According to Vancouver Canucks General Manager Patrik Allvin, the Canucks have been interested in acquiring newly-signed center David Kämpf even before he had his contract terminated by the Toronto Maple Leafs. When the center became available on the open market, Allvin and Canucks management knew they would be in on him.

Early Sunday morning, Vancouver Canucks General Manager Patrik Allvin spoke to the media to discuss the signing of David Kämpf and provided injury updates on Teddy Blueger, Filip Chytil, and Thatcher Demko.

The Vancouver Canucks weren't the only Canadian NHL team vying for NHL veteran David Kampf, as the Montreal Canadiens also pushed.

Injuries have played a significant role in the Vancouver Canucks‘ season thus far. While it’s mostly been key penalty kill personnel missing from the Canucks’ lineup, they’ve spent time without some top of the lineup players as well.

Vancouver Canucks president Jim Rutherford has hinted at what his team would ask for in return if they traded their star player.

It sounds like the Vancouver Canucks are inching slowly toward getting Filip Chytil back into action, after suffering an injury last month.

Brock Boeser broke a tie on a partial breakaway with 5:45 left in the Vancouver Canucks’ 4-3 victory over the Columbus Blue Jackets on Saturday night

The defense and goaltending has been leaky of late on both sides. Carolina's 3.69 GPG average ranks third in the league, and that figure has been earned largely in 5-on-5 play. Vancouver's even-strength play hasn't been nearly as strong, but the Canucks expected-goals figures would show room for growth in an overall scoring average of 2.83 GPG.

DeBrusk’s struggles as a two-way piece and the fact that he’s yet to record a primary point at five-on-five in over 160 minutes through October makes him among Vancouver’s most disappointing individual contributors in the early part of the season.

Although the Canucks travel to Tampa riding a lacklustre three-game losing skid, two of those losses have come via overtime, and the other was a narrow two-goal loss to the Jets. They've covered the spread in three of the last four games.