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Antoine Roussel Fined For Biting Sharks' Marc-Edouard Vlasic<em></em><em></em>
NHL Player Safety announced on Saturday that Vancouver Canucks forward Antoine Roussel would be fined $5,000 for biting San Jose Sharks defenseman Marc-Edouard Vlasic during a scuffle in Friday’s game. The fight came in the dying embers of a 4-0 Sharks blowout. Roussel, who bit Vlasic’s hand when it...

Nothing Can Stop Elias Pettersson Right Now
The hottest teen in the NHL is currently playing for the Vancouver Canucks, and his name is Elias Pettersson. The 19-year-old undersized center out of Sweden is absolutely crushing it at the start of his rookie year in the NHL, and tonight against the Red Wings, he opened the scoring with a murderou...

Elias Pettersson And Brock Boeser Do Their Best Sedin Twins Impression With This Beautiful Goal<em></em>
The Vancouver Canucks took on the Colorado Avalanche on Friday in a thrilling 7-6 overtime victory. Among the 13 goals scored that night, the one that stood out the most came from Brock Boeser in the second period off of a pass by Swedish rookie standout Elias Pettersson that would make Henrik and D...

Two Games For Chokeslamming Says Nothing About Mike Matheson's Intent, But A Lot About The NHL's
Panthers defenseman Mike Matheson has been handed a two-game suspension by the NHL for this slam on Vancouver’s Elias Pettersson, who is now out indefinitely with a concussion. It was an unnecessary hit, and yes, a dirty one, but there’s no way DoPS would have punished this if it hadn’t injured a yo...

Let's All Get Irrationally Hyped For Elias Pettersson And The Canucks
The Canucks roasted the Flames on opening night, scoring the first three goals in a fairly easy 5-2 victory. Neither of these mostly irrelevant Canadian teams—the Canucks in particular, with their startling lack of experienced depth players—should do much to challenge the top squads in the West. But...

Canucks Ban Video Games On Road Trips, Because <i>Fortnite</i> Is Well On Its Way To Ruining The NHL
The Vancouver Canucks are a young team, so like seemingly all young men, their players are obsessed with Fortnite. They love it. Can’t get enough of it. Flossing and shit when they score goals. (So: rarely.) Locking themselves in their hotel rooms and gaming until the sun comes up, instead of the ti...

Daniel Sedin Scores Overtime Winner Assisted By Henrik In Their Last Vancouver Game
If the Sedins’ careers had to end with a meaningless game in April, it’s absolutely perfect that they ended like this. Daniel and Henrik Sedin led the Canucks to victory in their final game on Vancouver ice before retirement, with Daniel scoring both a second-period goal and the overtime winner off ...

Sedin Twins Announce Their Retirement Together
After an 18-year NHL career spent entirely together (not to mention several seasons with MODO in Sweden), Henrik and Daniel Sedin have jointly announced their plans to retire at the end of the season in a letter published on the Canucks website. With the Canucks out of the playoff picture, that mean...

Happy Ben Hutton Transforms Into The Hulk For Twelve Seconds
Noted dancer and permanent smiler Ben Hutton is known for being one of the chillest dudes in the NHL, but tonight, the Canucks defenseman got very, very angry....

Canucks' Brock Boeser Had To Crawl Off The Ice After Taking A Puck To The Foot
Canucks winger and 20-year-old rookie point leader Brock Boeser took a hard shot to his left foot in the second period of Vancouver’s game Sunday against the Flames. Even though Boeser clearly could not put any weight on his foot, play was not stopped, so he had to use his other leg to essentially r...

Brock Boeser Plays NCAA Game Friday Night, Signs NHL Contract Saturday Morning, Scores Goal Saturday Afternoon
Brock Boeser is only just barely no longer a hockey teen. (He turned 20 last month.) Yesterday, he was playing for the University of North Dakota. This morning, the first-round draft pick signed a contract with the Canucks, and this afternoon, he scored his first goal:...

Five Vancouver Canucks Players Have Been Quarantined With Mumps Symptoms
Five Vancouver Canucks are out of tonight’s lineup with suspected cases of mumps....

That Was A Vintage Pest Performance By Alex Burrows
The hockey boys were rowdy last night! A few hours after Gustav Nyquist tried to embed his stick in Jared Spurgeon’s facehole, Sabres netminder Robin Lehner and Canucks agitator Alexandre Burrows spent the evening going at each other—with Burrows the clear winner....

The Canucks Completely Shit Their Pants
As the last seconds of overtime trickled away in Tuesday’s game against the Predators, the Canucks had the puck in their offensive zone with a power play. They lost!...

Devils And Canucks Brawl Right On Top Of Lifeless Philip Larsen
In the second period of tonight’s Canucks-Devils game, Canucks defenseman Philip Larsen was brutally laid out by a Taylor Hall hit he never saw coming. The Canucks and Devils briefly scuffled before everyone realized that Larsen was immobile at the feet of the scrum. His helmet came off before the f...

Ryan Miller Makes A Spectacular Diving Save
Here’s Canucks goalie Ryan Miller doing his best Brandon Crawford impersonation, aborting an attempt to get off the ice for an extra skater to come back and rob Henrik Zetterberg’s try at an empty-net goal....

The Canucks And Maple Leafs Fought A Lot Last Night
The Vancouver Canucks and Toronto Maple Leafs spent most of the third period hitting, grabbing, shoving, and fighting each other Saturday. The anger eventually boiled over into a line brawl....

Vancouver Canucks Score On Themselves
The image above might be a tenuous representation of hockey, but that’s because it’s Vancouver Canucks hockey, baby....


Canucks Goalie Loses His Glove, Makes A Barehanded Save
Vancouver Canucks goalie Jacob Markström lost his blocker glove during Monday night’s game against Winnipeg, and still prevented Jets winger Marko Daňo from scoring a goal....