Vancouver Canucks

Phil Kessel might be headed to Los Angeles.  The Kings are interested in the 21-year-old and are reportedly willing to send Jack Johnson to Boston as part of a trade.  Still, the Toronto Maple Leafs appear to be in the lead and have offered two first rounders and a second rounder for Kessel, however at [...]

Last season the Vancouver Canucks lost to a young and talented Chicago Blackhawks team but they came within a goal of beating the Hawks in 7 games.  Vancouver has some great talent and with an addition or two of some young blood they will be right back in the playoffs and knocking on the door [...]

Here are some of the recent on goings of the NHL’s offseason.  The Philadelphia Flyers signed defenseman Ole-Kristian Tollefsen to a one-year contract on Thursday.  Tollefsen appeared in only 19 games in 2008-09 with the Columbus Blue Jackets and recorded one assist and 37 penalty minutes.
Rumor has it that the top offer Alex Tanguay has received [...]

Even though we’re in the off season, NHL teams have been very active in making roster changes hoping to find the right combination to lead them to the promised land, the Stanley Cup Finals.   The Montreal Canadiens have announced the signing  of goaltender Curtis Sanford to a one-year, two-way contract for the 2009-10 season.  Over the [...]

The Toronto Maple Leafs had themselves a busy day yesterday.  They signed defesman Francois Beauchemin after having agreed a three-year deal with the Leafs worth an average of $3.8 million per season.  He’ll be a welcome addition to the Toronto blueline.  In 246 career games split between the Montreal Canadiens, the Columbus Blue Jackets and [...]

Yesterday was one of the most exciting days in the NHL, even though the excitement came in the off-season and off the ice.  Free agency began at 12:01 am and teams wasted little time in scooping up the talent.  By the time the day was over only a handful of top tier players remained.  Names [...]

I decided to start my breakdown of all the NHL’s teams this coming Friday instead of today because July 1st the free agent sweepstakes begin so i figured it would be easier to determine teams’ holes once their players filed for free agency.  In some news Pittsburgh Penguins forward Bill Guerin who was basically a [...]

It seems with the draft looming this weekend teams are making all kinds of moves in order to better their teams.  The hot rumors of the day are as follows;  Boston Bruins forward and main playmaker Marc Savard is being shopped around by the Bruins.  He has one year left on his contract for $5 [...]

Vancouver Canucks forward Matt Sundin has decided  not play for the defending champion Sweden at the Vancouver Olympics in February 2010.  The 38-year-old Sundin was one of Sweden’s key players in the 2006 Turin Olympics.  He helped Sweden beat Finland in the final for its second gold since 1994.  Sundin is still pondering his future [...]

In the rumor department there are rumblings coming out of Vancouver.  First up, a Senators forward Dany Heatley has included the Canucks on his wish list of teams to be traded to.  But it is becoming increasingly difficult to find a team wanting to absorb Heatley’s contract which has five years left at 7 million [...]