Jason Botchford
The Province
Vancouver, BC, Canada
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Jason Botchford: Luongo's wit shines online
Jason Botchford: From YouTube to Twitter (maybe), the superstar Vancouver Canucks goalie lets his guard down. → Read More
Jason Botchford: Hughes opts for more university hockey, skips Canucks’ camp overtures
The sun has set on super prospect Quinn Hughes starting the season with the Vancouver Canucks. That leaves the NHL team’s defence emanating a feeling of déjà vu. → Read More
Jason Botchford: Prospect Juolevi has opportunity to land a job on Canucks’ blue-line
Vancouver’s loss is Olli Juolevi’s gain.Quinn Hughes, the Canucks’ shiny new toy, is going back to school and that puts the spotlight back on Juolevi who was the team’s best defensive prospect right until the 2018 NHL Entry Draft. → Read More
Jason Botchford: Mixed messages on president status add confusion to Canucks’ chaos
What happens next for the Vancouver Canucks will make for some fascinating drama.When Francesco Aquilini announced the NHL team and Trevor Linden were parting ways he said this on Twitter: “A new president will be named in due course. → Read More
Jason Botchford: Canucks say ‘everyone on same page,’ but say little about Linden exit
Consider this the awkward stage of the breakup.Trevor Linden has left the Canucks again and to help explain the split the NHL team’s current hockey operations czar Jim Benning and head coach Travis Green met with the media Thursday.There was just one problem. → Read More
Jason Botchford: Canucks' nosedive likely didn't help Linden's relationship with regime
Life in the NHL isn’t supposed to move this fast in late July. But the Vancouver Canucks just got turned upside down. → Read More
Jason Botchford: Power-play time might help Virtanen spark Canucks’ anemic offence
One thing the Vancouver Canucks’ off-season accomplished was leaving the door wide open for players like Jake Virtanen to progress.Virtanen turns 22 next month and the organization is hopeful he can take a big step forward from his 20-point season. → Read More
Jason Botchford: Canucks extend hope that Jake Virtanen becomes impactful power forward
Looking back at Jarome Iginla’s career is a window into the soul of the Vancouver Canucks’ first pick at the 2014 NHL Entry Draft.Jake Virtanen wasn’t drafted because he was the best player available. He was drafted because his skill set is intoxicating. → Read More
Rehab of Canuck Loui Eriksson, the goal-scorer, promises to be challenging
The rehabilitation of Loui Eriksson, the goal-scorer, promises to be one of the Canucks’ most-challenging projects. → Read More
Jason Botchford: Healthy Brock Boeser needs to build on great rookie campaign
Brock Boeser is finally healthy and readying himself to follow up on a ridiculously successful rookie season. It wasn’t so much about what went right that made his first year so remarkable, it was what went wrong. → Read More
Jason Botchford: Do the Canucks have a defenceman they can package in beneficial trade?
Before and after the NHL Entry Draft, the Vancouver Canucks expressed their desire to be active in the trade market. If only it were that easy. There just hasn't been a ballooning market for Vancouver's veterans, which includes a group of seven NHL defencemen who are in the team's control. → Read More
Jason Botchford: If Hughes signs, a couple Canucks will feel extra pressure to perform
With or without Quinn Hughes, the Vancouver Canucks have a couple defencemen who have been put on watch.The NHL team is looking for a lot of progress this summer from Derrick Pouliot and Ben Hutton, puck-moving defencemen who could either make significant strides or be left in the dust. → Read More
Jason Botchford: Green hopes free agents’ love for winning rubs off on younger Canucks
A group of free agents the Vancouver Canucks signed this month will never make up for the scoring the retired Henrik and Daniel Sedin left behind. But head coach Travis Green is hoping they'll fill other voids the Canucks face without the twins' longtime leadership. → Read More
Lulay named CFL player of the week after second-half heroics
B.C. quarterback's career was thrown into question last September when he suffered ACL, MCL and cartilage damage in a game against Montreal. → Read More
Lions receivers will welcome Hall of Famer Terrell Owens to the CFL with open arms
B.C. Lions wide receiver Shaq Johnson has some advice for an NFL Hall of Famer who is also a CFL wannabe.“It ain’t easy,” said Johnson when asked about Terrell Owens, the greatest me-first receiver there probably ever was. → Read More
Jason Botchford: Green likes Canucks’ mix, but ‘we will need to scratch and claw’
It’s nearing midsummer in Vancouver and Travis Green’s office looks like he hasn’t missed a day of the off-season.The coach’s office remains a hub of activity and on his desk sits a two-inch pile of neatly stacked paperwork, filled with internally tabulated underlying data. → Read More
Jason Botchford: Promise to upgrade Canucks' blue-line forgotten, but it may improve
The promise of a new defence has yet to materialize for the Vancouver Canucks this summer. Something had to change after another NHL season where they didn’t get to 25 goals as a group (they had 21). → Read More
About that Canucks 2018-19 schedule: Who did they tick off?
The more you dig into the Vancouver Canucks’ upcoming schedule, the more you wonder who they upset at the league’s head offices. By some measures, it could be the most difficult in the league. → Read More
Jason Botchford: Canucks should make Pettersson centre of attention
Consider the possibility there is a parallel universe where, after travelling through a portal, you could see the Vancouver Canucks’ free-agency strategy flipped upside down. → Read More
Jason Botchford: Alex Burrows will forever be linked to the Sedin twins
To grasp why Vancouver’s reaction to Alex Burrows retirement has been filled with such collective affection and admiration you first have to go back to where the bond really began.In the spring of 2008, Burrows was already a wonderful story. → Read More