Alex Burrows’ Journey From Grinder to Canucks’ Game 7 Hero The Old Prof | September 24, 2025 Not every NHL story starts with bright lights and a walk across the draft stage. Some begin in the shadows—on long bus rides, in forgotten leagues, in front of half-empty…
Today in Hockey History: April 26 Matthew Zator | April 26, 2025 One of the biggest treats for National Hockey League fans is the thrill of watching a Game 7 during the Stanley Cup Playoffs. This date has provided quite a few…
Vancouver Canucks’ Game 7 Heroes Matthew Zator | December 29, 2024 Over their 50-plus year history in the NHL, the Vancouver Canucks have played 13 Game 7s. Prior to the 2024 Playoffs, the last time a Game 7 was played in…
Canadiens Need to Find Assistant Coach to Fix Power Play Trege Wilson | July 3, 2024 The Montreal Canadiens just finished another successful draft, this time drafting a player everyone, including the management team, hoped for. With their fifth overall pick, the Canadiens drafted Ivan Demidov,…
Should the Canadiens Move on From Alex Burrows? Karine Hains | May 28, 2024 When Alex Burrows retired as a player in 2018, he barely took the time to come home before he signed on as an assistant coach with the Montreal Canadiens’ American…
Biggest Canucks’ Trade Deadline Moves of the Decade Sartaaj Bhullar | December 13, 2022 The NHL Trade Deadline always has some great stories, so it’s never a bad time to look back at the impactful deals the Vancouver Canucks made in the last decade.…
Canadiens Planning for All-Around Improvement with Alex Burrows Extension Ben Wagner | August 9, 2021 While the NHL free agency period is in full swing, the majority of the attention is rightly being paid to the marquee names signing big deals with new teams and…
Canadiens Shock Absolutely No One Making Ducharme Head Coach Ryan Szporer | July 15, 2021 The Montreal Canadiens making Dominique Ducharme head coach was a mere formality. There was as much as doubt as the sun coming up.
Canucks and British Columbia Well Represented in Stanley Cup Final Matthew Zator | June 27, 2021 The Vancouver Canucks may be missing from the Stanley Cup Final festivities, but the province of British Columbia and the city of Vancouver definitely are not. In fact, the 2021…
Canadiens Find Chemistry on Power Play Under Burrows Ryan Szporer | March 10, 2021 New Montreal Canadiens assistant coach Alex Burrows’ sandpaper earned him respect when he plied his trade with the Vancouver Canucks as a player. A self-proclaimed hockey nerd, as he called…
Canucks Have Coaching Options if Green Does Not Return in 2021-22 Matthew Zator | March 6, 2021 The Vancouver Canucks have struggled mightily to stay afloat this season, despite the best efforts of their head coach Travis Green and his assistants Nolan Baumgartner, Chris Higgins, Jason King,…
Canucks 12 Days of Hockeymas: 4 Players With Multiple Playoff OT Winners Sartaaj Bhullar | December 21, 2020 The ’12 Days of Christmas’ is a classic holiday song first published in its current form in 1908. In a nod to the classic carol, join The Hockey Writers as we count down…