Ed Willes
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Ed Willes: Canucks have much more to worry about than Ryan Reaves
Opinion: Ryan Reaves may have rocked the Canucks on Sunday but he wasn't the only reason the Golden Knights rolled over Travis Green's club → Read More
Golden Knights 5, Canucks 0: Vegas too much for Vancouver in series opener
The rested Golden Knights pounced on a Canucks team less than 48 hours after wrapping up their first playoff series win in nearly a decade. → Read More
Ed Willes’ musings: Life in the NHL bubble is anything but easy
“This whole bubble thing, it’s about who wants to stay. You can tell who wants to stay and who wants to go home. For this game it looked like we wanted to go home. We’ll see about the next game.” — Coyotes head coach Rick Tocchet after his team was obliterated 7-1 by Colorado in Game 4. → Read More
Ed Willes: Confident Canucks learning the best way — by doing
Travis Green's can point to any number of stats from the Canucks' game 6 win over the Blues to show the progress his team has made. → Read More
Ed Willes: Proud papa Jordie Benn is thriving in the playoff bubble
EDMONTON — When Jordie Benn rejoined the Vancouver Canucks, Travis Green wasn’t sure what the veteran defenceman would offer. Nor was he sure he wanted to find out. → Read More
Ed Willes: Markstrom’s reputation as a big-time player grows game by game
EDMONTON — There is a special place in the mythology of the game for players who, through their indomitable will, can take their team and drag them into the fight.Those players, of course, are legends. Bobby Clarke. Mark Messier. Jonathan Toews. → Read More
Ed Willes: Has time finally come for the Avalanche?
Wednesday the Avalanche became one of three teams to punch their ticket to the second round of the Stanley Cup tournament. → Read More
Ed Willes: Canucks’ playoff hopes rest on trying to stop Ryan O’Reilly
Opinion: Ryan O’Reilly’s Corsi rating is a ridiculous plus-63 which means he’s been on the ice for 63 more shot attempts by the Blues than his team has surrendered to the Canucks. → Read More
Ed Willes: It's time the CFL relied on more than nostalgia for its existence
Opinion: It’s hard to be optimistic about the CFL given everything it faces. → Read More
Willes’ Musings: To be the man, Canucks have to beat the man
Throw in Jay Beagle and Antoine Roussel, and the veterans supplied an underpinning of grit and maturity that rubbed off on the kids. → Read More
Ed Willes: To be the man you’ve got to beat the man
Throw in Jay Beagle and Antoine Roussel, and the veterans supplied an underpinning of grit and maturity that rubbed off on the kids. → Read More
Ed Willes: Tanev takes turn playing hero, albeit teammates say he’s always super
“Chris is the heart and soul of this team. It was awesome to see him score there. He’s been big for me on and off the ice.” — Vancouver Canucks rookie defenceman Quinn Hughes → Read More
Canucks 5, Wild 4 (OT): Tanev scores seconds into overtime to oust Minnesota
The Wild weren't about to go down without a fight Friday night but the Vancouver Canucks kept plugging away eliminate Minnesota. → Read More
Ed Willes: This series will be remembered for reasons other than playing in August
The final game is the hardest to win, they said. They’ll be a desperate team and we’ll have to play our best game, they said. → Read More
Ed Willes: Markstrom, timely goals help surging Canucks whip Wild 3-0
EDMONTON — As Travis Green is fond of saying, some games you paint a portrait and some games you paint a barn. And while no one will ever accuse the Vancouver Canucks of an artistic performance in Game 3, they’re now one win away from their first series win since 2011. → Read More
Ed Willes: Intensity, ‘battle words’ cranked up in just two Canucks-Wild games
“I got a little frustrated. I have to take that away and get the focus on 60 minutes plus. It doesn’t matter what happens. I have to stay off the refs.” — Kevin Fiala, Minnesota Wild → Read More
Ed Willes: Reunion of prolific pair gives Canucks a forceful boost
Brock Boeser and Elias Pettersson were reunited on the same line for Game 2 of their qualifying series against the Minnesota Wild and it didn't take long for the pair to find their all-star mojo → Read More
Ed Willes: Reunion of prolific pair gives Canucks a forceful boost
Brock Boeser and Elias Pettersson were reunited on the same line for Game 2 of their qualifying series against the Minnesota Wild and it didn't take long for the pair to find their all-star mojo → Read More
Redemption time as Canucks even series with Wild
EDMONTON — They changed the lineup, their start and the game plan. → Read More
Ed Willes: The players are fresh. The games are fast. The battles are ferocious
The NHL restart has made for a great show and here’s the best part: It’s come at a time when hockey and its fans needed it most. → Read More