Smart spending and disciplined coaching give Vancouver a fighting chance as the 2024-25 season opens
When the Vancouver Canucks take to the ice Wednesday to open their 2024-25 season they will be, like all modern sports franchises, an exercise in excruciating financial manoeuvring up to the last few days before the puck drops.
Instead, the Canucks and their counterparts in the National Hockey League are global aggregates of more affordable early-career draft choices, varying-priced mid-career acquisitions, and a clutch of later-career hired guns and gap fillers through free agency. The Canucks have been out of the conversation as Stanley Cup contenders for nearly a dozen years, and much had to do with the front-office failures to restock what had been a team with stars and a worthy supporting cast. It has been a downer on the province’s mood as March and April became May and June.
Much as I grew up in Toronto, where annual predictions of a Maple Leafs resurgence and recapturing of the Cup over the last half-century have been about as reliable as my lottery numbers, the Canucks and Oilers pose the best probabilities at the moment.
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