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Vancouver Canucks. Vancouver Canucks season. Conference. Western. Division. Pacific. Founded. 19. 45 (PCHL)1. NHL expansion team)History. Vancouver Canucks. PCHL)Vancouver Canucks. WHL)Vancouver Canucks. NHL)Home arena. Rogers Arena. City. Vancouver, British Columbia. Colours. Blue, green, white[1]Media. Sportsnet Pacific. Sportsnet One. TSN Radio 1. Owner(s)Canucks Sports & Entertainment(Francesco Aquilini, Chairman)General manager. Jim Benning. Head coach. Willie Desjardins. Captain. Henrik Sedin. Minor league affiliates. Utica Comets (AHL)Stanley Cups. Conference championships. Presidents' Trophies. Division championships. Official websitecanucks. The Vancouver Canucks are a professional ice hockey team based in Vancouver, British Columbia. They are members of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL). The Canucks play their home games at Rogers Arena, formerly known as General Motors Place, which has an official capacity of 1. Henrik Sedin is currently the captain of the team, Willie Desjardins is the head coach and Jim Benning is the general manager. The Canucks joined the league in 1. Buffalo Sabres. In its NHL history, the team has advanced to the Stanley Cup Finals three times, losing to the New York Islanders in 1. New York Rangers in 1. Boston Bruins in 2. They have won the Presidents' Trophy in back- to- back seasons as the team with the league's best regular season record in the 2. They won three division titles as a member of the Smythe Division from 1. Northwest Division from 1. The Canucks have retired four players' jerseys in their history — Stan Smyl (1. Trevor Linden (1. Markus Naslund (1. Pavel Bure (1. 0); all but Bure have served as team captain. Smyl has the distinction of being the only Canuck to have his jersey number retired at their former arena, the Pacific Coliseum, as well as the only Canuck to play his entire career with the team upon retiring it. Hockey background in Vancouver[edit]Vancouver became home to a professional ice hockey team for the first time in 1. Patrick brothers Frank and Lester established the Vancouver Millionaires, one of three teams in the new Pacific Coast Hockey Association. To accommodate the Millionaires, the Patrick brothers directed the building of the Denman Arena, which was known at the time as the world's largest artificial ice rink (it burned down in 1. The Millionaires played for the Stanley Cup five times, winning over the Ottawa Senators in 1. It marked the first time the Stanley Cup was won by a West Coast team in the trophy's history.[3]After the Millionaires disbanded following the 1. Vancouver was home to only minor league teams for many years. Most notably, the present- day Canucks' minor league predecessor (also known as the Vancouver Canucks), played from 1. Pacific Coast Hockey League and Western Hockey League. Team history[edit]1. NHL application[edit]With the intention of attracting an NHL franchise, Vancouver began the construction of a new modern arena, the Pacific Coliseum, in 1. The WHL's Canucks were playing in a small indoor arena at the time, the Vancouver Forum, situated on the same Pacific National Exhibition grounds as the Coliseum. Meanwhile, a Vancouver group led by WHL Canucks owner and former Vancouver mayor Fred Hume made a bid to be one of the six teams due to join the league in 1. NHL rejected their application.[5] Bid leader Cyrus Mc. Lean called the denial a "cooked- up deal," referring to several biases that factored against them. Speculation long abounded afterwards that the bid was hindered by Toronto Maple Leafs president Stafford Smythe; after a failed Vancouver- based business deal, he was quoted as saying that the city would not get a NHL franchise in his lifetime.[citation needed] Additionally, along with the Montreal Canadiens, Smythe purportedly did not wish to split Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) hockey revenues three ways rather than two.[6] There were reports at the time, however, that the group had made a very weak proposal in expectation that Vancouver was a lock for one of the new franchises.[citation needed]Less than a year later, the Oakland Seals were in financial difficulty and having trouble drawing fans. An apparent deal was in place to move the team to Vancouver, but the NHL did not want to see one of their franchises from the expansion of 1. In exchange for avoiding a lawsuit, the NHL promised Vancouver would get a team in the next expansion. Another group, headed by Minnesota entrepreneur Tom Scallen,[citation needed] made a new presentation and was awarded an expansion franchise for the price of $6 million (three times the cost in 1. The new ownership group purchased the WHL Canucks, and brought the team into the league with the Buffalo Sabres as expansion teams for the 1. Scallen retained a portion of the WHL Canucks roster such as John Arbour, George Gardner, Len Lunde, Marc Reaume, Ted Taylor and Murray Hall. The rest of the club would be built through an expansion draft. Early years[edit]To fill the Canucks' roster for their inaugural season, the league held an Expansion Draft in the preceding summer. A draft lottery was held on June 9, 1. Canucks and Sabres would get the first selection in the Expansion Draft, as well as the 1. NHL Amateur Draft; the Sabres won both spins. With his first selection in the Expansion Draft, Canucks General Manager Bud Poile chose defenceman Gary Doak.[8] Among the other players chosen by Vancouver were centre Orland Kurtenbach, who was named the Canucks' first captain,[9] as well as defenceman Pat Quinn, who later became the team's general manager and coach in the 1. Two days later, on June 1. Canucks made defenceman Dale Tallon their first- ever Amateur Draft selection. Tallon played three seasons with the club before being traded away to the Chicago Black Hawks. By comparison, the Sabres chose centre Gilbert Perreault with the first overall selection they won from the lottery; Perreault went on to become a nine- time All- Star and member of the Hockey Hall of Fame.[1. Eagle sculpture featuring Stan Smyl, the team's longest serving captain. With the Canucks' roster set, the team played its inaugural game against the Los Angeles Kings on October 9, 1. They lost the contest 3–1; defenceman Barry Wilkins scored the Canucks' lone goal in the game and first in franchise history, a backhander against goaltender Denis De. Jordy.[1. 1] Two days later, the squad recorded the first win in franchise history, a 5–3 victory over the Toronto Maple Leafs.[1. The Canucks struggled in their early years, failing to make the playoffs in their first four seasons.[1. Placed in the competitive East Division, Poile assembled a core of players during this period led by Kurtenbach that included defencemen Tallon and Jocelyn Guevremont, as well as wingers Andre Boudrias and Dennis Ververgaert. Boudrias emerged as the team's leading point- scorer in four of their first five seasons.[1. Prior to the 1. 97. Scallen and his ownership group from Minnesota sold the team to local media mogul Frank Griffiths for $9 million.[1. Also in the summer of 1. Canucks were re- aligned within the league and placed in the new Smythe Division. They responded with their first winning record (3. Division with 8. 6 points.[1. Making their debut in the Stanley Cup playoffs, the Canucks lost the opening series of the 1. Montreal Canadiens. Head Coach and General Manager Phil Maloney (the third GM in team history after Poile and Hal Laycoe) recalled the importance of a successful season for the Canucks in that year specifically, as the rival league World Hockey Association (WHA) had established another major professional team in the city, the Vancouver Blazers. Competing for the same hockey market, the Canucks emerged over the Blazers as the latter relocated to Calgary, Alberta, the following season.[1. The Canucks posted a second consecutive winning record and made the playoffs in 1. New York Islanders in a two- game preliminary series.[1. The Canucks missed the playoffs in the two seasons thereafter.[1. Meanwhile, Kurtenbach had since retired and assumed a coaching position with Vancouver. His departure as a player marked the beginning of a seven- year period in which the Canucks had four different captains – Boudrias, Chris Oddleifson, Don Lever and Kevin Mc. Carthy. Following their post- season loss to the Islanders in 1. Vancouver did not have another winning season for 1. Following the 1. 97. Maloney was replaced as general manager by Jake Milford, who acquired such players as Stan Smyl, Thomas Gradin and Richard Brodeur, a core that would lead the team throughout the 1. Stanley Cup run[edit]The Canucks made their first significant playoff impact in the post- season of 1. In their previous five playoff appearances, the team had failed to win a single series. Though the Canucks finished three games under a . Meanwhile, Smyl emerged as the club's leader, replacing Mc. Carthy as captain after the latter was sidelined with an injury late in the season (he would retain that position for a team- record eight years).[1. Continuing their success in the playoffs, the Canucks made the Stanley Cup Finals with a combined 1. Calgary Flames, Los Angeles Kings, and Chicago Black Hawks.[1. Despite having a losing regular season record, Vancouver had home ice advantage in the first series, having finished second in the Smythe Division to the Edmonton Oilers. The Canucks also had home ice advantage during the second round series against the Kings, who upset the Oilers in the first round. Late in Game 2 of the Conference Finals in Chicago, Vancouver Interim Head Coach Roger Neilson, frustrated with what he felt was the poor officiating in the game, placed a white towel on the end of a hockey stick and held it up in a gesture mocking surrender (waving the white flag). Vancouver Canucks Hockey - Canucks News, Scores, Stats, Rumors & More. Evgeny Kuznetsov scores twice and tallies an assist in Washington's 4- 1 win over Vancouver for the Capitals' fifth consecutive win. The following players were involved in waiver- wire transactions, including a disappointing free- agent signing in Nashville. ESPN. com. With the help of GMs and scouting directors from each team, Craig Custance issues a progress report for key prospects from each Pacific Division team. Craig Custance ESPN Insider. Ignore all the current league stipulations and anything of that nature, and think about which NHL team you would want to own if you became a billionaire overnight - - and what you would do to it. Joe Mc. Donald ESPN. The following players were placed on waivers, including one whose situation has been of interest in recent days. ESPN. com. The Canucks reassigned veteran winger Chris Higgins, who was due $2. AHL as the team continues its youth movement. Pierre Le. Brun ESPN Staff Writer. Vancouver comes back from a two- goal deficit to force overtime, then Daniel Sedin's second goal of the game beats Florida 3- 2 to end the Panthers' 1. The Canucks are exploring trade options for veteran forward Chris Higgins, the team announced Sunday. ESPN. com news services. Nikita Kucherov's overtime goal is the difference for the Lightning in a 3- 2 win over the Canucks. The New York Rangers have traded forward Emerson Etem to the Vancouver Canucks for AHL forward Nicklas Jensen and a sixth- round pick in the 2. NHL draft. about 6 days ago Associated Pressmore.
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