HUGE CANUCKS UPDATE: DEMKO & HUGHES SPEAK ON VANCOUVER’S PROBLEMS + SHERWOOD CONTRACT UPDATE

HUGE CANUCKS UPDATE: DEMKO & HUGHES SPEAK ON VANCOUVER’S PROBLEMS + SHERWOOD CONTRACT UPDATE

So, things are going to get spicy today, folks, because the Vancouver Conucks are in Dallas, Texas, playing off against the Dallas Stars at a 5:00 p.m. Pacific Standard Time, starting time. And this is going to be difficult because I don’t know if you noticed, the Vancouver Conucks aren’t really doing all too well, but the Dallas Stars, they kind of are. Jason Robertson seems to have found his game and Miko Rantin’s looking better than ever. But in this video, I wanted to go over some of the other Conucks news and notes from the past few days that dive into some of the optimistic stuff and how some of the Vancouver Conucks players are feeling heading into tonight’s contest. Now, this could be seen as old news, so I apologize. It’s from two days ago. Forgive me. But I wanted to dive into firstly Ian McIntyre’s article from two nights ago. The Canucks feeling urgency, not panic, amid early growing pains. And then we’re also going to go over onto the fourth period to get into a Kefir Sherwood contract update. Now, these are both from 2 days ago. If Kefir Sherwood ends up signing an extension by the time this video is uploaded, then hey, that’s my bad. But I’m recording this the night of the 15th. It’ll be up in about 12 hours or so on the 16th, 5 hours before puck drop. But it turns out despite the fact that Vancouver isn’t really doing all too well, you take a look at the games they’ve played so far, 5 to1 win over the Calgary Flames, 3 to1 loss to the Oilers, 5 to2 loss to the Blues, you could realistically say that in nine periods of hockey, the Conucks have only really had one solid period, and that was third period against Calgary. despite the fact that the team really isn’t looking all too good right now. Seems like the Conucks players themselves are not panicking. And I want to give a big shout out to Ian McIntyre for getting the quotes over here just from everything, you know, that’s happened in the last couple of years. It probably feels a little bit more urgent the way that they’re losing and not getting results right now than maybe if we were a team that was in the playoffs last year. Kucks captain Quinn Hugh said after Tuesday’s practice at Rogers Arena, but we haven’t deserved that, right? To kind of be one and two and say, you know, we’ll be good. We have to go prove it. There’s a mental challenge, sure, but it’s our job to be positive throughout the whole season, no matter what’s going on. So, we tried to have fun today at practice. Definitely, there’s waves of ups and downs, and I felt it last night. But for myself, just be positive and bring your best every game. So that’s what I need to try to do and everyone needs to do. By the way, it was Quinn Hughes’s birthday 2 days ago. So happy birthday to Captain Quinn turning 26 years young. This article then dives into some of the intricacies on the Canucks losses, how urgency is usually a precursor for desperation and panic. And it always seems to lurk near the Canucks, especially over the holiday weekend losses, 5-2 Monday at home to the Blues and Saturday 3 to1 in Edmonton against the Oilers. The Canucks weren’t nearly good enough in either game, but as usual, in a market scarred by disappointment over many years and wary of being fooled again, emotions are outracing reality. Now, IMAX’s a legend in the biz. He’s been at it for years. So, obviously, he knows this market and the people in it better than anybody else, I’d say, that does consistent written content for this hockey team. So when IMAX’s talking about the Canucks fans, the emotions running high, everybody’s disappointed. We’ve been disappointed for years. Yeah, there’s a really big element of truth to that. So let’s continue on here. Just skimming by. The article talks about how Hughes is on a single assist and he is a minus two through three games, but his expected goals for share at 5v5 is at 59%. Elas Person has just one assist and three shots on goal, but his expected goals four is 68%. Connor Garland has only one assist, but co-leads Vancouver with nine shots. The Canucks need to finish, and their power play that surged through the preseason needs to offer something better than 0 for seven. The team also must earn more chances with the man advantage and stop turning over pucks and yielding quality scoring chances when they’re chasing games. They need to play tighter and sharper like they proved they could do in a preseason that had them and many fans brimming with optimism. Here is what Demco had to say. The thing for me is the things that have been lacking are things that are super correctable. We can address those things and we have in video and things like that. But yeah, those are easy things to fix. We had so much momentum for us in the preseason games and I don’t think it’s going to take much to kind of get back to that level and have that swagger as a group. And as for any darkness closing in for game four Thursday in Dallas, I mean, I think no one’s talking about it. Demco said, “I think guys are fine. I mean, if you guys in the media are chatting about it, I don’t know, but I don’t get that sense in the room.” To answer your question, I don’t think there’s a panic level or anything like that. We know we have to address some things. We’ve got to clean some things up for sure. We’re not turning a blind eye to that. But I think we’re the same group we were a week ago. I feel good about our group and I think guys are excited to get back on the road. So Demco, this is a really good team building quote. Like you don’t want to toss any guys under the bus, especially your own teammates. But Demco is doing the total opposite. He’s putting all these guys up to the wall and saying, “Yeah, no, we’re fine.” like no bad vibes. We’re not going out there and talking about us being down one and two at the start of the season. You guys in the media could be talking about it, but for us in the room, that’s not an issue because the problems that are occurring with the Vancouver Conucks are, in Demco’s words, super correctable. the way it’s structured, the way he says these things, it doesn’t seem like it’s a personnel issue, like, oh, they don’t have the second line center they need in order to become good. That’s the problem. No, it’s more like they’re just making mistakes and they’ve been sloppy with their passes and the way they try to create offense, it just hasn’t been there like it was in the preseason. And that’s fair. Honestly, I’d agree with that. They looked pretty sloppy, but we know based off of the preseason, they do have different plans compared to last year. Now, you don’t want to see them getting no shots on goal like they did against Edmonton, but still correctable mistakes. We’ll see whether or not that comes out in the game against Dallas. This is what Kefir Sherwood went out there and said about this situation here. I think you have to have adversity throughout the season. I don’t care what team you are. You think we have a good camp and it’s just going to be smooth sailing. Like, that’s not how a season works. If anything, it’s good to go through growing pains earlier so that we know how to respond, how we can grow, how we stick together, and how we learn from it. At the end of the day, it’s what you do with those losses that can propel us to more wins. We have to flip the switch from training camp mode and, you know, summer happiness to lock in here. It’s going to be hard, and I think you’ve got to embrace the hard, right? That’s a Rick Tucket quote, isn’t it? You can’t try to avoid it. It’s a long, grueling season, especially with our condensed schedule this year. So, we have to embrace it. The urgency has to be now. It can’t be 10 or 15 games in. We did this to ourselves and now it’s time for us to move forward and like I said, put our work boots on and grow from it. Now, this is a good place to segue into the Kefir Sherwood contract conversation. This is what David Pota wrote about on the fourth period in regards to Vancouver and how they have yet to talk with Kefir Sherwood about a contract extension. Yeah, the guy’s contract is expiring here and he has been one of, if not the best Vancouver Conucks to open up this season. And of course, last year he broke the hits record, so he’s been looking pretty good. $1.5 million a year till the end of this season. He’s been making that amount of money this year and last. And last year, he had 19 goals and 40 points. So, Chief Keef has been pretty good. And now David Pñota is talking about how things don’t really look all too good when it comes to starting those contract extension talks. The Canucks have not yet started negotiations with Sherwood’s camp on an extension as reported by David Pñota in last week’s DFO rundown. The Canucks really liked what he did last season for them. His role and responsibilities have increased. They haven’t really gotten to the nitty-gritty of negotiations just yet. I think there’s a little bit of worry that if he replicates what he did last season or comes close to it or surpasses it, it’s going to cost them too much. He’s at 1.5 million AAV. If he puts up those numbers again, he’s at least doubling his AAV. And I think that’s a little bit of a concern from the Canucks side of things. Pota added today is that negotiations have still not yet commenced and suggested the Canucks may wait to see how their season goes before committing to Kefir Sherwood. There have been some conversations. Yeah, they’re talking, but there’s a difference between talking and there’s a difference between negotiating and they’re not at that second stage yet. We’ll wait and see whether or not that actually manifests over the next few weeks or months here. But for now, we got to wait until this game against the Dallas Stars. This is going to be make or break time for Vancouver fans watching this team and getting excited for the year because if they stink, there’s nothing to be excited for anymore. Okay, no, there are 78 more games. We’ll see what happens and make a video about it after. But for now, let me know your thoughts in the comment section below about what Quinn Hughes and Thatcher Demco had to say about the Vancouver Conucks start to the year. What are your thoughts on the Kefir Sherwood conversation? And are you starting to panic about these things? Comments help out with the algorithm. So, I’d appreciate it if you got involved there. Hit the like button if you enjoyed this video.

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We’re going over some Vancouver Canucks-related news of the past few days, from Quinn Hughes and Thatcher Demko’s comments on the team’s struggles, to the latest on Kiefer Sherwood’s contract.

Hughes & Demko: https://www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/article/canucks-feeling-urgency-not-panic-amid-early-growing-pains/
Sherwood: https://www.thefourthperiod.com/oct-2025/canucks-sherwood-yet-to-talk-contract

This video is taking place after the 2025 NHL Entry Draft, and after the 2025 Stanley Cup Playoffs.

The 2025 NHL Draft 1st Round went as follows:

1st) New York Islanders, Matthew Schaefer
2nd) San Jose Sharks, Michael Misa
3rd) Chicago Blackhawks, Anton Frondell
4th) Utah Mammoth, Caleb Desnoyers
5th) Nashville Predators, Brady Martin
6th) Philadelphia Flyers, Porter Martone
7th) Boston Bruins, James Hagens
8th) Seattle Kraken, Jake O’Brien
9th) Buffalo Sabres, Radim Mrtka
10th) Anaheim Ducks, Roger McQueen
11th) Pittsburgh Penguins, Benjamin Kindel
12th) Philadelphia Flyers (from New York Rangers via Vancouver Canucks and Pittsburgh Penguins), Jack Nesbitt
13th) Detroit Red Wings, Carter Bear
14th) Columbus Blue Jackets, Jackson Smith
15th) Vancouver Canucks, Braeden Cootes
16th) New York Islanders (from Calgary Flames via Montreal Canadiens), Victor Eklund
17th) New York Islanders (from Montreal Canadiens), Kashawn Aitcheson
18th) Calgary Flames (from New Jersey Devils), Cole Reschny
19th) St. Louis Blues, Justin Carbonneau
20th) Columbus Blue Jackets (from Minnesota Wild), Pyotr Andreyanov
21st) Nashville Predators (from Ottawa Senators), Cameron Reid
22nd) Pittsburgh Penguins (from Colorado Avalanche via Philadelphia Flyers), Bill Zonnon
23rd) Ottawa Senators (from Tampa Bay Lightning via Nashville Predators), Logan Hensler
24th) Pittsburgh Penguins (from Los Angeles Kings), Will Horcoff
25th) Chicago Blackhawks (from Toronto Maple Leafs), Vaclav Nestrasil
26th) Nashville Predators (from Vegas Golden Knights via San Jose Sharks), Ryker Lee
27th) Washington Capitals, Lynden Lakovic
28th) Winnipeg Jets, Sascha Boumedienne
29th) Chicago Blackhawks (from Carolina Hurricanes), Mason West
30th) San Jose Sharks (from Dallas Stars), Joshua Ravensbergen
31st) Los Angeles Kings (from Edmonton Oilers via Philadelphia Flyers and Pittsburgh Penguins), Henry Brzustewicz
32nd) Calgary Flames (from Florida Panthers), Cullen Potter

This video is also taking place after 2025 NHL Season, and after the 2025 Stanley Cup Playoffs, where the Florida Panthers defeated the Edmonton Oilers in the Finals.

Quinn Hughes was one of the top NHL prospects at the 2018 NHL Entry Draft.

The 2018 NHL Entry Draft saw many top NHL prospects get selected by a variety of teams. The Top 28 of the draft went as follows:

1st – Buffalo Sabres, Rasmus Dahlin
2nd – Carolina Hurricanes, Andrei Svechnikov
3rd – Montreal Canadiens, Jesperi Kotkaniemi
4th – Ottawa Senators, Brady Tkachuk
5th – Arizona Coyotes, Barrett Hayton
6th – Detroit Red Wings, Filip Zadina
7th – Vancouver Canucks, Quinn Hughes
8th – Chicago Blackhawks, Adam Boqvist
9th – New York Rangers, Vitali Kravtsov
10th – Edmonton Oilers, Evan Bouchard
11th – New York Islanders, Oliver Wahlstrom
12th – New York Islanders (from Calgary Flames), Noah Dobson
13th – Dallas Stars, Ty Dellandrea
14th – Philadelphia Flyers (from St. Louis Blues), Joel Farabee
15th – Florida Panthers, Grigori Denisenko
16th – Colorado Avalanche, Martin Kaut
17th – New Jersey Devils, Ty Smith
18th – Columbus Blue Jackets, Liam Foudy
19th – Philadelphia Flyers, Jay O’Brien
20th – Los Angeles Kings, Rasmus Kupari
21st – San Jose Sharks, Ryan Merkley
22nd – New York Rangers (from Pittsburgh Penguins via Ottawa Senators), K’Andre Miller
23rd – Anaheim Ducks, Isac Lundestrom
24th – Minnesota Wild, Filip Johansson
25th – St. Louis Blues (from Toronto Maple Leafs), Dominik Bokk
26th – Ottawa Senators (from Boston Bruins via New York Rangers), Jacob Bernard-Docker
27th – Chicago Blackhawks (from Nashville Predators), Nicolas Beaudin
28th – New York Rangers (from Tampa Bay Lightning), Nils Lundkvist

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