Canucks acquire future considerations
Vancouver, B.C. - Vancouver Canucks General Manager Jim Benning announced today that the Canucks have traded forward Dane Fox to Carolina for future considerations.
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Four Canucks selected for 2016 World Cup
Vancouver, B.C. – The National Hockey League announced today that four Vancouver Canucks players have been selected to represent their respective countries at the 2016 World Cup in Toronto including Daniel Sedin (Team Sweden), Henrik Sedin (Team S...
Canucks recall Gaunce from Comets
Vancouver, BC – Vancouver Canucks General Manager Jim Benning announced today that the club has recalled centre Brendan Gaunce from the AHL Utica Comets.
Gaunce, 21, has appeared in 43 games for Utica this season, where he currently leads Come...
Sunday NHL Rumor Roundup (Part One) – February 28, 2016
Latest on Eric Staal, Jonathan Drouin, Chris Kunitz, Mikkel Boedker, Kris Russell and many more in part one of your Sunday NHL rumor roundup. HIGHLIGHTS FROM GARRIOCH’S LATEST “INSIDER TRADING.” OTTAWA SUN: Bruce Garrioch reports the Carolina Hurricanes will soon learn if captain Eric Staal is willing to waive his no-trade clause before tomorrow’s 3 […]
Canucks down Senators 5-3 to snap Ottawa’s four-game winning streak
VANCOUVER - Jake Virtanen scored the winner in the third period as the Vancouver Canucks beat the Ottawa Senators 5-3 on Thursday night.
Matt Bartkowski, with two goals and an assist for the first three-point game of his career, and Emerson E...
Oilers trade Philip Larsen’s rights to Canucks for 5th-round pick
The Vancouver Canucks have completed a trade with another Western Canadian rival, sending a conditional 2017 fifth-round pick to the Edmonton Oilers for the rights of defenseman Philip Larsen.
Larsen, a former fifth-round selection with 125 games of NHL tread, has spent the last two seasons in the KHL after a 30-game stint (in which he netted 12 points) with Edmonton in 2013-14.
TSN's Bob McKenzie is reporting that the fifth-round pick could be elevated to a fourth-round selection should Larsen hit production thresholds.
The Oilers, who acquired Larsen in the Shawn Horcoff trade, extended the slight defenseman a qualifying offer before he bolted to Russia, thus retaining his rights.
The fifth-round pick used to land Larsen is the second 2017 draft selection that the rebuilding Canucks have parted with.
McKenzie also notes that Vancouver intends to sign Larsen before July 1, and have him join the team for next season.
Vancouver acquired Markus Granlund from the Calgary Flames on Monday in exchange for top prospect Hunter Shinkaruk.
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Canucks acquire Philip Larsen from Oilers
Vancouver, B.C. - Vancouver Canucks General Manager Jim Benning announced today that the Canucks have acquired defenceman Philip Larsen from the Edmonton Oilers in exchange for a conditional fifth round pick in the 2017 NHL Entry Draft.
Larsen,...
Salo and Jovanovski return to Rogers Arena
VANCOUVER, B.C. – As part of the Rogers Arena #20in20 celebration, ‘Defence Never Rests’ night will feature a special appearance and ceremonial puck drop from former Vancouver Canucks defencemen Sami Salo and Ed Jovanovksi when the Canucks take on...
Report: Canucks ‘open for business’ with several players available on trade market
The Vancouver Canucks are ready and willing trade partners ahead of the NHL's Feb. 29 deadline.
The team has let it be known that Linden Vey, Matt Bartkowski, Ronalds Kenins, Adam Cracknell, Chris Higgins, Brandon Prust, and Yannick Weber are all available, Bob McKenzie of TSN reports.
Vey and Kenins are RFA at end of season. Cracknell, Bartkowski, Weber, Prust all UFA at season's end. Higgins has one year remaining.
— Bob McKenzie (@TSNBobMcKenzie) February 24, 2016
Missing from the list are more prominent and attractive trade targets like Radim Vrbata and Dan Hamhuis, both of whom are set to become unrestricted free agents.
The Canucks sit well outside the Western Conference playoff picture with only two games remaining before the trade deadline, and appear to have resigned themselves to the role of sellers.
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Benning: ‘I don’t think we gave up on Hunter Shinkaruk’
Hunter Shinkaruk got a fair shake, at least in the mind of Jim Benning.
The Vancouver Canucks GM defended his contentious decision to part with the 21-year-old former first-round pick and perhaps the club's top prospect at wing to acquire Markus Granlund from the Calgary Flames in a trade completed Monday.
Related: Canucks deal Hunter Shinkaruk to Flames for Markus Granlund
"I don't think we gave up on Hunter Shinkaruk," Benning said in a conference call. "He's having a good year in the (AHL) for us this year. We worked with him to improve the details in his game. But we just felt that we're getting a good player for him in return.
"This is a move that when we get to where we want to be (competitively) and win on a nightly basis that Markus is the guy that can do that for us."
Benning further explained why Shinkaruk, who ranks seventh in American Hockey League goal scoring this season, had only been called up for one game in his brief tenure with Vancouver.
"When we call players up, it's to fit a role with our group," he said. "I think at the end of the day, we didn't feel he was ready to be a full-time NHL player yet. We thought it was important for him to stay down in Utica and keep developing the parts of the game that he needed to work on.
"Our goal, if we were to have kept him, was for him to be ready to play in the NHL next season."
Benning acknowledged Shinkaruk's penchant for finding the back of the net, but indicated he wasn't convinced that skill would translate to the next level.
Vancouver and its 29th-ranked offense sits nine points out of the final postseason spot in the Pacific Division.
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