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The Vancouver Canucks are an NHL team based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and are members of the Northwest Division of the Western Conference. The Canucks were an expansion team that joined the NHL in 1970, along with the Buffalo Sabres. They’ve gone to the Stanley Cup Finals in their 38-year history, but were beaten by New York teams both times: the Islanders in 1982 and the Rangers in 1994. The Canucks are one of 2 Canadian teams that haven’t won the Stanley Cup; the other is the Ottawa Senators. Their home games are played at General Motors Place. The team was established in 1970 by Thomas Scallen, Lyman Walters and their partners as an expansion team. Hockey had been in Vancouver earlier than that, though; the Vancouver Millionaires were in the Pacific Coast Hockey League and won the Stanley Cup in 1915. The Canucks played their first game against the LA Kings in the fall of 1970 and lost.
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They would get to the playoffs in 1975 when they played against the Montreal Canadiens; they lost to the Canadiens in the first round. The 2007/08 season didn’t start out well with injuries in training camp; defensemen Sami Salo and Lukas Krajicek were injured in October and Kevin Bieksa was badly cut by the Nashville Predators’ Vernon Fiddler’s skate blade on November 1. Canuck captain Markus Naslund was on a hot streak in November and as a result, the whole team did well that month; it was later called, “A November to remember.” The Canucks’ management fired the team’s general manager Dave Nonis on April 14, 2008.