Vancouver Canucks

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The Vancouver Canucks are a professional ice hockey team based in Vancouver, British Columbia. The Canucks joined the NHL in the expansion of 1970, but before this the team first began play in 1945 in the old amateur (later minor pro) Pacific Coast Hockey League, which evolved into the original Western Hockey League in 1952. The Canucks play in the Pacific Division of the Western Conference at Rogers Arena. The Canucks have never won the Stanley Cup but made it to the Stanley Cup finals in 1982, 1994 and 2011. The current captain of the Canucks is Bo Horvat.

Canuck is slang for a Canadian person and is used in a number of other Canadian sporting team names and elsewhere in Canadian Industry.

Roster

Goaltenders

  • 35 - Thatcher Demko
  • 75 - Michael DiPietro
  • 49 - Braden Holtby

Defensemen

  • 8 - Jordie Benn
  • 55 - Guillaume Brisebois
  • 63 - Jalen Chatfield
  • 23 - Alexander Edler
  • 27 - Travis Hamonic
  • 43 - Quinn Hughes
  • 48 - Olli Juolevi
  • 57 - Tyler Myers
  • 25 - Brogan Rafferty
  • 3 - Jack Rathbone
  • 88 - Nate Schmidt

Forwards

  • 83 - Jay Beagle
  • 96 - Adam Gaudette
  • 13 - Jayce Hawryluk
  • 53 - Bo Horvat
  • 40 - Elias Pettersson
  • 20 - Brandon Sutter
  • 64 - Tyler Motte
  • 71 - Zack MacEwen
  • 9 - J. T. Miller
  • 79 - Micheal Ferland
  • 36 - Nils Hoglander
  • 56 - Marc Michaelis
  • 70 - Tanner Pearson
  • 26 - Antoine Roussel
  • 38 - Justin Bailey
  • 6 - Brock Boeser
  • 21 - Loui Eriksson
  • 18 - Jake Virtanen

Retired player numbers

  • 10 - Pavel Bure (1991–1999; number retired November 2, 2013)
  • 12 - Stan Smyl (1978–1991; number retired November 3, 1991)
  • 16 - Trevor Linden (1988–1998, 2001–2008; number retired December 17, 2008)
  • 19 - Markus Naslund (1996-2008; number retired December 11, 2010)
  • 22 - Daniel Sedin (2000-2018; number retired February 12, 2020)
  • 33 - Henrik Sedin (2000-2018; number retired February 12, 2020)

Player numbers removed from circulation by the Canucks (not officially retired)

  • 11 - Wayne Maki (1970–1973; removed following Maki's death from brain cancer on May 1, 1974; only worn since then by Chris Oddleifson [1974–1976] and Mark Messier [1997–2000] during their Canucks tenures)
  • 28 - Luc Bourdon (2006–2008; removed following Bourdon's death in a motorcycle crash on May 29, 2008)
  • 37 - Rick Rypien (2005–2010; removed after Rypien committed suicide on August 15, 2011)

Team's Official Website