48 Facts About Vancouver Canucks

Vancouver Canucks are a professional ice hockey team based in Vancouver.

Vancouver Canucks joined the league in 1970 as an expansion team along with the Buffalo Sabres.

Vancouver Canucks have retired six players' jerseys in their history—Pavel Bure, Stan Smyl, Trevor Linden, Markus Naslund, Daniel Sedin and Henrik Sedin ; all but Bure and Daniel Sedin have served as team captain.

The WHL's Canucks were playing in a small arena at the time, the Vancouver Forum, situated on the same Pacific National Exhibition grounds as the Coliseum.

Meanwhile, a Vancouver group led by WHL Canucks owner and former Vancouver mayor Fred Hume made a bid to be one of the six teams due to join the league in 1967, but the NHL rejected their application.

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Speculation long abounded afterwards that the bid was hindered by Toronto Maple Leafs president Stafford Smythe; after a failed Vancouver Canucks-based business deal, he was quoted as saying that the city would not get an NHL franchise in his lifetime.

Vancouver Canucks struggled in their early years, failing to make the playoffs in their first four seasons.

Also in the summer of 1974, the Vancouver Canucks were re-aligned within the league and placed in the new Smythe Division.

Vancouver Canucks made their first significant playoff impact in the 1982 playoffs.

The Vancouver Canucks had a home-ice advantage during the second-round series against the Kings, who upset the Oilers in the first round.

Notable players that joined the Vancouver Canucks' core following the 1982 playoffs included offensively skilled forwards Patrik Sundstrom and Tony Tanti.

For most of the second half of the 1980s, the Vancouver Canucks competed with the Los Angeles Kings for the final playoff spot in the Smythe Division.

Consequently, his draft by the Vancouver Canucks took a year to be verified by the league as team management went about procuring documents to prove his eligibility.

The following year, the Vancouver Canucks repeated as regular-season division champions, while Bure emerged as arguably the team's first superstar with his first of back-to-back 60-goal seasons, totals which remain the highest recorded in Vancouver Canucks history.

In 1994, the Vancouver Canucks made their second trip to the Stanley Cup Finals, entering the playoffs as the seventh seed in the renamed Western Conference.

Opening the playoffs with a close first-round series against the Calgary Flames, Vancouver Canucks rallied from a three-games-to-one deficit to win the series in seven contests.

The loss was followed by a riot in Downtown Vancouver Canucks, which resulted in property damage, injuries and arrests.

Vancouver Canucks made another significant move in the off-season by acquiring high-scoring Russian forward Alexander Mogilny from the Buffalo Sabres, reuniting Bure with his former CSKA Moscow and national team linemate.

Vancouver Canucks began the campaign overseas in a two-game series against the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim in Tokyo, Japan.

Meanwhile, Pavel Bure, unhappy in Vancouver Canucks, had withheld himself from the team and requested a trade at the beginning of the campaign.

Amidst a run for the team's first Northwest Division title the following season, the Vancouver Canucks received significant media attention for their involvement in a violent on-ice attack during a game against the Avalanche.

Vancouver Canucks faced legal action in British Columbia court, while Moore filed lawsuits against him and the Canucks organization in Colorado and Ontario courts.

Vancouver Canucks went on to win their first Northwest Division title that season, but lost in the first round of the 2004 playoffs to the Calgary Flames.

Several Vancouver Canucks players went overseas to Europe to play professionally, including Naslund and the Sedin twins, who all returned to their former Swedish team, Modo Hockey.

Vancouver Canucks tied Bernie Parent for the second-most wins in a single-season by an NHL goaltender, with 47.

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The Vancouver Canucks opened the 2007 playoffs with a quadruple-overtime win against the Dallas Stars.

The Vancouver Canucks set a league record for shots against in one game, allowing 76.

Vancouver Canucks won the series in seven games despite a lack of goal-scoring; Stars goaltender Marty Turco recorded three shutouts in the series and equalled the league record for most shutouts in a playoff series.

The schedule was a result of Vancouver Canucks hosting the 2010 Winter Olympics, which shut down the NHL for two weeks, facilitating General Motors Place's use for ice hockey during the games.

Vancouver Canucks won the Northwest Division title and finished third in the Western Conference for the second-straight year.

The Vancouver Canucks played the Los Angeles Kings, their first opponent in their inaugural season in 1970; both teams wore their original uniforms used in the Vancouver Canucks' inaugural game.

In December 2010, the Vancouver Canucks honoured Markus Naslund by retiring his number 19 jersey.

The Vancouver Canucks played the Nashville Predators in the second round of the playoffs, defeating the Predators in six games.

Vancouver Canucks won game 5 while the Bruins won games 6 and 7 to win the Stanley Cup.

Vancouver Canucks finished the year winning their fifth consecutive Northwest Division title, but were swept in the first round of the playoffs by the San Jose Sharks.

The Vancouver Canucks became the first team to have a top two Calder Trophy finalist three years in a row since the Toronto Maple Leafs, who did so when the league only had six teams from 1957 to 1959.

The "Vancouver Canucks" script was removed while the modern "stick-in-rink" logo was modified with white as the main colour.

The Vancouver Canucks' design used was similar to the alternates they wore from 2001 to 2006, but with green replacing maroon.

Vancouver Canucks' mascot is an anthropomorphic killer whale named Fin the Orca.

Vancouver Canucks is often seen banging a First Nations drum or skating around during intermissions firing t-shirts out of a compressed air cannon.

Vancouver Canucks was charged with stock fraud and spent the last two years of his Canuck ownership in prison.

From 1988 to 1997, the Vancouver Canucks were owned by local businessman and philanthropist Arthur Griffiths, who had inherited ownership from his father, Frank.

Vancouver Canucks Ring of Honour is a collection of permanent in-arena displays, that commemorates individuals that made an impact with the franchise.

Vancouver Canucks selected Dale Tallon, a defenceman from the Toronto Marlboros with their first pick, second overall in the 1970 NHL Amateur Draft.

Ten years later, the Vancouver Canucks drafted Trevor Linden from the Medicine Hat Tigers in 1988.

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The Vancouver Canucks have had 13 top-five draft picks in franchise history, but have never had the first overall pick.

The Vancouver Canucks are one of the two franchises in the NHL to have drafted two twin brothers in the same year.

Vancouver Canucks is followed by Marc Crawford, who has 586 points all-time with the Canucks.