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It wasn’t hard to figure out the Vancouver Canucks’ draft strategy at the 2026 NHL Entry Draft. It became pretty clear when the Canucks selected 6’7” centre Brooks Rogowski with the first pick in the second round, then followed that up with a pair of 6’4” wingers and a 6’5” defenceman — size was…
The 2026 draft has finished, and in just three days, the 2026 Free Agent Frenzy will begin Unlike Friday, all eight teams in the Pacific Division made a selection on Saturday, which featured rounds two through seven. The Calgary Flames made seven selected, tied for the most with the Vancouver Canucks, Seattle Kraken, and Anaheim…
BUFFALO, NY — The Vancouver Canucks had the entire board at their disposal on day two of the 2026 NHL Draft. Would they swing on the upside and take the local Vancouver Giant? Would they add another defenceman with several intriguing names still sitting there? Instead, they went in an entirely different direction. Brooks…
The Edmonton Oilers missed Corey Perry last season. On top of being a capable goal scorer, even as he turns 40 years old, Perry did a terrific job getting under the skin of opponents. When accounting for Evander Kane, who was traded to the Vancouver Canucks last off-season, the Oilers didn’t really have a player…
The NHL Draft may be over, but the Vancouver Canucks‘ offseason is really just entering its next phase. This is the time of year when organizations begin revealing who they…
The Vancouver Canucks ended almost two months of intense speculation when they made Caleb Malhotra the third overall selection in the 2026 NHL Entry Draft. Malhotra almost automatically becomes the Canucks’ top overall prospect, and also the most important player in the entire system – for now, anyway, and pending future draft picks, perhaps….
The Toronto Maple Leafs will be an interesting team to watch once free agency starts. It is clear that the Maple Leafs are hoping to be more competitive during the 2026-27 season. With that, there is a good chance that they will be looking to add more talent to their roster and could be very […] The post Maple Leafs Urged to Sign Canucks UFA Center appeared first on HEAVY .
Without question, there was a theme to this year’s National Hockey League draft for the Vancouver Canucks. They wanted their players to measure up. And the club’s director of amateur scouting, Todd Harvey, feels the hockey club found a solid mix of skill to go along with size in many of its selections. Overall,…
The 2026 NHL Entry Draft has officially come to an end, and the Vancouver Canucks made nine picks at this year’s draft. We’ll have plenty of in-depth analysis in the days and weeks to come — and wall-to-wall coverage of development camp in just a couple of days — but first, we thought it would…
The Vancouver Canucks have made what we anticipate will be their final two picks of the 2026 NHL Entry Draft. After taking Connor Davis in round five and flipping the 161st overall pick in a trade with the Toronto Maple Leafs, the Canucks selected Lucian Bernat 176th overall and defenceman Samuel Eriksson at 184th…
The Vancouver Canucks have made their next pick at the 2026 NHL Entry Draft. At 129th overall in the fifth round, the Canucks selected overage prospect Connor Davis. Davis put up 26 goals and 29 assists through 59 games with the USHL’s Cedar Rapids Rough Riders. He is committed to the NCAA’s University of North…
The Vancouver Canucks added a major piece to their rebuild by selecting center Caleb Malhotra with the No. 3 overall pick in the 2026 NHL Entry Draft. The selection marks the franchise’s highest NHL draft choice since Henrik Sedin went…
With the 97th overall pick, the Vancouver Canucks have selected Yaroslav Bryzgalov at the 2026 NHL Entry Draft. Bryzgalov is a 6’4″, 216-lb left winger out of the Medicine Hat Tigers of the Western Hockey League. He was passed over in last year’s draft after scoring just 10 goals and 17 points in 51…
The Calgary Flames have gone with familiar bloodlines in the third round of the 2026 NHL Draft. At 65th overall, using a selection they acquired from the Vancouver Canucks in the Nikita Zadorov trade in 2023, the Flames have selected forward Joe Iginla. Yes, that Joe Iginla, the youngest son of Hockey Hall of Famer, special…
The Vancouver Canucks won’t be qualifying Danila Klimovich’s contract, allowing the pending restricted free to hit free agency on July 1st. The news broke via Rick Dhaliwal of Donnie and Dhali — The Team on a busy Saturday morning ahead of day two of the NHL Draft. “Agent Dan Milstein tells me that client Danila…
The Vancouver Canucks began day two of the 2026 NHL Draft by selecting massive 6’7 right-shot centre Brooks Rogowski with the 33rd overall pick. They were back on the clock just eight picks later, and with pick 41, the Canucks selected Niklas Aaram-Olsen. Here is what we wrote about Niklas Aaram-Olsen in a recent…
With the 41st pick in the 2026 NHL Entry Draft, the Vancouver Canucks have selected Niklas Aaram-Olsen from Örebro HK of the SHL. About Niklas Aaram-Olsen Looking to potentially be…
Aararm-Olsen is an efficient scorer both in the Swedish junior ranks and international game.
Day One of the 2026 NHL Draft has come and gone, and the Vancouver Canucks made away like bandits with their two picks. Already shoring up their centre pipeline with Caleb Malhotra at Third Overall, the club struck tremendous value with Adam Novotny with pick 24. Incredibly, the Canucks hold eight more picks to…
The Vancouver Canucks added two significant pieces to their prospect pool Friday, selecting centre Caleb Malhotra third overall before taking winger Adam Novotny at No. 24. Their work at the 2026 NHL Draft, however, is far from finished. Vancouver holds the opening selection of Saturday’s second round at No. 33, followed by another pick at…
Optimism abounds every year at the end of the first day of the National Hockey League draft. Every team feels like it got the player or players it wanted, and on Friday night, the Vancouver Canucks were no exception. First year general manager Ryan Johnson couldn’t contain his excitement after selecting Caleb Malhotra with the…
BUFFALO, NY — The NHL Draft floor is a wild place to be. Everyone is talking. Everyone is hearing something. Every conversation seems to point in a different direction, and by the time a pick is announced, half the rumoured moves don’t come to fruition. That was certainly the case for the Vancouver Canucks. Earlier…
There were a good number of trades in the lead-up to the pick, but the Vancouver Canucks have made their second first-round pick of the 2026 NHL Entry Draft. With the 24th overall selection, the Canucks selected sharpshooting winger Adam Novotny. Novotny tallied 34 goals and 31 assists through 58 games with the OHL’s Peterborough…
Not only will Caleb Malhotra be playing for his dad’s former team, he’ll be doing it with Manny behind the bench.
It’s official: Caleb Malhotra is a Vancouver Canuck. On Friday, the Canucks used their third overall pick at the 2026 NHL Entry Draft to select the Brantford Bulldogs centreman. Malhotra is also the son of new Canucks head coach Manny Malhotra. It’s no doubt a thrilling night for Malhotra, his father, and all of…