Talk:Vancouver Canucks

WHL Canucks section

Why is there a separate page for the "WHL Vancouver Canucks" and why is there no mention of the Canucks founding in 1945 on the NHL page? This is the same franchise. When the Canucks moved to the NHL many players from the WHL team were included and even their WHL owner - Coley Hall - was involved with the NHL ownership group. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.199.44.55 (talk) 01:15, 7 December 2009 (UTC)

The 1945 founding date is mentioned in the infobox, as well as in the early history section. As far as the WHL article goes, I believe the intention was to allow for much greater coverage of the pre-NHL days than would be possible if it was all mashed together. Resolute 05:13, 7 December 2009 (UTC)

Media - 7th Canuck

I think this section should be deleted. The banner ceremony only happened once, and the #7 banner was unceremoniously taken down from the rafters during the 2009 offseason. I don't see what it has to do with anything, as it is now a very insignificant part of Canucks team history, consisting of a single small ceremony before a game. As far as the organization is concerned, the idea was a failure and it has been abandoned. Chris Zimmerman, the man responsible for the idea, isn't even with the Canucks anymore. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.118.74.23 (talk) 02:05, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

Be bold! Feel free to remove it if you so choose. I would, however, ensure that the banner ceremony is noted in the proper season article, as it would be relevant to the season that it was raised. Cheers! Resolute 02:13, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

I agree, and have removed the section from the main article and placed it within the proper season article. I think The 7th Canuck banner is relevant only to the 2008-09 season and not Canucks history as a whole. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.118.74.23 (talk) 16:25, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

NHL Honours

Why does this section get removed? This is good information that is included on other NHL teams' wiki pages. I see no reason why it should be removed, so whoever is removing it please explain yourself.

Bascially we have a standard section that deals with honours that is standard across all 30 teams. -DJSasso (talk) 16:02, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

IMNSHO, this information is better contained in its own article. Rather than a bare bones list that offers little context or value, it could be moved to List of Vancouver Canucks award winners, which could be expanded to offer greater information. For comparison sake: Calgary Flames and List of Calgary Flames award winners, both of which are featured. Resolute 16:05, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

Ted Lindsay Award

Under the awards section, it has recently been edited that Markus Naslund was the recipient of the recently re-named Ted Lindsay Award, which at the time of his win was named the Lester B. Pearson Award. I believe that it should remain as the Lester B. Pearson award on this page because that was the name of the award when Naslund won it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.68.15.106 (talk) 18:08, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

Rogers Arena

When the stadium was built it was GM place. When talking about the history of the arena we cannot say that it was called "Rogers Arena" while it was being built, it is currently misleading. For example, if while the Hoover Dam was building built, an engineer referred to it as "The Hoover Dam" and it later changed names to The President Obama Dam, you couldn't go back and change the quote so that the engineer said "The President Obama Dam." Sorry this is the best example I could come up with. I am going to change this...

Two Questions

1) Should we use this table to show the retirees?

12	Stan Smyl
16	Trevor Linden
19	Markus Naslund

2) Should we make a different page for the Ring of Honour?

Waseemg 20:55, 18 October 2010 (UTC)

No to both accounts, the retired numbers list is standard across every team. The Ring of Honour if it belongs anywhere, which I am not sure it does, would belong on the Vancouver Canucks award winners page. Which I am not sure that it has been created yet for the Canucks. An example is List of Calgary Flames award winners. -DJSasso (talk) 11:51, 19 October 2010 (UTC)

Ooh, I like that page. I think I'll clone it for the Bruins and merge the team award articles I created into it.  Ravenswing  14:25, 19 October 2010 (UTC)

Yes its one of Resolute's many nice featured pages. -DJSasso (talk) 18:08, 19 October 2010 (UTC)

I'm actually not opposed to such a table, but I'd probably add the years the player was with the team for context. But yeah, if we wanted to go that route, it would be nice to discuss it at WT:HOCKEY and decide if we go for all teams. And, appreciate the compliments on the Flames award list. Resolute 18:18, 19 October 2010 (UTC)

The table is nice looking, but it would be colour for the sake of decoration, which is a no-no. And for Vancouver atleast this particular table would be unreadable by anyone with colour blindness because its green and blue. Personally my favourite was the "banners" we used to have on the Montreal Canadiens page many years ago. However, they were removed for the decoration issue. -DJSasso (talk) 18:19, 19 October 2010 (UTC)

Yeah, I would pretty much insist on a white background for them all for that reason. I was contemplating how it would look on the Flames article, and thought that the colour and table could break a text wall nicely, depending on how it was implemented. Alternatively, a table like what is done at History of the Montreal Canadiens would work. Resolute 18:23, 19 October 2010 (UTC)

1981-82 Smythe Division Champions

Anyone who's been to Rogers Arena might notice there is a banner hanging in the rafters for the 1981-82 Smythe Division Champions. This currently isn't reflected in the "Division Championships" section of the page because it wasn't a regular season division championship, but because the NHL used a different format for the playoffs that year, the Canucks were actually the 1981-82 Smythe Division Champions in the PLAYOFFS (Edmonton were the division champs during the regular season). How should this be reflected in the division championships section? (I think it should be, because technically it was a division championship and there is a banner hanging in Rogers Arena for it).24.69.65.132 (talk) 17:53, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

Actually, it should be changed, imo. For most teams between 81-82 and 92-93, the division championship was won in the playoffs, not the regular season. The Oilers do not recognize 81-82 as a season in which they won the Smythe. Likewise, they do not recognize 85-86 as a division win, nor do the Flames recognize 87-88. It becomes confusing because prior to 81-82, the division and conference championships were won in the regular season due to the playoff format being division and conference independent. After 93-94, the divison returned to being a regular season achievement when the new conference playoff format was added. Per that standard, I'm adding 81-82 to the Canucks article and removing it from the Oilers. Resolute 18:04, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

Now that I think about it, I've removed the 91-92 and 92-93 titles from the infobox on the same reasoning. Resolute 18:07, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

Removal of bracketed statement about Vancouver and Buffalo becoming the 13th and 14th teams to join.

I removed that small statement because it was inaccurate. They Canucks and Sabres became the 13th and 14th teams in the league at the time of joining the league in 1970. Given the large number of defunct teams before the 'Original 6' era, the Sabres and Canucks were not the 13th and 14th to join from the NHL's inception as was implied. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Helmut Hedd (talk • contribs) 00:28, 8 May 2011 (UTC)

Injuries on the Roster

I noticed that eight Canucks have this [1] next to their name. According to [2], only Hamhuis and Samuelsson are injured. Also, as a diehard 'Nucks fan, I have heard nothing about the other six who are supposedly injured. Does anyone have a source to back these up? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jmfriesen (talk • contribs) 23:01, 27 June 2011 (UTC)

I don't have sources handy but certainly alot of them are definitely injured. Raymond for example broke his back and is out until at least Christmas. That being said it doesn't really matter since the season is done. All of the injury flags should probably be removed. There is not disabled list in the summer. I am betting your link just hasn't been updated since there is no DL in the summer. -DJSasso (talk) 23:47, 27 June 2011 (UTC)

Oooh, I forgot about Raymond. That's embarrassing. Anyways, I think only the ones that aren't confirmed should be removed, and I noticed Kesler doesn't have the symbol, even though he played in the Final with a lower body injury. Jmfriesen (talk) 00:54, 28 June 2011 (UTC)

I went ahead and removed the symbol from all of the player except Raymond per DJSasso's comments. Raymond should be the only one out by the start of next season and if I'm wrong the symbol can be added back at that time. here is an article mentioning most of the players who were listed as injured.--Mo Rock...Monstrous (leech44) 12:48, 28 June 2011 (UTC)

Canucks Jerseys season by season

I notice that Jerseys change every year and that the current ones get uploaded to wikipedia but once a jersey isn't used anymore, it doesn't seem to be on wikipedia anymore. I was looking through the BC Lions page and they have their current Jerseys on the main page like every other sports team. One interesting note with them if you search through their individual seasons such as their 1994 BC Lions season, they have the Jerseys that they wore that year on that page. My suggestion is that we do that for the Canucks season by season pages so the pages can be more insightful about what Jerseys that wore each year. Secondcube (talk) 23:25, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

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