Posts About "Tanner Pearson"
Blue Jackets' Potential Trade Partners: Vancouver Canucks
September 21st, 2020 We have reached part seven of our Columbus Blue Jackets Trading Partners series. In case you missed part six, we took a look at the Ottawa Senators. The offseason in Vancouver will be fascinating to watch from a distance. They just pushed the Vegas Golden Knights to the brink in the playoffs. Thanks to a young dynamic core, fans of...
3 Canucks Who Need Better Performances in Game 2
August 4th, 2020 The Vancouver Canucks opened up the pursuit for their first Stanley Cup in franchise history with a shutout loss to the stingy Minnesota Wild on Sunday night and will be looking for redemption in Game 2 on Tuesday. The Canucks were blanketed all night by the sound defensive structure of the Wild led by head coach Dean Evason. No...
3 Canucks That Could Become Cap Casualties
July 9th, 2020 Before the wrench that is the COVID-19 pandemic was thrown into the mix, the NHL was projecting an increase in the ceiling of the salary cap to between $84 and $88 million. That would have helped the Vancouver Canucks re-sign their key assets in Jacob Markstrom, Chris Tanev, Jake Virtanen, and possibly even Tyler Toffoli with relative...
Canucks: Pearson and Toffoli Bring Stanley Cup Experience to Team
June 29th, 2020 As teams prepare to kick off the 2019-20 Stanley Cup Playoffs, the young Vancouver Canucks team will get their first opportunity to compete in a playoff game. Elias Pettersson, Brock Boeser, and Quinn Hughes are some of the players on the team that have yet to play a game in the playoffs. This is why Tyler Toffoli and Tanner Pearson...
Vancouver Canucks News & Rumors: Pettersson, Rathbone, Miller & More
March 28th, 2020 With the NHL play suspended for the foreseeable future, it seemed as if it might be time to look at some of the news that’s emerging from the Vancouver Canucks organization and review where the season stands just in case it will be officially over sometime in the near future. Related: Vancouver Canucks News & Rumors: Markstrom,...
Canucks Big Winner in Pearson Trade
March 26th, 2020 A couple of days before the 2019 NHL Trade Deadline, Jim Benning, the general manager of the Vancouver Canucks, announced that the team had acquired winger Tanner Pearson for defenceman Erik Gudbranson. Gudbranson had once been a top-three draft pick, yet his large, lumbering style had not worked out on a rebuilding Canucks team....
Canucks Need the Right Deal to Re-Sign Pearson
January 31st, 2020 Tanner Pearson has had himself quite the last two months playing for the Vancouver Canucks. He's arguably been one of Vancouver’s best forwards as I’ve discussed previously. Not to mention that he’s better than anybody else in the entire NHL in one statistic - empty-net goals. So, what’s the problem with...
Canucks Use 4-1 Win Over Sharks to Move Into First Place in Pacific Division
January 19th, 2020 VANCOUVER — It was a good way for the Vancouver Canucks to head into the NHL All-Star break. Tanner Pearson scored on the power play and had an assist as the Canucks outshot the San Jose Sharks 39-18 during a 4-1 victory Saturday night. The win was the...
Pearson Enjoying Career Year With Canucks
January 15th, 2020 A little under a year ago, the Vancouver Canucks and the Pittsburgh Penguins reached an agreement to swap Erik Gudbranson for Tanner Pearson in a one-for-one trade. Gudbranson's Journey Canucks fans rejoiced as Gudbranson had a rough time during his three years in Vancouver, providing little value other than looking handsome –...
Tyler Myers's Two-Goal Performance Leads Canucks past Flames 5-2
December 30th, 2019 CALGARY — Tyler Myers scored twice and added an assist — all of the damage inflicted in the first period — as the Vancouver Canucks built up an early 3-0 lead and cruised to a 5-2 victory over the Calgary Flames on Sunday night. Myers opened the scorin...
Tanev Scores in OT, Pettersson Has 2 Goals as Canucks Top Golden Knights
December 20th, 2019 VANCOUVER — Chris Tanev scored in overtime to lift the Vancouver Canucks to a 5-4 win over the Vegas Golden Knights on Thursday. Elias Pettersson scored twice for the Canucks (17-15-4) and Antoine Roussel and Tanner Pearson had the other goal...
Canucks Should Trade for Toffoli
December 6th, 2019 The Vancouver Canucks are scoring more than last season, but most of the points are being generated by the top line of Brock Boeser, Elias Pettersson, and J.T. Miller. In fact, 33 percent of the offence has been generated by the Lotto Line. Don't get me wrong, Bo Horvat and Tanner Pearson have made their contributions too, but they...
Pearson's First-Career Four-Point Game Helps Canucks Soar past Oilers 5-2
December 1st, 2019 EDMONTON — Tanner Pearson recorded his first-career four-point game in the Vancouver Canucks' 5-2 victory over the Edmonton Oilers on Saturday night at Rogers Place. Pearson scored twice, and added two assists, while Tyler Graovac, Loui Eriks...
