Willie Mitchell News

It's already time to start looking ahead to the next fantasy hockey season despite the fact the '08-'09 regular season feels like it just ended.

The Vancouver Canucks' morning began Thursday with an unsourced, unfounded rumour from Toronto that coach Alain Vigneault had been fired.

The Vancouver Canucks announced today that they have inked free agent goaltender Andrew Raycroft to a one-year, one-way contract worth $500,000. Raycroft, 29, will be joining the fourth NHL team of his career after stops in Boston, Toronto, and Colorado by Kevin Lee 75 reads The Vancouver Canucks announced today that they have inked free agent ...

With NHL free agency underway, here is a brief, by-the-numbers look at more than 40 transactions, with the major moves getting the full Numbers Game treatment.

Just when Vancouver Canucks fans thought they'd never see Lawrence Nycholat in a a Free Willy uniform again, the NHL club has announced they've re-signed the 30-year-old defenceman.

Brent Sopel gave the decision to the visitors and Willie Mitchell scored it a split decision.

It's 2009, and two crusty old bums are sitting in a Detroit bar, watching news of another car fire on the side of the highway.

The Vancouver Canucks selected U.S.-born centre Jordan Schroeder with the 22nd overall pick in Friday's NHL draft in Montreal.

On State Street, that great street . . . yes it's a special Chicago version of the Monday morning musings and meditations on the world of sports.

The misery continued Saturday for the Vancouver Canucks, who finished off a dreadful month of January with their eighth consecutive defeat, and ninth consecutive at GM Place.

Maybe it wasn't the game of his life, but it was the game of his season. Sami Salo, with Mattias Ohlund out of the lineup, stepped up and helped shut down Calgary's powerful first line, and scored his first goal of the season on a late first-period power play.

It's a little bit terrifying for a Vancouver Canuck fan when you look at the list of free agents who are slated to come available to the rest of the NHL on July 1. Granted there's still a couple of weeks to go before the free-for-all begins but the list of available Vancouver players right now looks pretty significant, particularly if they should ...

Kevin Bieksa is a native of Grimsby, Ont., but the tight-knit Vancouver Canucks dressing room feels like home.

Players can become free agents at the expiry of their contracts . There are a number of different kinds of free agents, according to the NHL's Collective Bargaining Agreement.

The greatest game of his life came after a miserable morning. Patrick Kane woke up to the telephone ringing at 9:47 a.m., having slept through a 9:30 team meeting before Game Six against the Canucks.

Life is a lot like hockey. Or maybe I should say hockey is a lot like life. Anyways, there are plenty of parallels between the two.

The end has arrived for the 2008-09 Canucks and there's no time like the present to gaze ahead to next season.

The Vancouver Canucks lost their series against the Chicago Blackhawks not froma lack of skill, but due to a shortage of nerve.

So the Hawks are moving on - but I have to address an absolutely ridiculous play by Kris Versteeg when scoring the Hawks second goal of the game.

It may have taken a little longer, but the Canucks blew up Monday and they blew up in a way no one saw coming.