, 2021. Photo by Arlen Redekop / Vancouver Sun / The Province N...

6 Canucks Thoughts: The Vancouver Oilers & Travis Green’s Protest Share this story Photo by Curtis Comeau/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Do you remember when the Canucks played their best game of the season against the Winnipeg Jets? Good times. While that game was a tad less than two weeks ago, it feels like two months ago. Since then, the Canucks have lost six straight games, and their playoff hopes are close to being dashed at barely the quarter-pole. Vancouver is five points out of play...

Maple Leafs get one more kick at the Vancouver Canucks Share this story Toronto Maple Leafs vs Vancouver Canucks 7 p.m. on Sportsnet Ontario, TVAS, and Sportsnet Pacific The last of three games against the Canucks is tonight, and the Leafs have a chance to make it three wins in a row. After this, Toronto visits Vancouver in March and again in April for two-game series, and then play the final game near the end of the season at home. That end-of-season game seems a long way off, but with this s...

Perry Nelson/Eric Bolte-USA TODAY Sports Sam Bennett wants out of Calgary, and the Canucks might just have the right piece to get a deal done. It didn’t take too much imagination to put together a potential trade proposal from Canucks fans and media after Elliotte Friedman reported Bennett’s desire to leave the Flames on Hockey Night in Canada over the weekend. “There was a rumour going around this morning that Bennett might want a change of scenery, and I did call his agent Darren Farris...

Will the real Vancouver Canucks please stand up? Technically, the Canucks are rolling, winning three straight games by a combined score of 16-3.

That’s probably being too kind. Fans were  pissed, and the local media was holding Jim Benning’s feet to the fire. And the reaction was perfectly reasonable. It’s been nearly three years since the Canucks acquired Motte, along with Jussi Jokinen, from the Columbus Blue Jackets in exchange for Thomas Vanek. The hope at the time was that Vancouver, still in the darkness of a fumbled rebuild, would cash in on Vanek — a player they signed for cheap in free agency, but who scored 17 goals ...

Jake Virtanen appears headed for his first healthy scratch of the season tonight. Kevin Woodley of InGoal Magazine and NHL.com spotted the Canucks winger on the ice at Rogers Arena this morning, which wasn’t a scheduled on-ice session for the rest of the skaters that played last night. Perhaps more noteworthy: Virtanen + Gaudette were among 10 players/taxi squad that also skated, but Gaudette was off early + Virtanen stays for a hard group skate late so could be healthy scratch. Jayce Hawrylu...

Instead of hats raining down onto the ice after Brandon Sutter’s hat trick goal on Monday night, just one hat — belonging to backup goalie Braden Holtby — hit the ice at Rogers Arena. It was a cool moment in these bizarre times, but certainly it’s just not the same without fans at games. Even among the players, they’re limited in the amount of socializing they can do with each other. So what do you do? Buy your teammate a delicious ice cream treat,  obviously. “Man, we miss the fan...

Why the Baseball Hall of Fame did not add anyone this year CBC Sports daily newsletter explains why voters decided against electing anyone into this years Baseball Hall of Fame class. Social Sharing

During the Canucks’ alarming start, while attention has been focused on Elias Pettersson, J.T. Miller and overall chaos on defence, Brandon Sutter and a couple others near the bottom of the lineup have quietly been among the team’s best. Monday, Sutter wasn’t so quiet.