Saturday's impressive Canucks victory felt more like a fun last ride for a once-promising core that seems bound for a breakup.

Center missed 10 games earlier this season for personal reasons, had 2 assists in win against Oilers on Saturday

For the first time in his career, Leon Draisaitl is no longer living in Connor McDavid’s shadow. Ever since McDavid entered the league in the 2015-16 season, he and Draisaitl are first and second in scoring with a respective 1,

For at least one night, everything seemed so right. J.T. Miller was dragging them into the fight — even amid his uncertain and developing trade plight — and the Vancouver Canucks responded with a 3-2 playoff-style,

Leon Draisaitl lamented the NHL's disciplinary decisions when asked Tuesday about Connor McDavid's cross-checking suspension and Vancouver Canucks defenseman Tyler Myers' matching ban."I certainly think three games is a little too much,

The Canucks’ best player on Saturday night may not even be part of the team on Sunday. All the conjecture made J.T. Miller’s performance against the Oilers even more impressive and poignant.

Andy Strickland has been hearing that if not re-signed by Carolina, Mikko Rantanen may be headed to the Edmonton Oilers in the offseason saying there’s “a belief they can make it happen” cap wise. Rantanen also shares the same agent as Leon Draisaitl. #letsgooilers #raiseup pic.twitter.com/6w40qi1g0H

In terms of Canucks history, this isn’t Luongo vs. Schneider, where each was equally capable and at the peak of their powers at basically the same moment. Nor is it Essensa vs. Potvin, where Backup Bob was outplaying Felix The Cat, but neither was playing all that well to begin with and both were supplanted by Dan Cloutier.

Connor McDavid is back and the blender is out. Ahead of Monday’s game against the Seattle Kraken, Edmonton Oilers head coach Kris Knoblauch made a few changes to his team’s forward lines.

The Edmonton Oilers went 2-1-0 in three games last week, improving to 31-15-3 on the season. With their win over the Buffalo Sabres on Saturday afternoon, they claimed the top spot in the Pacific Division for the first time in five years.

How far down the Oilers' pecking order has Skinner dropped? He played 13:34 in Thursday's 6-2 win over Vancouver − and that was his biggest ice time total since Dec. 3.