[86] Three days after Vigneault's hiring, Nonis dealt Bertuzzi to the Florida Panthers, ending the "West Coast Express" era. [51][52][53] Despite a late season swoon, Ley was fired and replaced by Quinn down the stretch. [43] The loss was followed by a riot in Downtown Vancouver, which resulted in property damage, injuries and arrests. During the season-opening game on October 6, 2011, a ceremony was held to honour Rick Rypien, who died by suicide during the off-season. For other uses of the terms, see, "The Stick-in-Rink", modified; alternate logo, 20072019. [176][177] Swedish winger Markus Naslund, who captained for seven seasons, was the first non-Canadian to have captained the Canucks. [98], With Naslund's departure, Gillis announced on September 30, 2008, that Luongo had been named team captain, marking the first time since Bill Durnan of the Montreal Canadiens in 1947 that a goaltender had been named the captain of an NHL team. [154], After a relationship with CKNW stretching since the Canucks joined the NHL in 1970, the Canucks entered into a new radio broadcast deal in 2006 with CKST an AM sports/talk station. [18] Making another high-profile acquisition on July 27, 1997, the Canucks signed free agent Mark Messier to a three-year deal. [24][25] Continuing their success in the playoffs, the Canucks made the Stanley Cup Finals with a combined 112 record in series against the Calgary Flames, Los Angeles Kings, and Chicago Black Hawks. 
On May 21, 2014, Jim Benning was announced as general manager, having previously served as assistant general manager of the 2011 Boston Bruins championship team that had beaten the Canucks three years prior. [12] The new ownership group purchased the WHL Canucks, and brought the team into the league with the Buffalo Sabres as expansion teams for the 197071 season. Five former players have been inducted, and six builders (executives, general managers, head coaches, and owners). [114][115] The Canucks wore Vancouver Millionaires replica jerseys on March 16, 2013, to celebrate the 100-year anniversary of the Millionaires. [8] It marked the first time the Stanley Cup was won by a West Coast team in the trophy's history. Sports Illustrated rated it 13th overall out of the 19 third jerseys released for the 2008 season.[147]. Facing the San Jose Sharks in the Conference Finals, Vancouver won four games to one. Opening the playoffs with a close first-round series against the Calgary Flames, Vancouver rallied from a three-games-to-one deficit to win the series in seven contests. [48] While Mogilny became the second player in team history to record 50 goals and 100 points in a season,[37][49] chiefly playing with centre Cliff Ronning, the expected chemistry between Mogilny and Bure never materialized, with the latter suffering a season-ending knee injury early in the campaign. The 201920 season also saw the rookie campaign of Quinn Hughes, who finished the regular season with 8 goals and 45 assists for 53 points in 68 games, finishing as runner-up in Calder Memorial Trophy votes. [117], The Canucks participated in their first outdoor NHL game on March 2, 2014, a match against the Ottawa Senators at BC Place. The rest of the roster was built through an expansion draft. Smyl has the distinction of being the only Canuck to have his jersey number retired at their former arena, Pacific Coliseum. The jerseys sport a 40th Anniversary patch on the upper-right chest commemorating their 40th season. [180], The Canucks selected Dale Tallon, a defenceman from the Toronto Marlboros with their first pick, second overall in the 1970 NHL Amateur Draft. They responded with their first winning record (38 wins, 32 losses and 10 ties), backstopped by goaltender Gary "Suitcase" Smith finishing first in the Division with 86 points. The Vancouver Canucks' mascot is an anthropomorphic killer whale (orca) named Fin the Orca. The franchise's first head coach was Hal Laycoe, who coached the Canucks for two seasons. The Canucks went on to win their first Northwest Division title that season, but lost in the first round of the 2004 playoffs to the Calgary Flames. Suffering numerous injuries to players in the 200708 season, the Canucks struggled and finished three points out of a playoff spot. [58] Messier later said if he could change one thing about his time in Vancouver, he would not have accepted the captaincy.[59]. 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. [129] Desjardins and his coaching staff, with the exception of assistant coach Doug Jarvis, were let go at the end of the season, replaced by Travis Green who coached their AHL affiliate in Utica. For the former team that played in the WHL, see, "Canucks" and "Nucks" redirect here. Several Canucks players went overseas to Europe to play professionally, including Naslund and the Sedin twins, who all returned to their former Swedish team, Modo Hockey. [57] Soon thereafter, Renney was fired and replaced as coach by Mike Keenan, reuniting him with Messier, another central figure from the Rangers' 1994 team. He is followed by Marc Crawford, who has 586 points all-time with the Canucks. The lock-out continued on for 119 days, which resulted a shortened season. After qualifying for the postseason in 2001 and 2002 as the eighth and final seed in the Western Conference (losing to the eventual Stanley Cup winners Colorado Avalanche and Detroit Red Wings, respectively),[18] the Canucks became regular contenders for the Northwest Division title. The Canucks became the first team to have a top two Calder Trophy finalist three years in a row since the Toronto Maple Leafs, who did so when the league only had six teams from 1957 to 1959. The current head coach is Bruce Boudreau. [18] Despite a two-goal effort (one on a shorthanded breakaway) from Linden (who was playing with cracked ribs),[42] Vancouver lost the game by a 32 score. Games 5 through 7 were all won in overtime with goals from Geoff Courtnall, Trevor Linden, and Pavel Bure respectively. [104], In the 200910 season, the Canucks faced the longest road trip in NHL history, playing 14 games over six weeks, from January 27 to March 13, 2010. [18] It would be another 16 years until the team would have another winning record though they made the playoffs nine times in that span. [118] Luongo was traded back to the Panthers during the season, while the team failed to make the playoffs for the first time in six years. [77] Entering the 2003 playoffs with the fourth seed in the West, the Canucks won their first playoff series in eight years, defeating the St. Louis Blues in seven games before losing to the Minnesota Wild in the second round. [150], For the 202021 season, the NHL introduced "Reverse Retro" alternate uniforms. The Canucks' design used was similar to the alternates they wore from 2001 to 2006, but with green replacing maroon.[151]. In 1972, hints of impropriety were circulating about Scallen. The players on the Canucks' bench followed suit. [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. 
Like the first game, the Canucks held a 32 lead after the first two periods in the second game, but were not able to keep their lead, and lost 64. Pettersson broke the Canucks' record for points by a rookie, set by Ivan Hlinka (198182) and matched by Pavel Bure (199192), and finished with 66 points to lead all NHL rookies, winning the Calder Trophy.[136][137]. [19] Their elimination from the 1995 Stanley Cup playoffs in Game 4 of the second round marked the Canucks' last game played at the Pacific Coliseum,[18][47] as the team moved into the new General Motors Place (since renamed Rogers Arena), a new $160million arena situated in Downtown Vancouver, the following season. 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[19] Making their debut in the Stanley Cup playoffs, the Canucks lost the opening series of the 1975 playoffs in five games to the Montreal Canadiens. Six of these players (John Arbour, George Gardner, Len Lunde, Marc Reaume, Ted Taylor and Murray Hall) would remain with the club for its inaugural NHL season. Most notably the present-day Canucks' minor league predecessor (also known as the Vancouver Canucks) played from 1945 to 1970 in the Pacific Coast Hockey League and the Western Hockey League. Among the several Canucks players named to their respective national teams, centre Ryan Kesler of the United States and goaltender Roberto Luongo of Canada played against each other in the gold medal game; Luongo and Team Canada emerged with the win. [148] The 1990s jerseys were used again for select games in the 201920 season (the design was chosen via an online fan vote over two other throwback jerseys) to coincide with the team's 50th anniversary. Daniel Sedin won the Art Ross Trophy as the league's top scorer with 104 points, marking the first time in NHL history that two brothers won the award in back-to-back years. Tallon played three seasons with the club before being traded away to the Chicago Black Hawks. [157], Sportsnet and Rogers hold a monopoly on all television broadcasts of the Canucks; regional games are aired by Sportsnet Pacific, and occasionally on the overflow channel Sportsnet Canucks. Established in 1911, the Millionaires were one of three teams in the new Pacific Coast Hockey Association. [13] Among the other players chosen by Vancouver were centre Orland Kurtenbach, who was named the Canucks' first captain,[14] as well as defenceman Pat Quinn, who later became the team's general manager and coach in the 1990s. On June 5, 2018, longtime Canucks' public address announcer John Ashbridge died, having worked in his capacity with the franchise since 1987. [19], Kurtenbach retired and assumed a coaching position with Vancouver. Fifteen years later, Bure's goal and McLean's save were ranked first and second in a Vancouver Sun article listing the "40 most memorable moments in team history. [144] The arena is owned and operated by Canucks Sports & Entertainment. In 1994, the Canucks made their second trip to the Stanley Cup Finals, entering the playoffs as the seventh seed in the renamed Western Conference. 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 1967 move so quickly and vetoed the deal. Naslund had retired two years after leaving the Canucks in 2008. On March 9, 2017, it was announced that Rogers Media had acquired radio rights to the Canucks under a 5-year deal to begin in the 201718 season. [43] However, the team failed to record a winning season in the six years following their Stanley Cup Finals appearance. [182] Two players from British Columbia have been selected by the Canucks in the first round of an NHL Entry Draft: Cam Neely in 1983 and Jake Virtanen, taken 6th overall in 2014.[183]. The logo consisted of the word "Canucks" in a diagonal slant as part the blade of a skate and was designed by San Francisco graphic artist Mike Bull. The initial owners were Tom Scallen's Medicor group. [19] In his first season with the Canucks, Luongo was nominated for the Hart Memorial and Vezina Trophies. 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Most assists in a career: Henrik Sedin, 830 (20002018), Most points in a career: Henrik Sedin, 1,070 (20002018), Most assists in a season: Henrik Sedin, 83 (, Most points in a season: Henrik Sedin, 112 (. [165][166], In May 2007, Gaglardi and Beedie's civil lawsuit over Aquilini's purchase reached the Supreme Court of British Columbia. [91] The Canucks also set a league record for shots against in one game, allowing 76. At 37-years-old, he became the youngest general manager in team history. The franchise's first captain was Orland Kurtenbach, who captained the team until his retirement in 1974. They compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference, and play their home games at Rogers Arena. The stadium opened in 1995 as General Motors Place, and seats up to 18,890 for Canucks games. They lost the contest 31; defenceman Barry Wilkins scored the Canucks' lone goal in the game and first in franchise history, a backhander against goaltender Denis DeJordy. In 200203, the Canucks set a franchise record with a 10-game win streak but lost the division title to the Colorado Avalanche on the last day of the regular season. [179] Luongo was not permitted to wear the "C" on his jersey. In the years in which they qualified for the playoffs, the team was eliminated in the first round by either the Edmonton Oilers (in 198586) or the Calgary Flames (in 198283, 198384 and the Flames championship season of 1989, which was decided in Game 7), both division rivals. The "Flying V" theme, which included several slight modifications over the years, was abandoned in 1985, to feature the team's emblem on the front rather than the "V" (the emblem had previously been worn only on the sleeves; the V's would appear on the shoulders from 1985 to 1989). [61][62] Two months into his tenure with the team, his role was expanded and he was made de facto general manager. Hockey writer Stephen Cole described it as looking like "a punch in the eye". Bure wore number 10 for five of his seven seasons in Vancouver.