Clay's Canucks Commentary

The Canucks were thoroughly outplayed by the Seattle Kraken 6-1 in Seattle's first win in seven tries against their I-5 rival.

Andrei Kuzmenko scored two goals and both Elias Pettersson and Luke Schenn had two assists as the Canucks defeated the Chicago Blackhawks 5-2 in Rick Tocchet's Canucks coaching debut.

Rick Tocchet ran his first practice as Canucks head coach, and had new assistants Adam Foote and Sergei Gonchar with him.  As well, we share our favourite Bruce Boudreau memories on the night he leaves Vancouver for his home in Hersey, PA.

Rick Tocchet was named the 21st head coach in Canucks franchise history.  Tocchet, Jim Rutherford, and Patrik Allvin met the media today to answer questions about Bruce Boudreau's firing, the club's priorities, and Tocchet's coaching style.

My son Sean joins me to recap an eventful night at Rogers Arena: the Canucks revealed their new Flying Skate jerseys, the club paid tribute to Gino Odjick, Steven Stamkos had a hat trick to go over the 500 goal mark, and the Canucks lost 5-2 to the Lightning.

Jim Rutherford made waves yesterday when he said that he'd rather retool the Canucks than rebuild.    Do you think Canucks fans are truly patient enough to endure a full rebuild?

Canucks President of Hockey Operations Jim Rutherford answered questions from reporters this morning, and touched on everything from Bo Horvat to Bruce Boudreau to the team's dire salary cap situation.

The Canucks defeated the Carolina Hurricanes 4-3 in a shootout today to end off their five game road trip with a record of 1-4.  As well, fan favourite Gino Odjick passed away today from a heart attack at the young age of 52.  May he rest in peace.

The Canucks lost 5-4 to the Tampa Bay Lightning to hit the half-way point of the season at 17-21-3.  Oliver Ekman-Larsson was scratched for the first time since joining the Canucks, and Tanner Pearson will be shut down for the rest of the season.

We took a break from Canucks talk and chatted with Jacob about his experience in Montreal making Team Canada and bowling two perfect games in the past week.