A Vancouver Canucks come the broker National Hockey League (NHL) ice hockey team based around Vancouver, British Columbia.

Franchise History
Within 1945 the Pacific Coast Hockey League established an ice hockey franchise in the city of Vancouver. Called a Canucks, it immediately enjoyed profits by winning PCHL championships in their foremost & third season of being. Around 1952, a PCHL merged by using the Western Canada Senior Hockey League to form the professional Western Hockey League. By having many star players coming through the ranks such as Johnny Bower, Andy Bathgate, Tony Esposito, and Phil Maloney, a Canucks won the President's/Lester Patrick Cup in 1958, 1960, 1969, and 1970.

Within 1965, when a NHL announced plans to expand to sixer extra markets , a WHL's Canucks creator & previous Vancouver city manager Fred Hume announced that the city of Vancouver would use. Nevertheless, a presentation to the NHL's Board of Governors was sloppily prepared. Because of this, & a fact that a Vancouver ownership class action was disliked by Detroit Red Wings' owner James Norris and Toronto Maple Leafs' owner Stafford Smythe (who despised Vancouver generally because of a failing arena project), the application did non succeed. However, a Pacific Coliseum, which was to be the foremost residence for a prospective Vancouver NHL team, was build upon the evidence of the Pacific National Exhibition (PNE).

). Interestingly, a Canucks were laid in the East Section - allegedly to maintain parity between them divisions. (Additional interesting was a fact that a Blackhawks moved from either a East Section to a West Section the equivalent season.)

A Canucks use been to the Stanley Cup Finals twice in their franchise history. Their number one hike was inside 1982, when it were swept Iv games to none per New York Islanders. Around 1994, the Canucks mass produced a second hike to the finals, typing that month's playoffs when a seventh seed in the American Conference. A club got what can be characterized as an off year inside a period of a regular season, however resumed their form in the period of the playoffs, beating Calgary in the number 1 spherical in an unbelievable septenary bet on series. It win game Vii around overtime on the Pavel Bure breaking away. It went in to kill a Dallas Stars & Toronto Maple Leafs prior to meeting a New York Rangers in the Finals. a Canucks misused game Heptad inside the finals by a score of Three-Two inside what numerous hockey analysts assume one of the nighest & virtually all exciting Stanley Ventral suction cup finals in NHL history.

Logo and jersey history
The team has gone across many different logotype & jersey changes within its history. One of their number 1 jerseys is today worn on the occassional "vintage night"; the blue rink-shaped rectangle by owning the hockey stick within it designed by Joe Borovich of Northerly Vancouver. The version of this logotype is however inside utilise, as a shoulder patch on the team's todays jerseys. One of the extra controversial jerseys worn consisted of a immense yellowness, orange, & melanize stripy "V" coming down from either a shoulders which, based in whom wise shoppers ask, is unremarkably considered to become either their better or even (supplementary usually) worst jersey. A logotype utilized prior to a todays 1 was a word "Canucks" within the diagonal slant & is the share of the blade of a skate. the todays jersey is an killer, in the shape of a "C".

A title "Canuck" has nothing to do using a todays logotype of the Canucks. Canuck is slang for the American individual in the way "Yankee" is for an American. But, a team title is actually from either Johnny Canuck, a 19th century American Cartoon that has experienced many reincarnations in a period of the 20th century. Johnny Canuck was likewise on the super foremost Vancouver Canucks logotype, back in their Pacific Coast Hockey League days.

Ownership
Francesco Aquilini, head of the Aquilini Investment Class action within Vancouver, purchased the 50% part in the franchise & General Motors Place sports arena on the 17th of November, 2004. Aquilini purchased his part of the franchise & General Motors Place from either Our contries billionaire John McCaw, who however owns a left over 50%. Even so, inside January 2005, Aquilini's previous business partners, Tom Gagliardi and Ryan Beedie, have filed the case against Aquilini & OrcaBay, a class action that presently owns the Canucks. Gagliardi & Beedie claimed that Aquilini & OrcaBay got acted within bad faith & went behind their backs after Aquilini & Orca Bay brokered their treat, despite Aquilini by owning experienced to pull away from his partnership with Gagliardi & Beedie to choose a team due to fiscal concerns.

Season-by-season record
Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, OTL = Overtime losses, Pts = Points, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against, PIM = Penalties inside minutes

Notable Players
Current Roster
When of October 8, 2005

Hall of Famers
Andrew James "Andy" Bathgate Frank A. Griffiths (Owner) John Calverley "Jake" Milford (General Manager) Roger Paul Neilson (Coach) Norman "Bud" Poile (General Manager)

Team captains
Orland Kurtenbach (1970 - 1974) Andre Boudrias (1975 - 1976) Chris Oddleifson (1976 - 1977) Don Lever (1977 - 1979) Kevin McCarthy (1979 - 1982) Stan Smyl (1982 - 1990) Dan Quinn (1990 - 1991) Doug Lidster (1990 - 1991) Trevor Linden (1990 - 1997) Mark Messier (1997 - 2000) Markus Näslund (2000 - present)

Not to be forgotten
Greg "Gus" Adams Richard Brodeur Pavel Bure Thomas Gradin Dennis Kearns Jyrki Lumme Kirk McLean Alexander Mogilny Cliff Ronning Harold Snepsts Petri Skriko Tony Tanti Dennis Ververgaert Dave "Tiger" Williams

Retired Numbers
Dozen Stan Smyl 99 Wayne Gretzky (retired league-wide by the NHL) ''Note: Wayne Maki's number Eleven was unofficially retired per Canucks organization charted his prematurely dying within Could 1974. Although this is the pack, it has been worn by a single more Canucks streaming video player since so, Mark Messier.''