I've seen Bains trains with elite guys for the past few summers across multiple training groups/locations. Hope he pops!!

Incredible

I understand people are quite angry with him but the guy holds a couple of pretty important franchise records and was arguably one of the best players in franchise history.

My guess is it will be a mixed bag of boos and cheers, which honestly I think would be the appropriate reaction.

PS: Found this image on r/NHLcirclejerk and though it was really funny.

Well, this blows.

Link to full article: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7445767/2026/07/16/nhl-most-improved-2026/?unlocked_article_code=1.yFA.Evae.VT1WwfbJkWyw&source=athletic_user_shared_gift_article_copylink&smid=url-share-ta

Usually the game isn’t until the new year so I don’t worry about it for a while but I usually gettickets from a season holder (no one in particular) I would be looking for the Leafs game. when do season ticket holders get their tickets? Thanks!!

Hello Canucks fans

(dont look at my name)

I will be in Vancouver later this year to see J. Cole and he is an artist who will typically meet fans and sign stuff after shows - with the placement of rogers arena in the city what would be the best course of action to the entrance/exit an artist may use to enter and leave the show?

before i get any comments saying “buy a vip” or such.

He is known to go after shows to do this and he doesnt offer purchases for meet and greets.

anyways good luck and see yall for Game 1 and 2

For years, Vancouver Canucks fans got through the darkest days of the "Jet Black" Jim Benning era on one comforting thought: at least he gave us the Alien. No matter how many times Loui Eriksson missed an empty net, or how deeply the Oliver Ekman-Larsson buyout ate into the salary cap, fans could look at Elias Pettersson and say, "Well, Jim drafted a superstar."

But in Vancouver, even the draft wins come with a shelf life.

November 8, 2023: The Day the Revisionist History Started It started when Trevor Linden went on local radio to reveal what the tinfoil-hat segment of Canucks Twitter had suspected for years. According to Linden, Jim Benning did not actually want Pettersson. He wanted Cody Glass. Linden painted a picture of a scouting staff practically staging an intervention to stop their GM from making a franchise-altering mistake.

If Benning had just stayed quiet in retirement, the universe might have kept its balance. Pettersson was hovering near the top of the NHL scoring race at the time, still playing like an un-cursed, point-per-game savior.

But Benning could not help himself. Breaking his post-firing silence, he immediately reached out to a media contact to fire back:

"We were always going to draft Pettersson. The whole group liked Petey."

With those two sentences, he effectively doomed his final great legacy piece.

The Retroactive "Six-by-Six" Curse Benning does not possess the Midas touch. Instead, he carries a mystical force that retroactively turns any hockey player he claims ownership of into an overpaid, heavily criticized asset with a modified no-trade clause.

The moment Benning claimed credit for the 2017 draft pick, the cosmic gears shifted.

First came the physical decline. Almost immediately after the November media feud, Pettersson’s elite edge-work vanished. It was as if Benning’s love for heavy, meat-and-potatoes hockey suddenly weighed down Pettersson's skates. The agile wizard who used to dance around defensemen was replaced by a player who looked like he was constantly fighting the ice.

Then came the contract. In March 2024, Pettersson signed an eight-year, $92.8 million extension. Even though a new management group negotiated the deal, it felt like a classic Benning special: maximum term, a massive cap hit, and immediate fan panic.

By the time the next two seasons rolled around, the transformation was complete. The dynamic 100-point superstar had withered into a struggling, defensive-minded 50-point center. Pettersson had been colonized by the Benning era.

A Fitting End to the Legend of Jet Black Canucks fans love a good scapegoat, and there is comfort in knowing that everything can eventually be blamed on the old front office.

Did Pettersson develop knee tendonitis? Blame Benning’s bad karma. Did he lose his offensive confidence? That is just the spiritual weight of Jim's draft-day scouting reports catching up to him.

By trying to defend his legacy, Benning managed to break the last great player he left behind. It is a level of managerial destruction most executives can only dream of pulling off from a golf course in retirement.

Footnote: The Quinn Hughes Caveat

Of course, defenders of the old regime will point to the 2018 draft and yell, "But what about Quinn Hughes?"

Admittedly, Hughes was a home run. He won a Norris Trophy and became the captain. But you cannot outrun the Benning gravity well forever. By December 2025, with the franchise bottoming out, Hughes reportedly made it clear he would not sign an extension. This forced the Canucks to ship him off to the Minnesota Wild in a desperate blockbuster trade just to trigger another rebuild.

Even when Jim's draft picks turn out to be historically great, they still end up packing their bags.

I don't mean about the actual internship itself -- whether it's good/bad or worth it, or what it entails.

Does anyone know when they will be reaching out to candidates? Or if they already have? Based on some posts on here, it seems like they were setting up interviews around this time last year. I applied back in May, and I've heard nothing back, and the suspense is killing me. If anyone knows what's going on and if they have started reaching out to candidates, please let me know!

What’s your final record prediction for this season?

GA22 is what? Doesn't match to their map anywhere. This is for the multi game packs.

My dad recently passed away and I am faced with a conundrum: how to set up a recording schedule for Canucks games on Telus Optik TV. I know how to do it for any show that has similar show title on a specific channel. Is there a way to make sure that Canucks games are recorded as they come up, without having to manually schedule them? I am sorry for this most ridiculous question.

Probably doesn't mean much, but there ain't a lot going on so it's time to over-analyze any tidbit information about the club Lol

Most notable absence is obviously the highest-paid player in the team. Also no DeBrusk.

EDIT: People pointed in the comments that EP40 and Draisaitl are in the picture on the top right taking the faceoff. My bad, I missed it.

With the announcement that Yzerman is out as Detroit’s GM I couldn’t help be parallel their situation to the Canucks. Detroit has been rebuilding for 7 years and they are potentially looking at having to start another rebuild.

Poor management decisions is part of it but you can’t deny that Detroit and Vancouver having the worst Lottery luck in the league has played a major role in them not being playoff contenders for the past decade.

For example, look at the Sharks roster and update it as if they never won the lottery once and always moved down when at the top. Beckett Sennecke instead of Celebrini, Caleb Desnoyers instead of Misa, and no Stenberg. You subtract a few of the stars from their roster that were gifted through lottery luck and it’s easy to imagine the Sharks rebuilding for 7 years and still being mid no matter how amazing the GM is.

If the league wants to make the lottery truly fair then adding some boost in lottery odds each time a team moves down in the draft would balance things out so you don’t have these teams doomed to perpetual rebuilds due to their poor luck.

For example, each slot a team dropped in the previous draft gives them a 1.25% odds multiplier that pulls odds collectively from other teams in the lottery. Since Canucks dropped 2 slots this past draft if we finish last again it would be really nice to have 38.25% odds at 1st instead of 25.5%.