Canucks Scuttlebutt – Page 2

Head Coach Rick Tocchet Media Availability 05.08.2024

“We defend really well. That’s our bread and butter. But that doesn’t mean we sit back…We want to be aggressive.”

🗣 Hear from Head Coach Rick Tocchet at this morning's media availability.@theprovince | #Canucks pic.twitter.com/4VFoktVwMr
— Vancouver Canucks (@Canucks) May 8, 2024

Nikita Zadorov speaks about Canucks playoff excitement:

"Nothing beats the playoff atmosphere in Canada…Everybody has flags on their cars. My kids in school, everybody dressed in Canucks jerseys."

🗣 Nikita Zadorov on the playoff hype surrounding the All-Canadian matchup.@theprovince | #Canucks pic.twitter.com/PyawTdXgQv
— Vancouver Canucks (@Canucks) May 8, 2024

Pettersson in lineup and focused on what “we can do”:

“We’re going to focus on what we can do. Excited for the opportunity.”

🗣 Hear from Elias Pettersson ahead of Game One against the Edmonton Oilers.@theprovince | #Canucks pic.twitter.com/66B9h9mrpM
— Vancouver Canucks (@Canucks) May 8, 2024

Lineup to remain unchanged:

Friedman, Juulsen, Åman getting in some extra work shooting on DeSmith and Tolopilo in the “rinse” skate. This implies no lineup changes.

Dakota Joshua + J.T. Miller at the other end of the ice putting in some skills work with Henrik Sedin as #Canucks optional skate winds down. pic.twitter.com/RYp2pFfpgR
— Thomas Drance (@ThomasDrance) May 8, 2024

Arturs Silovs to be starting goalie tonight:

Arturs Silovs getting the long chat with goalie coach Ian Clark and 1st goalie off ice at optional morning skate, all signs he’s Game 1 starter for Canucks (not that there was any real question)
— Kevin Woodley (@KevinisInGoal) May 8, 2024

Canucks Head Coach Rick Tocchet Media Availability 05.07.2024:

"You're going to have to grind out wins. It's hard to win."

🗣 Head Coach Rick Tocchet speaks on the lessons learned from Round 1, and approach going into the the next series. pic.twitter.com/EZoOZHvM6W
— Vancouver Canucks (@Canucks) May 7, 2024

Head Coach Rick Tocchet admits Canucks will have to find another level to tackle Oilers:

Are good matchups, team defence, improved penalty kill enough to derail Oilers?

“They’re incredible on the power play and feed off turnovers. We’re going to have to find another level.”
—Tocchet.#Canucks #StanleyCupPlayoffs https://t.co/jM2IWXKIM8
— Ben Kuzma 🇺🇦 (@benkuzma) May 8, 2024

Canucks offense needs to show up and in a hurry:

How much do the Canucks need to get their offence going to compete with the Oilers? @CraigJButton has more: https://t.co/sWtwnlcoS5 pic.twitter.com/Bw7TWxNdSt
— JayOnSC (@JayOnSC) May 8, 2024

Has this been a successful season for Vancouver?

Yes.

At beginning of the year, even the most optimistic #Canucks fans were hoping to sneak into the playoffs, not win the division and advance to Round 2.

One of 8 teams left standing, the franchise is way ahead of schedule. Successful season secured. https://t.co/B2pi7Wvytm
— Matthew Sekeres (@mattsekeres) May 8, 2024

Lekkerimäki wins Swedish Hockey League Rookie of the Year, cut from Team Sweden, reassigned to Abbotsford Canucks:

Jonathan Lekkerimäki wins SHL Rookie of the Year, cut from Team Sweden, and reassigned to Abbotsford Canucks https://t.co/crn0wW7ngE
— CanucksArmy (@CanucksArmy) May 8, 2024

Lekkerimäki officially assigned to Abbotsford Canucks;

General Manager Patrik Allvin announced today that F Jonathan Lekkerimäki has been assigned to Abbotsford (AHL).
— Vancouver Canucks (@Canucks) May 8, 2024

Canucks first period in Playoffs needs serious injection of goals from inspired, motivated, buy in from complete team effort;

#Canucks scored just 2 first period goals against Nashville — both on the road (Game 3 & Game 4). Proved they could play and win patient games. But need to feed the home fans and give them something good to get excited about early
— Jeff Paterson (@patersonjeff) May 8, 2024

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Canucks playoff chances:

Playoff chances as of Sunday https://t.co/RbnckCLHNP pic.twitter.com/celKi9Z6IO
— MoneyPuck.com (@MoneyPuckdotcom) March 3, 2024

Pierre LeBron on Pettersson extension:

Pettersson contract:
Full NMC
Salary year by year
2024/25 $2,500,000
2025/26 $4,500,000
2026/27 $11,000,000
2027/28 $9,450,000
2028/29 $7,250,000
2029/30 $3,700,000
2030/31 $3,700,000
2031/32 $3,700,00

Signing Bonus year by year
$12,000,000
$10,000,000
$0
$5,000,000…
— Pierre LeBrun (@PierreVLeBrun) March 2, 2024

Largest NHL contracts:

Largest active #NHL contracts in total dollars:

Sidney Crosby: $104.4 mil
Nathan MacKinnon: $100.8 mil
Connor McDavid: $100 mil
Elias Pettersson: $92.8 mil*
William Nylander: $92 mil
Erik Karlsson: $90 mil
David Pastrnak: $90 mil
Drew Doughty: $88 mil
Rasmus Dahlin: $88 mil…
— Frank Seravalli (@frank_seravalli) March 2, 2024

Canucks call up Vasily Podkolzin and Matt Irwin:

IRWIN AND PODZ 🆙

General Manager Patrik Allvin announced today that F Vasily Podkolzin and D Matt Irwin have been recalled from Abbotsford (AHL). pic.twitter.com/PN0sJoLlF3
— Abbotsford Canucks (@abbycanucks) March 3, 2024

Abbotsford Canucks GM on Vasily Podkolzin:

Abby GM Johnson on Podkolzin: “It wasn’t come down here and get confidence and score. It’s wall play and management of the puck. We’ve encouraged Podz to play with less safety in regards to being a bull.” #Canucks https://t.co/4ZIUIC0Ajr
— Ben Kuzma 🇺🇦 (@benkuzma) March 3, 2024

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