Vancouver Canucks 2021-22 season preview: Playoff chances, projected points, roster rankings

The St. Louis Blues face an uphill battle to secure a spot in the Western Conference playoffs, with 33 games remaining and six of the eight playoff seats appearing to be locked up. The team is currently tied with the Nashville Predators with 54 points, but they have two games in hand. However, their playoff chances are in question, with odds…

The Calgary Flames (10-10-3), coming off a 4-3 overtime victory over the Dallas Stars, host the Vancouver Canucks (15-8-1) at Scotiabank Saddledome on Saturday, December 2 at 10:00 PM ET on ESPN+. The Canucks lost to the Vegas Golden Knights 4-1 in their last game. Catch over 1000 out of market NHL games, plus original programming, with ESPN+ or…

The Dallas Stars (7-1-1, riding a three-game winning streak) hit the road against the Vancouver Canucks (7-2-1) at Rogers Arena. The matchup on Saturday, November 4 starts at 10:00 PM ET on ESPN+ and BSSW. Catch over 1000 out of market NHL games, plus original programming, with ESPN+ or the Disney Bundle. Here is our pick for who will clinch the…

The Florida Panthers (2-2), coming off a 3-1 victory over the Toronto Maple Leafs, host the Vancouver Canucks (2-2) at BB&T Center on Saturday, October 21 at 7:00 PM ET on ESPN+ and BSFL. The Canucks lost to the Tampa Bay Lightning 4-3 in their most recent game. Catch over 1000 out of market NHL games, plus original programming, with ESPN+ or the…

Most pundits, experts, and analytical models predict the Canucks will miss the playoffs. We are one day away from the start of the Vancouver Canucks' 2023-24 season. It's a crucial season, with a lot riding on it, as the Canucks have missed the playoffs in seven of their last eight seasons and their franchise forward, Elias Pettersson, is in the…

Welcome to my updated Super Bowl and playoff projections for the NFL season. If you're new here, I project the score for every game and the win percentage for every team using my NFL betting model. The model phases out older data and uses data from this year as the season progresses. We then run that simulation 100000 times after each day of games…

The Buffalo Sabres haven't gotten a good rap in one major outlet's season preview, but they will vastly exceed their expectations. You may have read numerous season previews involving the Buffalo Sabres, with quite a few stating that, at worst, the Blue and Gold would find themselves in wild card contention. Then came arguably the deepest season…

The Anaheim Ducks will travel to Vancouver to face the Canucks after battling it out with the Seattle Kraken. These teams first faced each other in early November in what turned out to be a high-scoring game. The Kraken ended up winning 8-5. The Ducks have been one of the worst teams in the NHL all season long. They have 50 points are sitting near…

Our first big trade of the 2022-23 season went down early yesterday evening. The Vancouver Canucks dealt Bo Horvat, who had long been in the rumor mill, to the New York Islanders in exchange for a conditional 2023 first-round pick, Anthony Beauvillier, and the Islanders' top prospect - Aatu Raty. The first-round pick the Islanders gave up is top-12…

They say sports are unpredictable. Unfortunately for Canucks fans, there tend to be a lot more surprises that make you say "YOU HAVE TO BE KIDDING ME" as opposed to "F***ING RIGHTS, YES!" At this point, watching this team flounder isn't a huge surprise...until you remember that there were realistic playoff odds entering the season. Most outlets had…

The Avalanche will travel northwest to face the Vancouver Canucks for the second time this season. Vancouver beat Colorado 4-3 when they first faced each other. The Avalanche led 3-2 going into the final period, but a Sheldon Dries goal followed by an Ethan Bear goal gave the Canucks the victory. The Avalanche are one point out of the second Wild…

With Thanksgiving in just a week's time in the U.S., the Vancouver Canucks are well off a playoff-qualification pace. They're just 5-9-3 through their first 17 games of the season, sitting in seventh place in the Pacific Division, five points back of the fourth-placed Edmonton Oilers. Recent NHL history has shown that 75 per cent of the teams in a…

The Washington Capitals have lost three of their last four games. They're 3-5-2 in their last ten, and they rank sixth in the Metropolitan Division. While it's still the early season, and while we've got 17 million dollars worth of excuses, now is nonetheless a good time to ask this simple question: Will the Capitals make the playoffs? Various…

Most in the mainstream media expect the Vancouver Canucks to just miss the playoffs but some analytics-based predictions are a lot higher on their chances. How good are the Vancouver Canucks going to be this season? The Canucks themselves have been pretty clear - they feel strongly that they're a playoff team and head coach Bruce Boudreau went as…

Expectations are low for the Chicago Blackhawks entering the 2022-23 NHL season. They went 28-42 last year and have missed the playoffs in four of the past five seasons. They have a new head coach, with Luke Richardson leading the way after spending four seasons as an assistant for the Montreal Canadiens. They are 200/1 to win the Stanley…

The 2022-23 Minnesota Wild regular season starts on Thursday vs the New York Rangers. They enter with a lot of the same faces but a couple of notable changes. Kevin Fiala, the team's second-leading goal scorer last season, was traded to the LA Kings. Cam Talbot is out too, after he refused to share net-minding duties with Marc-Andre Fleury. And…

The 2022-23 NHL season is less than a week away, which means it's time to release the standings projections! There are many different models and methods used across various sites and companies that project the total standings points for every team in the league. We've rounded up a handful of them here so we can see how everyone thinks this…

Two straight exciting seasons for the Wild. Two straight first-round disappointments. It's always the same story for Minnesota sports: Even the most exciting teams find a way to let you down.Maybe that's not totally fair for this team - they didn't enter either season with the highest expectations - but given their performance, it felt like they…

Is regression from J.T. Miller in the cards? Will Elias Pettersson have a breakout season? How many points will Quinn Hughes score? Hockey is a difficult sport to predict. Underdogs typically have a better chance of an upset in hockey than in basketball, for instance, for an array of reasons. The lower scores means any given goal - whether a…

The fifth line had a lot to celebrate this summer. Including but not limited to its pièce de résistance - the signing of Johnny Gaudreau. The optimism amongst Columbus Blue Jackets fans is as high as it has been in quite some time. However, even though this team should be fun to watch this year, how well are they expected to do in this upcoming…

At this point, it's becoming a meme. The Orioles chug along, at or around.500, and our playoff odds continue to say that they'll almost certainly miss postseason play. Across the internet, sites like Baseball Reference and FiveThirtyEight give them a higher chance. The headlines write themselves: "Why doesn't FanGraphs believe in the Orioles?" Just…

The Vancouver Canucks have a week off for the All-Star Break after a 4-2 loss at the hands of the Nashville Predators. They ended their four-game road trip at.500. Vancouver sits with a 20-20-6 record at the break and are still seventh in the Pacific Division. Thatcher Demko is the lone Canucks representative at the All-Star game in Las Vegas. The…

Last week, analytics wunderkind Dom Luszczyszyn, with an assist from Shayna Goldman, unveiled the first edition of his NHL Player Cards. The graphics, which rely on Luszczyszyn's Game Score Value Added model (GSVA), are chock-full of useful information. The entire set of Predators cards is available here, but here are five that stand out for…

Islanders fans have likely waited a long time for this one, longer than they probably expected. That's on two counts. On the first, they've been waiting a long time to get any respect from this model or any other model. Analytics folks and the Islanders have been at odds ever since Barry Trotz took over behind the bench three seasons ago. Though…

The current landscape of the college football bowl season makes things really difficult for betting because there are coaching changes, players entering the transfer portal and players opting out. So while betting early is usually beneficial during the regular season, I think it's quite the opposite during bowl season. There are games just a few…