When local product Jake DeBrusk signed his seven-year $38.5 million free-agent deal with the Vancouver Canucks last summer, leaving the only NHL team he had ever known — the Boston Bruins, little did Jake know he would find himself in the eye of the storm on the west coast. Article content
There was more stuff happening off the ice than on it with the Canucks missing the playoffs in 2024-2025 after winning the Pacific division and almost knocking off the Edmonton Oilers in Game 7 of the 2024 Western Conference semifinal. Article content Article content
• The ongoing Elias Pettersson-J.T. Miller centre-ice soap opera before the vocal Miller was traded to the New York Rangers Jan. 31
• The out-of-leftfield story about Canucks’ best player Quinn Hughes maybe wanting to join his bro