Vancouver Canucks News

Sedins donate $1.5 million toward new B.C. Children's Hospital
March 12
Vancouver Province
Daniel and Henrik Sedin are exceptional hockey players — and outstanding citizens off the ice as well, having donated $1.5 million this week toward construction of a new B.C. Children's Hospital. "We're thrilled," Stephen Forgacs, director of communications for the B.C. Children's Hospital Foundation, told The Province on Wednesday night. "It came right out of the blue." The donation from the twins — considered national treasures in their native Sweden — and their wives Marinette and Johanna, brings the campaign to raise money for a new Children's to more than $100 million. "They've designated [their donation] specifically to the pediatric intensive-care unit and the diagnostics and ...
Bernier has successful hernia surgery
March 12
Vancouver Province
The Canucks announced that right winger Steve Bernier had successful sports hernia surgery on Thursday and will be out 4-6 weeks. That means Bernier, who struggled after Christmas with just one goal in 21 games, will be back for the first round of the playoffs at the earliest.
Canucks finish road trip with a 4-3 shootout loss in Arizona
March 12
Vancouver Sun
One more for the road. Fourteen games, 42 days and nearly 20,000 kilometres since they last played at home on Jan. 27, the Vancouver Canucks went an extra five minutes of overtime plus a shootout Wednesday to gain a point. Or prove one. When their energy tank should have been empty and their hunger diminished by eight wins already in the bank, the Canucks mustered one last impressive road gig, losing 4-3 to a very good Phoenix Coyote team in a six-round shootout. For the first time in six weeks, the Canucks are homeward bound after going 8-5-1 on their epic two-part odyssey to nearly half of the National Hockey League's 30 markets. "I think it's a five game homestand," winger Alex Burrows ...
Canucks ready to park in the Garage for a while
March 12
Vancouver Sun
The boys are back in town and going through their checklist. Kiss wife, pat dog, change diapers, throw dirty underwear in laundry, fall asleep on couch, wake up, stretch arms and say: "Well, as far as 14-game road trips go, that was one of the better ones." Or maybe it will be the only one. In any case, the Vancouver Canucks emerged from six weeks on the road broken up by that Olympic thing ? sitting atop the Northwest Division and with a playoff spot almost secured. The Canucks did some interesting work on the 8-5-1 odyssey. Most notably, they began it by coming back from three goals down in the Centre of the Universe to shock the Maple Leafs 5-3 on national TV, outscoring Brian Burke's ...
Bernier to have sports hernia surgery
March 11
Vancouver Province
There was better news on the ice than off it when the Vancouver Canucks finally wound up their epic 14-game road trip Wednesday. Winger Steve Bernier will have sports hernia surgery Thursday and be sidelined at least a month, while minor-league defenceman Brad Lukowich is expected to elect to soon have season-ending shoulder surgery. Bernier was never able to rid himself of a nagging groin pull in January and started missing games. And when he left the team last week to return to Vancouver for further evaluation, it was revealed that he has a small abdominal tear that requires a surgical procedure. Bernier had 10 goals in his first 45 games, but just one goal in his last 21 outings. "It ...
Pain-free Bieksa shifts focus from rehab to return
March 11
Vancouver Sun
Kevin Bieksa couldn't wait to go on the road. The rest of the Vancouver Canucks couldn't wait to come home. The National Hockey League team completed the final six-game leg of its 14-game road odyssey here Wednesday, and Bieksa did not play once. But the trip was as much a success for him as it was for his team, as the key defenceman who suffered a gruesome leg injury in Phoenix on Dec. 29 practised without pain. Bieksa said he actually feels quicker on the ice since surgery to repair the two peroneal tendons on the outside of his ankle that were severed by Petr Prucha's skate 10 weeks ago. The Canucks open a five-game homestand on Saturday, and Bieksa could return to the lineup before the ...
Canucks forward Steve Bernier has a sports hernia
March 11
Vancouver Province
This should explain a lot. The Canucks have learned Steve Bernier has a sports hernia which has limited his skating and kept him off the ice since March 2. The small abdominal tear requires surgery and the early indication is he will miss about four weeks. That means he could still return for the first round of the playoffs.