Vancouver Canucks {22nd overall} Western Conference, Pacific Division
HC Tocchet took the reins from HC Boudreau who had taken over from HC Green the season before, HC Boudreau had a sterling 32-15-10 record to help Vancouver finish the season with 40 wins but began last season 18-25-3 and was replaced by HC Tocchet who finished the season 20-12-4.
Vancouver has serious offensive threats with Elias Pettersson, JT Miller, Andrei Kuzmenko, and Bo Horvat all 30 goal scorers and their defenseman Quinn Hughes racked up 69 assists indicating scoring is not the issue.
Defensively Vancouver is an older corps with Luke Schenn the only one in his 30s, not a negative in the plus/minus category while leading the team in PIMs, Quinn Hughes the only defenseman on the team not at least six feet tall is the team’s third highest point producer.
GM Allvin has brought in Ian Cole and Carson Soucy to help on defense which should assist in turning around their goal differential which is vital to making the playoffs.
The city of Vancouver has its name carved on the Stanley Cup when in 1915 two seasons before the NHL began the Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA) beat the Ottawa Senators (NHA) for Lord Stanley’s silver chalice.
Buffalo Winter 
Those Vancouver Millionaires uniforms would not be my first choice (I tried to say this as politely as possible). I wonder how they got their name “Millionaires”. I can try looking it up to find out.
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IDK I have seen worse Hockey sweaters, lol
Professional Hockey before 1917 (pre-NHL), it might take a minute to research and write about the city of Vancouver’s Hockey history.
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Later known as the Vancouver Maroons.
Other tidbits:
Founded in 1911, the Vancouver Millionaires were the first Canadian team to play on an artificial ice surface.
Their rink called Denman Arena is claimed to have been the largest indoor ice rink in the world at the time it opened and sadly a fire destroyed the Arena in 1936.
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I did know about the Millionaires being the first to play on an artificial surface, I did not know about the Denman Arena and Maroons, ty, my knowledge and passion for Hockey goes back to the late 1800s more or less, lol, there is so much rich and deep Hockey history that I never grow bored or tired with it,
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You’re welcome Buffalo Winter and thank you. Research is in my blood too. Being naturally curious, I love a challenge and also research was my profession many, many, many moons ago.
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Too cool, what research were you involved in? unless, you know you have a NDA or something
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I’m happy and able to answer. After earning my graduate degree (MA), I was employed as a market researcher on the supplier side for a growing media research company and then several years later I was hired as a Market Analyst on the client side by the city’s public transit system. That was mainly B.C. (=Before Children).
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very cool
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And ta da think I finally found the reason. 🙂
https://www.habseyesontheprize.com/the-story-of-the-vancouver/
Excerpt:
The Ambrose O’Brien owned club were nicknamed the Millionaires after it began paying salaries between $3,500 and $5,200 to stars such as the Patrick brothers, Fred “Cyclone” Taylor and Newsy Lalonde.
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Thank you so much for the link, great read and material, yes indeed you did find the reason!
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