Clay's Canucks Commentary

After a busy week for the Vancouver Canucks (draft, free agency, and trades), I examine what could come next for the team. Could it be naming assistant coaches? Another trade? Or even another free agent signing?

The Vancouver Canucks made a series of moves on the first day of free agency signaling that the rebuild is officially underway. The Canucks are bringing back Luke Schenn and they signed Paul Cotter.

But the biggest move was signing Jamie Oleksiak after trading Marcus Pettersson to the Rangers.

I talk about the two moves that the Canucks made on Monday morning: they traded Nils Hoglander to the Nashville Predators for a 2029 third-round pick and then they acquired Brendan Gallagher from the Montreal Canadiens for future considerations.

Join me as I recap the Vancouver Canucks performance at this weekend's 2026 NHL Draft. It was very obvious that the Canucks were looking for a certain type of player with their picks.

On my birthday livestream, I start off by welcoming my mother Joyce to the show. Then, I talk about the report from Rick Dhaliwal that the Canucks will not be re-signing UFAs Teddy Blueger and Derek Forbort. I end off by talking about reports beginning to emerge that the Canucks will not select Caleb Malhotra at number three.

In honour of Father's Day, my kids Sean, Jacob, and Kayla appeared on my livestream both individually and as a collective. As expected, it was wild, entertaining, and unpredictable.

Then, I closed off the show by bringing in my 52nd birthday.

I welcome prospects analyst Steven Ellis of Daily Faceoff to mock the top of the first round of the 2026 NHL Entry Draft. We also talk about who the Vancouver Canucks could pick at 3 and 24 in the first round.

As part of their rebuild, should the Vancouver Canucks consider trading one of their veteran players for picks and/or prospects?Potential trade targets are Jake DeBrusk, Elias Pettersson, Brock Boeser, Filip Hronek, Marcus Pettersson, Thatcher Demko, and Kevin Lankinen.

I wrap up a busy weekend in sports with the Carolina Hurricanes winning the Stanley Cup, the New York Knicks winning the NBA Championship, and FIFA taking over Vancouver.

I also spend some time talking about the upcoming NHL Entry Draft that is less than two weeks away.

The talk of the Canucks drafting centre Caleb Malhotra has picked up even more since the club named his father Manny as the head coach. I talked about what this might look like, and I did a quick recap of game 4 of the Stanley Cup Final.

Then we ended with a few rounds of the most addicting game out there right now.