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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
They remain the two oldest NHL clubs never to win the Cup.
Q 02Which PCHA club won the Stanley Cup in 1915, the first West Coast team to do so?
Millionaires
Frank and Lester Patrick built them the Denman Arena, then the world's largest artificial rink.
Q 03Which Maple Leafs president was widely suspected of sinking Vancouver's 1967 expansion bid?
Stafford Smythe
He reportedly said the city would not get a team in his lifetime after a failed business deal.
Q 04Which Hall of Famer did Buffalo draft first overall after winning the 1970 lottery spins over Vancouver?
Gilbert Perreault
Vancouver took Dale Tallon second; he lasted three seasons before a trade to Chicago.
Q 05Who was the Canucks' first captain?
Orland Kurtenbach
Pat Quinn was also on that expansion roster and later became GM and coach.
Q 06Who scored the first goal in Canucks history, a backhander against Los Angeles in October 1970?
Barry Wilkins
Vancouver lost 3-1, then beat Toronto two days later for its first win.
Q 07Which WHA rival briefly competed with the Canucks for the city's hockey market in 1974-75?
Blazers
The Blazers moved to Calgary the following season.
Q 08Which interim coach started 'Towel Power' by waving a white towel on a stick in Chicago in 1982?
Roger Neilson
Fans waved towels when the series returned to Vancouver, and the tradition spread across sports.
Q 09Which fan favourite's errant pass led to Mike Bossy's overtime winner in Game 1 of the 1982 Final?
Harold Snepsts
The Islanders swept Vancouver in the first coast-to-coast Final.
Q 10Which power forward did Vancouver infamously trade to Boston in 1986 for Barry Pederson?
Cam Neely
The pick became Glen Wesley; Neely had three 50-goal seasons in Boston.
Q 11With which pick did the Canucks make their controversial 1989 selection of the Russian Rocket?
113th
Most teams thought him ineligible; verification took a year.
Q 12Which two players came from New Jersey in Pat Quinn's key deal that sent Patrik Sundstrom away?
Greg Adams and Kirk McLean
McLean's 'Save' and Adams' Leafs-killing goal both defined the 1994 run.
Q 13Trevor Linden became the youngest permanent captain in team history at what age?
21
He won a rotating captaincy with Dan Quinn and Doug Lidster after Stan Smyl stepped down.
Q 21Which general manager engineered trades to land both Sedin twins with the second and third picks in 1999?
Brian Burke
Bure had been dealt to Florida that January for Ed Jovanovski.
Q 22Naslund, Bertuzzi and Brendan Morrison were nicknamed after which Vancouver commuter service?
The West Coast Express
Naslund won the Lester B. Pearson Award in 2003.
Q 23Which Avalanche player did Todd Bertuzzi punch from behind in March 2004, ending his career?
Steve Moore
Bertuzzi was suspended through the start of 2005-06 and faced lawsuits in two countries.
Q 14Whose 60-goal seasons in 1992-93 and 1993-94 remain the highest in Canucks history?
Pavel Bure
He won the Calder in 1992, the same year Pat Quinn took the Jack Adams.
Q 15Which Flame did Kirk McLean stop with 'The Save' in overtime of Game 7 in 1994?
Robert Reichel
Bure then beat Mike Vernon on a breakaway in the second overtime.
Q 16Whose double-overtime goal past Felix Potvin sent Vancouver to the 1994 Final?
Greg Adams
Kirk McLean then made 52 saves in Game 1 against the Rangers.
Q 17Which Canuck hit the post with just over a minute left in Game 7 of the 1994 Final?
Nathan LaFayette
Linden scored twice on cracked ribs; a riot followed the 3-2 loss.
Q 18Which minor-leaguer-to-be did Vancouver give Pittsburgh in the lopsided 1996 trade for Markus Naslund?
Alek Stojanov
Naslund became the club's all-time leading goal and point scorer.
Q 19In which city did the Canucks and Ducks play the first NHL regular-season games outside North America in 1997?
Tokyo
It promoted the upcoming Nagano Olympics; Mark Messier had just been signed.
Q 20Which coach and de facto GM traded Trevor Linden to the Islanders in 1998 for Bertuzzi and McCabe?
Mike Keenan
Keenan made ten trades in two months and later fell out with Linden publicly.
Q 24Which All-Star goalie arrived from Florida in the 2006 six-player trade that sent Bertuzzi away?
Roberto Luongo
He tied Bernie Parent's mark of 47 wins in his first Vancouver season.
Q 25Vancouver's quadruple-overtime playoff win over Dallas in 2007 set an NHL record for what?
Shots against in one game, 76
It ended at the 138-minute mark, the sixth-longest game in NHL history.
Q 26Which Canucks defensive prospect died in a motorcycle crash near Shippagan, New Brunswick, in 2008?
Luc Bourdon
Rick Rypien, who died in 2011, was honoured with '37 RYP' helmet decals.
Q 27The Canucks' 2008 goalie-captain was the first in the NHL since which Canadiens netminder in 1947-48?
Bill Durnan
Henrik Sedin took over the 'C' in 2010.
Q 28How many games did the Canucks play on their record 2010 road trip while their arena hosted the Olympics?
14
It ran six weeks; Luongo beat Ryan Kesler's Americans for gold in between.
Q 29Henrik Sedin's 2010 Art Ross came with a franchise-record how many points?
112
He also became the first Canuck to win the Hart, and Daniel won the Art Ross a year later.
Q 30Whose overtime goal in Game 7 of the 2011 first round finally eliminated Chicago?
Alexandre Burrows
Chicago had won three straight to force the game; Kevin Bieksa later won the conference final in OT.