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Dan Boyle scores in OT, San Jose Sharks stun Vancouver Canucks
VANCOUVER — Dan Boyle scored on the power play at 2:38 of overtime as the San Jose Sharks beat the Vancouver Canucks 2-1 on Thursday. With Henrik Sedin off in the penalty box, Boyle’s shot from the...
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Kari Lehtonen makes 42 saves as Dallas Stars downs Vancouver Canucks
VANCOUVER — Kari Lehtonen was brilliant in making 42 saves Sunday as the Dallas Stars defeated the Vancouver Canucks 2-1. Valeri Nichushkin and Erik Cole scored for Dallas (11-7-2), which was coming...
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WATCH: HNIC’s Don Cherry tells Rogers: ‘Don’t try to ruin it, just leave it...
The news this week that Rogers Communications is buying all of the NHL hockey on Canadian TV for the next 12 years, Don Cherry’s name came up in all the fallout. And on Saturday night, Cherry told...
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Injury puts Canucks back end on thin ice
The Vancouver Canucks’ back end hasn’t really played this well as a unit since the 2010-11 run to the Cup, so certainly nobody is complaining about goals-against at the moment. As was the case when the...
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Goalie Roberto Luongo leaves with injury during Canucks win over Jets
VANCOUVER — Defenceman Chris Tanev scored the winning goal in the third period as the Vancouver Canucks defeated the Winnipeg Jets 2-1 Sunday night in an NHL game where goaltender Roberto Luongo left...
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Silent nights rare for Canucks with John Tortorella on board
The Vancouver Canucks officially hit the midpoint of their 2013-14 National Hockey League season Monday but, let’s face it, they are pretty much there now. They’ve played 39 games, collected 50 points,...
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Corey Perry’s NHL-high 8th game-winner lifts Anaheim Ducks over Vancouver...
ANAHEIM, Calif. — Corey Perry has made a living by scoring timely goals. Perry scored his NHL-leading eighth winner of the season with 1.3 seconds on the clock in overtime, giving the Anaheim Ducks a...
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Vancouver Canucks shut out by Phoenix Coyotes
GLENDALE, Ariz. — It looked like Henrik Sedin had scored. He thought he scored. And when a video review ruled that a rebound that went off the right glove of the Vancouver Canucks captain wouldn’t...
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Stupid goes to another level
At the end of the Week of Tom Sestito in Vancouver, John Tortorella was faced with a choice. At some point, he had been alerted to Calgary’s choices for a starting lineup: Kevin Westgarth, Brian...
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Vancouver Canucks stuck to hockey’s ancient law, The Code
VANCOUVER — The day began with reporters, like so many forensic investigators, revisiting the scene of the crime at Rogers Arena: checking doorways, calculating camera angles, speculating how fast John...
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Vancouver Canucks fans want to #FreeTorts
After a maniacal display earned John Tortorella a six-game suspension, Vancouver Canucks fans are using social media to support their coach while he is banned from contacting the players. Tortorella’s...
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Kevin Bieksa scores twice as Vancouver Canucks down Phoenix Coyotes 5-4
VANCOUVER — Kevin Bieksa scored his second of the night at 2:15 of overtime Sunday as the Vancouver Canucks defeated the Phoenix Coyotes 5-4. Bieksa chipped his fourth of the season over Phoenix goalie...
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Canada grinds out close win over Norway to finish first in Group A
MINSK, Belarus — From a disallowed goal to a penalty kill in the final minutes, Team Canada didn’t enjoy a lot of easy moments in beating Norway 3-2. But that’s exactly how coach Dave Tippett wanted...
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Questions for each of the seven Canadian NHL franchises: Western edition
As Canadians stomach another American-based NHL team parading around this summer with the Stanley Cup in tow, what can teams north of the border do to address this continuing inequity? Here’s a look at...
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NHL preseason: Horvat hurt in Canucks’ win over Oilers
EDMONTON – Bo, no! Six days before the start of their National Hockey League regular season, the Vancouver Canucks lost a top prospect Thursday when Bo Horvat was injured on his first shift in a 2-1...
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Cam Cole: The NHL’s new panel of hard hitters goes to work on Alex Burrows
VANCOUVER — Timing is everything. If Alex Burrows could have just overcome the urge to lower his shoulder at the inviting target of Montreal Canadiens defenceman Alexei Emelin until the teams’ next...
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Vancouver Canucks Kevin Bieksa takes puck to the face
It wasn’t as bad as what happened to former Vancouver Canuck Manny Malhotra, but it wasn’t good for Kevin Bieksa. On a seemingly innocuous play during a Sunday game in Vancouver against the Nashville...
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Bernier brilliant, Maple Leafs chase Miller on way to blowout of Canucks
By Stephen Whyno TORONTO — Jonathan Bernier was brilliant as the Toronto Maple Leafs chased Ryan Miller and beat the Vancouver Canucks 5-2 Saturday night at Air Canada Centre. Miller, whose strong play...
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Vancouver Canucks happy – not satisfied – with early-season success
By Joshua Clipperton VANCOUVER — The Vancouver Canucks are happy with where they sit just over a third of the way through the NHL schedule. That doesn’t mean they’re satisfied. Coming off a season-long...
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Ryan Miller’s 2nd straight shutout, big 2nd period help Canucks beat Hurricanes
By Joedy McCreary RALEIGH, N.C. — Ryan Miller stopped 27 shots in his second straight shutout and the Vancouver Canucks beat the Carolina Hurricanes 3-0 on Friday night. Derek Dorsett, Shawn Matthias...
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Vancouver Canucks continue to lose games
For fans of the Vancouver Canucks, the bottom of the barrel may have been reached last night. This time, it was a 2-0 loss to the lowly Minnesota Wild. It was their seventh loss in 10 games and showed...
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Canadian owners the quiet villains of lockout
It’s quite all right to be angry with the National Hockey League, and it’s OK, too, to feel just a little less warm-and-fuzzy toward your on-ice heroes, since neither party covered itself with glory in...
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Canucks respect Sharks’ bite in the post-season
VANCOUVER — Asked about possible playoff opponents late last week, Vancouver Canucks coach Alain Vigneault shrugged and said simply: “Pick your poison.” Well, sharks aren’t exactly venomous but the...
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Window of opportunity closing on Canucks
VANCOUVER — It is window season again in Vancouver. If the Canucks’ marketing department were on its toes, it would have a major sponsorship deal with Jeld-Wen, or Pella. Surely Bill Gates would do...
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San Jose Sharks down Vancouver Canucks 3-1
VANCOUVER — Dan Boyle‘s third-period goal lifted the San Jose Sharks to a 3-1 victory over the Vancouver Canucks in the first game of their Western Conference quarter-final series Wednesday night....
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Vancouver Canucks epoch-making era’s over
Mike Gillis wasn’t around to be interviewed Monday, probably because he sensed the media’s eagerness for a post-mortem on his Vancouver Canucks, and it’s bad form to perform an autopsy on a corpse...
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Bieksa still believes in Canucks’ core group
VANCOUVER — It’s always been about the room. There’s the Mind Room, the Star-Trek like locker-room and the room they turned into a posh players’ lounge complete with chef service. The Vancouver Canucks...
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Tortorella and Vigneault trading places?
VANCOUVER — Freaky Friday was the day Alain Vigneault went to New York and John Tortorella came to Vancouver. But only one of them was officially introduced as a head coach. The notoriously fiery...
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Roberto Luongo, Cory Schneider stayed friends through it all
VANCOUVER — When Goalie Confidential was at its height, and it was serving up gold to the media on a daily basis, it was easy to miss the better story at the core of the soap opera. Who starts next?...
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Malkin and the Penguins edge Canucks to stay unbeaten at home
PITTSBURGH — Evgeni Malkin scored in the third round of the shootout, Marc-Andre Fleury made the deciding stop on Ryan Kesler and the Pittsburgh Penguins remained unbeaten at home after a 4-3 victory...
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Ovechkin’s total package weakens absolute praise
VANCOUVER — The New Age number-crunchers will tell you that plus-minus is a bogus statistic in hockey, so Alex Ovechkin’s -4 rating, as the NHL’s goal scoring co-leader came to Vancouver with the...
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Struggling Sedins find new Canucks linemates
ANAHEIM, Calif. — To the victors go the music. But the losers could hear it Sunday night, faintly audible through the doors of the home team’s gym next to the Vancouver Canucks’ dressing room at the...
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After disappointing loss, Canucks meet before practice to discuss identity
VANCOUVER — Coming off an uninspired loss in the first game after the NHL all-star break, Willie Desjardins had a pointed chat with his Vancouver Canucks on Wednesday morning. “We talked about our team...
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Persistent Flames down Canucks 4-2, lead series 2-1
By Iain MacIntyre Vancouver Sun CALGARY — The most truculent person in the Calgary Flames’ organization is president Brian Burke. Winger Mikael Ferland is a close second. The Flames are not supposed to...
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First line comes out firing as Flames send Canucks to brink with 3-1 Game 4 win
CALGARY — Sure, the Vancouver Canucks were in the market for a quick fix. But the Calgary Flames? Not so much. “The way we’ve been playing, there’s a reason we have the series lead,” Brandon Bollig...
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Canadian NHL teams busy on free-agency day as Leafs trade Kessel to Penguins
TORONTO — Canadian teams were busy at the start of free agency and not just with signings. The Toronto Maple Leafs made the biggest splash by sending Phil Kessel to the Pittsburgh Penguins in a...
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