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Daniel Wagner @passittobulis.bsky.social · 5h

The #Canucks are kicking off the 2025-26 season with the equivalent of an eight-game road trip — just with a couple of home games sprinkled in. www.vancouverisawesome.com/canucks-hock...

Canucks Preview: Massive home/road trip to start the 2025-26 season

Previewing the Vancouver Canucks' schedule from October 9 to October 23, 2025.

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Daniel Wagner @passittobulis.bsky.social · 23h

I gotta be precise. I didn't say "nobody."

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Daniel Wagner @passittobulis.bsky.social · 23h

No one believes in the #Canucks (except for the Canucks). www.vancouverisawesome.com/canucks-hock...

No one believes in the 2025-26 Canucks (except the Canucks)

Thatcher Demko: "I think that everyone in there believes that we can get back to the team that we were two years ago."

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Rachel Donner @rmiriam.bsky.social · 1d

Some key PWHL Dates for the pre-season!

10/16 – Training Camp Rosters announced
11/7 - Players report to camp (11/9 for National Team players)
11/19 - Final Rosters Due

#PWHL

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Daniel Wagner @passittobulis.bsky.social · 1d

Hear me out: predicting the #Canucks opening-night lineup is child's play, but what about predicting the Canucks' closing-night lineup? www.vancouverisawesome.com/canucks-hock...

Predicting the Canucks’ 2025-26 closing-night lineup

How much will the Vancouver Canucks' lineup change from the first game of the 2025-26 season to the final game.

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Daniel Wagner @passittobulis.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, I have pointed out that parallel already. www.vancouverisawesome.com/canucks-hock...

Screenshot from a Pass it to Bulis article:

If Cootes keeps getting more days, it will be the start of the regular season, and the 18-year-old centre will have made the team.

When Trevor Linden was an 18-year-old kid in his rookie season, veteran Harold Snepsts said, “Usually with a rookie, you’re waiting for some sign of maturity; with Trev, you wait and wait for him to show some sign that he’s still only a kid.”

While Cootes isn’t Linden, by any means, he certainly makes it easy to forget that he doesn’t turn 19 until next year. He plays a mature two-way game with an attention to detail defensively that would put some veteran NHLers to shame.

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Daniel Wagner @passittobulis.bsky.social · 2d

The #Canucks have three rookies on their opening-day roster (and three players who really feel like they should be rookies, but are not).

The Canucks have three rookies on their opening-day roster

Braeden Cootes, Jonathan Lekkerimäki, and Linus Karlsson all made the cut for the Canucks out of camp.

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Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · 3d

Tron gives an inaccurate impression of how many guys live in your computer. It makes it seem like thousands of guys are in there. In reality only about 10 guys live in your computer and less than half of them ride motorcycles

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Adam Kierszenblat @adamkblat.bsky.social · 4d

#Canucks here at UBC. Only Blueger, Forbort and PO Joseph are missing.

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Daniel Wagner @passittobulis.bsky.social · 4d

After sending Max Sasson down to the AHL, the #Canucks are just two cuts away from their opening-day roster. www.vancouverisawesome.com/canucks-hock...

Canucks Camp Cuts: Why Max Sasson was sent down to the AHL

Max Sasson arguably played well enough to make the Vancouver Canucks' opening-night roster, but asset management was working against him.

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thegreatdandino @thegreatdandino.bsky.social · 5d

Adam Foote tomorrow morning:
#Canucks

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Daniel Wagner @passittobulis.bsky.social · 5d

Conor Garland is money in overtime. 3-2 win for the #Canucks over the Oilers in the final game of the preseason.

Bring on the regular season!

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Daniel Wagner @passittobulis.bsky.social · 5d

Jonathan Lekkerimäki: Welcome to the Vancouver #Canucks opening-night roster.

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Daniel Wagner @passittobulis.bsky.social · 5d

I say this with all the sincerity I can muster: I would rather watch Megna with the Sedins.

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Daniel Wagner @passittobulis.bsky.social · 5d

I can't think of anything I want to watch less than a Jimmy Fallon-hosted show about making ads.

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Daniel Wagner @passittobulis.bsky.social · 5d

How can the #Canucks possibly cut Cootes or Lekkerimäki?

Cootes wins the battle for the puck, has the strength and the poise to hold off his check and feed Lekkerimäki, and The Lekkerimäkian One already has one of the best shots in the NHL.

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Daniel Wagner @passittobulis.bsky.social · 7d

Man, the Flames really 8-1 tonight.

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NHL (Bot) @notnhl.bsky.social · 7d

There's only a few players in the League who can make a pass like this look so easy. 😳

Quinn Hughes is one of those players.

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Daniel Wagner @passittobulis.bsky.social · 7d

Just catching up on the #Canucks game after some internet troubles...

Look, Flames, I know it's just the preseason, but allowing a Derek Forbort shorthanded goal is not a great sign for how your season is going to go.

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Patrick Johnston 🇨🇦 @risingaction.bsky.social · 7d

Yeah so about Willie Mitchell

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Tofino woman accuses ex-Canuck Willie Mitchell of sexual assault in B.C. lawsuit

The plaintiff alleges Mitchell assaulted her after work in Tofino in September 2022.

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Daniel Wagner @passittobulis.bsky.social · 7d

All we've heard from the Canucks is that Demko's absence from practice was for personal reasons. For now, there's no reason to doubt that's the case.

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Daniel Wagner @passittobulis.bsky.social · 7d

I still think LaBate will get sent down, but it was surprising that he practiced in Vancouver on Tuesday and his name was omitted from Abbotsford's training camp roster.

As for Cootes, I think he'll get nine games. Höglander's injury makes that easier to do.

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Daniel Wagner @passittobulis.bsky.social · 7d

A preview and projected lines for the #Canucks' penultimate preseason game. Please peruse at your leisure and pleasure. www.vancouverisawesome.com/canucks-hock...

Canucks lines vs Flames, October 1, 2025

It's crunch time for the players on the bubble as the Vancouver Canucks play their penultimate game of the preseason.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 8d

One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."

A few days after this cartoon was published, my syndicate received a very indignant letter from someone representing the Jane Goodall Institute.
Not only did my syndicate and I both get read the Riot Act, there was a vague implication that litigation over this cartoon might be around the corner.
I was horrified. Not so much from a fear of being sued (I just couldn't see how this cartoon could be construed as anything but silly, but because of my deep respect for Jane Goodall and her well-known contributions to pri-matology. The last thing in the world I would have intentionally done was offend Dr. Goodall in any way.
Before I had a chance to write my apology, another complication arose.
The National Geographic Society contacted my syndicate and expressed a

desire to reprint the cartoon in a special centennial issue of their magazine. My editor, aware of what had just occurred, declined, explaining why.
Apparently, whoever it was that sent the inquiry from National Geographic was shocked. They told my editor that "that doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know." They did some checking themselves, and an interesting fact was eventually discovered: Jane Goodall loved the cartoon. Furthermore, she was totally unaware that any of this "stuff" was going on. Some phone calls were made, and the cartoon was not only reprinted in the centennial issue of National Geographic, but was also used by her Institute on a T-shirt for fund-raising purposes.
I've since had an opportunity to visit Dr. Goodall at her research facility in Gombe. It's a wonderful place (sort of like right out of National Geographic).
"To refer to Dr. Goodall as a tramp is inexcusable even by a self-described 'loony' as Larson. The cartoon was incredibly offensive and in such poor taste that readers might well question the editorial judgment of running such an atrocity in a newspaper that reputes to be supplying news to persons with a better than average intelligence. The cartoon and its message were absolutely stupid." —Excerpt from the above-mentioned letter that started the ruckus

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Daniel Wagner @passittobulis.bsky.social · 8d

Vancouver's PWHL team doesn't have a name yet, but it does have a schedule. www.vancouverisawesome.com/canucks-hock...

PWHL Vancouver releases schedule for inaugural season

Vancouver's as-yet-unnamed PWHL team will make its debut at the Pacific Coliseum on November 21.

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