Vancouver Canucks Trivia
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50 free Vancouver Canucks trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
The Vancouver Canucks lost a coin spin to Buffalo in 1970, lost Gilbert Perreault with it, and have spent more than half a century chasing a Stanley Cup that has reached Game 7 twice and slipped away both times. This Canucks trivia quiz covers all of it: the Millionaires and the Denman Arena, the rejected 1967 bid, Orland Kurtenbach, the Flying V and the flying skate, Roger Neilson's towel, the 1982 run, the Cam Neely trade, Pat Quinn drafting Pavel Bure 113th, Kirk McLean's save and Bure's breakaway, Messier and Keenan, the West Coast Express, the Bertuzzi incident and Brian Burke landing both Sedins. It then follows Luongo the goalie-captain, back-to-back Art Ross wins by twin brothers, Alex Burrows slaying the dragon, the 2011 Final and riot, Pettersson's Calder, Quinn Hughes' Norris and shocking trade, the last-place 2025-26 season and the Sedins' promotion to run the front office. There are questions on the arenas, Fin the Orca and the Green Men too, from easy to expert. Every answer was checked against encyclopaedic and reference sources before publishing, and each question carries a citation. For more, try our NHL trivia and hockey trivia pages.
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Q 01Which other expansion team joined the NHL alongside the Canucks in 1970?
Buffalo Sabres
The Buffalo Sabres joined with Vancouver, and as of 2026 the twins of 1970 share a fate: five trips to the Final between them and no Stanley Cup for either.
Q 02Which Vancouver club won the Stanley Cup in 1915, the first West Coast team to do so?
Millionaires
The Millionaires swept Ottawa in three straight games at the Denman Arena, which the Patrick brothers had built for them as the largest arena in Canada.
Q 03Toronto and Montreal resisted Vancouver's 1967 NHL bid because they didn't want to split what three ways?
Television revenue
Television revenue from hockey broadcasts was the prize; a year later the league blocked a plan to move the Oakland Seals to Vancouver but promised the city a team in its next expansion.
Q 04Which future Hall of Famer went first overall in 1970 after the Canucks lost a roulette-wheel spin for the pick?
Gilbert Perreault
Gilbert Perreault went to the other new club when the wheel stopped on 11; the league president first misread it and began congratulating Vancouver, who settled for Dale Tallon.
Q 05Who was the Canucks' first captain?
Orland Kurtenbach
Orland Kurtenbach captained the team until he retired in 1974, then came back two years later as its head coach.
Q 06Who scored the first goal in Canucks history, against Los Angeles in October 1970?
Barry Wilkins
Barry Wilkins, a defenceman claimed from Boston in the expansion draft, scored it in a 3-1 loss; it was one of only five goals he managed all season.
Q 07Which WHA rival competed with the Canucks for Vancouver's hockey market in the mid-1970s?
Blazers
The Blazers shared the Pacific Coliseum with the Canucks for two seasons, were easily outdrawn, and left in 1975 to become the Calgary Cowboys.
Q 08Which interim coach started 'Towel Power' by waving a white towel on a stick in Chicago in 1982?
Roger Neilson
Roger Neilson raised the towel in mock surrender at the officiating and was ejected; when the series came home, fans answered by waving white towels by the thousands.
Q 09Which Canucks fan favourite's errant pass led to Mike Bossy's overtime winner in Game 1 of the 1982 Final?
Harold Snepsts
Harold Snepsts tried to clear the puck up the middle in the dying seconds of overtime, Bossy picked it off and scored, and the Islanders went on to sweep.
Q 10Which power forward did Vancouver infamously trade to Boston in 1986 for Barry Pederson?
Cam Neely
Cam Neely went to Boston along with a first-round pick that became Glen Wesley, then scored 50 goals three times there on his way to the Hall of Fame.
Q 11Why was the Canucks' 113th pick of 1989, a Soviet winger, so controversial?
Thought ineligible
Thought ineligible by rival clubs: a late-round pick his age needed two seasons with his Soviet club, but Vancouver's head scout found extra games that qualified him, and the league took a year to confirm it.
Q 12Pat Quinn's 1987 trade of Patrik Sundstrom brought a goaltender and a winger, both 1994 finalists, from which team?
New Jersey Devils
The New Jersey Devils gave up a young goaltender and a winger for the Swedish centre, and seven years later both were mainstays of Quinn's Stanley Cup finalists.
Q 13Who became, at 21, the youngest captain in Canucks history?
Trevor Linden
Q 21Which general manager engineered trades to land both Sedin twins with the second and third picks in 1999?
Brian Burke
Brian Burke, holding the third pick, set off a carousel of draft-day trades and even got Atlanta to agree not to take either twin, so the pair went second and third.
Q 22Naslund, Bertuzzi and Brendan Morrison were nicknamed after which Vancouver commuter service?
The West Coast Express
The West Coast Express, a commuter rail line into Vancouver, lent its name to one of the NHL's top-scoring lines until Bertuzzi was traded to Florida in 2006.
Q 23Which Avalanche player did Todd Bertuzzi punch from behind in March 2004, ending his career?
Steve Moore
Trevor Linden kept the 'C' after sharing it with Dan Quinn and Doug Lidster, and he wore it until 1997, through the run to the 1994 Final.
Q 14Whose 60-goal seasons in 1992-93 and 1993-94 remain the highest in Canucks history?
Pavel Bure
Pavel Bure's 60-goal seasons still stand as the club record, but the 'Russian Rocket' fell out with management, refused to report, and was traded to Florida in January 1999.
Q 15Which Flame did Kirk McLean stop with 'The Save' in overtime of Game 7 in 1994?
Robert Reichel
Robert Reichel one-timed a pass from Theoren Fleury at an open side, but McLean slid across feet-first and stacked his pads on the goal line; Vancouver won in the next overtime.
Q 16Whose double-overtime goal past Felix Potvin sent Vancouver to the 1994 Final?
Greg Adams
Greg Adams ended the Toronto series in the second overtime of Game 5, then scored another overtime winner days later in Game 1 of the Final in New York.
Q 17Which Canuck hit the post late in Game 7 of the 1994 Final with Vancouver a goal down?
Nathan LaFayette
Nathan LaFayette put a loose puck off the post behind Mike Richter, and the Rangers held on 3-2 to end a 54-year wait for the Stanley Cup.
Q 18Which minor-leaguer-to-be did Vancouver give Pittsburgh in the lopsided 1996 trade for Markus Naslund?
Alek Stojanov
Alek Stojanov, once a seventh-overall draft pick, lasted only three NHL seasons, while Naslund led the Canucks in scoring year after year and became their captain.
Q 19In which city did the Canucks and Ducks play the first NHL regular-season games outside North America in 1997?
Tokyo
Tokyo hosted the two-game series to build interest before the Nagano Olympics four months later, the first Winter Games to include NHL players.
Q 20Which Canucks coach, acting as de facto GM, dealt a former captain to the Islanders in 1998 for Todd Bertuzzi?
Mike Keenan
Mike Keenan made ten trades in two months once he controlled the roster, and Bertuzzi, the young forward that deal brought back, grew into a star of the next decade.
Steve Moore suffered three fractured neck vertebrae and never played again; the punch was payback for his earlier hit on Naslund, and it brought Bertuzzi a long suspension and lawsuits.
Q 24Which All-Star goalie arrived from Florida in the 2006 six-player trade that sent Bertuzzi away?
Roberto Luongo
Roberto Luongo won 47 games in his first Vancouver season, and two years later he was named captain, something no NHL goaltender had been in six decades.
Q 25Which team did the Canucks beat in a quadruple-overtime playoff opener in 2007, the longest game the club had played?
Dallas Stars
The Dallas Stars fired 76 shots and still lost in the fourth overtime; their goalie Marty Turco then posted three shutouts in the series, yet Vancouver won it in seven games.
Q 26Which Canucks defensive prospect died in a motorcycle crash near Shippagan, New Brunswick, in 2008?
Luc Bourdon
Luc Bourdon was 21; the Canucks opened the next season with a pre-game tribute to him, then beat Calgary 6-0.
Q 27The Canucks' 2008 goalie-captain was the first in the NHL since which Canadiens netminder in 1947-48?
Bill Durnan
Bill Durnan left his crease so often to argue calls that the NHL barred goalies from acting as captain, which is why Vancouver's netminder could not wear the 'C' on his jersey.
Q 28What forced the Canucks onto the NHL's longest road trip, 14 straight away games?
The Winter Olympics
The Winter Olympics took over the rink in 2010, so the Canucks spent six weeks away, while their own goaltender won gold there for Canada.
Q 29Besides the scoring title, Henrik Sedin's 112 points in 2010 won what?
League MVP
League MVP: Henrik became the first Canuck to win the Hart Trophy, and a year later his twin Daniel took the scoring title, the first brothers to lead the NHL in scoring in back-to-back seasons.
Q 30Which Canuck's overtime goal in Game 7 of the 2011 first round finally eliminated Chicago?
Alexandre Burrows
Alexandre Burrows scored both goals in the 2-1 win, the second in overtime, after Chicago had erased a 3-0 series deficit and tied the game short-handed late in regulation.