Carter Sotheran (Photo: Keith Dwiggins/Portland Winterhawks) Growing up in a small town in Manitoba, Portland Winterhawks defenseman Carter Sotheran credits his parents for getting him into hockey at a young age. While he says he’s loved the sport since he…
It has been an exciting two years for Tyler Thorpe. The Richmond, B.C.-born forward has gone from playing in the Pacific Junior Hockey League all the way to the WHL and now finds himself on the NHL’s Central Scouting List…
For the eighth time in the last ten years, the Vancouver Canucks are not in the Stanley Cup Playoffs. Bruce Boudreau said last September that missing the playoffs would be a disaster for the Canucks. Disaster is one of the words you…
The Vancouver Canucks struck gold on day one of the 2018 NHL Entry Draft. They selected Quinn Hughes with the seventh overall pick that day and Canucks fans couldn’t be happier. The smooth-skating defenceman from the University of Michigan Wolverines…
JT Miller is always a hot topic among Vancouver Canucks fans. Whether that is on-ice play or trade rumours, Miller always provides debates among Canucks fans on social media. After a career-high 99-point season in 2022, it looked like the…
One step forward, two steps back has summed up the Vancouver Canucks for almost a decade. Another example of that happened on Wednesday afternoon. Around 1:47 Pacific time, the Canucks announced they had acquired defenceman Filip Hronek and a 2023 fourth-round pick in…
Connor McClennon is electric on the ICE. Yes, that was a very bad pun. What is not funny is that Connor McClennon is a free agent. I can not understand why he is not signed by a team. He was…
After weeks and months of speculation, the Vancouver Canucks have traded defenceman Luke Schenn. He is going back to the team where it all began for him, the Toronto Maple Leafs. What is coming back? A third-round pick in this…
So this will be a new article series on the Vancouver Canucks here at the Area 51 Sports Network. Canucks Journal will be similar to Avid Thoughts and Nathan Durec’s Vancouver Whitecaps Terminal City Thoughts. Obviously, we will only focus…
After suffering a lower-body injury at the 2023 World Junior Championships, Vancouver Giants forward Samuel Honzek made his return to the Giants after missing 20 games. In his first two games back, he recorded two goals and eight shots, showing…