A turbo Canucks recap on a Sunday:
1) ICYMI: The Wild Marco Rossi to Vancouver trade rumours ended on Friday.
2) Straight from the Canucks press release on Thursday, “Red” heads up the list of hockey operations changes and promotions. Congratulations to him and the others.
Brian Hamilton has been promoted to Head Equipment Manager, Mac Stewart and Brodie St. Jacques are Assistant Equipment Managers, and John Stewart joins full-time as an Assistant Equipment Manager and Visiting Room Attendant. Ian Beckenstein has been promoted to Video Coach and Evan Mathias has been hired as Assistant Video Coach. Taylor Philips has been promoted to Executive Assistant, Hockey Operations.
3) Make your training camp plans for Penticton.
4) Flashback to earlier this summer; why and how much we like the Evander Kane acquisition. Fans hope he proves us right!
5) Here’s an earlier August Simmer’s Summer 9 that you’d be sad about missing if it wasn’t included here.
6) Trivia time: Name one of the two Vancouver based sports writers to be honoured with the Elmer Ferguson Memorial Award by the Hockey Hall of Fame since the award’s inception in 1984.
7) With pragmatic improvements on both sides, one would hope, the Canucks and Kraken rivalry could turn it up a notch this season. Yes please.
8) My favourite quote from Canucks player development coach Mikael Samuelsson after development camp wrapped up in early July. “Be patient, this is your journey. It’s so easy to compare yourself to everyone else here, and yeah, in one way, you should compare because you’re competing against all the other players, but at the same time, believe in the path that you’re on and go from there.”
That applies to everyone’s life in a way. A little bit of Swedish Buddha in there.
9) Quinn Hughes and Conor Garland attend the Team USA Olympic orientation camp in Michigan starting this Tuesday. Hughes has already been named to the American team for the Games in Italy next February.
— Trivia Answer: Cam Cole, formerly of the Vancouver Sun, won the award in 2017 while Tony Gallagher, ex of the Vancouver Province, earned the honour in 2020.
Earlier Canucks:
— Vancouver’s Stanley Cup Odds At +5,500
