The most common league NHLers migrate to when they can't find a job in North America is the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). Although it may not be as competitive as it once was, the KHL still features highly-touted Russian players and many former NHLers. 

Teddy Blueger has played in Pittsburgh and Vancouver. He has navigated arena parking lots, airport runs and the usual NHL calendar. None of it prepared him for the drive to Scotiabank Arena.

Asked Sunday for his welcome-to-Toronto moment, the Toronto Maple Leafs center did not reach for a goal, a hit or a first shift in blue and white. He reached for the clock.

THN: After signing with Vancouver, you had a chance to reunite with several of your former Devils teammates at Jesper Bratt’s wedding. How special was that weekend, especially knowing you are about to begin a new chapter with the Canucks?

Cotter: Oh, I mean it was awesome. I have friends for life on that team, and it was really cool celebrating Bratt and seeing all the guys. We had an amazing time.

Top Canadian prospect Chloe Primerano is no stranger to Canadian National Team Development camps. 

The defender, widely considered one of Canada’s top under-20 women’s prospects, has already represented Canada a handful of times in international play, skating in two U-18 World Junior Championships, as well as the 2024–25 IIHF World Championship in which Canada finished with a silver medal. 

When the Vancouver Canucks took to the ice for their final home game of 2025-26, there wasn’t a whole lot for the players to fight for. They had last place in the league wrapped up, 14 points back of 31st-place Chicago, and a summer of change lay ahead.

But after pulling out their first back-to-back victories since December in San Jose and Anaheim, the Canucks stayed in the win column with a 4-3 overtime victory over the playoff-bound Los Angeles Kings.

What grade would you give Vancouver Canucks center Elias Pettersson for the 2025-26 season?

Jenn Gardiner has had a busy off-season. 

Fresh off signing a three-year Standard Player Agreement with her hometown Vancouver Goldeneyes, the forward has made appearances across ice sheets and other landscapes throughout the Lower Mainland. 

It was a relaxed Brendan Gallagher who met with the Vancouver Canucks media for the first time after the Pacific Division side acquired him in a trade with the Montreal Canadiens. The Habs' former alternate captain admitted that his impending move to Vancouver was perhaps the worst-kept secret in the league lately, but that this outcome was the best-case scenario for both him and his family.

The Gallagher family won’t be heading to Vancouver right away as his wife, Emma Fortin, is expecting the couple’s second child soon and they will therefore have to take their time, but that won’t slow down Gallagher’s preparation for next summer as he sill has access to the Canadiens training facility in Brossard, where he trained for one last time as a member of the Canadiens on Monday morning alongside Jake Evans and Lane Hutson.

High-end Comparable: Lucas Raymond

This year, the chatter of who will go first has centered around a pair of dynamic young wingers in Penn State's Gavin McKenna and Frolunda's Ivar Stenberg.

Both players were among the top prospects speaking at the NHL draft combine in Buffalo on Friday.